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We coordinate the reception system of Dual Vocational Training of the Barcelona City Council; a reference project that welcomes nearly 300 students every year and with almost 3,000 fellows added since the beginning of the project in 2012. With the current new Vocational Training law, this project becomes key and fundamental.  

As coordinators and training institution, we attended on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, the “Catalonia FPBizDay” awards presented by the Generalitat de Catalunya in collaboration with CaixaBank Dualiza that recognizes good practices of companies and entities in relation to the management of students who do FP Dual.

Very happy to receive the Catalonia FP Biz Day Award for the coordination of this project.

On Wednesday the 29th we met with the councilor Marc Cruz, councilor attached to Education of the Badalona City Council, the education coordinator José Manuel López and the manager of Reactivation Badalona, Oriol Fern’ndez. We were able to explain all the activities we do from the Foundation and to which Badalona, as a municipality of the AMB, can be part of it. They also told us about the City Council’s strategic lines in the field of education in order to establish collaborations. And we closed the meeting with the desire to intensify the joint task in the Besòs area.

The second phase of the MetropolisFPLab begins and with it the creativity workshops, where the teams will propose many ideas to find the best, to solve the challenges that companies and entities propose!
In addition, we visit the participating companies to know them first hand and how they operate.

On Friday, January 24, 2025, we participated in the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Professional Life Project (ProVP), an educational and professional guidance project, promoted by Barcelona Activa, of which the BCN Vocational Training Foundation is a partner together with the Barcelona Education Consortium and the Femcat Business Association.

The celebration, under the slogan “Awake your talent”, was held in the Tinglados de la Barceloneta and was attended by the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, and the Councilor for Economic Promotion and Labor and president of Barcelona Activa, Raquel Gil,

The event was attended by 400 students from educational centers that have participated in the ProVP, accompanied by teachers and the collaborating entities of the project and representatives of the field of education.

Throughout these 20 years, the program has provided innovative academic and professional guidance tools and methodologies to the centers so that they can accompany their students in a key phase of their lives. More than 13,000 activities have been carried out such as monographs, workshops or visits to companies and more than 300,000 secondary and vocational training students have participated.

Our observatory collaborates in the Erasmus KA2 Electric Cars Vet Hub project. This time in Romania. It is an international project in which the cities of Constanza (Romania) Romaniemi (Finland) Tartu (Estonia) Treviso (Italy) and Barcelona participate.

The objective is twofold:

1) Identify the talent gaps in this sector following the work methodology of the BCN Vocational Training Foundation
2) Generate training material aimed at training and updating teachers in the field of electric mobility in European VET centers.

All this under the coordination of XARXA FP and financing National Agency SEPIE Erasmus Estudiar in Spain

The ID-VET project consortium met in Groningen for a two-day meeting focused on evaluating the progress of the project and discussing key elements such as the quality of student surveys and documentation of the results of Work Package 3.

The meeting, held in Bornholm, began with a welcome session of Noordepoort, followed by an introduction to the objectives and objectives of the project.

During the first day, attendees had the opportunity to tour the facilities. The group also participated in presentations from Denmark, Spain and Romania, shedding light on their recent developments and contributions to the project.

The second day included additional presentations from Estonia and Denmark, focusing on future strategies and the integration of various learning models across the countries involved in the project. The group also participated in a label lunch and a session of the Human Library, which promoted intercultural understanding and the exchange of experiences.

The meeting concluded with a debate and evaluation of the event, with the participants who presented the following steps for the rest of the project activities. The event provided an excellent platform for collaboration and knowledge exchange between European partners, strengthening the overall objectives of the project.

The next ID-VET project meeting will take place in Suaceava, Romania.

The student Íker de Neira tells us about his international stay of Erasmus of medium degree of 3 months in the city of Munich in the company Hilti.

“My Erasmus+ experience in Munich was incredibly enriching both professionally and personally. I worked at Hilti in the R&D area of industrial chemistry, which allowed me to learn a lot about rheology and polymers, as well as applying my knowledge in a real and demanding environment. Despite being in a German-speaking country, the language barrier was never a problem, as Germans have an excellent level of English, which made it very easy for me to adapt.

During my stay, I also had the opportunity to immerse myself in Bavarian culture and learn about the history of Germany, something that fascinated me, even learning about art from all over the world going to museums practically every Sunday. I made numerous trips around Munich and its surroundings, exploring the region, and enjoyed a longer trip to Berlin, where I could learn in depth the history and dynamism of the capital. This experience not only helped me grow professionally, but also broadened my vision of the world and left me unforgettable memories.”

Last Wednesday, November 19, the European Projects and International Relations Area participated in the first round table on international mobility organized by the Miquel Biada Institute in Mataró.

During the day, it was possible to talk about the different international mobility projects and counted on the collaboration of the teachers who participated in the training stays managed by the Foundation on Advanced Intelligence in Germany and Sustainability and Environment in Sweden with the aim of promoting international mobility in Vocational Training for teachers through the Erasmus program.

This Round Table is a very good example of the dissemination made by the participating centers of international projects on how the impact of them is positive, not only in the direct participants, but at the level of the whole center.

From the Foundation together with Xarxa FP we coordinate the first Erasmus exchange of the School of Second Opportunities of Barcelona. The mayor of Barcelona Jaume Collboni, last Thursday received a group of students from the FGU Trekanten center in Vejle, Denmark, who participate throughout this week in the first international Erasmus exchange between second chance schools. The students of this Danish center share experiences and coexist from last November 18 and until the 21st with the students of the Municipal School of Second Opportunities (EM2O). The next exchange will take place in the Danish city of Vejle where EM2O students will travel between 16 and 26 March.