Providing our employees with appropriate in-house education and training is a fundamental building block of our corporate strategy. We regard it very much as an investment in the future. We also host guided factory tours, information events and open days offering school students and young adults the opportunity to identify their skills and talents at an early stage. This additionally provides us with the opportunity to present ourselves to them as an attractive potential employer.

Most apprentices undergoing training within the BAUER Group are learning to become industrial mechanics, construction machinery operators or commercial/administrative specialists. Across Germany, we provide training in many other trades too. The number of apprentices at the Schrobenhausen facility has been continually increased. Over the last 25 to 30 years, almost all those undergoing training were subsequently taken on in full-time employment.

As well providing training to young people in technical trades and commercial professions we also help students in higher education. All year round, we offer students from Germany and abroad the opportunity to gather valuable practical experience working within the BAUER Group, to sharpen their profile by undertaking challenging tasks as a company intern or to write their degree theses while working with us.

In order to establish close bonds with future graduates at as early a stage as possible, we maintain links with universities and colleges all over Germany and take part in a large number of recruitment fairs. A regular Alumni Day for former interns and graduates is always well attended. In 2010 the company also established the basis for a cooperation agreement with Ingolstadt University: