ATEC – Training Academy, created in December 2003, is the outcome of a project conceived by the promoters Volkswagen Autoeuropa, Siemens, Bosch and the German-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, with the support of the Portuguese Government, aiming to provide Portugal with a Training structure that would meet the needs of the Industrial cluster in terms of staff training and qualification.

The promoter Companies established as main guidelines, the fulfillment of their resources, and the market’s, training needs and qualify or reconvert unemployed resources according to the high requirements and quality standards they normally practice. Moreover, the academy is to act in the market in a free competition regime, in order to provide services in the fields of training and consultancy, to all companies or entities that request its intervention.

The Academy has a very high employment rate, hence contributing actively to the reduction of unemployment and to the creation of professional skills, key factors to raise Portugal’s competitiveness within the European space.