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Company Challenge for Apprentices

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Target group: Apprentices training in the company

Offer: Five- to eight-month modular project competition including a presentation and implementation within the company

The myclimate Company Challenge is a modular vocational education programme. It enables your apprentices to develop specific climate protection projects in their working environment. This gives your apprentices valuable expertise on climate protection and project management and strengthens your company’s commitment to sustainability.

What does this programme achieve?

The Company Challenge provides your apprentices with the necessary knowledge, skills and willingness to contribute to and succeed in their future role as professionals in an economy with the target of net zero.

Specific benefits

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Develop apprentices’ skills (compatible with various educational plans).

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Create opportunities to experience self-efficacy and empowerment.

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Strengthen your position in recruitment and promotion of young talent.

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Promote effective climate protection action and visibility of sustainability and vocational training work.

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Content for storytelling on climate protection, sustainability and vocational training.

Find out more about the Company Challenge
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The myclimate Company Challenge is a modular vocational education programme. It enables your apprentices to plan and implement effective sustainability projects. Over the course of this process, they gain valuable skills and can make a material contribution to your company. 

Apprentices first receive an introduction from myclimate, before independently developing ideas and projects to enhance sustainability and climate protection at your company – supported by ad-hoc input from myclimate, too. These ideas and projects are assessed by an in-house jury, with the best projects recognised at an awards ceremony.

What the participants say


We see sustainability as a path that we consistently follow. That is why it is also part of our strategy. At IGP, we attach great importance to raising employee awareness. Together with myclimate, we offer our youngest generation, the apprentices, the opportunity to work on sustainability projects in order to raise awareness of sustainability.

Sara Kielholz, Corporate Communications Assistant

During my apprenticeship at IGP, I was able to acquire a sustainable focus with the apprentice project with myclimate. This perspective is still present in my daily work in the area of raw materials and shapes the way I work. I am convinced that the collaboration with myclimate in training will have a big impact on our future workforce, just as it had a big impact on me.

Cecilia Leuenberger, Laboratory Technician Binders & Additives

How your company benefits from the myclimate Company Challenge

  • Concrete climate protection and increased energy efficiency in your company. Save energy and electricity costs.
  • Offer your learners further training in sustainability, project management, teamwork and independent work as well as a vessel for self-efficacy.
  • Benefit from their achievements and the motivation of your learners.
  • Sensitise your employees through the trainees, e.g. through projects or internal communication.
  • Simple implementation, coordinated and supervised by myclimate education experts
  • The Company Challenge gives you a platform to demonstrate your commitment to vocational training and sustainability. The communication value clearly results from a likeable and attractive story (commitment to vocational training, talent development, innovation, climate protection, sustainability)

Sustainability is one of our corporate values and has been anchored in our strategy for years. With the myclimate Company Challenge, we offer our apprentices the opportunity to develop and implement their own ideas for sustainable solutions. At the same time, participation offered the apprentices a valuable opportunity to strengthen their project management skills and acquire practical knowledge.

Anita Läderach, responsible for apprenticeship programmes

How the participating trainees benefit from the myclimate Company Challenge

  • Ideal vehicle for developing their skills and experiencing their own scope for action
  • Attractive training project with room for personal initiative and creative ideas (employer marketing)
  • Possible talent development programme for particularly strong apprentices

The collaboration with myclimate has given our apprentices a new approach to the topic of sustainability - practical, creative and future-orientated. The innovative project work has strengthened team spirit and promoted long-term awareness of climate protection in our company.

Corinne Hofstetter, Head of Vocational Training

Example process of a Company Challenge

  1. Preparatory task (-1 month, optional)
    Look at the workplace from a sustainability perspective, identify potential for improvement
     
  2. Kick-off day (month 0)
    •    Learn about climate protection - in general, in your own job and in the company
    •    Project development (in a team)
     
  3. Interim presentation (months 2-3)
    •    Presentation of the project concept to a panel of experts with feedback
    •    Project realisation
     
  4. Project submission (months 4-5)
    •    Project publication on the online platform
    •    Feedback to the project teams
     
  5. Project finalisation (months 6-7)
    •    Internal project competition
    •    Accompanying communication measures

SDG contributions 

The Company Challenge for Apprentices programme contributes to SDG targets 4, 8, 12 and 13. Read more in our FAQ.

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This programme teaches practical climate protection skills and fosters the ability to play an active role in shaping sustainable development in vocational training.

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Apprentices’ awareness of resource-conserving practices and sustainable consumption and production patterns in their company is strengthened.

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The programme enables apprentices to acquire relevant climate protection skills in order to develop and implement sustainable practices in their professional environment.

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Through their own projects, apprentices learn to take active climate protection measures for their company.

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