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The 'Berlin Memorandum on the Modernisation of Vocational Education and Training' is a strategic paper prepared by the advisory committee of the Berlin Senate's Department of Labour, Vocational Education and Training and Women's Affairs, in September 1999. The document provides an analysis of vocational education and training and employment policies. It identifies existing problems and presents approaches for addressing these shortcomings as a starting point for discussion. Seven guidelines have been developed to assist the German vocational education and training system adapt to the social and technological challenges of the coming decades. The Berlin Memorandum was handed over to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, which plans to take the memorandum into account in its current work. This article provides a summary of the Memorandum's main points.