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Project in Sweden 2018/00335
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Project in Sweden 2018/00335 |
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5,740,112.5 Swedish krona
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11,480,225.0 Swedish krona
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15 March 2019
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30 April 2021
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IUC Syd AB
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21119
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The project, Smart Industrial Competence 2.0, will provide support to 15 small and medium-sized industrial enterprises with the two clear shortfalls. One shortfall is the ability to increase the innovative strength within the operation and the second is to take advantage of diversity's positive impact on the company's development. The challenges are to work with these shortfalls, to think innovatively and to use the strengths of diversity that can be intertwined with competence development / competence nurturing. This process will enable and develop a company’s competitiveness where inclusion and lifelong learning will set a fundamental tone. Skane's regional development strategy points to many challenges, but also many opportunities. Focus on innovation and competence nurturing is a key issue for companies in the region. Skane has slipped up on gender balance within industry where 25% of employees are women and/or young and from growing populations where one fifth were born abroad. Identifying the untapped skills that exist in groups that have not entered the labour market yet, and to develop skills that are already available in companies, will be crucial for development, growth and increased competitiveness. Inclusive workplaces with gender equality shines through in all the elements of the project. Smart Industrial Competence 2.0 will increase skills and ability of the employees in participating companies and will provide knowledge for attitudinal change towards diversity and non-discrimination issues. The project will expose how better gender equality creates better competences which could result in increased abilities for innovation and internationalization. The project will meet an already identified need for strategic competence development and competence nurturing and includes mapping, analysis and competence raising efforts on both strategic and individual level. All employees in the participating companies participate in strategy workshops for anchoring, engagement and understanding of the company's development strategy and its innovative approach. Participants will receive individual skills coaching that will strengthen him/her and is in line with strategies of the company. Management will conduct potential growth analyses, innovation analyses and will participate in networking meetings with other participating companies. During the running of the project, we will integrate workplace culture with the company's strategy work, diversity work and non-discrimination issues as well as with the competence management process according to Swedish standard SS 624070: 2017. This will result in a process that continues in the companies following the project that supports continued work with other existing projects and new networks that IUC Syd works with. The project's evaluation will focus on whether the efforts have increased competence and changeability of employees, and if it gave the company knowledge and a change in attitude towards diversity and non-discrimination issues. Also if an increased ability for change / innovation and internationalization has been created. The project's results will be shared with member companies in Industrial cluster IUC Syd, as well as with other corporate networks and other players around SME industry and industrial service companies. The project partners will distribute their knowledge and experience from the project into their own respective organizations. 15 companies have shown interest to participate in this project. The participating companies have a total of 659 employees, of which 99 (15%) are women and 560 (85%) are men. Particular attention will be paid to women in production with regards to resources for competence nurturing in order to improve the work-content for women in production management. We are very experienced in the Skane industry branch and want to challenge ourselves with this project by finding models to fill the shortfalls (increased innovation and inclusion / diversity) as we generally see is an achilles heel for small and medium-sized industrial companies. At the same time, we create a model for constant learning both in the company and outside it of through partners. (Swedish)
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2018/00335
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