At the Presentation Day of Results of the European Erasmus + Logistics VET Hub Project of October 26th, the advances and good practices in the logistics Vocational Training (VET) in Europe were highlighted. Several experts presented results, sharing vital information about the future of the VET in the logistics sector. The event culminated in a question-and-answer session and the closing by the CEO of Barcelona Activa.
The new call for the VET Innovation project for the 2023-2024 year will be published at the beginning of November. The project aims to reward centers that contribute to create innovative educational projects that promote quality and innovation within the VET. There are already 12 editions in which more than 700 projects have participated with more than 5000 students.
We welcome the sixth edition of the MetròpolisFPLab, a project that never stops growing! The participating companies and institutions have already presented the new call to the VET centers, as well as the new real challenges that seek solutions. In addition, this edition incorporates the city of Manresa and its VET centers, where a presentation of the project was made last October 18.
The registration period is open until 10/11 at the following link: https://forms.gle/WuRWhkHPXwsLrSMU7
On October 23rd we participated in the Board Meeting organized by the Barcelona City Council, to focus on the main priorities of this mandate and to reflect on the role of the public sector and the daily work and joint responsibility of the management teams, the leadership style, the values, and the organizational culture.
It featured the initial interventions of the mayor and the manager of the City Council.
This October, 306 dual VET student interns joined the Barcelona City Council (in districts, municipal managments and institutes, municipal preschools, education consortium, BCN VET Foundation) students from 22 professional profiles and 25 VET centers in Barcelona.
The dual VET is a modality in which students combine training in the educational center with practical activities in the company (1.000 hours).
The Barcelona City Council was a pioneer in opting for Dual VET and committed to promoting it in 2013, when the regulations that controlled the topic were just released. During these years it has welcomed 2.295 students and has invested more than €7M in dual VET.
The meeting of the Executive Committee of Xarxa FP and the Mobility managers of 20 cities, last October 18 and 19 in Munich, highlights the international cooperation and innovative initiatives in vocational education in Europe. Good practices were shared along with visits to professional training centers in Munich. The event demonstrates the unity of European cities to improve professional education and the continuous commitment of Xarxa FP in this area.
On October 6th we participated in the XXVIII International Meeting of the RECLA Network of Continuous Education in Ibero-America and Europe, organized by the UB and the UManresa. The theme of the conferences was Design and Innovation.
Our intervention was at the round table “Challenges and opportunities of continuous education from a business perspective“, together with Àlex Lobaco of the CFCF, and José Luis Alonso of Mondragón. And we were able to appreciate the Foundation’s role as a bridge between the VET centers of Barcelona and the AMB and the economic and social environment, the dual training and the importance of the territory and the local world due to its knowledge of the environment .
This October we celebrated the Creativity VET Lab in Leuven, the second innovation activity within the EU Water Challenge VET Lab project. The 3 teams must solve the Aigües de Barcelona challenge: How do we improve water management through nature-based solutions to achieve greener and more sustainable cities?
The teams are already working on the first proposals: new ways to collect water and reuse it, structures to prevent flooding, canalization systems that differentiate between rainwater and “dirty” water…
All these ideas will have to be prototyped at the next meeting in Viborg. Let’s continue!
During the month of October, the BCN VET Foundation has organized a new internship for teachers from Barcelona and the AMB in relation to the renewable energy sector and the electric vehicle in the city of Tartu, Estonia.
During the international stay, the participating teachers have been able to learn how their vocational training are performed at Tartu Vocational College, the centre of excellence in Vocational Training, and to be able to know first-hand companies that manage innovative technologies such as alternative fuel vehicles, hydrogen technologies, solar energy, electric cars, etc.
During the month of September, and thanks to the collaboration with Xarxa FP, more than twenty students and graduates in Intermediate and Advanced VET from various professional families, have started their training stays in different European cities.
Surely the stay will make a difference in their professional future!
