Transporterhvervets Uddannelser

The Transport Training Board of Denmark

Denmark is one of the small European countries with just over 5 million people, but it has a long tradition for public professional training and education. Nearly half of all young people enter vocational training schemes after finishing their compulsory, primary education. There is also a well-established system of labour market training for those adults, who did not get proper vocational training or need retraining of new skills. This is called the AMU System.

The Transport Training Board (in Danish: Transporterhvervets Uddannelser - TUR) is responsible for setting national standards and goals for all apprenticeship training for operative personnel of the transportation sector in Denmark, as well as for all labour market training (the AMU System) for the same sector.

Transport and logistic training and education, supervised by the Board, cover all kinds of training for operative personnel, including:

Driver training - Freight and Passenger
Transport of dangerous goods by all modes
Warehouse operation and management
Health and safety training
Quality and Customer service training
International transport
Waste management
Refrigerated transport
Livestock transport
Removals
Parcels and postal operation training
Routing/Scheduling/Logistics
Multimodal transport and terminal operation
Training of rescue corps and ambulance personnel
Port and Airport operations
Lift truck operations
Mobile crane and lorry mounted crane operations
Professional fishermen
Transport and logistics management for administrative personnel and for middle management is a new area of activity, which also will become the responsibility of the Board.

The AMU training program includes nearly 200 training plans, with a duration of between 1 day and 6 weeks. The Government pays all training costs, and the company will receive wage compensation as well, when their employees are attending AMU training.
Unemployed people can also attend AMU training, and about 25 % of all participants are unemployed.

The vocational training program covers ten different apprentices' schemes, which can be attended by both young people and adults.
In the apprentices' schemes part of the training is school-based, part of it is done as in-company training.
The apprentice's scheme consists of 50 weeks of school-based training in a 3 years contractual period for the youngster and of 37 weeks of school-based training in a 2 years contractual period for the adults.

As with the AMU training scheme the public pays all training costs, and the company will receive wage compensation when the apprentice is attending school-based training.

AMU centres and Technical Colleges throughout the country carry out the actual training. The training is attended by app. 102.000 adults a year on short courses and the volume of the vocational training program is app. new 1.700 apprentices a year, amounting to about 1.800 apprentices attending the program.