Dual study program (KIA)

They select the KIA students and recruit them.

The first semester is completed full-time at the university. In the following four semesters, the students alternate between 4 weeks at your company and 4 weeks at the university during the lecture periods. During the lecture-free periods, they work at the company. After 2½ years, KIA students take the IHK/HWK skilled worker examination.

Either the students then take up a skilled worker position - possibly in your company - or they continue their studies. Experience shows that, with a few exceptions, students continue their studies and complete them successfully.

1. As you accompany the future KIA graduates for years during their studies in your company, you have the opportunity to recruit tailor-made and precisely fitting specialists and retain them at an early stage.
   
   
2. Thanks to the vocational training they have completed, KIA graduates have practical knowledge that is extremely helpful for their future engineering work.
   
   
3. As KIA graduates are already familiar with your company, they can start their career after graduation with practically no training period.
   
   
4. Your KIA students have access to certified additional qualifications during their studies, which are financed by the KIA training association. For example, courses are offered in 3D coordinate measuring technology, occupational health and safety management, programmable logic controllers (PLC), quality management and engineering communication.
   
   
5. KIA students receive intensive support from the university, including tutorials and support for talented students.
   
   
6. The four-week rotation between the company and the university gives KIA students additional social skills.
   
   
7. For KIA graduates from your company, there are extended opportunities for further education at the university.

In addition to this KIA model, your employees with a skilled worker qualification who are interested in further qualification can start a direct course of study at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences as part of the _KIApro  model. A valid university entrance qualification is required.