While the application for vocational training is generally under pressure, interest in technical subjects is increasing. The number of ongoing training agreements has reached its highest level ever with almost 10,700 agreements. This is stated by Tekniq in a press release.
From 2024 to 2025, the number of training agreements within, among others, electrician, plumbing, energy, blacksmith and industrial technician training courses has increased by 3 percent. Looking back ten years, the increase is 27 percent, while vocational training courses overall have grown by almost 8 percent.
According to the trade organization, the development is important at a time when many companies lack skilled labor, and where both green transition and preparedness require technical skills.
- We simply will not achieve our goals with either the green transition or the upgrading of Denmark's preparedness without more skilled workers. Whether it's about wind turbines, stronger defense or making industry more energy efficient, it's the technical subjects that make ambitions come true. That's why it's a big step in the right direction that we're now setting a record for apprentices here, says Maria Schougaard Berntsen, deputy director at Tekniq.
Tekniq sees the record as a clear sign that more young people have opened their eyes to a skilled career with both opportunities and meaning.
- It makes us happy to see so many young people choosing technical education. This is a generation that doesn't just want to talk about change, but wants to help create it in practice. The young people get an education with good job opportunities and an everyday life where their work makes a difference, and the companies get the colleagues that are so sorely lacking, says Maria Schougaard Berntsen, deputy director at Tekniq.
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