VITAMINE W
Vitamine W is a non governmental organisation which offers training, workexperience and counselling for low qualified long term unemployed. Training concerning different aspects of the construction industry (plastering, drainage and sewer systems, heating, roofing,...) and training for logistical assistants in hospitals. Vitamine W also offers training in combination with workexperience in our cleaing company and renovation company.
Vitamine W wants to develop innovative ways to ensure the right to work for everyone. Vitamine W creates good practice in the effective use of human potential with weak positions on the changing labour market. In concrete terms, the Vitamine W strategy is aimed at ensuring that all the actors in the field have a responsibility to assume: job-seekers, employees, employers, government, the "social partners" and those involved in employment services.
Bulgaria
DBBZ Pleven
Bulgaro-Germanski Zentr sa Professionalno Obuczenje
German-Bulgarian Center for vocational training
The DBBZ Pleven is one of three Bulgarian vocational training centres newly founded in 1995. The previous training prospects in Bulgaria have since been continuously developed into particular training offers, notably in the areas of construction, woodwork, information technology and languages. Target groups are unemployed young people, school-leavers and people looking for a change of vocational direction.
Pool of Competence
- Konfederation of unindependent Unions in Bulgaria/Regional Koordiniation Bulgarien
- Inspection for Health and Safty
- HORIZONT Pleven EOOD
- Bulgarian Building Chamber Pleven County
Deutschland
Zukunftsbau GmbH (Contractor and Koordination)
Pool of Competence
- BIBB - Federal Institut for Vocational Training
- Prof. Dr. Uhe, Tecnical University Berlin
- Prof. Dr. Syben, BAQ Bremen
- Central Association of German Building Trade
- Fachgemeinschaft Bau Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.
- Industriegewerkschaft Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt, Landesverband Berlin-Brandenburg
Finnland
Innova Länsi-Suomen Aikuiskouiuturskeskus
Adult Education Centre
Innova is a vocational training centre for adults. It started in 1997/8 as the merging of the Laitila Vocational Adult Education Centre and the Rauma-based Finnyards Training Centre. Innova’s offer includes qualification in the areas of automation, the hotel and restaurant industry, languages, cleaning, management, technology, the social and health services, electronics, textiles, commerce and data-processing. Innova works closely together with the municipal authorities of Rauma and Laitila. As the biggest regional vocational training centre, Innova is involved in various international vocational training and research projects, and also has experience in ESF projects.
Pool of Competence
- Confederation of Finnish Construction Industries
- Construction Union in Finland
United Kingdom
MOWLEM TRAINING
Mowlem Training offers a unique range of training services to individuals and their communities. Ist record of consistently delivering programme output targets for both funders and participants is founded on effective supply chain partnership, and a commitment to processes which ensure sustainable local benefits. With substantial experience in the delivery of 'social housing' programmes throughout the UK, Mowlem Training is the market leader in housing plus initiatives, developed to engage local communities and help combat social exclusion by:
- Reducing the skills and jobs gap,
- Breaking the link between homelessness and unemployment,
- Reducing debt, maximising local income and economic activity,
- Building sustainable communities,
- Preventing crime.
Pool of Competence
- Jobcentre Plus Regional Office
- Learning and Skills Council West Yorkshire
- Construction Knowledge Centre Ltd
- Leeds College of Building
- Yorkshire Forward
- Construction Industry Training Board
Panormedil
Agency of vocational training on building arts without profit aims, linked with the regional and the national organisations of training on this field. The range of the target include qualification or retraining or updating on all skills of the building firms, involving whether unemployed or disadvantaged people or workers and employees.
PANORMEDIL owns a permanent training Centre with headquarters, classrooms and laboratories, and external sites including a simulated building site. The wide historical centre of Palermo is an important opportunity for the stages and the placement of the trainees. The financial support to the activities is based on the contribution of 2900 building firms employing 11000 workers and completed by public funding. The good relations with the local administrations and the professional environment allows a deeper implementation of the competencies.
PANORMEDIL is closely co-ordinated with FORMEDIL SICILIA, regional network of the 9 sicilian building school, and also linked to the national network FORMEDIL, connecting 96 building school all over Italy.
Pool of Competence
- Formedil
- Kommune Palermo Ufficio "Europa"
Österreich
FAB - "Association to promote work and employment"
As a collective training organisation comprising trade unions and the employee’s chamber, and with more than 13 branches, the “vocational support institute” is one of the biggest organisations in Austria. The BFI undertakes measures lasting up to 6 months, for the social and vocational integration of disadvantaged groups into the areas of building and renovation, painting, decoration, carpentry, agriculture, recycling and the hotel and restaurant industry. The BFI has experience going back to the 1980s in European programme and community-initiative participation (ADAPT, HORIZON, 5th research programme, INTERREG II, RESIDER, SOKRATES, LEONARDO DA VINCI). The BFI is a member of the European Construction Site Network, EBSA.
Pool of Compentence:
- Construction union
- Construction enterprise Glatzhofer
- Vocatrional Training School Freistadt (Construction) Upper Austria
- Reno Top Braunau
Rumänien
Fundatia Romano-Germana Timisoara
Romanian-German Fountation Timisoara
The German-Romanian Training and Further Training Centre for Construction was founded in 1993. Since then, around 5200 people have taken part in training and further training courses for school-leavers, unemployed people, small businesses managers and people returning to work. Target vocations are gas-water installation, heating design, masonry, carpentry, tiling, roofing, dry mortar construction, computer technology and painting. The Fundatia works closely with local job centres and training centres as well as with over 80 Romanian SMEs in the construction sector, and has specific experience and solid cooperation connections.
Pool of Competence
- Timisoara Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture
- Directia Generala de Munca si Protectie Socila a Judetului Timis (Arbeitsamt)
- Federatia Timisoaraa Sindicartelor Libere Filiala CARTEL ALFA
- Agentia Judeteana Pentru Ocupare si Formare Profesionala Timis
