MAHLE FORMARE SCHOOL – The strength of young
In March 2002, due to a partnership with the Iochpe Foundation, Mahle opened the Formare vocational school at the units of Mogi Guaçu (State of São Paulo) and Itajubá (State of Minas Gerais), with the goal of developing potentials of low income youth in the communities located next to our plants.
With this victorious objective, MAHLE increase to six the number of schools. New schools were opened at the units of Santo Amaro and São Bernardo do Campo in November 2002, at the unit of Indaiatuba in July 2003 and at the Distribution Center in Limeira in August 2007. With this, we became the first company on the Formare network to reach the largest number of schools at the same time.
Contemplating up to 22 students per school, the course lasts for a year and has curriculum frameworks developed according to the characteristics of each unit; inside the company the physical space and time of our employees are made available and they can act as volunteer educators.
The MAHLE Formare School offers the courses of Production and Service Assistant, Production and Assembly Assistant, Production and Mechanical Assembly Assistant and Commercial, Administrative and Logistic Services Assistant. There are daily lessons and the students learn subjects such as Sports Practice, Horticulture, Hygiene, Health and Safety, Communication and Relationship, Industrial and Commercial Organization, Numeric Substantiation, Computer Skills, Physical Education, English, Spanish, Music, Drama, Materials and Processes, Measurement Instruments, Mechanical Drawing, Mechanical Adjustment, Entrepreneurship, Automation and Conservation and Assembly Technology.
The courses are oriented by means of the recommendations of the Ministry of Education, which predicts the development of competencies and abilities obtained by means of theory and practice. The courses are certified by the Federal Center of Technological Education from the State of Paraná (CEFET, for its acronym in Portuguese), bound to the Ministry of Education and Culture.
