The Professions trained in the Centre are: Marketing and Advertising; Finances and Banking; Accounting and Taxes; Business Administration; Office activities; Computer application; Construction; Hotel Management; Tourism; Environmental Protection; Woodwork and Furniture Make; Welding; Dressmaking; Bee-keeping; Gardening; Forestry and Hunting; Afforestation activities; and Herbs-gathering.

All licensed programmes include modules for acquiring basic skills, such as: language literacy in English, German and Russian languages; occupational safety and health at working; use of computer technologies, communication skills, team working skills, and etc.


The Vocational Training Centre:

• Nationally acknowledged document for completed vocational training
• Specially selected and balanced trainees’ team
• Unified educational process
• 18 branch departments in Sofia and countrywide
• Entirety of solutions for study and practice, consultations and advise
• Flexibility and mobility

The target groups:

• Management teams of the Bulgarian companies
• Employees
• Unemployed persons registered in the employment agencies
• Entrepreneurs and physical persons, wanting to start up their own business activity
• Military personnel, leaving the Bulgarian army. BIA has been an official partner of the Ministry of Defence since 2003.

The Centre works in the following main directions:

• Corporate and in-company training focused on optimizing the managerial skills of teams from different management levels;
• Overall activities for ensuring occupational safety and health at work in the Bulgarian enterprises – employers’ training, legal protection, development of in-company programmes and rules, according the Law on Occupational Safety and Health and the management of its products;
• Motivational training structured according to the characteristics of the different target groups for developing an active individual position in the labour market and working place for achieving a successful labour realization and career growing.
• Basic and additional professional qualification for employees based on the employer’s request. The training could be done with interruption of the working process or at the working place;
• Qualification training of unemployed with continuing practice in companies, members of BIA, for ensuring a stable employment in concrete professional fields;
• Professional training of physical persons for achieving labour mobility and successful professional career through individual or group plans;
• Activities for social adaptation and reintegration into the civil market for the officers and sergeants dismissed from military service as a result of the reform in the Bulgarian army;
• Activities for encouraging entrepreneurship and starting up one’s own business initiative;
• Training of Roma entrepreneurs with the aim of taking out the business from the informal economy and ensuring transparency of the activity;
• Development and execution of projects for the market realization of human resources in new and prospect niches of the market;
• Training of the Bulgarian institutions and administration in different spheres of the so called “social entrepreneurship” for a more effective and expedient management of the public means and satisfaction of the public needs in the context of the challenges set by the National and European labour market;
• Training and consulting the Bulgarian business for a successful application of grant schemes for using the financial instruments of the EU – Pre-accession Structural and Cohesion Funds.

Social and economic influence:

The Vocational Training Centre of BIA has executed a number of projects for the past years that were completely or partially financed by European and budget programmes. That secures us the capacity and the know-how to meet successfully the challenges facing the human capital in Bulgaria in the process of accession to the EU. As a social partner BIA participates actively on all levels of the tripartite collaboration, where we develop and implement successful policies for the development of the human resources, including implementation of innovative measures for professional qualification of the labour force, in response to the new requirements of the European labour market.

Principal clients:

Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Defence, National Construction Control Administration, General Department of Archives, National Employment Agency (incl. labour agencies on the territory of the country). The major business representatives in the different economic activities are – Votan Agressia Group, Panda-Bulgaria Ltd., Liberty Food Services SPLtd., Manpower Inc., Atlantic Ltd., Agrocomplex-Rashkovo, Bosiko – P Ltd., Brod -1 Ltd., Delana Ltd., Djela Ltd., Iceberg -93 Ltd., Intract Ltd., Profil Ltd., Saav Ltd., Capricorn Chemicals Group Ltd., Bulgarian State Railways Company, DSK Bank, United Bulgarian Bank, Metalsnabholding Plc., Hebros Bank, Lukoil Bulgaria, Life Insurance Company DSK Guarantee Ltd., Eurofootball, Gorna Bania Bottling Company, Saglasie, and others.

Partners:

Regional Industrial business associations, situated in all district cities of the country, over 80 branch chambers and associations, covering all sectors of the economy, Association of the Licensed Centres for Vocational Training in Bulgaria, National Centre for Protection of Public Health at the Ministry of Health, National Roma Centre “St. George”, “Overgas Holding” Plc., Gastec BG Ltd., Assarel – Medet JSCo, and others.

Each person having successfully taken the qualification courses at the BIA’s Centre has the opportunity to be included for free in the internal “employment market” of BIA’s system. This information system creates perfect environment for meeting the interests of our members – employers, looking for staff with certain characteristics and persons looking for professional realization in chosen fields. This initiative of the Centre is provoked from the desire of offering final products to the market and for the last two years it has given its positive results.

For contacts:

Vocational Training Centre at BIA
Galia Bojanova - Director, Vocational Training Centre		Tel. +359 2/ 932 09 36, 987 97 03, Fax: +359 2/ 9872604 e-mail: galia@bia-bg.com
Training Unit – BIA Sofia
Milena Slavova - expert		Tel: + 359 2/ 9879703, 9320936, 9320969 e-mail: milenasavova@abv.bg
Kamelia Gashevska - expert		Tel: +359 2/ 9879703, 9320936, 9320969 e-mail: cpo_plovdiv@abv.bg
Training Unit – Commercial Association, Plovdiv
Maria Simeonova - expert		Tel: +359 32/ 902 442 e-mail: cpo_plovdiv@abv.bg
Training Unit – Industrial and Commercial Association, Varna
Ognian Spasov - Managing Director		Tel: +359 52/ 622340, Факс: 052/ 601624
Veselina Kostova - senior expert		Tel: +359 52/ 622304 e-mail: isa_varna@abv.bg
Training Unit – Commercial and Industrial Chamber, Bourgas
Vidka Valcheva – Vice President		Tel: +359 56/ 840850, Fax: +359 56/ 840823
Training Unit – Industrial and Commercial Association, Vidin
Oleg Antov – Managing Director		Tel: +359 94/ 600225, Fax: +359 94/ 606397 e-mail: visa@abv.bg
Training Unit – Commercial and Industrial Chamber, Vratza
Liliana Nelova – Managing Director		Tel: +359 92/ 655685, Fax: +359 92/ 665446 e-mail: isa_vr@mail.bg
Training Unit – Commercial Association, Kardjali
Hristina Nikolova – Secretary General		Tel: +359 361/ 64577, Fax: +359 361/ 64585 e-mail: isa_kj@mail.bg
Training Unit – Commercial Association, Lovech
Asen Mitev – Managing Director		Tel: + 359 68/ 620113 Fax: +359 68/ 601237 e-mail: lovechoblast@dito-bg.com
Training Unit – Industrial and Commercial Association, Pazardjik
Tzvetanka Radina – Managing Director		Tel: +359 34/ 443315, Fax: +359 34/ 443623 e-mail: isapz@pasat.bg
Training Unit – Commercial Association, Pleven
Veselin Jotkov – Managing Secretary		Tel: 064/ 822239, Fax: 064/ 831062 e-mail: ia_pleven@yahoo.com
Training Unit – Regional Industrial Association, Russe
Nikolai Georgiev – Secretary		Tel: +359 82/ 825013, Fax: +359 82/ 825014 e-mail: rsk_rs@abv.bg
Training Unit – Industrial Association, Silistra
Jordan Chumpalov – Managing Director		Tel: +359 86/ 823745, Fax: +359 86/ 821767 e-mail: sk_ss@mail.bg
Training Unit – Industrial Association, Stara Zagora
Ivan Lenkov – Managing Director		Tel: +359 42/ 641141 e-mail: sk_sz@.bgmbox.contact
Training Unit – Industrial Association, Targovishte
Nikola Nikolov – Managing Director		Tel: +359 601/ 65107, Fax: +359 601/ 66514 e-mail: nikolov@elnics.com
Training Unit – Regional Industrial Association, Petrich
Ilia Levkov – Managing Director		Tel: +359 745/ 23350 e-mail: learning_centre@levkov.com