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Sir Arthur Lewis Community CollegeMorne FortuneCastries, Saint Lucia(758) 457-7300
Email: [email protected] | [email protected]: www.salcc.edu.lc
Unite CaribbeanHibiscus Crescent | Sans Souci Castries | Saint LuciaEmail: [email protected]: unite-caribbean.com
FRENCH GATEWAYSTO GLOBAL CAREERS
SUSTAINABILITYINNOVATION
ENTREPRENEURSHIPCopyright © 2021 Sir Arthur Lewis Community College
ABOUT SALCCThe Sir Arthur Lewis Community College (SALCC)offers academic, technical and vocational training at thetertiary level including Gateways to Global Careers(GGC) program that is a cutting-edge offering designedto give College Students and aspiring entrepreneurs‘hands-on’ immersive training in running a ‘for-profit’business using a practical approach to learning.
Unite Caribbean is a Caribbean DevelopmentCooperation consulting firm that provides expertise,engineering capacity and project management invarious areas related to Caribbean development issues,including economic development. Unite Caribbean is theimplementing agency of the FORPRO project in SaintLucia, in partnership with the French Embassy in SaintLucia, and its future developments in the Caribbean.
ABOUT UNITE CARIBBEAN
The French Gateways to Global Careers is acollaborative working partnership between UniteCaribbean and SALCC in partnership with the FrenchEmbassy in Saint Lucia and funded through FORPRO.
French Gateways is a pilot project aiming to supportvocational integration of TVET students and access toregional and international markets and highereducation using a regional cooperation approachbetween Saint Lucia and the Caribbean French overseasterritories.
Overview and Goals
Saint Lucia has been selected as a pilot country todevelop a specific program in partnership with SALCCthrough a 2-year project (2021-2023) mainly funded bya grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs withthe support and contributions from local and regionalpublic and private sectors.
The goal at the end of the pilot project is to havesuccessfully designed and implemented the first year ofa new and specific program enabling SALCC studentsto increase their capacity in French, entrepreneurshipand digital skills in order to facilitate the developmentof regional and international careers and access tohigher education.
Rationale and BenefitsMore specifically, the objectives of the pilot project areas follows:
Better align the vocational training offer of Saint Luciaand the demand of the labor market at the regionallevel of the Caribbean and in particular in Guadeloupeand Martinique.Develop the entrepreneurship of the Saint-Lucianpopulation after their studies.Support the digitization of vocational training programsin Saint Lucia.Promote knowledge exchange and partnerships at a regionallevel between Saint Lucia, Guadeloupe and Martinique.Develop the mobility of students from Saint Lucia in theregional Caribbean market.Support the skills development of local French teachersin Saint Lucia.Extract key lessons from the project to provide relevantand applicable lessons and case studies for replication inthe rest of Saint Lucia and the OECS.