BEST Institut für berufsbezogene Weiterbildung und Personaltraining GmbH
BEST Institut für berufsbezogene Weiterbildung und Personal training GmbH was founded in 1990 as an independent Austrian organisation for providing continuous training, vocational qualification and career services. Its main activities comprise the development of innovative training programmes for young (+16) individuals and adults, many of them disadvantaged and with migration background, on continuous and vocational training, counseling & coaching and activation for job seekers and employees. The training schemes are client-oriented and based on both the specific needs of the labour market and the participants' individual situations, skills and competences, previous experience and life circumstances.
The institute has its headquarters in Vienna and operates nine branches in the Vienna and Lower Austria region for up to 12.000 students per year (2017). The innovative training programmes for different target groups include own pedagogic and didactic approaches and materials, especially for social integration, empowerment, self-reflection and motivation, as well as ICT based methods that are constantly being updated. As one of the first training institutes in Austria, BEST has become a certified provider of the ECDL European Computer Driving Licence, EBCL European Business Competence Licence and ECo-C European Communication Certificate, and offers respective training and exams. Since 2008 BEST is an official CERTNÖ Training Centre certified by Danube University Krems and approved by the Lower Austria Government. Since 2012 BEST has also the “Wien-cert“, the quality certification for adult education.
On a national level, BEST works with the following strategic partners and clients: Austrian Public Employment Service, Vienna Employment Promotion Fund, Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection, Austrian Development Agency and many leading companies as well as other training and counseling providers.
BEST, (Institute of Continuous Vocational Qualification Training and Personnel Training Ltd. from Austria) has been providing educational support in vocational level over 25 years and is expected to contribute to the development of the training modules. The institute disposes of a network of more than 250 international organisations, both public and private, from different sectors, and is focused on networking, exchange of experience and practices, peer learning, research and development of innovation, knowledge management, personal and professional development. Within its International Projects Department, since 1995, BEST has been engaged in more than 190 European projects, both as coordinator and partner, in the framework of various EU programmes (Leonardo, Socrates/Grundtvig, EQUAL).
BEST has experience in curriculum/learning modules design since 1995 and have been working on contents for security personnel e.g. (EU-PROTECT: Security Personnel Online Training in Detecting Risky and Deceptive Behaviour E+ KA2) or safety issues in the building industry in the project eGuide - Innovative e-Guide in Construction Workplace Health and Safety (a LLP, Leonardo da Vinci - Transfer of Innovation that ended 2013). Our international involvement has been dedicated to a variety of sectors that mirror the change of the training market and also our growing expertise in different topics. BEST has furthermore been coordinating many different projects in a variety of programmes and has therefore also experience in testing and implementing projects in general. One of our key success indicators is the fact that we have been working with many different learner groups (regarding e.g. age, education level or ethnic background) to know how to make projects sustainable also in our own programmes and region. Within national activities, BEST works together with several other VET providers on behalf of the Austrian Public Employment Service in particularly to address the learning needs of different niche markets.
Organisation type: School/Institute/Educational centre – Vocational Training (secondary level)
Website: https://www.best.at/
Legal Representative: Helmut KRONIKA (Managing Director)
Contact Person: Karin KRONIKA (Head of International Projects Department)