Volkswagen Group Honours Its Best Apprentices
December 10, 2018 by VolkswagenAwards for 46 young talents in 16 vocations from 19 countries• Diess: 'In the future we will need a team that is motivated, competent and committed, and also welcomes change. '
Wolfsburg, December 7, 2018. The Volkswagen Group today presented its 'Best Apprentice Awards 2018' to its best apprentices from all over the world, honouring their outstanding performance and professional competence. The prizes for the 46 young talents with 16 vocations were presented by the Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Dr. Herbert Diess, the Member of the Board of Management with responsibilty for Human Resources, Gunnar Kilian, and the President of the Global Group Works Council, Bernd Osterloh. The 14 young women and 32 young men were honored at a ceremony held at the CongressPark in Wolfsburg. 'You have every reason to be proud because you are among the world's best apprentices of the Volkswagen Group. In the future too, we will need a team that is motivated, competent and committed, and also welcomes change. If you want to keep pace with the major challenges of our times, you must demonstrate flexibility and be ready to accept change,' said Diess at the award ceremony. Gunnar Kilian said: 'Volkswagen offers almost 20,000 young people throughout the world excellent training in about 60 vocations and 50 dual courses of study. We have successfully transferred dual vocational training to locations throughout the world and train our budding specialists at our plants across the globe on the basis of this model. The award winners have made exemplary use of this training and laid a firm foundation for a successful career. Dual vocational training also lays solid groundwork in an era of rapid technological change which calls for continuous advanced training.' This year's Best Apprentice Award was the 18th of its kind presented by the Volkswagen Group and a total of 523 apprentices have been honored since 2001. Osterloh said: 'I congratulate all the winners of the Best Apprentice Awards from the Volkswagen Group who have come to Wolfsburg this week. Your outstanding performance is also the result of the high-performance vocational training offered throughout our Group. This success clearly shows that we must not make any sacrifice in terms of vocational training despite all the current savings programs. Vocational training develops the specialists of the future. This is an essential prerequisite for shaping change together in the digital era with respect to development, production and mobility.' 18 of the award-winners had already been honored in their home countries for their commitment to their companies and for their knowledge and skills in their training vocations. 21 of the Best Apprentice Award winners will be starting a degree course to develop their knowledge and skills in greater depth. Three of the award-winners from Germany will be receiving two years of individual support in their professional family within the 'talent group for young specialists'. The apprentices honoured were: Andrea Würzburger AUDI AG Ingolstadt, Germany Marvin Fütterer AUDI AG Neckarsulm, Germany Péter Benedek AUDI HUNGARIA MOTOR Kft., Hungary Mattia Cevolani Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., Italy Phoebe Jay Bentley Motors Ltd., UK Philipp May Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Germany Luca Padulosi Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A., Italy Jie Yao FAW-Volkswagen Automotive Company, Ltd., China Dunja Haag MAN Energy Solutions SE, Germany Tom Mattern MAN Energy Solutions SE, Germany Fabienne Brandes MAN Truck & Bus AG, Germany Theofilos Parcharidis MAN Truck & Bus AG, Germany Oliver Frühwirth PORSCHE INTER AUTO GmbH & Co. KG, Austria Thommy Knoll Porsche Leipzig GmbH, Germany Kai Xu SAIC-Volkswagen Automotive Company Ltd., China Kim Svedberg Scania AB, Sweden Albert Robles Gonzalbes SEAT, S.A., Spain Eryk Michał Bednarek SITECH Poland, Poland Daniel Voce ŠKODA AUTO a.s., Czech Republic Jan Kuchař ŠKODA AUTO a.s., Czech Republic Felix Frobart Volkswagen AG Brunswick, Germany Sven Arends Volkswagen AG Emden, Germany Dominik Bleitner Volkswagen AG Kassel, Germany Ole Borchers Volkswagen AG Salzgitter, Germany Carolina Ewers Volkswagen AG Wolfsburg, Germany Joêlle Thums Volkswagen AG Wolfsburg, Germany Nadine Sievers Volkswagen Argentina S. A., Argentina Adriana Alexandra Mota Duarte e Duarte Volkswagen Autoeuropa, Lda., Portugal Xueling Yin Volkswagen Automatic Transmission (Tianjin) Co., Ltd., China Xiaodong Sun Volkswagen Automatic Transmission (Tianjin) Co., Ltd., China María Félix Olivera Prieto Volkswagen de México, S.A. de C.V., Mexico Maressa Rebecca Silva de Almeida Volkswagen do Brasil Indústria de V A Ltda., Brazil Nele Hesse VOLKSWAGEN FINANCIAL SERVICES AG, Germany Jesus Espinosa Volkswagen Group of America, Inc, USA Christin Bojahr Volkswagen Group Retail Deutschland, Germany Aleksandr Vinokurov Volkswagen Group Rus, Russia Rahul Barhate Volkswagen India Pvt. Ltd., India Dominik Król Volkswagen Motor Polska Sp. z o.o., Poland Rubén Arana Iriarte Volkswagen Navarra, S. A., Spain Steven Neuhauser Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Germany Nala Mofokeng Volkswagen of South Africa (Pty.) Ltd., South Africa Lukas Albermann Volkswagen Osnabrück GmbH, Germany Hubert Cichewicz Volkswagen Poznań Sp. z o.o., Poland Sophie Marx Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH, Germany Pascal Mehlhorn Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH, Germany Matej Molnosi VOLKSWAGEN SLOVAKIA, a.s., Slovakia
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