Within the framework of the Board of Trustees meeting, the new Executive President, Marta Rodríguez, presented her first management report, in which she outlined the main lines of work of the organization and shared the estimated results for the year 2025, which point to a positive trend.
During the session, the Board of Trustees also approved the Strategic Guidelines and the Budget for 2026, thus consolidating the roadmap that will guide the Foundation’s activity in the coming years and reinforcing its commitment to planning, innovation, and institutional stability.
The BCN Vocational Training Foundation has held the closing event of the first edition of the ALMA project, an initiative promoted by the Foundation, supported by the Public Employment Service of Catalonia (SOC) and financed by the European Social Fund, with the aim of improving the personal and professional opportunities of the participants.
The event was attended by Marta Rodríguez, Executive President of the Board of Trustees of the BCN FP Foundation, and Francesc Castellana, Director of the SOC, who highlighted the relevance of the project and expressed their appreciation for the involvement of all the entities and professionals who made this first edition possible. Both agreed in emphasizing the value of collaborative work in generating initiatives with a real impact on people’s lives.
During the event, the positive impact of the ALMA project was also highlighted in key areas such as personal autonomy, self-esteem, resilience, and the development of social and professional skills among the participants, which are fundamental elements in supporting their socio-labour integration.
The project was made possible thanks to joint work with various entities and institutions, including the Catalan Association for Integration and Human Development, El Llindar, Barcelona Activa, the Xarxa FP, the City Council of Toulouse, the Fondazione Lepido Rocco, among others. This collaboration has made it possible to build a solid project focused on the support and empowerment of young people.
The closing event concluded with recognition of the participants, who received their certificates, and with a very positive assessment of the results achieved. The BCN Vocational Training Foundation reaffirms its commitment to continuing to promote projects such as ALMA, which contribute to generating real and transformative opportunities through training and support.
Within the framework of the ABOQ, the Barcelona Agreement for Quality Employment, the Microcredentials Working Group was established on December 4 as part of the Training, Education and Skills Accreditation Roundtable. This group is co-led by Barcelona Activa and the BCN Vocational Training Foundation, and its main objectives are: to establish a shared framework for reflection between the employment ecosystem and universities; to facilitate public access to this training offer; and to identify good practices that may serve as references for future models.
Last week, 22 vocational education teachers were able to participate in an Erasmus stay in Amsterdam. Through the Erasmus programme (SEPIE) and thanks to our hosting partner in Amsterdam, ROC van Amsterdam, the teachers from the health and socio-educational fields were able to observe and discover how VET centres are managed in the Netherlands, how VET studies are organised, and what the role of teachers is in the Central European country.
We have started the Erasmus+ KA220 Build your VETer Future project, with the first meeting of the parties involved last Tuesday, November 25th at Fundació BCN Formació Professional. An initiative aimed at boosting innovation in Vocational Education and Training and connecting emerging talent with real challenges in the timber construction industry. The meeting brought together all participating European partners, marking the official start of a project that will run until 2027 Kick off Meeting presentation.
A European project to transform VET and the wood sector
Build your VETer Future aims to develop innovative competitive learning methodologies among VET students, foster 21st-century skills, and raise awareness about the value of Vocational Education and Training as a generator of real solutions for the sustainable construction sector.
The expected results include:
Increasing interest in studies related to wood and construction.
Reducing school dropout rates.
Developing innovative training content connected with companies.
Enhancing sustainability and the circular economy.
Improving students’ transversal competencies (teamwork, creativity, time management…).
Involved partners
The project involves the participation of:
Coordinating institution
Xarxa de Formació Professional de Barcelona — Leadership in coordination, quality, dissemination, digital platform, and organisation.
Participating Vocational Education and Training centres
Each centre selects 5 students and 1 tutor to take part in the European work:
Institut Provençana(Barcelona) — Host of the A2 Exploration phase in 2026.
de Wijnpers (Leuven) — Responsible for the A3 Creativity Phase.
Redu(Rovaniemi) — Leader of the A4 Prototyping Phase.
Lepido Rocco (Treviso) — Host of the M2 follow-up meeting.
Mercantec(Viborg/Aarhus) — Lead of the A5 Business & Acceleration phase and venue of the M3 meeting.
Strategic industrial partner
EGOIN, a company in the wood sector — Definition of the challenge, co-organisation of phases, and member of the international jury.
A shared challenge: building sustainability
The challenge proposed for the development of the project focuses on designing a modular educational space, energy-efficient and built mainly with wood, transportable and adaptable, with low environmental impact and universal accessibility.
With this meeting in Barcelona, Build your VETer Future officially begins its European journey, creating a unique opportunity to position Vocational Education and Training as a driver of innovation, creativity, and sustainable transition in the construction sector.
The Foundation and SENATI of Peru, an institution created by the “Sociedad Nacional de Industrias” with the aim of providing professional training and upskilling in industrial activities, as well as in installation, repair and maintenance tasks for any other economic activity, have a collaboration agreement to promote innovation in the industrial field.
Within the framework of this agreement, we have collaborated in the evaluation of projects, and a VET teacher in the field of design and graphic arts had the opportunity to participate in SENATI’s Innovation Week in Graphic Arts. The selected teacher among the candidates was Martí Zamora from Escola Pia de Barcelona and Mataró.
