Debrecen4U December 3, 2024

Students can gain insight into high-tech car manufacturing at BMW

At the joint, automotive open day of BMW Group Plant Debrecen and the vocational training centre, young people can learn about the latest technologies in electric car production and the tasks of various work areas.

The two-day event will give around 1,300 Debrecen students who are preparing for further education insight into high-tech car manufacturing at the BMW Training Centre.

In the mechatronics workshop, the young people began their introduction to modern vehicle manufacturing. Many interested students are car enthusiasts and are explicitly preparing for such a career.

“I would like to become a mechatronics engineer; I’m interested in this profession; I like cars, although I prefer older cars, BMWs are the ones that got me,” student Bence László Gellén said.

The BMW Group Plant Debrecen training centre welcomes ninth—and tenth-grade students and primary school pupils about to start their further education at the automotive open days, which began today.

“We are delighted that our training centre will allow around 1,300 students to experience what it means to work in an industrial environment over two days,” Johannes Trauth, Vice President of BMW Manufacturing Hungary Kft., said.

László Türk, director of the Debrecen School District Centre, highlighted the importance of language learning and further education opportunities at an event for Debrecen’s young people about to choose a career. “From all the primary schools of Debrecen School District Centre, students can get into either the best high schools or the excellent institutions of the Debrecen Vocational Training Centre (DSZC). From these institutions, the path to a dream job can be straightforward,” he pointed out.

Two hundred students from the vocational training centre are already being trained at the BMW Training Centre, where three hundred will be able to learn automotive skills starting next September.

Zsolt Tirpák, DSZC Chancellor, said, “Successful vocational training requires a vision of the future, which the economic environment can provide. The DSZC’s educational cooperation with BMW represents a paradigm shift. It has brought a new vocational training culture, for which the vocational training institutions and the vocational training centre have had to grow; a new culture of relationships has been created.”

Deputy Mayor of Debrecen Lajos Barcsa stressed that new, modern jobs are key to increasing the city’s population retention. The increasingly crucial automotive industry, which already employs more than 14,000 people in Debrecen, plays a key role in this, and the city is also helping young workers with a housing programme. “The Főnix Housing Programme aims to offer workers under 35 years of age discounted housing so that they can find a place in rented apartments here in Debrecen for a fraction of the market rent,” he pointed out.

Pre-series production is already underway at the BMW plant, and production is scheduled to start at the end of next year.

Source and photo credit: debrecen.hu