Chamber of Crafts for Upper Franconia
The Chamber of Skilled Crafts for Upper Franconia in Bayreuth is the competent Chamber of Skilled Crafts in Upper Franconia as a representation of interests and service provider for the local craft, craft-like businesses and their employees and apprentices. It thus represents over 16,000 companies and over 78,000 employees.
The most important tasks that the HWK performs for the skilled trades in Upper Franconia are the representation of political interests, vocational training and further education, the provision of advice and services and the implementation of sovereign tasks.
Nationwide, the HWK for Upper Franconia is a recognized pioneer in the field of new technologies (competence center for manufacturing technology in the craft).
Furthermore, the HWK maintains a technology center for Upper Franconia in Hof (Saale) .