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The Simulated Business project (Simulation of Companies with Educational Purposes) of the BCN FP Foundation is an innovation project that seeks to complement training with completely practical knowledge and enhance the transversal skills of VET students, in order to facilitate the subsequent incorporation into the labour market.
The deadline for submitting applications is Monday 7 October and must be done through this FORM.

The call is aimed at all FP centers in Barcelona and its metropolitan area that teach during the 2024-25 academic year one of the intermediate and/or higher degree training cycles of the following professional families:
· Business and Marketing Family
· Family Administration and Management
The projects must be executed in the academic year 2024-2025 and each institute or centre may submit a single application.

You can consult the rules of the call and more information at: Company Simulation Project – Fundació BCN FP (fundaciobcnfp.cat)

The Foundation participates as a member of the jury of the DonaTIC 2024 Awards, promoted by the Government, through the Secretariat of Digital Policies of the Department of Business and Labour and within the framework of the DonaTIC Plan.

On Thursday, September 12, at the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona, the jury of the honorary committee met in order to select from the 70 semifinalists, the three finalists and the winner of each of the 10 categories.

Since its first edition, in 2015, the DonaTIC Awards have received a total of 707 applications and have established themselves as a benchmark in the recognition and dissemination of the role and talent of women in the technological and digital field. 

This year the tenth edition of the awards is celebrated and the ceremony of the DonaTIC 2024 Awards will take place on October 10, 2024, where it will be revealed who will be the winner in the ICT FP student category.

On Friday, September 13, we organized, for the VET centers of Bcn and AMB and members of the Table, a guided tour to know the Urban Regeneration Program (PRUB) of the Municipal Institute of Urbanism of the City of Barcelona. This programme deploys a global, unitary and multidisciplinary strategy of actions on vulnerable urban buildings and fabrics in situations of inadequacy or degradation, a step forward is being taken to create comprehensive solutions to promote rehabilitation through sustainable and innovative construction systems.

We were also able to visit the three prototypes of industrialized construction (Aligra, Regenar Barcelona and InnoFab) that are being tested on a plot of the Diagonal-Besòs Campus of the UPC. They are the three winning proposals of the challenge launched in 2022 by the BIT Habitat Foundation and the Municipal Institute of Urbanism to look for innovative solutions for the rehabilitation of housing buildings.

Through these industrialised construction prototypes, the comfort, habitability conditions and sustainability of current buildings can be improved, which will allow reducing CO2 emissions and energy consumption. In addition, construction models are low-emission and with limited costs to allow a high volume of housing to regenerate in the coming decades and thus influence the decarbonization commitments of the city of Barcelona within the framework of the climate mission.

Connecting FP and Construction 4.0 trends is one of the challenges of the Table to train the best VET talent.

For more information: Sustainable Construction in terms of VET.

The BCN Vocational Training Foundation is a bridge between the educational field and the economic and social environment, in these links you can find the new organigrams of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training and of Business and Labour.

https://educacio.gencat.cat/ca/departament/organitzacio/organigrama

https://empresa.gencat.cat/ca/departament/transparencia-i-bon-govern/normativa-i-organitzacio/emo_organigrama_departament

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Observatori de l’educació local: de l’anàlisi a l’acció – Anuari 2023

We start de 11a edition of the Prizes FPemprèn, addressed at the students of FP of half grade and superior grade of the city of Barcelona and his Metropolitan Area, and furthered by the Foundation BCN Professional Formation with the support of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona and of Social Business City Barcelona.

In this way, tracking the structure of a business project, reward the projects according to the following categories:

• General Prizes:
  • It press Entrepreneur
  • It press social Economics and solidària
• Prizes according to professional sectors:
  • It press Energy, sustainability and environment
  • It press Health, sport and welfare
  • It press Education, culture and leisure
  • Prize Hoteleria and tourism
  • It press Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation
  • Prize ICIL- Logistic Management

At modes of June of the 2020 will take place the act of delivery of prizes (pending to concretise place and date) and the terms of presentation of the candidatures are:

• First phase: Preinscripció of the projects and participants. Until the day 18 of March of the 2020 (included)
• Second phase: Presentation of the projects. Until the day 7 of May of the 2020 (included)

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Informative session

Novelties more excelled of this edition

Among which find the sessions of formation directed at educational of Company and Initiative Entrepreneur of centres of Barcelona and his metropolitan area, as well as also the new edition of the Prizes FPconsolida, which back project entrepreneurs with potential of future.

Day: 24 of January
Hour: 9:30 at 11:30
Place: Circle of Economics. C. Provence, 298
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On November 28, 2019, the 2nd annual meeting of the Industrial Training Sector Committee (TSFI) was held. The committee was created in 2016 to promote industrial VT, in a context of transformation and digitalization of the industrial fabric by means of industry 4.0.

This meeting was held at the Learning and Innovation Campus of Teamlabs Barcelona, ​​where the LEINN degree in Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Innovation is certified by the University of Mondragón and recognized by the Ministry of Education within the framework of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).

The work session was led by 3 “Leiners” who with the “Design Thinking” methodology addressed the challenges of the Industrial Training Sector Committee for 2020. 21 people from 15 organizations participated. The 1st annual meeting took place on March 7, 2019 with 37 people from 26 organizations. It established the two work initiatives to be carried out from the TSFI for the period 2019-2020.

The first edition of the MetròpolisFPlab project has been carried out throughout the 2018-19 school year in collaboration with the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) and with the support of other local agents such as Innobaix, Port of Barcelona and the Circuit of Barcelona-Catalonia. More than 600 students from 33 VET centers have participated generating 426 ideas for the 8 challenges posed, with a total of 12 finalist projects and 6 winning teams.

On November 28, 2019, an award ceremony for winners of the 1st edition took place.

The six featured projects were the following : “Autocontrol” from centre Pàlcam por Autoterminal, ”Go Montmeló” from Escola Santísima Trinidad Circuito de Barcelona-Cataluña, “Esquitx” from INS Bonanova for aigues de Barcelona, “Co Building” from centers INS Esteve Terradas i Illa and INS Pedralbes.

Last Friday, September 20, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Caixa Forum hosted the “Dual VET Management: The role of Cities and Local Governments” conference, promoted by the BCN Vocational Educación and Training Foundation and Barcelona Activa. The conference was inaugurated by Barcelona’s councilor of Culture, Education and Science, Mr Joan Subirats, Ms Montserrat Ballarín on behalf of Barcelona’s Metropolitan Àrea and the president of Catalonia’s VET Council, Mr Fabián Mohedano.

The main VET leaders of cities such as Montreal, Dublin, Espoo, Brussels and Munich participated in this conference. Their contributions focused on the different available models, successful initiatives and ways of influencing professional training and the VET dual system at the municipal level.

During the conference, a panel discussion was also organized in which the municipalities of Molins de Rei, Barcelona, ​​Cornellà de Llobregat, Viladecans and Granollers presented their experience and assessment regarding the dual training positions created within the same structure of their City halls.

This conference has attracted a great interest among the educational community and local authorities. It gathered some 300 attendees, mainly from municipalities and other administrations, training centers, companies and social agents.