It is becoming increasingly difficult for young people to find the way into professional and adult life. School and vocational training centre are at a loss as to what they should do and the phrase „educational crisis“ is in everyone’s mouth, The Berlin Institute for Productive Learning in Europe (IPLE) has found a way out of the crisis: Productive Learning. Productive Learning enables young people to emerge from the passiveness of a „pupil“ existence as prescribed by society, to take control of their own educational process on the basis of a participation in „real life“ and to develop a new self-confidence, creativity and efficiency.