Responsibility

Education

Education and specialist qualifications are of key importance for Germany's future as a location for industry. STIHL is aware of its social responsibility and provides occupational training beyond its own needs. Under the guiding principle of sustainability, STIHL cooperates with schools and universities on long-term educational projects. The goal is to secure the supply of next-generation skilled workers and to prepare them for occupations requiring various qualifications.

Training and further training

STIHL has a long tradition of placing high priority on training. In order to facilitate entry into a successful career for as many young people as possible, we offer technical and commercial apprenticeships and also help to train our next-generation academics in collaboration with the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University. The goal is to provide optimal preparation for working in occupations requiring various qualifications and for a successful career at STIHL. Through various possibilities for further training, the company also gives all its employees the opportunity to continue developing their capabilities and strengths.

Worldwide training

Especially at the founding company in Germany, STIHL can look back on a long and successful tradition of occupational training. In recent years, established training concepts have been integrated also at STIHL sites where the local state school system does not foresee this type of training. In the United States for example, the training provided by STIHL Inc. offers many young people a unique opportunity to optimize their career prospects. And the STIHL plant in Brazil introduced occupational training according to the German system in 2013. Already in 2011, apprentice training courses were started at the STIHL plant in Qingdao, China, in cooperation with the Chamber of Foreign Trade.

Educational partnerships

STIHL actively supports school students in choosing a career, and helps them to develop their aptitudes and talents at an early stage. In Germany, this takes place for example through educational partnerships with state middle schools. Already in 2003, STIHL entered into a partnership with the school Friedensschule in Neustadt. This was the first cooperation of its kind in Baden-Württemberg. The cooperative ventures make school students acquainted with the diversity of working life through practical educational projects. They are also given specific orientation in searching for the right occupation.

Klasse 2000 (Class 2000)

"Strong and healthy at elementary school" is the motto of the Class 2000 teaching program, which is implemented throughout Germany by the Program Klasse 200 e.V. (Class 2000 Association). The children at the school Friedensschule in Neustadt for example learn what being healthy means by playing with Klaro, the program's mascot. STIHL helps and has supported the implementation of these lessons in elementary schools since 2007.

Support for students' film concepts

Each year, the Caligari Prize is awarded for the most innovative film concepts at the internationally renowned film academy in Ludwigsburg. STIHL has supported the students with the realization of their film ideas since 2006. Wolfgang Zahn, former STIHL's Executive Board Member for Development, is involved as the Deputy Chairman of the Friends' Association of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. The award of the Caligari Prize constitutes valuable support for the winning students. It helps to integrate them in the Baden-Württemberg production landscape and thus also strengthens the Stuttgart region as a location for the media industry.

Glimmers of Light

A short film of the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg on the importance of intellectual property. More at www.lichtblicke.apm.net

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