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Vocational education is versatile and offers great career prospects. The Bavaria-wide Training Week acknowledges the importance of the dual system and is designed to encourage future school leavers to take up an apprenticeship. The themed week was on the agenda at the MEGGLE dairy too.

„We need both practice and theory. We need both vocational and academic masters.“ This was how Dr Michael Karrer, Head of Division at the State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests, stressed just how important vocational training is in Bavaria when he visited the MEGGLE dairy in Wasserburg. It is the only way to ensure the region's need for experts will be fulfilled in the long term, said the Head of Division, who was deputising for the temporarily indisposed State Minister, Michaela Kaniber.

Dr Michael Karrer explained that dual training offers a great foundation for one's entire career – with fantastic opportunities for development: "Incidentally, for me, vocational training and further training is on a par with a degree." The Head of Division encouraged the MEGGLE trainees who were present to continue down the path they had chosen.

He also praised the Wasserburg dairy's great commitment to training in general: „Over the past few decades, your company has trained countless young people in technical and commercial careers at this Wasserburg site alone – not to mention a further 150 men and women in careers as dairy lab technicians and dairy technologists. That is to your credit,“ said Dr Michael Karrer to the assembled representatives of the MEGGLE dairy.

Before that, Toni Meggle, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, had welcomed the many guests from the worlds of politics, business and professional associations. He still sets great store by training for young people. At the moment, MEGGLE is training 44 young adults in seven different professions, plus dual students in two disciplines. MEGGLE is one of the biggest training organisations in the region.

Toni and Marina Meggle together with the Bavarian Milk Princess, Miriam Weiß, who has herself completed training to become a dairy lab technician.