PLUSS

Name of institution: IUC Norrbotten AB
Type of the organization:
  • Private
Country:
  • Sweden
Thematic scope of the project:
  • Workers and new skills
  • Education and training
Problems to be solved (justification of the need of the transnational cooperation):

The target group for this project are Small and Midsized Enterprises within woodworking, metal working and engineering, and the electronic industries in Norrbotten, the northernmost region of Sweden. A great challenge for the industrial companies in the northern part of Europe is how to manage to compete with their products on a worldwide market. One issue is a constantly decreasing population in this area. The companies need to make sure they have the right competence and skills in-house to be able to compete and survive. The problem is that there are not many local activities available. These SME’s have difficulties to find time and money to travel in order to get the training they need.

Objectives to be achieved: The primary aims of our transnational participation are: To find projects in other European countries who have been successful in working with educational activities towards SME’s. To find methods for in-service training activities. Too find some good examples where common demands have been gathered and then executed in trainings and workshops towards the identified target group. To explore possibilities for Swedish SME`s to build future relationships with companies in other European countries.
Main transnational activities (as provisionally planned, to be confirmed with partners): PLUSS will be working with educational activities in some strategic areas; for example production, organisation, leadership, product development and sales/marketing. We will be gathering information about common educational demands in these areas. Then we will be responsible for initiating and organizing these activities. How?IUC Norrbotten has a good relationship with these SME´s since many years. As we have been working closely with many of them, we have a good understanding of their areas for development through yearly development discussions. Their needs and demands concerning competence are to some extent equal to their development needs but not completely the same. We have launched a website: www.iuckompetensnorr.se where companies can fill in a questionnaire but this is a new site and it will take some time until we get the information we need via this tool. We are looking for projects/companies that have some experience in this area who would be able to give us some inputs and ideas.
Planned deliverables & outcomes of TNC: found projects in other European countries who have been successful in working with educational activities towards SME’s. found methods for in-service training activities. found some good examples where common demands have been gathered and then executed in trainings and workshops towards the identified target group. exploration of possibilities for Swedish SME`s to build future relationships with companies in other European countries.
Target group:
  • Employed
  • Employed in small enterprises (between 10 and 50 employees)
  • Employed in SMEs (between 50 and 250 employees)
Stage of the implementation: Project under implementation
Budget of the project in EUR: 520000
Budget of transnational activities in EUR: 6000
Duration of the project from (dd/mm/yyyy) to (dd/mm/yyyy): till 31/07/2012
Duration of transnational activities within the project from (dd/mm/yyyy) to (dd/mm/yyyy): no data
Contact person: Asa Tjarnberg
e-mail: info@iuckompetensnorr.se
Phone: +46 70 326 88 11
WWW: http://www.iucnorrbotten.se, www.iuckompetensnorr.se
Project fiche: application/mswordfp_IUC Norrbotten AB.doc.doc
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