Teknikcollege

Teknikcollege

Country: 
Sweden
Organisation role: 
National STEM platform
Organisation type: 
Business / industry

Teknikcollege is Sweden’s largest collaborative platform for the supply of expertise in the industrial sector. By encouraging companies, municipalities, and educational institutions to collaborate, it creates a match between education and the job market, with a common goal: The growth of tech industry through a highly qualified labor force.

 

Education via Teknikcollege is quality assured, based on eight criteria. The companies in a certified Teknikcollege region play a key role in shaping the structure of the courses as well as designing their actual content. In each Teknikcollege region there is a regional steering group, as well as local steering groups. Most members in these steering groups come from the technology industry. By basing it’s courses on the criteria of the companies themselves, providers of education ensure the quality of technical training at upper secondary and post-secondary levels.

 

At the national level, there are several organizations that work with STEM, of which Teknikcollege is the largest with 3000 companies, 180 municipalities, 150 education providers and 20 000 students.