CSU on the economy

The CSU commits to skilled trades, family businesses and self-employment and wants to increase support for trade apprenticeships. In its view, mid-sized companies create most jobs and training positions.

The CSU wants to strengthen skilled trades and small firms. Training to become a master craftsperson is free in Bavaria. Schools should hold a trades day every year. Small firms get help with going digital.

The Digitalbonus program is meant to help small companies with digitalization. Master craftsperson training is free in Bavaria, already for everyone earning the certificate in the current year. Schools are to hold an annual “Day of the Trades” to attract young people to practical occupations. The vocational training centers of the trades are to receive substantially more funding. The CSU regards the master craftsperson title and a master's degree as equal in value.

Through its Hightech Agenda, the CSU wants to put more than five billion euros into research and technology by 2027. This is meant to make Bavaria Europe's leading high-tech location. Priorities include artificial intelligence, quantum computing, aerospace and biotechnology.

The CSU wants to spend a lot of money on research and new technology. By 2027 it will be more than 5 billion euros. This is about things like artificial intelligence and space travel. Companies in rural areas should benefit too.

Funding covers 3,800 positions, 1,000 additional professorships, more than 13,000 university places and 20 top research institutes. Through the Munich Quantum Valley, industry and science across the state are to gain access to quantum computers, and a Bavarian chip cluster for semiconductors is planned. The CSU wants to expand research at university hospitals and the biotech cluster in the Munich area. In Oberpfaffenhofen, a control center of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for moon missions is to be set up, and the aerospace faculty in Ottobrunn is to grow. By the end of the legislative term, every county is to have a technology transfer center that passes research results on to local businesses.