Gothenburg Technical College (GTC)

GTC – Gothenburg Technical College is the result of a unique private/public sector collaboration between Volvo Car Corporation, Volvo Group (51% of ownership) and The City of Gothenburg (49% ownership). The college is jointly owned and managed by all organisations and is situated inside the plant of Volvo Cars. The purpose of GTC is to provide high quality technical education within the technical industrial sector. GTC is an integrated part of people and organisational development in both Volvo companies’ long-term recruitment and development strategy and our courses are developed together with the companies and the city of Gothenburg in order to meet the future skills needs. Gothenburg Technical College has focused on three branches: Upper Secondary education (420 IVET students), Higher Vocational education (200 HVET students) and education for employees (2.500 workers) who need further vocational competence to progress in the company. Gothenburg Technical College is considered a national leader as a provider of courses in Smart Industry and Industry 4.0.