State Enterprise “Bulgarian-German Vocational Training Centre” (DP BGCPO) combines 2011 the five Bulgarian-German Vocational Training Centres, which have been established in the period 1993-2010 as the largest German investment in the field of adult vocational training in Bulgaria. DP BGCPO works in close cooperation with the Employment Agency and employers delivering vocational training to about 2000 unemployed and employed per year.
DP BGCPO is an important tool for implementing active labour market policy and contributes to solving the problems with the qualification of the workforce. Pursuant to the Employment Promotion Act (EPA), the state assigns the DP BGCPO to implement public tasks in the area of policy for improving the quality of the workforce, focusing on the training of unemployed from the vulnerable/disadvantaged/risk groups in order to (re) integrate them into the primary labour market.