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According to estimates, Sweden will have a shortfall of 70 000 programmers by 2022. In order to address this threatened shortage, Lund University is now launching MatchIT, a bridging course in programming for recent arrivals in the country who have a background in engineering. 100 recent immigrants with an engineering background and a university degree applied, of whom 28 were selected after tests and interviews.
Now these 28 people will be trained not only in programming but also in Swedish language and Swedish workplace communication.
The contract education will be offered in English and is based on existing courses at the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Engineering. The whole training course will focus on providing participants with knowledge and tools to generate effective and high-quality code. The first training round started in August and will continue until the end of January. After 22 weeks of study, each participant will then be matched with a company in the region for a ten-week internship, which will hopefully lead to employment.
The project is funded by the ESF Council and is a collaboration between Region Skåne, Region Blekinge, the Swedish Public Employment Service in charge of the recruitment of participants and internships, Blekinge Institute of Technology and Lund University responsible for contract education courses, and Ideon Science Park responsible for internship placements.
If you are interested in finding out more, or could offer an internship, please let us know!
Contact: matchit@education.lu.se
Read also the news article;MatchIT will match recently arrived programmers with IT industry jobs |
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