The "Future Day for Girls and Boys in Lower Saxony" has existed since 2005 and is based on the concept of the nationwide Girls'Day/Boys'Day. It is regarded as an important building block in career guidance. On this day, girls and boys in grades 5 to 10 explore academic appointments in which their respective gender has so far been underrepresented - especially activities that they have not previously considered due to a lack of role models, for example.

• Girls can gain an insight into technical, scientific or manual academic appointments.
• Boys can gain an insight into social and educational professions or, for example, everyday life in the library or administration.

It is important that separate programmes are offered for girls and boys. The children are then more willing to gain experience in occupational fields that are new to them. In mixed groups, girls and boys quickly fall back into old roles and find it difficult to engage with new ideas about academic appointments and life planning. Separate groups for girls and boys, in which they can be completely alone and experience a specific programme, are therefore a key principle of the Future Day.

As nationwide studies show, Girls'Day (in Lower Saxony: Future Day) generates and supports positive trends such as the increasing proportion of female students in the natural sciences and Computing Science or more female apprentices in technical appointments and thus makes a sustainable contribution to preventing a shortage of skilled labour. Despite a good school education, girls still often opt for a limited range of occupational fields and study subjects when choosing their training and studies and therefore do not fully realise their potential. At the same time, companies are increasingly lacking qualified young talent, particularly in technical and technology-related fields. In particular, women are still too rarely represented in management positions in business and science in Germany.