a network of competent actors the case managers are mobilised to support the student in different tasks leading up to a full postcompulsory qualification support is designed to be tailormade and empowering and can include support in choosing a pathway or finding an apprenticeship place upon finishing compulsory education in getting back to education after dropout as well as a range of additional support measures for young people with more general educational and social problems duration of case management is variable and depends on individual needs they had to develop a concrete project proposal by which was approved by the federal government bundesamt fur berufsbildung und technologie bbt who funds the initiative