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This is how we supported refugees from Ukraine with a scholarship
The war between Russia and Ukraine has pulled the rug out from under many of those directly affected. Many of them had to leave everything behind and now find themselves in completely unknown territory in neighboring Ukrainian countries such as Poland or Germany. In order to offer refugees with at least B2-level English skills long-term work prospects in Germany, we have developed a scholarship for refugees that offers qualified professionals flexible employment opportunities in just a few months.
In this article you will find a report with further details about our scholarship at the time. Our motivation with the scholarship was to enable more women in particular to enter data and STEM professions. Our scholarship has been very successful in helping our graduates gain a foothold in tech and STEM professions.
With a Education voucher You can continue to receive 100 % funding for our training courses from the Federal Employment Agency. In this way, we want to enable women in particular who are interested in and need further training to find their way into tech and STEM professions in the future.
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A safe haven
Since Putin launched the war of aggression on February 24, an estimated 10 million people have already fled Ukraine. Germany is one of the Main objectives of Ukrainian refugees. Since the beginning of the war, more than 800,000 people from Ukraine have crossed the German border, among them mainly women and children. 58 percent of the refugees have come to Germany together with their children.
We looked at the demographic distributions in a little more detail. Almost 40 percent of the refugees are children. Among the adult refugees, about 80 percent are female with an average age of 38. Forty-two percent said they wanted to stay in Germany for the time being. In addition to traumatic aftermath and worries about relatives left behind, concerns about an uncertain future are an additional burden.
92 percent were employed or in education in Ukraine before fleeing and about half has a university degree and many have worked in academic, technical or medical professions. Professions in which there is an acute shortage of skilled workers in Germany, which is why it is important to quickly place refugees who want to work in meaningful work that matches their skills.
It is worth investing in these skills and making it easier for refugees to enter the job market. The fact that most refugees do not speak German can make it difficult for them to enter the German labor market. In addition, it can take time to have Ukrainian educational qualifications officially recognized in Germany.
That is why we wanted and still want to train refugees in a profession that offers the opportunity to work in both English and German and that is desperately sought after. To this end, we developed a scholarship that covers the full costs of our data analyst training. The full scholarship for refugees was worth a total of 4,990.00 euros per course participant.
With an education voucher, further training is also completely free of charge for you. Let us help you advise!
Data and tech jobs preferred
"Data analysis is one of the most sought-after skills of the decade. Experts who can handle data are needed in almost all specialist departments such as marketing or finance. With our online training courses, we specifically teach data skills that are useful in all disciplines. We hope to offer long-term career prospects and thus contribute to peace and the digital transformation of Europe," say the founders Leo Marose, CEO and Stefan Berntheisel, CTO of StackFuel.
The IT sector is considered one of the fastest growing industries and already today there are more unfilled IT positions than graduates to meet the growing demand of the labor market.
96,000 posts cannot currently be filled in the IT (information technology) sector in Germany. That is just under 10,000 more jobs than in 2021. The shortage of skilled workers has worsened by 12 percent within a year. More than 8,000 digits are advertised in the area of data alone. IT and data are industries that are ideally suited for career changers.
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Data analyst: Promising profession with great flexibility
We believe that the job of data analyst is particularly suitable for female career changers. So let's take a closer look at what the job entails. Data analysts are analytical data experts with great communication skills. They use IT, mathematical and statistical methods to cleanse and examine a company's data for trends and developments.
With their presentations of the analysis results, they help specialist departments and management to make important strategic decisions. For example, when a new product is to be launched and it has to be decided who the right target group is for this product. They are sought and hired in almost every industry and specialty.
Even though the job is more male than female in Germany, women in particular are suitable and desired for the profession of data analyst, as it requires a lot of creativity, detail orientation and communication skills. In addition, the profession is varied, often flexible as far as the place of work is concerned, possible in English in many companies and it offers versatile, professional opportunities.
For refugee women in particular, who are caring for the children who arrived with them, it is important to be able to work in a profession that allows them a flexible working model. For this reason, the further training as a data analyst included in the scholarship is also geared toward flexibility in terms of location and time.
Shaping the future together
With our scholarship for refugees, we have supported Ukrainian citizens who have fled to Germany. We firmly believe that education and the associated career prospects are the best way for us at StackFuel to help in the current situation.
Ukrainian war refugees enjoy legal protection in this country. Special status. In addition to visa-free entry, they are recognized directly as refugees without having to go through an asylum procedure lasting months or even years. This is a great opportunity for them to find their own housing, to send their children to school, and to accept job and educational offers.
Of course, people who had to flee Ukraine but do not have Ukrainian citizenship are also affected by the war. As they do not fall under the same protective umbrella of the mass influx directive, they unfortunately do not have the same opportunities in Germany to accept work and educational opportunities. According to current figures, however, 98.4 percent of refugees are Ukrainian nationals. Just 1.6 percent come from Africa, Asia or the Middle East. Nevertheless, we hope that a solution can soon be found for these people too.
How digital skills contribute to peace
What we encounter in this war situation as fake facts, hacker attacks and trolling is basically a classic war propaganda strategy of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Facts are increasingly difficult to identify as true or false in the noisy information noise. We have known with what power an information war can hit us at the latest since a fake video, a so-called deepfake of Ukraine President Volodymyr Selenskyj was published. In this video he calls for surrender and ordered Ukrainian forces to lay down their arms to surrender to the Russian military.
Disinformation is the most effective propaganda weapon of our time and demonstrates once again the importance of digital skills and Data Literacy in our increasingly complex world. Where hacks, forgeries, and misinformation deceive the search for truth, we need people who recognize them and commit themselves to truth and peace with the help of digital skills.
With our training courses, we actively support our democratic society and a free world. Peace cannot be built on good hopes alone. Qualification is the key to maintaining truth and peace in Europe and beyond its borders. In our view, this can be achieved above all through digital empowerment.
About StackFuel
StackFuel is one of Germany's leading providers of certified online training and retraining in Data Literacy, Data Science and AI, tailored to the needs of companies in industry and business. To address the digital transformation and the upcoming skills gap in data and AI, StackFuel helps companies effectively and efficiently develop employees into future job roles. The innovative online trainings offer participants a modern and flexible learning experience with an interactive and cloud-based learning environment where they independently develop algorithms with industry datasets.
Sources
- ZDF (2022): "Evaluation of the Bamf: 610,000 Ukrainian refugees in Germany" [05.05.2022]
- Institute for Employment Research IAB (2022): "Refugees from Ukraine: An Assessment of Integration Chances" [05.05.2022]
- Institute for Employment Research IAB (2022): "Many refugee Ukrainian women could be placed in bottleneck occupations." [05.05.2022]
- Daytime News (2022): "Ukrainians in Germany: more than 600,000 refugees". [05.05.2022]
- Süddeutsche Zeitung (2022): "Flight to Germany: Suddenly 380,000 People More". [05.05.2022]
- Bitkom Research Study (2022) "IT skills gap widens: 96,000 open jobs". [02.05.2022]
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