Danske Fragtmænd is awarded national continuing training prize

On 15th of December, Danske Fragtmænd was awarded VEU Centre Eastern Jutland’s Continuing Education and Vocational Training Prize 2017 for launching the modular training programme which is Danske Fragtmænd’s biggest training project to date.

With the prize, Danske Fragtmænd was automatically also nominated for the national Supplementary Education and Training Prize where all winners from the 12 other local VEU centres were among the finalists. Danske Fragtmænd was announced as the final winner of this national prize, to the great joy of HR Manager Frederik Madsbjerg, who is both happy and proud of the prize.

“The Modular training programme is Danske Fragtmænd’s biggest training project to date. It’s a project in which we’ve invested a lot of time and resources, as it’s important to equip our employees for the digital and vocational challenges of tomorrow. It was fantastic to receive the Eastern Jutland prize in december, and then winning the national prize and receiving this extra honour is, of course, very pleasing and highly motivating for our whole business,” he explains.

Employees are the key to success
According to Frederik Madsbjerg, the company owes its success to the work performance of many different players. Not least, he highlights the good and close cooperation with the many adult education and vocational training centres around Denmark with which Danske Fragtmænd has established a good framework for learning.

“However, one thing is to offer the framework. Another thing is to fill it in. Therefore, we could, of course, not succeed with the project if it hadn’t been for our employees’ enormous commitment and great interest. Management and employees at our terminals have really done a great job to fit in the pieces of the puzzle when people have been on training programmes. Great praise also goes to the employees, who have shown the courage to initiate a debate about their difficulties and have had the desire to deal with them”, explains Frederik Madsbjerg.

Danske Fragtmænd’s modular training programme originates from the Projekt Basis project, which is a joint project between the Danish Employers’ Association for Transport and Logistics (ATL), Transportens Udviklingsfond (the development fund of the Danish transport sector), the United Federation of Danish Workers (3F) and VUC (adult education and vocational training centres) aimed at strengthening the basic skills of drivers and warehouse and terminal employees in Danish, Mathematics and IT. The modular training programme offers the employees training at the workplace and during working hours with full pay, which, in the long term, will enhance the competencies of more than 200 warehouse and terminal employees.