Program designed to improve future sector professionals knowledge levels Successful applicants to do in-house training at firms abroad
Program designed to improve future sector professionals knowledge levels Successful applicants to do in-house training at firms abroad | 28/12/2015AIC-Automotive Intelligence Center continues to put its money on finding and attracting talented people to the automotive industry. With the support and backing of Bizkaia Provincial Council, the International Grants were first launched five years ago in a bid to give young people looking for a way into this attractive, dynamic and growing industry the opening they needed.
These 13 grants (known as the International Approach) will enable successful applicants to train and acquire experience over a 9-month period at firms located in France, Germany, the UK, Poland, Romania, Mexico, Brazil, India, China and Japan,
Essentially, the grants are designed for postgraduates with degrees in engineering, business studies, economics or marketing. They will all go through a general training period followed by a specific phase at selected firms.
At the launch, AIC CEO Inés Anitua declared that to date, more than 60 young people have benefitted from the initiative and today 80% are working at firms from the sector.
AIC founders and backers include Bizkaia Provincial Council, the Amorebieta-Etxano and Ermua city halls, a group of cutting-edge companies from the automotive sector and Basque automotive cluster ACICAE. AIC-Automotive Intelligence Center is an open innovation center that hosts know-how, training, technology and industrial development initiatives under a single umbrella that are designed to improve competitive levels in the automotive industry. More than 700 people from 30 organizations work at AIC facilities.