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On March 4, 2025 at 10 am, in the auditorium of Barcelona Activa, we participated in the 3rd Conference of Values Work one of the programs of the Professional Life Project promoted by Barcelona Activa and of which we are partners: BCN Vocational Training Foundation, Barcelona Education Consortium and Femcat. The Work with Values program consists of 3 conferences throughout the course with inspiring presentations related to the values of work, such as perseverance, responsibility, respect or self-improvement.

In this session, ESO and vocational training students participated presenting their projects:

• Fèmina, Virolai School
• Match&Co, Escola Virolai
• Aplatue, Institute of Logistics of Barcelona
• Natural Drone, IES Bernat el Ferrer
• Ecotech, IES Bernat el Ferrer

For this third conference we had the testimonies of Helena Arias, scientific disseminator and European Junior Champion 2021 of Olympic shooting and Oriol Escursell, founder of Nilak, a traveling circus theater, winner of the Lluís Carulla Award 2020.

We participate and coordinate the Monitoring Commission of the Dual FP project in the Barcelona City Council, which will take place on February 27, 2025 at 10am in the auditorium of the Municipal Institute of Finance of Barcelona.

This commission is made up of representatives of the Barcelona Education Consortium, Barcelona City Council, Dept. Education and FP, BCN FP Foundation and representatives of the centers (Dual VET coordinators) and the leading people of districts, managements, municipal institutes and other municipal companies are also convened.

It is convened annually to take stock of the current 2024-2025 course and present a proposal for the calendar and planning of the 2025-2026 course, this year with some changes and novelties derived from the application of the new VET law, quality certification and renewal of the new framework agreement.

On February 26, at the headquarters of Barcelona Activa, the “Table of Training, Education and Accreditation of Competences” was gathered, which is part of the ABOQ, Barcelona Agreement for Quality Employment, and which the Foundation is part of. We have been able to know the evolution and changes in the competence accreditation service of the FPCAT Agency; I also share the information about the FP Empresa Office. This office is a gateway to provide companies with information on Dual Vocational Training. Barcelona Activa adds it to its services in companies, and the Barcelona Education Consortium interacts with the centers. The Foundation works on all the material support and strives to coordinate with other metropolitan initiatives, such as the project that is being developed in the municipalities of the Delta del Llobregat. We have also explained the role of the Barcelona City Council as a training organization. All these projects are possible because collaboration is done at many levels and information is shared and debated. Barcelona Activa has commented on its training offer and, as a novelty, the first dual FP in the field of charcuterie and poultry. The table has been asked to follow up on what is underway and to start new initiatives.

Barcelona continues to bet on the international training of young people from 16 to 21 years old who participate in the Training and Insertion Programs (PFI) and Basic Vocational Training. Within the framework of the Erasmus internship project, promoted by the Barcelona City Council and the FP Network, a group of students will carry out training stays in various European cities: Vejle (Denmark), Munich (Germany), Dijon and Toulouse (France).

To prepare for this experience, the students participated in the 1st Intercultural Workshop, where they reflected on their expectations, fears and contributions to the program. This exchange space, shared with students from the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, has served to promote inclusion, learning and the development of new skills.

Since 2012, the Barcelona City Council has promoted initiatives to improve educational success and job placement for young people who have not graduated from ESO. This Erasmus project is a consolidated opportunity that allows students to acquire professional experience in an environment

On February 14, 2025, we organized the meeting of the Table FP&Construction 4.0 at EcoHUB, with the attendance of representatives of VET centers of Bcn and AMB, companies and institutions of the FP ecosystem to know: 

• Future trends in eco-construction and sustainability  

• Opportunities for the NEB New European Bauhau FP centres and 

• Propose collaborations and joint projects  

The day began with a guided tour of the EcoHUB by Salvador Ordónez and Daniel Guzman, followed by the intervention of experts, of wood construction and sustainability, such as Edgar Lafuente Head of Industry and Construction Area with Cesefor Wood and Executive Director of Clubmadera-Maderaula and Max Rutgers, master artisan of wood, director of MAX MADERA trained at COMPAGNONS DU DEVOIR and we closed with the Opportunities of the NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS for VET by Estenislau Vidal-Folch, director of the Functional Development area at the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia.  

Ecohub participates as a company in the MetropolisFP Lab and is a center of technological innovation in bioconstruction and landscaping in Cabrera de Mar.  

The collaboration between FP centers and companies becomes key for the training of qualified professionals of the present and the future!

On 7 February 2025, we attended the Catalonia FP Biz Day awards presented by the Department of Education and Vocational Training, with the collaboration of Caixabank Dualitza, which recognizes good practices of companies and entities collaborating with FP Dual.  

27 Awards were awarded to companies, public administrations and entities that have excelled in the accompaniment and training of students.  

Barcelona City Council received the Catalonia FP BIZ DAY Award in the category of greatest reception of Dual FP students. Every year the City Council hosts around 300 FP students and since 2013 has trained more than 2,500 intensive FP students, being a model of success and reference in Dual FP in the Public Administration.   

She collected the Sira Garcia Bosch award, secretary of the Municipal Council of Education and Vocational Training of Barcelona 

Press release: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/premsa/2025/02/05/el-sistema-dacollida-de-lfp-dual-de-lajuntament-rep-un-dels-premis-catalonia-fp-biz-day-que-lliura-la-generalitat-en-collaboracio-amb-caixabank-dualitza/ 

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.