According to the teacher, collaboration with SENATI was, from the very beginning, an extraordinarily enriching experience, both professionally and personally. The institution, a reference centre for higher technical training in Peru, has more than sixty campuses throughout the country, and the Lima campus —the most important and with the greatest academic diversity— represents a true nerve centre of knowledge, innovation and technological development. Being invited as an international lecturer was a privileged opportunity to get to know first-hand an institution that, with vocation and rigour, nurtures the talent of new generations.
During his stay, he was able to fully integrate into the daily life of the School of Graphic Arts and Informatics, where, with the constant support of its teaching team, he could observe first-hand their methodology, the internal functioning of classes and the curricular structure of the training programmes. This immersion enabled him to understand in depth SENATI’s commitment to practical, up-to-date training aligned with the real needs of the industry, especially in areas such as 3D animation, digital design, audiovisual production and emerging creative technologies.
The central point of his participation was the keynote lecture during the Annual Graphic Arts Festival, where he presented a comprehensive overview of the current state of the creative industry in Europe, sector trends, and the role of Barcelona as an international hub for design, animation and technological innovation. This lecture —structured around the intensive work carried out for the project: scripts, slides, real cases, portfolio analysis, professional projection and an introduction to platforms such as “The Rookies”— was received with great interest and engagement from the students. Their curiosity and energy turned the session into a space for dialogue and two-way learning.
In parallel, he delivered a workshop for teachers, focused on the integration of new technologies into the educational and productive ecosystem. In this session, they explored the growing role of artificial intelligence in creative disciplines, the tools currently used in Europe, hybrid workflows, and the challenges and opportunities these tools bring to technical training. The workshop, designed to showcase real applications and current pedagogical criteria, generated a highly valuable debate on innovation, curricular updates and future strategies for the centre.
Overall, this experience at SENATI represented much more than a one-off collaboration. It was an opportunity to build bridges between institutions, share knowledge, compare methodologies and develop new lines of international cooperation. He was able to confirm the centre’s potential, the professionalism of its team and the motivation of students eager to grow within a global creative industry. Without a doubt, this project reaffirms the importance of working together to promote innovative, competitive and connected technical training.
On November 13 at Citilab in Cornellà de Llobregat, the award ceremony of the second edition of the Catalonia FP BIZ DAY Awards was held, promoted by the Department of Education and Vocational Training in collaboration with Caixabank Dualiza.
These awards are the recognition of the effort of organizations to promote the development of dual vocational training (in an intensive system), the quality of the service provided, and the collaboration between companies and educational centers.
The Foundation, together with the Management of Mobility, Infrastructures and Urban Services and the Municipal Tax Office, are the three units of the Barcelona City Council certified within the framework of the Dual VET Project at the Barcelona City Council, which each year counts on nearly 300 dual VET interns. The next step is to continue adding municipal departments with the quality excellence seal.
In this 2025-2026 academic year, the Barcelona City Council has 298 VET interns, from 19 professional profiles and 23 VET centers in the city of Barcelona.
The commitment of the Barcelona City Council is to intensive Dual VET, in the scholarship modality, training 2,870 VET interns with a total investment of €9.8M (2013-2026).
On July 24, the plenary session of the Barcelona Vocational Training Council was held, with the participation of Barcelona City Council, the BCN Vocational Training Foundation, the Vocational Training Network, and other key players in the sector.
During the session, the Foundation presented the report on the international projects developed jointly with Xarxa FP, highlighting the opportunities for mobility and cooperation that are being generated for students and vocational training centers.
It also shared updated information on the enrollment process run by the Barcelona Education Consortium, as well as the latest developments from the Department of Education’s Directorate-General for Vocational Training, which will set the strategic guidelines for the coming academic year.
Finally, a work agenda was agreed upon for the return from vacation, with the aim of continuing to promote projects that reinforce the role of vocational training as a driver of talent and innovation in the city.
The BCN Vocational Training Foundation is beginning the preparatory phase of the ALMA Catalonia Program, an initiative promoted by the Catalan Public Employment Service and 100% funded by the European Social Fund, which aims to empower vulnerable young people to access the labor market, the education system, and, in general, full social inclusion.
The project offers 10 places for young people between the ages of 18 and 29 who are registered with ZOCO as job seekers and beneficiaries of the Youth Guarantee. It is aimed especially at people with a low level of education, who have been unemployed for more than a year, who have functional diversity or mental health issues, or who are no longer under guardianship.
This program allows participants to enjoy an international experience with all expenses covered —travel, accommodation, and meals— and provides intensive preparation to ensure success. Mobility promotes the acquisition of new skills, boosts confidence, and facilitates job placement thanks to personalized service and continuous monitoring.
On July 11, 2025, we attended the meeting of the Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC) within the framework of the Barcelona Innovation Coast (BIC) Council, which brought together representatives from the institutional, academic, scientific, and business spheres to advance the strategic objectives of the initiative.
As part of this meeting, the Foundation’s ObservatoriFPLab invited us to participate in the Working Session on Talent in Semiconductors and Chips. This working space generated debates and concrete proposals around one of the key areas for the region’s competitiveness.
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