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axisBildung, Bülach

axisBildung is a cooperative training association with an office in Bülach. The organisation provides a wide range of VET-oriented programmes for around 170 learners. The low-threshold training places are offered both in companies which belong to the association (i.e. in a protected environment) and also in companies of the free market. The body responsible for axisBülach is an association.

Young people are assigned via youth advocacies, guardianship authorities, departments of outpatient youth welfare and social welfare or as part of first-time vocational measures via branches of the disability insurance.

axisBildung was created in 1998 as an attempt to implement the idea of putting people in a comprehensive sense in the centre of economic activity and assuming and implementing ecological and social responsibility within economic and societal contexts.[7] In this regard, individually designed integration and training places close to normality were created so that young people with a difficult background are able to enter working life: work as meaningful and educational stimulus, training as the school of life, the social interaction and relationships as a personal development opportunity.

In 2013, axisBildung and 15 affiliated companies offered training places in 22 occupations and at the levels of PrA (see 1.8.7 above), informal VET programmes (Anlehre), Federal VET Certificate (EBA) and Federal VET Diploma (EFZ). axisBildung is a host company network recognised by the Mittelschul- und Berufsbildungsamt (cantonal Office for Upper-Secondary Education and Training) in Zurich. In Phases I and II, (cf. Fig. 1-7) the training is in a protected environment at the affiliated companies of axisBildung, which include a bakery, a garden company, two domestic servicing and maintenance companies, a restaurant and four groceries. The transition to Phase III, i.e. to a company of the free economy, is possible at any time. In the affiliated companies, there is one social pedagogue per twelve learners on-site as part of the team.

axisBildung promotes and supports the permeability of the training levels from PrA (informal VET programmes) to Federal VET Certificate and from Federal VET Certificate to Federal VET Diploma programmes. This means, for example, that after two years, i.e. when they have passed the qualification procedure and obtained the Federal VET Certificate, the learners can join a shortened VET programme of two years and thus obtain the Federal VET Diploma within four years.

Figure 1-7: Phase model of the training of axisBildung.

On average in 2011/12, there were around 160 learners in training. In 75 per cent of cases the training is funded by the disability insurance, in 11 per cent of cases by social security offices, in 14 per cent of cases by the youth advocacy. In the same year, 42 young people completed a VET programme, 8 in a company of the free economy, 34 in a company of the cooperative training association.

The transition to the world of work – in the respective occupation or a related one – was managed by 69 per cent of the successfully trained young people.