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Training & Development Institute

Initiatives to close the digital skills gap

The SAP Training and Development Institute offers initiatives that empower rising talents on SAP’s innovations, thus helps them to kick-start their tech career within the ecosystem of SAP customers and partners. The institute helps in the creation of sustainable work possibilities, ensures economic growth and supports SAP’s ongoing commitment to closing the digital skills gap. Furthermore, it serves as Think Tank for knowledge exchange, entrepreneurship and innovation. With its various initiatives, the institute helps individuals and organizations to thrive in the Digital Economy and tackles some of today’s most pressing issues, such as youth unemployment and digital skills gap. 

We empower bright talents to succeed in the Digital Economy

Today, one in two people on the planet is under the age of 30. The first “always connected” generation, Millennials, are the best-educated in history but still affected by high unemployment rates according to ILO. At the same time, all organizations are becoming increasingly reliant on advanced technical skills in the emerging Digital Economy. 

Founded in November 2012, the SAP Training and Development Institute (SAP TDI) truly underpins SAP’s vision to make the world run better and improve people’s lives with its various initiatives. Our best practices create value across the globe and have already been adopted worldwide to support further SAP organizations.

How we help the world run better

Over 199mUSD 
 
In-Country Value (ICV) has been created by the SAP Training and Development Institute across EMEA South since establishment by running its programs.
 

Over 2270
 
talents have successfully graduated from SAP's Young Professional Program / SAP Skills for Africa across 22 countries.

More than 99%
 
of our programs' graduates have been placed with customers, partners or SAP internally.

Our upcoming events and training opportunities

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SAP's Young Professional Program / SAP Skills for Africa

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SAP's Young Professional Program Egypt
Cairo: November 2018 - February 2019
Alexandria: January - March 2019
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SAP's Young Professional Program Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
February - May 2019
July - September 2019 Apply here
October - December 2019
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SAP's Young Professional Program Ankara, Turkey
December 2018 - February 2019
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SAP's Young Professional Program Beirut, Lebanon
February - May 2019
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SAP Skills for Africa South Africa
Cape Town: November 2018 - March 2019
Johannesburg: June - August 2019 Apply here
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SAP's Young Professional Program Muscat, Oman
June - September 2019
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SAP's Young Professional Program Amman, Jordan
May - July 2019

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SAP's Young Professional Program Madrid, Spain
May - July 2019
Apply here

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SAP's Young Professional Program Ben Guerir, Morocco
June - August 2019
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SAP's Young Professional Program Lagos, Nigeria
July - September 2019
Apply here

Please contact us via saptdi@sap.com to receive more information or if you would like to hire from our program graduates.

Other Initiatives & Upcoming Events

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SAP's Dual Study Program
We have 17 Dual Study Partner Universities. Please contact us via saptdi@sap.com to receive more information.
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Winnovate
Join us for the Winnovate Innovation Bootcamp in November in Saudi Arabia!
 
Reach out to saptdi.winnovate@sap.com for more information on Winnovate or find our full service catalogue on winnovate.global
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Collaboration is key


What others say about us

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Malak Awartani
SAP Consultant, Schneider Electric

“SAP's Young Professional Program is a cultivating journey which helped me thrive and empowered me to find an attractive job in the region. It only takes hard work, commitment and teamwork to make your wish of finding your dream job come true.”

Salahudin Barakji
Logistics Officer, Mars Gulf
 
"SAP’s Dual Study Program helped me to secure a role with a globally recognized company in a field I’ve always wanted to pursue as my SAP certifications and knowledge gave me a real advantage over other candidates. I’d highly recommend SAP’s Dual Study Program to any student who wants to differentiate themselves in today’s competitive job market."
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Our training initiatives

Enable and foster future technology leaders

We host programs to inspire and enable rising talents on SAP’s latest innovations. Our initiatives support organizations with finding the right resources for the Digital Era.

SAP's Young Professional Program / SAP Skills for Africa

The 2-3 month program covers a unique enablement plan that includes SAP software functional/technical knowledge and certification with key focus on SAP’s latest innovations as well as soft skill trainings. Participants graduate from the program as SAP Associate Consultants, being immediately employable with SAP Customers and Partners.

