Data analytics and Python scholarship for refugees from Ukraine
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.
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Application start date is 6/20/2022 and no end date or maximum number of scholarships to be awarded has been set for the promotion. New courses start on an ongoing basis. Next possible course start date is 01.08.2022.
If you would like to learn more about our trainings feel free to check out this page: https://stackfuel.comhttps://stackfuel.com/de/trainings/data-analyst//en/trainings/data-analyst/
Do you still have questions? Then look in our FAQs. If your questions are not answered, please write to scholarship@stackfuel.com.
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 thus making it easier for refugees to enter the labor 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's why we want to train refugees in a profession that offers the opportunity to work in both English and German and that is desperately sought after.
We would like to train Ukrainians living in Germany to become data analysts in order to offer them future-oriented job prospects. For this purpose, we have developed a scholarship that covers the entire cost of our data analyst training. The full scholarship for refugees is worth a total of 4,990.00 euros per course participant.
Data and tech jobs preferred
"Data analysis is one of the most sought-after skills of the decade. Almost all departments, such as marketing or finance, need experts who can work with data. With our online trainings, we specifically teach data skills that are useful in all disciplines. That is why we are pleased to be able to pass on this offer specifically to war refugees from Ukraine who have recently arrived in Germany and would like to pursue a career as a data analyst. By doing so, we hope to offer a long-term professional perspective and thus contribute to peace and the digital transformation of Europe," said StackFuel founders Leo Marose, CEO and Stefan Berntheisel, CTO.
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.
We believe that the job of data analyst is particularly suitable. Let's take a closer look at what the job entails. Data analysts are analytical data experts with great communication skills. With the help of informatic, mathematical and statistical methods, they 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
we support Ukrainian citizens who have fled to Germany. We strongly believe that education and the associated professional perspective is the way we as StackFuel can best help in the current situation. For this reason, we are awarding free online training in Data Analytics and Python to motivated talents from Ukraine currently living in Germany.
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.
Equally affected by the war are, of course, those people who had to flee Ukraine but do not have Ukrainian citizenship themselves. Since they do not fall under the same protective umbrella of the Mass Influx Directive, they unfortunately do not have the same opportunities to take up work and educational opportunities in Germany. However, according to current figures, 98.4 percent of the refugees are Ukrainian citizens. Just once 1.6 percent originate from Africa, Asia or the Middle East.
Nevertheless, we hope that an arrangement can soon be found for these people as well. Until then, they can unfortunately not be considered in the scholarship for refugees, because we want to give the scholarship holders a professional perspective, which also depends on applicable regulatory conditions.
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 scholarship for refugees, we hope to actively support our democratic society and a free world. Peace must not be built only on good hopes. Qualification is the key to maintaining truth and peace in Europe and beyond its borders. In our view, this becomes achievable above all through digital empowerment.
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Are you ready for a career in data or to get started in your job with data-driven, analytical work? Then this scholarship is made for you!
The full scholarship is designed to qualify refugees to work with data, bringing fresh talent to data teams. The scholarship holders receive online training as a data analyst including mentoring from StackFuel with a total value of 4,990 euros for the year 2022. 100 percent of these costs are covered by StackFuel, so there are no costs for scholarship holders.
We want to encourage both male and female refugees to qualify for the tech and data industry. If you had to flee war from Ukraine and are motivated to learn a digital, future-oriented profession, we would like to invite you to apply for our Data Analytics Scholarship for Refugees.
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 fled Ukrainians 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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