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Afghan refugee as best apprentice
21-year-old Ishaq Mohammad won the Lower Austrian coachbuilder's state apprenticeship competition, completed the journeyman's examination with "good success", wants to take the evening school leaving certificate and then study mechanical engineering. A success story.
Afghan refugee as best apprentice
He was 16 years old when he fled with his parents from the chaos of war in Afghanistan to Austria and could neither read, write nor calculate. Today Ishaq Mohammad is 21, took first place in this year's Lower Austrian coachbuilder's state apprenticeship competition and completed the journeyman's examination in July with "good success". He is now employed as an industrial painter at the machine manufacturer Lenze in Asten, Upper Austria, and wants to do his evening school exams in order to then study mechanical engineering. Incidentally, Ishaq Mohammad last saw his parents when they fled five years ago when the family was torn apart. He hasn't heard from them since. Read our – in my opinion – moving story on page 30.
Exclusive stories
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More exclusive stories:
▶ “The igniting spark” on page 10. The trends towards high-pressure injection and engine downsizing are challenging spark plug manufacturers. They rely on new designs and innovative materials to ignite the fuel mixture even cleaner and more efficiently.
▶ “Only five more years until the breakthrough” on page 16. Manfred Schrödl, head of the Institute for Energy Systems and Electric Drives at the Vienna University of Technology, explains in the KFZ Wirtschaft interview why he is convinced that the transition from combustion engines to electric drives will take place in the next five years. His arguments are debatable, but essentially convincing.
▶ Automotive technicians, body builders and vulcanizers were merged under the “vehicle technology” umbrella. Since the guilds merged, BIM Friedrich Nagl and BIM Deputy. Erik Papinski for the first time in a double interview about the nature of the merger. The two old hands, who understand each other excellently, have a lot of plans together. Read the double interview on page 4 and, above all, watch the video clip that we have designed for you. (See QR code below right.)
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Pleasing results
Finally, some good news: The renowned market research institute GfK, on behalf of the automotive industry, asked companies what their interim assessment of this year was after eight months and what the automotive year 2015 will look like at the end: 41% of those surveyed stated “somewhat good” results, 6% even “very good”. At the end of last year, pollsters recorded significantly negative expectations in their survey about the forecast for 2015. In this context, the current interim results are entirely encouraging.