A number of Sweden’s government departments have pooled their resources to spur inter-department mobility which is less common for the position-based civil service. Positions, whether temporary or not, and one-off assignments for specific purposes, are offered on a special website. This new network provides applicants with onboarding services and a mentoring system.

Encouraged by positive feedback from users when training in its premises was interrupted, the national training institute is speeding up rollout of its remote offering. It now provides exclusively online interactive sessions in a connected and participative format which is conducive to exchanges between participants. The first series is devoted to gender equality in the public sector.

Faced with an ageing workforce, the government is looking to formalise inter-generational skills transfers. With the “Jedes Alter zählt” (every age counts) initiative, it has laid down a set of standardised and structured recommendations (documentation, interviews, procedures) which are slated to be applied during the eighteen months preceding an employee’s retirement in order to capitalise on all his/her experience.