Skills Norway
Contributes to increased employment and active citizenship
Promotes and demonstrates the importance of skills policy in our nation’s development
Our partners: other state agencies, labour and employers organisations, regional and municipal agencies, the voluntary sector, adult learning associations and universities and university colleges
Ways to formal vocational certificate
2 years
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Skills Plus
• Improving basic skills to keep up with the demands and changes in modern working life and civil society
Skills plus
• Digital skills
• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Oral
• Norwegian/Sami
• Learning in the workplace environment or in NGO-activity
Skills Plus - how
• Enterprise or learning provider can apply for funding• Requires cooperation between enterprise and learning provider
• Embedded and situated learning – based on enterprise’s needs
• Curriculum in Norwegian for adult immigrants
• Competence goals for Basic skills (reading, writing, numeracy, digital skills and oral communication) for adults
• Standard length courses – depending on participants needs and level
• Mapping of the participants
An on-going programme
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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Skills plus - in 1000 Euros
Gir voksne kompetanse til å mestre krav og omstilling i arbeidslivet
Success criteria • Based on prior learning/ competence
• Meeting actual needs
• Work place or NGO as learning arena
• Committed management
• Authentic material
• Competent teachers
Trial: VET in Skills plus
• 1 million Euros 2018 - 1,5 mill in 2019
• Adults with practical experience and lowformal education
• Combines VET and basic skills
• Preparation to achieve trade certificate
• Evaluation
Tools and resources on basic skills
• Information and tools