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In the future, employees in information security and ICT and the financial industry will be offered short and relevant further education. The goal is that the employees get important replenishment, and that the companies get the expertise they need.
"A shortage of people with the right skills will be one of the biggest bottlenecks in several industries in the future. This can make it more difficult to provide good services across the country. That is why it is so important for individuals, companies and society at large that employees are offered professional development," says Minister of Research and Higher Education Sandra Borch.
The Government has now decided that workers in two new industries will have the opportunity to participate in continuing education and training adapted to their everyday work.
"There will be industry programmes for information security and ICT, and for the financial industry. These are industries with a great need for restructuring. They report that many who have worked in the industries for a long time need to update their expertise," says Borch.
A goal that more people will stay in their jobs
The industry programme aims to ensure that employees, laid off and unemployed in industries with a special need for change, acquire the necessary skills to master new tasks, and thus stay in the job.
In recent years, the financial industry has been faced with new demands, including green and sustainable investments. This creates a need for new and updated expertise. Information security and ICT are hitting several sectors. This industry programme may therefore lead to many receiving the necessary replenishment.
The industry programmes are a shared team. The state pays for upper secondary education, vocational schools, university colleges and universities to operate and develop relevant programmes. Companies and individual employees invest their time.
"The industry programme is a good example of tripartite cooperation in practice. We see that the collaboration means that competence development programmes are developed that would not have been established otherwise, and that many employees have the opportunity to take up skills they might not otherwise have taken," says Borch.
Industry programmes in five industries
In the spring of 2023, the Ministry of Education and Research invited the main organisations to propose industries. Ten industries were nominated. Six of these were renominations of industries that have already had industry programs, and four nominations were new industries.