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SAP's Dual Study Program

In partnership with top universities, the program provides students with the opportunity to take major-specific SAP trainings and certification during academic years. The extracurricular collaboration helps students to bridge the gap between university and workplace and find a job in the SAP Ecosystem.

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SAP's Go Digital Program

This career transformation offering targets highly skilled and experienced Business Professionals (e.g. in HR or Finance) aiming for a career shift towards professional consulting. The 2-months blended certification program focuses on SAP’s latest innovations. Participants will graduate as SAP Associate Consultant and are immediately employable in the SAP Ecosystem.

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Our innovation initiatives

Establish a hub for innovation

We drive initiatives to establish a hub for knowledge exchange and join forces to jointly boost innovation.

Winnovate - a Hub for Innovation

Winnovate, powered by SAP, empowers individuals and organizations to collaborate and transform real-life challenges into opportunities through disruptive innovation methodologies. It is an innovation coaching and workshop facilitator that aims to enable individuals and organizations with the tools and methodologies that are required to give structure to innovation initiatives and grow their “Confidence to Innovate”.

Find out more on winnovate.global

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SAP Leonardo Center

Leonardo Centers act as a front-end for customers where we deliver our innovations to our customers in the context of our Intelligent Enterprise strategy, across the complete SAP portfolio. The mission is to harmonize the customer experience across the globe and simplify the end-to-end customer journey, based on three key aspects: Meet, Inspire, Engage

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Stay updated with our latest news

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Digital Skills Development and Smart City Aspirations Create EPIC Success

Cities are challenged to better serve their citizens through innovative technology. Through SAP Skills for Africa’s partnership with the City of Cape Town, we have illustrated the combined power of young professional enablement and SAP technologies to realise a grand vision for building a thriving city.

SAP Supports Digital Skills Build in Egypt On the Foundation of Public-Private-Partnerships

Supporting digital skills build and youth enablement, SAP recently celebrated the graduation of the latest cohorts of its Young Professional Program in Egypt. The global program has completed three cohorts in Egypt in 2019 with a total of 71 graduates, who were trained and certified on SAP’s latest innovations, increasing the total number of program graduates in the country to 223.

Working Together to Close the Skills Gap

AGFE reached out to Marita Mitschein, Senior Vice President of Digital Skills for South Europe, the Middle East, and Africa and Managing Director of the SAP TDI, to learn more about YPP in the Arab world and to highlight lessons learned for other stakeholders wanting to address the skills gap among youth in the region.

Closing Africa’s Digital Divide: Athenkosi Mali Lifts Up His World

With support, the young and ambitious in Africa are overcoming poverty and other hardships to the benefit of entire families, communities, and countries.

Why Diversity and Inclusion Matters From An Innovation Perspective

Diversity and Inclusion has become a trending topic for companies of all sizes and industries, but the focus is still mainly on diversity related to gender or ethnicity. At the same time the buzzword innovation is present in our day to day lives, making it one of the hottest topics right now. Yet organizations often don’t connect these trends with each other and don’t align between departments and hereby miss out on huge synergies.

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Meet the SAP Training and Development Institute Executives

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Marita Mitschein

Managing Director, SAP Training & Development Institute
Senior Vice President Digital Skills EMEA South
Member of SAP’s Global Executive Leadership Team 

In support of SAP’s commitment to close the digital skills gap, Marita Mitschein is leading the SAP Training & Development Institute and overseeing all capacity build initiatives across EMEA South.

Johann Pretorius

Director Training

Johann is responsible for the SAP TDI capacity build programs working with various stakeholders in a region. Furthermore, he is responsible to build and nurture relationships to SAP’s ecosystem of partner and customers in order to give them the opportunity to hire out of our shaped talents. 

Sabrina Höwer

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Sabrina leads the strategy office and oversees all central functions at the SAP Training and Development Institute. In this role she is responsible to drive the tactical agenda and to ensure operational and organizational effectiveness of the TDI.

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Hussam Alkharrat
 
Director Business Development ME North
 
Hussam advocates TDI programs, creates awareness around SAP’s capacity build efforts and engages with external and internal stakeholders in order to support talents and organizations across ME North.






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