Autodesk Assistance Program Offers Help to Displaced Workers

By DE Editors

Recognizing the impact of today’s economic challenges, Autodesk is launching the Autodesk Assistance Program. The Autodesk Assistance Program will provide Autodesk customers and partners with design software tools, education, and resources that will help them to enhance, maintain, and develop their 3D design technology skills. The program will offer student software term licenses, free online training, and a path to certification to unemployed architects,  designers, and engineers in all industries.

Autodesk Assistance Program tools and resources will be made available through an online portal, where users can access:

• Free software license: Any 13-month term student license of AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk Inventor Professional, and/or AutoCAD Civil 3D software.
• Free online training: On-demand training available 24 hours a day, seven days a week provided online through vBooks, powered by Retrieve Technologies, Inc.
• Reduced-cost classroom training: Many Autodesk Authorized Training Center (ATC) partners are offering classroom training at their training facilities for free or for a significantly reduced fee.
• Certification: Certification preparation and exams are available at discounted rates through Autodesk Authorized Certification Centers.
 

In addition to the Autodesk Assistance Program, Autodesk has partnered with various industry organizations on local initiatives. For instance, the new Autodesk office in Waltham, MA, is teaming with the local Boston Society of Architects to offer free volunteer-led immersion seminars on building information modeling (BIM) to unemployed design professionals in the Boston area.

The Autodesk Assistance Program is being launched in North America. The company hopes to roll the program out in other countries over the next few months.

For more information about the Autodesk Assistance Program,  please contact your local reseller, or visit Autodesk.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.