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Visitors of an education fair at the Grohman Factory

Looking for automation technicians? We train them in our own technical school

Do you have a line to staff and a job advert nobody answers? We are the only zone in Poland that runs its own technical school, and since 2019 we have trained automation and robotics technicians together with companies from the region. We will help you find people before they run out.

What we will do for you

A shortage of technicians takes years to solve, which is why we started with our own school in 2018. Today you can use it in four ways.

  • 01

    We connect you to the Zone’s technical school

    From their third year, students of the Automation and Robotics Technical School do paid apprenticeships in Zone companies. You take them in, get to know them at work and keep the best of them.

  • 02

    We invite you into a partnership with the school

    The school’s partners fund scholarships for the best students, take them on internships and get to know them before they reach the job market. That is how Miele, Ceramika Tubądzin and Delia Cosmetics work with us; they co-own Strefa Edukacji.

  • 03

    We train your people on the technical side

    Strefa Edukacji, the Zone’s company, runs training in PLC controllers, pneumatics, drone operation and technical English. The company has its office at Fabryka Grohmana in Łódź.

  • 04

    We give you a say in the curricula

    We run the Sectoral Council for Competences in automation and robotics. You tell it which skills the market lacks, and the council turns that into recommendations for schools.

How it works

We start with your plant, not with a catalogue. We match the path to who you are looking for and by when.

Stand at an education fair at the Grohman Factory

  • A maintenance automation technician, a CNC operator, a cybersecurity specialist for the factory. You tell us about the plant, we work out which path to take.

  • Student apprenticeships and internships, a partnership with the school with scholarships, training for your current team, or a seat at the council. You can combine them.

  • The school prepares the students to enter your hall: OHS rules, the scope of the work, an apprenticeship supervisor on your side. Training for your team you arrange directly with Strefa Edukacji.

  • Students work with you in their third and fourth year, so you know them long before their final exams. Graduates pass their vocational examinations and leave school with certificates, SEP and Siemens among them.

Projects we run for the workforce

We build the workforce through three Zone projects. Each covers a different level: the school, the training and the qualifications policy.

  • Rows of students in a hall at Fabryka Grohmana in front of a stage with a screen showing the TAiR logo against a red brick wall

    Technikum Automatyki i Robotyki

    The only technical school in Poland run by a Zone; it trains technicians for companies in a dual system.

    Discover Technikum Automatyki i Robotyki
  • Students of the Technical School of Automation and Robotics in a hall

    Strefa Edukacji

    A company of the Zone and its investors: its own technical school, training for companies and education projects.

    Discover Strefa Edukacji
  • A council meeting: a row of participants at a long table, a screen behind them announcing the inaugural session of the Sectoral Council for Competences in Automation and Robotics

    Sectoral Council for Competences

    Brings companies, schools and experts together so that education keeps up with what the automation and robotics industry needs.

    Discover Sectoral Council for Competences
Students at a stand during a fair at the Grohman Factory

Is this support for your company?

Manufacturing plants that automate their lines and look for people with certificates gain the most. Check whether that is you.

Who
Manufacturing and technology companies, from inside the Zone and outside it
Where from
Łódź and the Łódź Voivodeship, because that is where the students learn and work
What you do not need
A support decision, investor status or a training department of your own

The apprenticeships are paid by the company, and the school prepares the students for the shop floor. You provide the workstation and the supervisor.

Before you book a consultation

  • It depends on your workstations and supervisors. Classes have 20–24 students, and the placements run in the third and fourth year, so the school spreads students across several companies.

  • Yes, apprenticeships at the Zone’s technical school are paid by the company. You agree the rate and the form of contract with the school when you sign the agreement.

  • Standing places for apprenticeships and internships, contact with students from their first year, and a say in what they learn in their practical classes. Partners also fund scholarships for the best students.

  • No. The apprenticeships, the internships and the training are open to every company in the region. A support decision or a plot in the Zone makes no difference here.

  • You buy Strefa Edukacji’s technical training at the company’s own price list. If you want to fund it from development vouchers, see our training page: there you pick the provider yourself, from the Baza Usług Rozwojowych (the national Development Services Database).

  • Admission to the first year runs every year from late April to the end of May, with a supplementary round in July. The school publishes the dates and the profiles at technikum.io.

Book a free consultation

Leave your contact details and the workforce account manager will call back and suggest whether to start with apprenticeships, a partnership with the school or training for the team you have. The conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

Workforce account managers

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