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Education and Training

education and starting a career

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Further training and qualifications

Education and starting a career

Jena offers the best place for young people to get an education, study and start their careers. Whether vocational training, a bachelor’s- or a master’s degree, there are as many different opportunities for an individually-tailored career path in Jena as there are trades and professions in the city’s businesses, vocational training colleges and study paths in the city’s two universities. Jena has an excellent reputation world-wide for its courses in optics and photonics, but also in many other areas. The future-proof, high-growth sectors in Jena are the digital industry, the sciences, the health professions and the traditional technical fields. Many companies in Jena have deep local roots and are committed to training and supporting young talent in many different industries and sectors, both by means of special trainee programmes, and by promoting in-school and extra-curricular projects.

In many professions, particularly in the skilled trades and the business/commercial sectors, training is provided using the so-called ‘dual system’ – in Jena as in the rest of Germany. This means that practical training takes place within a company, while the theoretical groundwork is learnt in classes at a vocational training college.

A complete overview of career-entry, internships, education and training is available at JUPITER, the Jena business portal, as well as details of current job opportunities.

JUPITER Jena
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Further information and links

Vocational schools

  • Staatliche Berufsbildende Schule für Gesundheit und Soziales
  • Staatliches berufsbildendes Schulzentrum Jena-Göschwitz
  • Staatliches Berufsschulzentrum Wirtschaft und Verwaltung “Karl-Volkmar-Stoy-Schule” Jena
  • FBS Freie Berufsbildende Schule Jena

Further information portals

  • JUPITER Jena’s business portal on internships and starting a career
  • Berufsinformationszentrum der Agentur für Arbeit
  • Berufsorientierung und Ausbildung im Handwerk

Contact point on the topic of professional training for people with a refugee and migration background:

  • KAUSA Servicestelle Ostthüringen

Studying

Studentin auf Unicampus sitzt auf Bank und liest auf Tablet
© Stadt Jena | Stephan Preißler

From A for ancient history to Z for zoology – Jena’s two universities, Friedrich Schiller University (FSU Jena) and the Ernst Abbe Hochschule (University of Applied Sciences; EAH Jena) offer more than 250 different subjects. So there’s a very wide choice of subject areas to help you start your career with a good academic grounding. More than 20,000 young people study here – around 20% of the entire population of Jena! Jena’s beautiful nature, varied cultural offerings and more than 600 university sports activities mean you will not have to miss out on leisure pursuits when you are studying here.

Further information and links

  • Study at the Friedrich Schiller University
  • Study at the Ernst Abbe Hochschule
  • Reasons to study in Jena
  • Studierendenwerk Thüringen

Further training and qualifications

Many companies in Jena focus on offering their employees individually tailored opportunities to gain further qualifications. They are committed to encouraging lifelong learning in their teams and ensuring they take advantage of the many opportunities for further training. In Jena, a wide range of vocational training is available from many providers. Companies and industry networks offer their own specialised further training courses. This close link between business and science in one place provides optimal conditions for the workforce to be kept up to date with the latest knowledge in their particular discipline.

If you come to Jena as part of the international professional workforce, you will discover that further professional and general training is very important in Germany. In many occupations, you are required to gain further qualifications that after your initial training. This can be done via courses, seminars, e-learning programmes, retraining, or distance- or online courses of study.

This further training is either financed by the employer, or you can apply for a financial and/or short-term grant.

Frau und Mann sitzen an Tisch, blicken auf Dokument
© Lukas Diegel

Further information and links

Training facilities and institutions in Jena (selection):

  • Avance Academy GmbH
  • Beutenberg Campus
  • Bildungswerk der Thüringer Wirtschaft e.V.
  • Codematix GmbH
  • DAA-Technikum Gemeinnützige Fernunterrichts-GmbH
  • Euro Akademie Jena
  • Fortbildungsakademie der Wirtschaft (FAW) gGmbH
  • Health & Fitness Academy
  • iad GmbH
  • IHK-Bildungszentrum
  • JenALL
  • ÜAG gGmbH
  • Volkshochschule (VHS) Jena
  • WBS TRAINING

Networks:

  • OptoNet e.V. Photoniknetzwerk Thüringen
  • Medways e.V. Branchenverband Medizintechnik und Biotechnologie

 


 

Finance:

  • Further training check / training bonus
  • Time off for further training

 

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Welcome Center Jena
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07743 Jena

Telephone: +49 3641 8730043
E-mail: welcomecenter@jena.de

 

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