International Organisation of Employers and Business and Industry Advisory Committee set up Global Apprenticeships Network

To ensure skills for business and create employment for youth the International Organisation of Employers (IOE), together with the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC) co-host the Global Apprenticeships Network (GAN), in collaboration and with the support of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

18 November 2013

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The Global Apprenticeships Network (GAN) is a new coalition of companies, dedicated to vocational training opportunities through offering apprenticeships, sharing good practices with other companies, employers’ federations and labour administrations and improving the status of apprenticeship programmes through advocacy campaigns and promoting work-based training.

The GAN will organize high-level events, workshops, webinars and teleconferences with international media, exchange of experience facilitated through a dedicated website highlighting best practices, and external studies, from the ILO, OECD, and other respected institutions. It will publish a regular newsletter and establish national networks.

Membership will be open to multinational corporatons (MNCs), small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), employers’ federations, associations and groups linked to vocational training and education. There will be a charge of a minimum of CHF 10,000 for multinational companies to join. SMEs may be sponsored by MNCs, or pay according to their ability.