The Hearing Acoustics craft congratulates its new skilled workers to successfully completing their apprenticeship: After a three-year vocational training program, 688 apprentices from all over Germany have successfully taken their journeyman\u2019s and journeywoman\u2019s examination at the Campus Hearing Acoustics this summer. Due to the pandemic, the festive graduation ceremony, which was held on 26 June 2021 mainly as an online event, was live streamed from the new afh (Academy of Hearing Acoustics) studio. Approximately 1,500 participants followed the event on their computer screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The festive graduation event was hosted by Marianne Frickel, President of the Federal Guild of Hearing Acousticians (biha), who addressed the young journeyman and woman in her laudatory speech with the following words: \u201eYou have chosen a fantastic, very innovative health craft and thus joined the fast and flexible world of progress. This profession will put a smile on your face, every time you have contributed to giving someone back lost quality of life through improving his\/her hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All speakers congratulated the graduates on their performance. In her greeting, Luebeck member of the German Bundestag and Federal Commissioner for Patients\u2018Affairs, Prof. Dr. Claudia Schmidtke, thanked the young professionals for their career choice: \u201cHaving the chance to help and actually being able to help, is a wonderful thing.\u201d She continued: \u201eAs of today, you will join and strengthen approximately 15,000 hearing acoustic professionals in 6,800 businesses all over Germany, who have so far supplied 3.7 million people with hearing systems. They make a vital contribution to the nationwide provision of hearing aids for all patients.\u201d She also thanked the hearing acoustic businesses for high training quota of about 20 percent and called this quota \u201ca record number of the German economy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n