Annual Knowledge Updates (ÅKU)

Proficiency requirements provide an overview of what license holders with different positions are expected to know. Annual knowledge update (ÅKU) must be done as electronic training with a final test.

This is how it works

When the license holders of affiliated companies have completed ÅKU, the companies are obliged to report this in Swedsec’s online service by 30 November at the latest. If a person with an active license does not carry out their ÅKU by November 30 at the latest, the company must put the license on hold and the person may not continue to work with licensed activities until the ÅKU has been completed and reported in the online service and the license has been activated again via the license application.

If you have a dormant license and have not completed the previous year’s ÅKU, you must first complete it. The company must report to Swedsec’s online service that it has been done before the application for an active license can be made. If a dormant license is to be activated in December and either this year’s or the previous year’s ÅKU has been completed/reported, these two must be done before the company can apply for an active license again.

If you have a suspended license or no license at all (ie have only written and received passing results on a licensing test) and are not employed or have an assignment with a Swedsec-affiliated company, you should not take this year’s ÅKU. This is only done when you get a new job or a new assignment.

If the previous employer has not reported completed ÅKU, you must contact them to get a certificate that ÅKU has been completed, so that the new employer can report the ÅKU to Swedsec.

If you take a licensing test for the first time and do not have a license before, you do not need to take the ÅKU in the year the test was taken. If you already have an active license and take a new licensing test, you must take the ÅKU test that year.