SENAI

Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial (short: SENAI, German " national training services for the industry Doctrine " ) is a private Brazilian institution of public interest.

History

The SENAI was founded in 1942. The government Getúlio Vargas committed the Brazilian industrial companies by law to transfer one percent of the wage money paid by them to the SENAI to finance its vocational training centers. In this form, there is a system to this day.

Tasks

The SENAI offers professional courses forming industrial Art. He is the only organization that comprehensively offers courses that with the German industrial vocational training are most comparable, but often much shorter. Also usually both theory and practice in the vocational training centers will take place, while in Germany a duality of practical training in the operation and theoretical training in the vocational school exists ( " DSD "). In addition, the SENAI offers professional development and cooperates with the universities in the academic training in industrial areas.

The SENAI may not make a profit. The same applies to the Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Rural, which is responsible for vocational training in the agricultural sector, and the Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Comercial, in which the industrial training takes place in service occupations.

The SENAI has 809 branches throughout Brazil. To date, there are more than 55 million courses have been completed. Currently about 3,000 courses in 28 industrial career fields are offered. (As of 2012)