The companies in the industry need employees with both social and intercultural skills, as well as updated knowledge in Research & Development and leadership and organisation in an international perspective, which are our objectives with the project. This knowledge is crucial for the employees to be more competitive and manage through recessions and in return create jobs. An important aspect of the Learning Outcomes in this project are not only aquiring technical skills, but also the intercultural and social skills. Recruiting young people in leadership is a challenge for the companies in the industrial sector in Sweden. With this project we aim to strengthen the participants for the future in this regard. One way of evaluating the quality is to make the participants evaluate their experiences of the internship period. By working with their awareness about their own social competences by using self assessment tools, we have seen they have grown as individuals during their stay abroad. It also helps their employability in a global and multi cultural world as well as increases interest and attraction to working in the industry.
GTC, Gothenburg Technical College is the result of a unique private/public sector collaboration between Volvo Car Corporation, Volvo Group and the municipalty of Gothenburg. The College is a non profit corporation jointly owned and managed by both organizations. The purpose of GTC is to provide high quality technical education within the technical industrial sector. GTC works with internationalisation throughout the entire organisation and that is one of the objectives from our owners. The need for highly educated staff that has experience from mobility and international cooperation is crucial for the industry to survive and develop. The need for good language skills is necessary for a global company of today. The language and technical development from experiencing different methods used in our partner countries is a key for both our Upper Secondary students, adult learners and staff to have the know-how and experience for high employabitlity. Locating work place training to another European country will increase the participants’ employability on an international market.