Why is there a need?
After completing school many young people lack orientation, and on the brink of their adult life they face lots of questions. They want to find their own answers. "What do I want from life and what am I prepared to do about it?" Young adults between 18 and 30 have to learn how to make their own decisions and consciously take control of their own lives.
But our society has changed immensely over the last few decades: more and more young people never learn how to cope with these challenges at home or in school. Statistics speak for themselves: the German Education Report 2008 showed that one in five students drop out of college, and in engineering sciences it is one in four. After two, to two and a half years only 60 percent of all school leavers are in full time training.
Lacking direction
According to the report, the problems lie in the long transition time between school and job qualifications, the numerous hurdles and phases of searching. Lack of orientation is prevalent among school leavers, and numbers are rising.The most dramatically affected are school leavers with no qualifications. Due to the shortage of training opportunities they might as well prepare for a depressing life on social security as for job. What they lack most of all, apart from qualifications, is belief in themselves, self-motivation, personal responsibility and confidence.
