Heidelberg extends training to refugees

The young refugees will come from Syria, Afghanistan and Nigeria, and join the dozen future mechatronics engineers who are undergoing a special form of training at the company’s Wiesloch-Walldorf and Brandenburg sites. The refugees will be based at the Heidelberg site in Wiesloch-Walldorf to receive practical training, as well as attending college for at least two days a week. One of these days is earmarked for intensive German classes.

Provided they perform well, Heidelberg has said the five young refugees have ‘a real chance’ of being able to start a traditional training course at Heidelberg as a mechatronics engineer, industrial engineer, print media technologist or warehouse operator.

90 trainees started across four Heidelberg sites in Germany on September 1, as reported here.