Description
GRETA DU VELAY, located in a rural area in the south of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, is a public training organization that brings together 21 educational institutions such as VET education centers, adult education and secondary schools, all under the wing of the Ministry of Education.
GRETA DU VELAY is a member of the GRETA network, which covers the entire French territory, making it one of the leading training providers in France (191 Greta and 4350 training locations).
Since 1992, he has participated in several research projects in the European framework for education, training and professional integration, and has developed various resources (printed, online or interactive) that the professional community still uses to improve social integration and professional. These projects have allowed Greta de Velay to work with partners from all over Europe and thus gain experience in different areas of training.
It employs 4 training advisers and 40 trainers, and offers around 300,000 hours of training per year (hosting between 2,000 and 2,500 students). The interests of this entity are multiple, among which stand out the complementarity of know-how, use of specific resources, training response as close as possible to needs.
Greta du Velay’s activity is framed by two main objectives:
- Support small and medium-sized companies in their training processes: analysis of training needs, implementation of training programs, evaluation and monitoring. With this objective, they provide courses in various areas, responding to local needs such as hospitality, industry (automation tools, 3D, maintenance …) and tertiary sectors (management, languages, IT …).
- Support the social and vocational inclusion of disadvantaged target groups, such as VET students at risk of exclusion, unemployed adults or migrants. With this objective they carry out various activities such as the development of key competences, transversal competences, providing support to discover and orient themselves towards careers and jobs, etc.