Citation
(2002), "Portugal's small firms get help with training", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 26 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/jeit.2002.00326fab.008
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2002, MCB UP Limited
Portugal's small firms get help with training
Portugal's small firms get help with training
Only 12 per cent of Portuguese companies with fewer than 50 employees carry out training. Now money from the European Social Fund is helping to encourage more of these firms to take part in publicly available employee development.
The money supports a network of consultants, training centres, trade unions and employers – linked by the Internet – who work with small firms for about a year to develop tailor-made training programmes. But European money is not used to finance the training itself.
Some 6,000 employees in more than 600 firms – mainly in Portugal's most deprived areas – have so far benefited from the scheme.