COMPANY PROFILE
Integra - Education and Competence Development Centre ltd
Integra Education and Competence Centre Ltd has been providing adult and labor market education and staffing solutions since 1995 to various authorities such as employment offices, municipalities, EU agencies, Health Care centers as well as to private companies and public employers in Sweden.
Mission statement
• To provide skilled and competent manpower.
• To enhance individual's employability status through life-long learning.
• To train individuals to adapt to the demands of a competitive labour market.
• To empower individuals and organizations by the use of diversity variables
Target groups
Integra Ltd has vast and comprehensive experience of running educational programmes aimed at strengthening the proficiency and competence levels of various target groups such as:
• Unemployed of all ages and backgrounds
• Employees and staff in a broad spectrum of branches and professions.
More specifically Integra is focusing on empowering target groups such as:
• Asylumseekers and newly arrived immigrants,
• Long term unemployed immigrants and Swedes
• Longterm sick-listed people
Pedagogical strategy
Integra`s pedagogical strategy is built on strengthening and upgrading the individual's long-term labour market competitiveness by using individualized and flexible learning methods and coaching techniques.
Integras Flexible Module based Educational Concept (FMEC), unique methodology of learning is based on two pillars:
• Departing from the individuals formal- and informal actual competency. This means that the curriculum and learning process will be adapted to the present level of competency and potential of each individual.
• Departing from the actual needs of the employer or work place. This means that the contents of education will meet that actual needs and demands of the work place.
The FMEC model can be adapted to virtually any level of learning and incorporates modern pedagogical methods such as job-embedded learning, experience based learning, individual study plans, coaching and the Digital Empowerment Tool - DET.
Entrepreneurship
Integra offers and conduct courses and coaching for newly started entrepreneurs with immigrant background as well as business development support for established multicultural companies.
Diversity Management
Integra also offers Diversity Management training and tools for purposes such as:
• improving the efficiency of HRM functions;
• fostering superior decision-making, problem-solving, creativity, and innovation; key factors in the creation of knowledge companies;
• developing cross-cultural capabilities that facilitate operations in culturally complex environments at home and abroad
• implementing new product/service developments and new sales/marketing strategies for diverse customer bases
Current assignements
Currently Integra ltd is involved in a multitude of assignements in differing areas.:
Integration of migrants into the Swedish Labour Market
Immigrants living in Sweden are given language courses and are coached to enter the Swedish labour market. Job coaching takes place in the classroom as well as at different private companies, and in municipality and government offices.
These educational programmes are conducted in the cities of Uppsala (approx 100 students) Sollentuna (approx 250 students) Enköping (app. 70 students), Nacka (approx. 150 students),
Diversity management
Integra Ltd is currently conducting Diversity management training for five major companies and organizations in Sweden.
Employers Network projects
Integra is the founder of the Network "Companies that care" which is a network of companies (approx 80 ) and employers involved in matters related to Corporate Social Responsability (CSR) and Diversity issues (www.jobbletarna.se)
National European Social Fund projects:
Learning Arena Gottsunda. A ESF objective 3 project in Uppsala, focusing on mobilization of inhabitants in a segregated city area though work life based and vocational training.
Transnational projects:
EQUAL UPAROS ASYL
Integra Ltd is a partner in the DP for UPAROS ASYL which is part of the European Transnational EQUAL project AVE Europe, (Hungary, Holland, Sweden and Austria.)
Integra is developing educational programmes and empowerment strategies and tools directed towards asylumseekers.
Socrates - The AQUA project
Integra Ltd is the swedish partner in the AQUA project together with Austria, Cyprus, Germany, Slovakia, Turkey,. The projects objective is to make a comparative study of the situation of younger immigrants (18-25 years) in the educational system and on the labormarket.
Track record and working partners
Adult and labormarket education
Integra Ltd has since its establishment 1995 conducted adult, labor market and vocational (transport and health care) training within the above described fields. The number of students who have participated in our educational programmes exceed 7. 000.
ESF projects
Integra has participated in 15 European Social Fund financed projects .
The number of participants exceed 1000.
Working partners and customers
• The Swedish Labour Market Board
• Various Swedish municipalities
• The Swedish Migration Board
• The European Social Fund
• Swedish Trade Council
• Federation of Swedish Enterprise
• Various Swedish Private Companies
Owners and organization
Kunskapsbolaget Integra AB(Integra Ltd) is an private educational and consultancy firm established 1995 in Uppsala by the partners and co-owners Aram Afsahi, Managing Director, Lennart Frimodig, Financial Manager and Carlos Toledo, Human resource Manager.
Integras head office is a based in Uppsala, Sweden with branch offices and educational centers in the cities of, Nacka, Stockholm, Sollentuna and Västerås.
The current number of employees is around 18, most of whom function as teachers/educators.
Integra also work together with a number of consultants and subcontractors to be able to offer a broad range of services and competencies.
