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National Service for Industrial Training
Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial (SENAI)

UNEVOC Centre (National Body) since 2015

Founded in 1942, SENAI is one of the most important institutions in the country providing formal training for Brazilian industry professionals. Currently SENAI has 25 thousand employees aiming to increase competitiveness of the Brazilian Industry, through technical and vocational education and industrial innovation and technology.

With 744 operational units in all 27 states of the Union, SENAI offers more than 1,800 courses and in 2013 had over 3,4 million enrolments in vocational and technological training courses.

SENAI has partnership with 70 international organizations, including UNESCO, ILO, WorldSkills and CINTERFOR – Inter-American Centre for Knowledge Development in Vocational Training.

Mission

To promote technical and vocational training, facilitating innovation and the transfer of industrial technologies to contribute to increasing the competitiveness of the Brazilian Industry

Objectives

SENAI has two priority areas: Technical and vocational education and Industrial innovation and technology.

Regarding the Technical and vocational education, SENAI´s 2015-2018 Strategy aims to expand the quality of vocational and higher education in accordance with the industry needs, consolidating SENAI´s Methodology for Vocational Education.

SENAI´s Major Challenges in Technical and Vocational Education:

• Ensure at least 95% of the companies’ preference for SENAI´s former students, regarding the technical secondary courses.
• Rise to at least 75% the evaluation of former student´s performance to the standards of "ADEQUATE" or "ADVANCED”.
• Double the number of enrolments in higher education, achieving the reach of 40 000 enrolments, prioritizing engineering and technology courses.
• Perform 20% of the enrolments of vocational training and technical secondary courses through distance learning.

Focus and interest