I will now call the meeting to order. We've established that our translation is working so far. I'm hoping that if there are any translation issues, we'll deal with them.
I would like to welcome the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. We will ask Maximilian Metzger and Christiana Tings, who are there, to introduce themselves. Also, we will hear from representatives of the International Bureau of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Institute for Vocational Education and Training.
We look forward very much to hearing from you this morning. We know that you've done some very interesting and favourable things as far as apprentices are concerned, both for young apprentices and for female apprentices. You've had a fairly good success rate and we want to hear how you've done that.
Initially we will have a presentation from each of you, and then we will open it up to questions from our committee members.
I'm assuming that you've heard all of that. If you have, we would ask you to open with introductions and then brief statements.