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THE WORK OF

THE AHG E&T

ON « ACCESS TO TRAINING»

CEEMET-IndustriAllSocial Dialogue

Plenary meeting, 5 December 2012

2Access to vocational training

First, the obstacles: on the employers’ side (lack of information, problme of SMEs), on the employees’ side (problem of motivation), more generally, issue of funding etc.

Then, the solutions: workshop on how this has been tackled at national level

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Access to vocational training : the obstacles

Companies, especially SMEs, are often unaware of the types of training on offer and do not always know how to access training or training funds.

 Employees lack information on training

opportunities and also lack motivation to train for different reasons.

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Access to vocational training : the obstacles

A lack of real impact of training leads to reluctance from companies and employees to train as they question the benefit of the outcome.

Continuous training systems do not always meet expectations of employees or companies and their needs.

There is a problem of financing, which in many countries seems to be a complex process with many players

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Access to vocational training : the solutions

1st roundtable: the company perspective

The education & training policy in the metal industry: a focus on SMEs (France)

TRIOPlus (Finland): supporting SMEs in developing skills and competence and strengthening their co-operation with iVET students

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Access to vocational training : the solutions

2nd roundtable : increasing motivation and developing innovative approaches

● Daimler (Germany): learning on the shop floor with Daimler’s ‘Production Learning System’ (PLS)”

 ● The Pole of Regional Mobility (France)