Volkshochschule ARBERLAND

Partner Coordinator: Lieselotte Jocham

Volkshochschule ARBERLAND (formerly known as Volkshochschule für den Landkreis Regen (Vhs)) is a centre of adult and youth education. Volkshochschule ARBERLAND provides courses for the general public in the fields of culture, vocational training, languages and health. Our institution provides a wide range of offers for disadvantaged people to help them stay in or reintegrate into the society.

Target groups are migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, people coming from the regular school without certification, older people and unemployed people. Special trainings in the field of intercultural competences is one of the most important topics. Vhs offers also courses for immigrants and other social disadvantaged people.

We are educating and training disadvantaged young people at the age of 15 – 20 in pre-vocational training courses. These are young people who have left school with a lot of disadvantages and they haven’t been successful in finding a job because of this. We instruct and educate them and we organize practical trainings in different companies and various jobs. We teach them soft skills, modern technologies and social media competences. We also train adults, mainly unemployed people, in these fields. Here we teach groups of students to prepare them for specific professions such as nursing professions, sales workers, office vocations or trade and craft professions. We are educating and training disadvantaged young people at the age of 15 – 20 in pre-vocational training courses. These are young people who have left school with a lot of disadvantages and they haven’t been successful in finding a job because of this. We instruct and educate them and we organize practical trainings in different companies and various jobs. We teach them soft skills, modern technologies and social media competences. We also train adults, mainly unemployed people, in these fields. Here we teach groups of students to prepare them for specific professions such as nursing professions, sales workers, office vocations or trade and craft professions.