You are not learning for a filing cabinet. You are learning for real life.
ICP Education is building a new kind of apprenticeship – modelled on the Swiss system, but without vocational school. Learners acquire their skills where those skills are needed: in real projects, in the company, in real situations.
Learn by doing the work.
Instead of going to vocational school, you spend the whole week in the company taking on real tasks. You learn the theory through the work itself, not separately in a classroom — with personal support as an equal from day one.
More for learners →Become an ICP partner.
Take on trained ICP learners, become a training partner from the fourth year onwards, or offer an ICP apprenticeship yourself — in an existing occupation or one we develop together from scratch.
More for companies →Help build the bridge to a recognised qualification.
We are looking for people in federal and cantonal government, vocational schools and universities who will help us build the bridge to a federally recognised qualification — and map out routes to recognition for each ICP apprenticeship, for example through the sur dossier procedure.
We want to create occupations that fit people
— not people who have to fit occupations.
A free-form apprenticeship instead of vocational school.
With ICP you spend the whole week in the company, learning through real assignments. Vocational school falls away and the theory arrives with the task. What you learn is documented and supported as you go, rather than measured in grades.
After three years of apprenticeship and demonstrated competence we award the ICP qualification (Intrinsic Certified Professional). To back it, we are building a growing network of companies that already recognise it. At the same time we deliberately keep the connection to the Swiss education system in view: anyone who later wants an EFZ or EBA can explore the sur dossier route — we support that process, but the decision rests with the competent authorities.
Open apprenticeships
Suggest an occupation
Which occupations does your company need that do not exist today? Or is there something you have always wanted to work on that has no job title yet? Company or future learner — anyone can suggest an occupation for us to build together within the ICP model.
Schmid and Landolt on the ICP apprenticeship
Nils Landolt explains how the ICP apprenticeship came about: five days a week in the company, no vocational school, no grades, theory worked out on the job — and no EFZ at the end. Simon Schmid plays devil’s advocate and asks about the industry associations, the 90 per cent target and the risk of having no federal qualification. In German.
A competence matrix in the making
Marc is documenting his Mediamatiker:in ICP apprenticeship in public. Over the next three years he will complete a long series of projects, back each demonstrated competence with several pieces of evidence, and build the matrix up to 100 per cent. This is what proof of competence looks like in practice, while it grows.
