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In 2020, Microsoft invested more than US$ 13 million taking free technology courses to 1.765 NGOs in Brazil.
On October 20, 2020, Microsoft announced “Mais Brasil,” a comprehensive plan to contribute to the country’s growth and among its initiatives is the promotion of free training so that the Brazilian population is able to meet the demands required by the current and future job market. One year after the official launch, the initiative is already responsible for impacting more than 79 Brazilians with training programs and professional retraining.
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Free courses Microsoft Mais Brasil in partnership with Escola do Trabalhador 4.0
Among the programs that stand out within the Microsoft Mais Brasil plan initiative is Escola do Trabalhador 4.0, a remote teaching platform from the Ministry of Labor, which includes Microsoft courses through the tool Microsoft Community Training. The platform currently has 50 impacted users and 15 trained, seeking to acquire digital skills demanded by the job market.
Courses are available to Brazilians across the country, with the capacity to serve up to 5.5 million job seekers by 2023. Implemented in partnership with the NGO Softex, the platform currently offers more than 45 courses, divided into 11 technology learning paths at different levels, based on the main skills required by the job market – from digital literacy to more advanced modules in cloud computing, AI and data science.
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Inscrição: Interested parties can register, directly on the Microsoft website, IN THIS LINK
Microsoft is one of the companies supporting the Minha Chance Program
Also as part of the “Mais Brasil” plan, Microsoft is one of the companies supporting the Minha Chance Program, an initiative by the Paula Souza Center (CPS) in partnership with the State of São Paulo Secretariat for Economic Development, Science and Technology (SDE). Launched in April 2021, the initiative has already provided 1,2 free places on teaching tracks, including: Fundamentals of Microsoft Cloud Computing (AZ-900) and Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI-900).
So far, among those enrolled, more than 750 students have completed the training and around 120 participants have completed Microsoft certification exams. Shortly after the end of the course, seven participants were hired by Minha Chance and will be instructors of disciplines for the next group of the initiative. In addition, around 15 students were placed or replaced professionally with other partner companies of the initiative.
In October of this year, the opening of enrollment for new 4,5 vacancies in free professional training courses was announced, but enrollment has already closed. This edition will have, in addition to the AZ-900 and AI-900 tracks, new tracks on Data Platform Fundamentals (DP-900) and Computational Platform Fundamentals (PL-900). The Minha Chance Program aims to train Etecs and Fatecs students, as well as the community, in collaboration with the private sector.
Still focused on bringing and expanding the knowledge of those seeking professional opportunities, Microsoft also launched, in partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, a training program to encourage female entrepreneurship in the technology sector. The initiative began on March 31st and consisted of a series of twelve online workshops, free and open to the public, with a focus on improving the business management model and expanding opportunities for future fundraising startups led by women in Brazil.
In total, the workshops registered an audience of more than 1080 people, including unique views on the day of the events and subsequent views, on YouTube. The activities ended on October 20, with a workshop finale and closing ceremony. The initiative was part of the partnership formalized in January between IFC and Microsoft and was also supported by WE Ventures – an investment fund created as part of the Women Entrepreneurship (WE) initiative, conceived by Microsoft Participações, Sebrae Nacional and M8 Partners (in association with Bertha Capital) – and WE Impact – the first venture builder dedicated to women leaders of startups, also a partner of Microsoft.
Microsoft and LinkedIn Launch 96 Free, Online Courses in Global Skilling Initiative
Thinking about the professionals of the future and the technical and behavioral skills most demanded in the job market, Microsoft and LinkedIn launched the Global Skilling Initiative in July 2020, where nine free learning paths are offered. There are 96 courses in Portuguese, which can be accessed until December 31, 2021, with the mission of helping with retraining and looking for new job opportunities. The courses have themes aimed at developing technical and behavioral skills that the market has requested from workers.
The training aims to connect those interested with the most current trends, serving as a gateway to professional growth or even a new placement in the job market. The learning routes have among the themes: “How to develop collaboration among the team”, “How to overcome challenges and reinvent yourself in difficult times”, “Diversity, inclusion and belonging for leaders and managers”, among others. So far, more than 3 million people have started training in Brazil and 260 people in the country have completed training.
Registration: those interested can guarantee the vacancy, on this link.
The MaisMulheres.Tech digital platform aims to train 100 women throughout Brazil.
Also focusing on training underrepresented groups, in March 2021, the month that marked International Women's Day, Microsoft launched the digital platform MaisMulheres.Tech, which aims to train 100 women throughout Brazil. In partnership with the WoMakersCode technology community, the program offers 6 free online training tracks, available until November 2021, in the areas of Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Information Security, DevOps, Development and Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. The platform already has 33 registered women who have completed at least one of the training trails. In addition, around 300 participants were able to find a job through the connection with Microsoft partners through the Employability Fair that the company promotes.
Inscrição: Interested parties can secure a spot by IN THIS LINK
In addition to the support and partnerships for launching professional training programs such as those mentioned above, Microsoft, which has diversity and inclusion as one of its strategic pillars in the country and in the world, presented in 2020, as part of the “Mais Brasil” plan, Black Women in Tech, an initiative focused on training and training black women for the technology market. The program has already served more than 60 women since its first edition, completed in December 2020 – there were 26 trainees in the first group and 35 in the second, which ended in May 2021. With Black Women in Tech, Microsoft aims to bring quality technical education so that black and brown women can leverage their careers in technology. All mentors are Microsoft employees, members or allies of Diversity initiatives and groups, who volunteer their time. Of the 2021 students trained so far, five have managed to get jobs in technical roles and another 50 have taken technical certifications from Microsoft.
“One of Microsoft's commitments in the country is to support the inclusive economic recovery of Brazil, the country where we have been operating for 32 years. For this, we need to accelerate the education and professional training of Brazilians in the area of exact sciences and technology. Our investments in professional qualification that have been made repeatedly over the years and which were even more accelerated through the Mais Brasil plan, are helping to prepare our population for the future of work and, as a reflection of these initiatives, we will continue to encourage innovation and growth in the country”, declares Tânia Cosentino, president of Microsoft Brazil.
About Microsoft: Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital transformation in the era of the intelligent cloud and the intelligent edge. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The company has been in Brazil for 32 years and is one of the 120 subsidiaries of Microsoft Corporation, founded in 1975. In 2020, the company invested more than US$ 13 million taking technology free of charge to 1.765 NGOs in Brazil, benefiting various social projects. Since 2011, Microsoft has supported more than 7.500 startups in Brazil through donations of more than US$202 million in cloud credits.
