Oberägeri/Unterägeri, 28.04.2021

Starting your professional life successfully with "Lift"

"Lift" is a prevention and integration programme for young people that is active throughout Switzerland, with the aim of ensuring an optimal transition from school to work and working life after the official school period. The secondary schools of Oberägeri and Unterägeri are participating in the youth project, and are starting the implementation together in the school year 2021/2022.

The aim of this Swiss-wide project is to assist young people who are in difficult circumstances to enter the world of work or to guide them into a targeted transition solution with the appropriate support. This creates better conditions for a direct transition from school to work, and helps to prevent youth unemployment. In order for young people to learn how to find their way around the world of work, they regularly attend a weekly job posting (WAP) on Wednesday afternoon or Saturday morning. The respective young people are chosen by the responsible teachers according to "Lift" criteria,  and are well prepared and supported in their assignments for local companies by specialists from the school.

Schools see an opportunity for young people
According to the joint media release, the Oberägeri and Unterägeri schools see this youth project as a great opportunity for young people, and have already started its implementation, so that it can be started in the new school year: a project group consisting of the school management and school social workers from both municipalities as well as a teacher, has been formed, the necessary courses have been completed and discussions with the local trade have begun. The first frame networkers ag, which provides IT support in both municipalities, has provided additional start-up funding to launch the project.

"We have thereby created the necessary conditions so that the current pupils of the first secondary school level can start their project well prepared in the new school year," says Franz Hugener, headmaster of the Oberägeri school, in the communication. "The project is promising. We very much hope that, together with many companies in Aegeri, we will be able to make this a success, and thereby give the young people of Oberägeri and Unterägeri an additional opportunity for an optimal start in their working lives," adds Erwin Oertli, headmaster of the Unterägeri school.

Interested companies wishing to offer a pupil a weekly job posting should contact Gabriela Treibl, the high school teacher in the "Lift" project responsible for this: gabriela.treibl@schule-oberaegeri.ch.