Central Technical Committee for Print and Media Vocational Training

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The Central Technical Committee for Vocational Training in Printing and Media ( ZFA for short ) was founded in 1949 as the central task- setting facility for ensuring the quality of vocational training in the graphic arts industry . The ZFA is supported by the Bundesverband Druck und Medien e. V. (bvdm) based in Wiesbaden and the United Service Union (ver.di), specializing in media, art and industry, based in Berlin .

The main tasks of the ZFA are:

  • Solve technical questions of vocational training in the printing and media industry together and
  • To create uniform national examination tasks for the printing and media professions.

Customers include 80 chambers of industry and commerce , 54 chambers of crafts and other bodies responsible for the acceptance of tests, for example in the public service .

Offer of examination questions

Working method of the ZFA

The ZFA develops the examination tasks for the intermediate and final exams for the following training occupations :

Creation of examination tasks

The ZFA's examination tasks are prepared by voluntary specialist committees. They develop the examination tasks, adopt the examination task set and take a position if the tasks are criticized. The committees have an equal number of representatives of employers and workers as well as teachers of vocational schools occupied. Every year, several hundred new written examination tasks and complete practical tasks for the intermediate and final exams are developed for around 20,000 examinees.

Promotion of vocational training

Particularly qualified vocational training in the German printing industry has a long tradition: As early as 1920, the parties to the collective bargaining agreement laid down in detail in the apprenticeship regulations for the “German printing industry” which services must be provided in a successful training relationship. In 1949, the then "Working Group of Graphic Associations" and the "Printing and Paper Industry Union" founded the "Central Technical Committee for the Printing Industry (ZFA)". This committee of employee and employer representatives should create the most important prerequisite for the growth and competitiveness of the printing industry: Highly qualified young talent - through training that can keep pace in an age of constant technical upheaval. In 2001 the ZFA was renamed the Central Technical Committee for Vocational Training for Printing and Media in keeping with the times. Since then, experts from the ZFA have carefully observed development trends in the media industry. The results are implemented in training practice by the ZFA revising training regulations - in close cooperation with the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BiBB) as well as in-company and school-based practitioners, working on the preparation of the framework curricula by the Standing Conference of Education Ministers , and creating recommendations for framework curricula for advanced training professions as well as recommendations for preparatory courses. In order to promote the up-to-date communication of training content, the ZFA played a key role in the media designer 2000plus (2000–2003) and Mediencommunity 2.0 (2008–2011) projects. The learning offers developed in these publicly funded research projects are continued by the ZFA for permanent use in training.

Service offer of the ZFA

The ZFA provides detailed information about the training structure of the printing and media professions, the training regulations, framework training plans and curricula. Information about the structure and requirements of the exams is available for all professions. In addition, a sample exam and a digital training plan are available for download for each profession .

The ZFA also publishes the nationwide standardized dates for the written intermediate and final exams. In addition, once a year the ZFA publishes a magazine with current topics on the industry and on the exams free of charge for all trainees in the printing and media industry, the print and media ABC.

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