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DELTA (2017-1-UK01-KA202-036810) Collaborative Apprenticeships Case Study

Name/Identifier: Shared Apprentice Limited Date: April/May 2019

Researcher: Patrick Ärlemalm Country: Sweden

Case Study

Amledo & Co. is specialised in VET and project development and is a consortium
leader with local, regional and national partners responsible for VET in
cooperation with the Swedish Confederation of Transport Enterprises. This is an
umbrella organisation for associations and companies within the transportation
sector in Sweden and comprises 10,100 companies with around 217,000
employees.

In Sweden, the skills shortage is increasing and companies have difficulty
recruiting employees with the correct skills. The recruitment difficulties exist
throughout the business sector and across the country and have serious
consequences for many companies.

Many employers emphasize the importance of personal qualities when
recruiting. In addition to the difficulty of finding people with the right
professional experience, there is a shortage of people with the right attitude,
commitment, service ability, responsibility and ability to work independently.

A well-functioning competence supply places demands on the quality of the
education system. From the corporate point of view, the challenge is to attract,
develop and retain the right employees. Before that is possible, however,
companies must find the right skills, something that many companies today find
problematic.
For training in upper secondary education to be combined with employment
relationships e.g. apprenticeships and a shared apprentice​ system​ in the future,
Sweden will need to take further steps in a direction reminiscent of conditions in
other countries. An apprenticeship and ​shared apprentice​ system will probably
require agreement between employer organizations and trade unions. Only
then will we receive an apprenticeship education that corresponds to the
conditions in most of the apprentice countries within the EU, i.e. an
apprenticeship course which is widely regarded as completed education.

An upper secondary school apprenticeship pilot test began in the autumn of
2017 through an agreement between The Swedish Association of Industrial
Employers and the trade union IF Metall under terms of the agreement that will
apply for a completely new apprenticeship training system in Swedish basic
industry. The new agreement complements existing educational structures and
is to be evaluated in 2020.

Developing collaborative apprenticeship training in Sweden requires that all
parties involved have acceptable conditions which create good conditions and

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