Press Release: Enterprise Commissioner Verheugen supports trainee programme at German metal company

Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, responsible for enterprise and industry, will go on 5-6 March 2007 to Brandenburg in Germany in support of the trainee programme Enterprise Experience. For two days he will be visiting Metallbau Windeck, that produces metal equipment for houses and buildings. In Brandenburg he will be meeting with workers, apprentices and managers, as well as other local entrepreneurs. Apart from that Mr Verheugen will get hands on experience in the company of about a hundred employees and will be taught about the operation of Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) machinery and the work at Windeck's building sites, where it installs balconies, staircases and window frames. The Enterprise Experience is aimed at 350 top officials of the European Commission's Directorate General for Enterprise, to give them a better insight in the problems that Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME's) face. Vice President Verheugen launched the Enterprise Experience in July 2006 and now goes out to show his active support, after a first group of fifty trainees has already come back enthusiastically from their visits to companies all across the European Union.