Accessing Higher Education in the German State of Brandenburg
Brandenburg’s economy is undergoing structural change, which opens exciting new prospects
for highly skilled workers. The state has intensified efforts to diversify the economy
towards cleaner and more knowledge-intensive industries, including the development
of advanced manufacturing, spill-over effects from the start-up scene in Berlin, fostering
entrepreneurial activities at its own higher education institutions, promoting innovative
places for working and living, and phasing out of coal production in favour of next-generation
technologies. As the engine of skills development and research, the higher education
system will play an important role in helping the state unleash these opportunities.
The German State of Brandenburg has therefore entrusted the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development – in close collaboration with and supported by the European
Commission’s Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support – with the development
of recommendations on how to enhance the visibility of its institutions’ programme
offer, align this offer with the skills and innovation demand, and make it more attractive
to prospective students from the state and beyond.
Published on April 25, 2022Also available in: German
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