VW Autoeuropa, together with Siemens, Bosch and the Portuguese-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry are the promoters of ATEC - Training Academy, which is working in the Industrial Park near Autoeuropa.
Autoeuropa aims to train and perfection the competences of the collaborators of its promoters, young people and its clients from several companies in professions with high demand in the job market.
Therefore, ATEC aims to prepare its trainees for the job market using a very practical component based on a continuous learning process, having in mind the permanent adaptation necessity to the companies demand.
ATEC intervenes essentially in the following fields: Automobile; Machining; Mechatronics; Welding; Driving of Industrial Vehicles; Automation; House Automation; Electronics and Electrotecnics (see link to ATEC in the site).
/articles/en/does-vw-autoeuropa-give-any-kind-of-trainingNo, VW Autoeuropa is a production unit. For Portugal, the MPV VW Sharan and the cabrio VW Eos are marketed by Siva (VW importer) and the MPV Seat Alhambra by Seat Portugal (links available in the site).
/articles/en/does-vw-autoeuropa-sell-the-carsThe "Cabrio"Volkswagen Eos is since March of 2006 another challenge for the Portuguese plant from Volkswagen Group.
/articles/en/eos Palmela, 1st of February of 2008 - Volkswagen Autoeuropa announced today to have surpassed the 100 thousand VW Eos produced in its Palmela's plant. Eos 100.000 has the silver colour, engine 2.0 L. with manual gearbox, 110kw, interiors black and was exported to the United Kingdom, one of the most important markets.
/articles/en/eos-100-thousand-came-out-today-of-autoeuropas-production-line 1,5 % of our cars were produced for the Portuguese market in 2007.
/articles/en/how-many-cars-are-produced-for-the-portuguese-marketIn 2006 we produced an average of 140 MPVs and 265 VW Eos per day.
/articles/en/how-many-cars-are-produced-per-daySince VW Autoeuropa is a very big company and under constant development, new ideas and projects come up almost every day, whereby we accept interns whenever an area or department in the factory requests them, or when a candidate proposes a project that is in line with VW Autoeuropa's needs. The only compulsory condition is the existence of a clearly defined project in terms of tasks and timings, as well as a close follow-up by one of VW Autoeuropa's supervisors.
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