A couple of months ago, there was an article in one of the Michigan newspapers saying Michigan and Ohio are at war again, and the war is really finding skilled people. So companies are hiring away people. They offer signing bonuses, something that is still unknown on the German side, because there is oversupply in Germany. The kinds of salaries these companies are offering are far higher than what a nonprofit organization is entitled to offer. Looking a little bit at the deficits as we see them, I just pointed out three topics here.
Education is certainly one.
Just looking back into my own academic life, being a student, I never, ever, had any opportunity to get in touch with the international part of mechanical engineering. So you can finish your study and then may have a chance to go out. That is something, I think, that one should try to change. It may be very different looking at the science arena, but on the engineering side, there is, from my point of view, still a dramatic lack of opportunities to get familiar with international activities. Small and medium-size companies don t have any idea how to approach foreign markets.