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5. TRAINING AND FURTHER

TRAINING

[GRI 103 ] Nurturing young talent, helping employees gain new skills, and increasing innovative capacity are
extremely important for ensuring that RAFI continues to develop sustainably and in a manner that is geared
toward the challenges of the future. To acquire new skilled workers, we seek to achieve an annual training
rate of between 5 and 10% at our European locations. This is also how we meet our obligation to
society to train young people and pave their way toward a successful entry into working life. As an
innovative technology company, we consider our employees to be our greatest asset. That is why we not
only select and recruit the best new employees. We also carry out human resource development activities in
all strategic areas, including structured personnel management, targeted training and development, and staff
retention beyond the working phase. We also use innovation management to encourage creativity and the
generation of new ideas by our employees.

5.1 Training and fostering young talent were providing vocational training to 24 on-the-job
[GRI 102-8, 404 ] Needs-based training is a key as- trainees, six retrainees, 15 cooperative-study stu-
pect of our sustainable human resources planning. dents, and two student interns. After a number of
This means that the number and occupational fields years with high trainee intakes at RAFI Hungaria, five
of the traineeships on offer vary depending on fore- trainees and two cooperative-study students are cur-
seeable retirement, projected employee turnover, rently employed there. In accordance with our collec-
and strategic positioning of the company. In Germa- tive agreement, all candidates who successfully com-
ny, RAFI currently offers training opportunities in 14 plete a training program at our headquarters in Berg
professions that require on-the-job vocational train- are offered a fixed-term employment contract lasting
ing. A total of 7 cooperative study programs are also at least twelve months. Members of the youth and
available at the Berg and Überlingen locations. The trainee representation body are awarded permanent
RAFI location in Berg won the independent award employment contracts.
“Top Ausbildung 2022” (Top Training Program 2022).
The prize is awarded exclusively to the top 1% of 5.1.1 Structure and evaluation of the training
training companies. It confirms the excellent quality Training at RAFI is structured in a decentralized man-
of training at RAFI. On 12-31-2022, the two locations ner. A responsible instructor is entrusted with the

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