“Presentation delivered at the UKCES-OECD workshop on “Employer Ownership: Strengthening Partnerships to Enhance Skills Investment” held on 16 November 2012 at the UK Skills Show, Birmingham, UK.”

1. PARTNERSHIPS IN VET
AN EMPLOYERS PERSPECTIVE
THE FUTURE IN
YOUR HANDS
2013-2016

2. Content
1. Training and Development Funds
- About the OTIB
- History
- Operations
2. SBB
- About the SBB
- Role
- Environment
- Structure

3. OTIB
Training and Development Fund
for Technical Installation
Companies

4. ON OTIB
Mission:
To enable the installation industry to retain suitably well-
qualified people.
Policy headlines:
•Public funded education
•Workforce training
•Inflow / career development
Execution
•Financial incentives
•Projects
•Structural cooperation with stakeholders

5. ON OTIB
O&O-funds
•Dutch labour law enables social funds (O&O funds) via collective labour
agreements
•Usually levy based to equalize cost of training and apprenticeships
•Social funds have existed for almost 40 years
•Currently some 100 O&O-funds for different sectors in existence
OTIB
•Established in 2004 by through merger between O&O-funds
•Includes over 136,000 employees / 9000 employers in Netherlands
•Managed by a board of social partners
•Operates in 7 regions with regional managers
•40-45 staff (half of which are regionallly based)

6. OPERATIONS: FINANCIAL INCENTIVES
OTIB has a number of quantative incentives:
•workforce development subsidies (OSR)
•apprenticeship subsidies (BPV)
•accreditation of prior learning subsidies (APL)
•collective ESF for SME’s
•‘mirror image’ subsidy
•temporary subsidies
Flow of funds always goes through the
employer.

7. OPERATIONS: PROJECTS
OTIB has a number of qualitative projects, for example:
Innovation:
•Sustainability
•Intelligent energy supply
•Care technology
Inflow:
•Betamentality / diversity
•Topstarters
•Skillsmanager
•TechniekTalent.nu
Education:
•Masterplan competence based learning
•Exchange platform for E-portfolio (VET + work placement)

8. OPERATIONS: STRUCTURAL COOPERATION
Structural cooperation with stakeholders:
National:
•Stichting Beroepsonderwijs Bedrijfsleven (SBB)
•Delivers framework for sectoral agreements and regional
execution
Sectoral:
•Kenniscentra Beroepsonderwijs Bedrijfsleven (KBB)
•Sectoral agreements based on framework SBB
Regional:
•Execution of framework/agreements and
•Cooperative execution of VET

9. Council for cooperation
between
VET and the labour market
SBB

10. On SBB
What is the SBB?
- council established on January 1, 2012
- cooperation between employer and employee
organisations and training providers in VET
Why establish the SBB?
- structural improvement of VET
through cooperation
Mission:
- ensure enough skilled workers are well-qualified for
the demands of the labour market

11. Role of the SBB
- one collective link to the Ministry of Eduction
- policy advice based on common interests
- national agreements decreed by Ministry
- deliver framework for sectoral and regional issues
- sectoral cooperation of stakeholders through
Centres of Expertise (KBB’s)
- operational support to SBB and regional collaboration
- employers have a position on national and
sectoral level on VET

12. Policy level
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--Executive level

13. SBB structure
three advisory committees
VET qualifications and examination
- qualifications framework
- binding agreements on examination
Work placement
- work placement contract
- national control on quality and commitments
Macro-effectiveness
- matching supply and demand (quantitative)

14. Questions?
Thank you.