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Workplace Swedish Training

  • Service
  • 82 municipalities
  • Public service

Workplace Swedish improves the capacity of your company's personnel with a foreign background to cope with their everyday work tasks in Swedish. Teaching of the language can focus on the professional vocabulary needed in the tasks, the communicative situations encountered at work, the customer service situations, or the company's occupational safety material or other material.

Workplace Swedish i ...

Do the following

  1. Contact your local ELY Centre or TE Office.
  2. Prepare a proposal for joint purchase training. Primarily use the electronic form. If it is not possible for you to submit the electronic form, fill in the printable form "Employer's proposal for joint procurement training (TEM607)" and send the form to the local ELY Centre or TE Office.
  3. The person processing your proposal will assess your training needs and draw up a preliminary training plan.

To whom and on what terms

As a rule, the minimum duration of a Workplace Swedish Training is 70 lessons (45 min per lesson). However, the minimum duration can be adjusted to meet the specific needs of the company. The training is divided in parts according to the needs of the company, taking into account the objectives and duration of the training. A typical schedule is between two and four lessons once or twice a week.

The service is discretionary and subject to a fee. The employer and the employment and economic development administration provide funding for the Workplace Swedish Training together. The employer's contribution depends on the size of the company and its turnover or balance sheet. The company's contribution is 30% to 50% of the total price in Targeted Training, 30% in Recruitment Training, and 20% in Change Training.

The service is provided by

ELY Centre, TE Office

Other responsible organisations

ELY Centre for Uusimaa, ELY Centre for Häme, ELY Centre for South Savo, ELY Centre for Satakunta, ELY Centre for Central Finland, ELY Centre for North Savo, ELY Centre for Ostrobothnia, ELY Centre for Varsinais-Suomi, ELY Centre for Lapland, ELY Centre for Kainuu, ELY Centre for South Ostrobothnia, ELY Centre for Pirkanmaa, ELY Centre for North Ostrobothnia, ELY Centre for Southeast Finland, ELY Centre for North Karelia

Responsible for the service

ELY Centre
Text edited by: ELY Centre
Updated: 19/6/2023