Education and training
Because we believe training and development are very important, we cooperate closely with the education sector. As well as internships, we also offer dual learning for students from specific disciplines. At the annual ‘Spitsdagen’ (Top Days), the various education-sector players get to know our organisation and each other better. Additionally, we make our internal training offer available to partners and contractors.
Dual learning at Fluvius
Fluvius organises a combination of education and work experience in the form of a dual learning course. We have had students from the ‘Logistics’ course with us since the 2018-2019 academic year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, we started a new ‘Utilities Installer’ course.
At our Fluvius Academy, we teach our technicians to build electricity grids and to repair and maintain them, as well as connecting customers to them. The students on this dual course attend the Fluvius Academy to learn the ins and outs of the trade, step by step. They then use the knowledge they have acquired in practice, with supervision from experienced technicians.
Internships with Fluvius
The coronavirus crisis meant that all internships from March 2020 onwards were cancelled unless it was possible to continue them under safe conditions. A few apprentices and students were able to complete an internship just before the lockdown: 3 HBO5 students, 2 bachelor’s degree students and 2 apprentices in secondary education.
Top Days
In February every year, Fluvius’ Education Working Group organises the ‘Spitsdagen’, or Top Days. These are networking moments when teachers of technical subjects are given explanations of our company’s latest developments, a particular specialist field, a current hot topic, or a similar theme.
To give all colleges in Flanders the opportunity to take part, we organise a total of three days at various times and locations. This action reaches about 40% of all technical colleges. Fluvius’ regional managers and recruiters can make contacts there with technical teaching staff, technical advisers at the colleges and the staff of the Regional Technology Centres.
Online training for contractors
Since the autumn of 2020, our accredited partners and contractors have been able to look online at the training Fluvius has on offer and enrol their staff for courses at the same time. We also now offer an online self-study programme through our ‘Working on connections’ learning track.
You can follow it wherever and whenever you want and it is a necessary and mandatory preparation for training courses at the Fluvius Academy.