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VästKraft’s vision is

to increase the competence of individuals within the technology sector,
and thereby strengthen the Gothenburg Region’s sustainable growth.

 

Project VästKraft was created to support companies and individuals, active within the technology sector, with a focus on the automotive industry and its suppliers. Together with companies and other partners on the job market, VästKraft sets up short courses and practical competence development. The project takes place within the Gothenburg Region’s 13 municipalities, in the western part of Sweden.

 

Short Facts

Project Period: 23rd of March 2009 – 22nd of June 2011 (originally 22nd of March 2011, but the project has been extended)

Budget: € 5 000 000

Financier: European Social Fund  

Project owner: Gothenburg Region Association of Local Authorities

 

Target groups

All the participants in VästKraft work within the automotive industry or its suppliers, in the Gothenburg Region.

3 000 employees at companies in the technology sector

The participants work at companies in need of competence development within the technology area. The company sets up a plan where they identify the employees’ needs, and in dialogue with VästKraft’s educational planner a schedule for the courses.

500 former employees in the technology sector

The participants are still employed when they enter the project, but have been given notice. They have to start the competence development before their last day at work, but can continue when they are unemployed.

 

Main Project Partners:

Arbetsförmedlingen – Public Employment Service

Almega – Employer and Trade Organisation for the Swedish Service Sector

Business Region Göteborg – A Non-profit Company that Develops Trade and Industry

IF Metall – The Swedish Industrial Workers' and the Swedish Metalworkers' Union

LO – The Swedish Trade Union Confederation

Sveriges ingenjörer – The Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers

Teknikföretagen – The Association of Swedish Engineering Industries

TRR Trygghetsrådet – Outplacement Services for Corporate Managements and Trade Union Representatives

Unionen – Sweden’s Largest Trade Union on the Private Labour Market

 

VästKraft has signed agreements with 19 educational suppliers, that are used during the whole project.

 

For more information, do not hesitate to contact us.

E-mail: vastkraft@grkom.se