Training and Development Institute
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.
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.
In-Country Value (ICV) has been created by the SAP Training and Development Institute across EMEA South since establishment by running its programs.
talents have successfully graduated from the SAP Young Professional Program across 24 countries.
of our programs' graduates have been placed with customers, partners or SAP internally.
Please contact us via saptdi@sap.com to receive more information or if you would like to hire from our program graduates.
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.
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.
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. Across Africa, our capacity build programs are offered under the SAP Skills for Africa initiative.
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.
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.
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.
We drive initiatives to establish a hub for knowledge exchange and join forces to jointly boost innovation.
Winnovate, powered by SAP, empowers individuals and organizations to co-create, validate and implement innovative solutions that generate value for their stakeholders – in virtual and hybrid setups. Winnovate 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".
Experience 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
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.
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.
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.
With support, the young and ambitious in Africa are overcoming poverty and other hardships to the benefit of entire families, communities, and countries.
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.
ENOC Group recently partnered with global technology company SAP on its Young Professional Program to offer young talents the skills and training required to support their digital transformation efforts.
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 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 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.
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.
