In technical education at least four weeks of practical training (praxis) should include practical ‘hands-on’ experience (on the example of the educational framework for Mechanical Engineering 26-41-M/01), but again schools can provide it either in companies or run it in school workshops (NUOV, 2008c). Therefore provision of workplace training in apprenticeship and technical VET depends very much on individual schools. The authors estimate that only 35% of students in apprenticeship programmes receive any practical training in a company (Czesand et al. In four year technical programmes around 90% of students do receive training in companies but the majority of work placements last no more than three weeks (Czesana et al.