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SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2019 Tommy Andersson, local
chairman for the Hedin Bil club in Göteborg have been active in creating the concept of Motorbranschcollege (College for the motor industry) to change the trend of shortages in competence and to be able to meet the future demands. TOMMY ANDERSSON IS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS AND INITIATOR OF MOTORBRANSCHCOLLEGE WHAT IS MOTORBRANSCHCOLLEGE? The Motorbranschcollege of today started in 2017/2018 and grew out of a collaboration within MYN, Th motor industry occupational committee. We saw the need to attract qualified and trainable staff to the vehicle industry. The high schools could not keep up with the development and the competence did not suffice once the students started working. We also wanted to make the vehicle educations more attractive for the secondary school students. Motorbranschcollege is working for the educations within the vehicle industry maintains a high quality, a modern and efficient technical equipment and the proper competence amongst the teachers and aims to secure the future competence needs of the business through courses at certified high schools. It is a joint effort between high schools, employers and unions. Union representatives from IF Metall, companies from the industry and the transport companies (representing the employers) are represented in the board, amongst others. In order to become a Motorbranschcollege the high school’s vehicleand technical educations must meet six criteria that ensures the quality towards the students and the job market. As of today, there are 18 Motorbranschcollege-certified high schools around the country. There is a minimum of 1, often two, years of hard work for the schools to live up to the MCB demands before a certification can be granted. Tommy Andersson has been working in the industry for about 40 years as a mechanic and is one of the founders and initiators of Motorbranschcollege. Tommy has been a union trustee since 1983 and the principle safety representative for 15 of Hedin Bils sites in Göteborg and surrounding areas. It was back in 2010, as Hedin Bil acquired Scanauto, that Tony entered Hedin Bils organization. Tommy explains that he was always passionate about educational issues and that he has been committed to MYN since 2012. Tommy was previously working with educational issues in the primary school and is also an active commissioner in board of education in the county of Lilla Edet to be able to affect the primary schools’ educational investments. “The company’s commitments is crucial to the success of Motorbranschcollege”, Tommy stretches. Entrepreneurs commits via APL, that is to say through offering students from vehicle programs internships. The demands directed towards the companies is that they must be able to offer workplaces with the proper work content as well as a good planning and commitment to the realization of the outplacement. They must also provide supervisors that have completed a supervising course. ” Motorbranschcollege is a quality system directed towards curtain, selected high schools that provides educations with relevance to the professions of the motor industry. Through the initiation and strengthened collaboration between high schools and companies in the motor industry the educational qualities is to be improved. Source: Transportföretagen.se In this collaboration, Tommy sees the benefit of collective agreements and the benefits for entrepreneurs to be connected. The companies gets an extra boost through the early contact with students within the vehicle programs and is thereby able to market themselves as employers, and in the long term these kinds of collaborations ensures that there is enough competence to go around in the future of the industry. 28