The Foundation, as partners of the Professional Life Project (Projecte de Vida Professional) we have collaborated in the second edition of the Summer School, aimed at guidance professionals (Formation and Labour Orientation, Upper Secondary School and Compulsory Secondary Education orientators), with the aim of updating knowledge and acquiring new resources for classroom orientation.

The Foundation gave an online session about: What do professionals in the VET orientation need?, on the 12 of July from 11.30 a.m. to 12.45 a.m.

Activities such as these allow the sharing of knowledge, experiences and resources among professionals. Professional guidance is crucial to be able to take the right choices, while facilitating the connection between the needs of the labour market and the aspirations of the students.

The Foundation, and within the framework of the VET and Industrial construction Table 4.0, we have organised a conference with the Industrialized Construction Cluster of Catalonia (CCiC) and the “Escola del Treball”, aimed at the teachers of centers and entities that provide VET of Construction and Civil Works, Wood, Installations, Electricity, Mechanics and Design.

The conference took place on Thursday 29 from 10 to 12 in the Carmelo Gómez conference hall of “L’Institut Escola del Treball” of Barcelona.

The BCN Vocational and Education Training Foundation has proposed the basics of the new Sectoral Study of Sustainable Construction in the AMB VET sector that we are working on from the Observatory. We have also presented the Industrialized Construction Cluster of Catalonia, in charge of Pere Armora, President of CCiC, and Ignasi Pérez Arnal, Vice-President and CEO BIM Academy.

We have seen the closing act of the YEP MED project, led by the Escola Europa and the Port of Barcelona, and with the support of the BCN Vocational and Education Training Foundation . One of the final results of the project has been the preparation of the report Update of the the professional profiles of the Barcelona port community.

The project, promoted by several Mediterranean cities and VET centers, has generated new training itineraries, in collaboration with Barcelona Activa, and has had a high level of success in participation and insertion.

Today, the “Entrepreneurship Night” 2023 took place, celebrating the 14th edition of the FPempren Awards and the 5th edition of the FPconsolida. It has been a night full of recognition and inspiration for young entrepreneurs in vocational training. The event, organised by the BCN FP Foundation with the support of the Barcelona City Council and the Barcelona Metropolitan Area, has featured prominent representatives of the field and personalities of the education and entrepreneurship world.

The inauguration ceremony started with Sara Berbel, president of the BCN Vocational and Education Training Foundation, Fabian Mohedano, executive president of the Professional Qualification and Training Agency of Catalonia, María Truñó, Education Commissioner of Barcelona City Council, and Montse Ballarín, vice president of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area.

During the event, two witnesses of entrepreneurship success have been presented: the experience of Marc Almeda, founder and CEO of WePrefereat, and the experience of the Provençana Institute of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, by Paco Sánchez, who has presented the nursery of companies that they developed on the centre itself. For this initiative, Marta Carrió, president of Netmentora Catalunya, and Anna Simó, Minister of Education of the Government of Catalonia, have presented the fifth FPConsolida Award to the Institut Provençana.

The awards were presented with 10 awards categories, according to the best-targeted project in terms of its coherence, feasibility, consistency and the added value that it brings to the sector in particular. The award centers of this 14th edition have been:

1.Energy and Environment Award

CFGM – La Salle Barceloneta- Barcelona

Marc Galofré, Sami Bouazzaten, Beatriz Díaz and Ulises Aitor

Tutored by Núria Funollet

CFGS – Institut FP Sant Cugat

Fàtima Tachrift, Mojie Lin, Paula Mónica López and Zumar Zulfiqar

Tutored by Olga Oliver

2. Health and Care of People Award

CFGM – Escola Solc Nou Barcelona

Silvia Enríquez, Ikram El Abbassi, Raissa Nicole Chávez and Laura Vico

Tutored by Neus Boncompte and Cristina Moll 

CFGS – Escola Pia Nostra Senyora-Barcelona

Nerea Galán, Meritxell Guerrero, Helena Iglesias, Eduard Salvadó and Martina Villar

Tutored by Marc Rodríguez.

3. Oci and Welfare Award

CFGS – Escola d’Hoteleria i Turisme CETT-Barcelona

Marta Ferrer, Jiasheng Fang, Arnau Jordà, Qi Wang and Jingyu Li 

Tutored by Sylvia Puigdemasa

4. Education and Culture Award

CFGM – La Salle Barceloneta-Barcelona

Camilo Botero and Africa Camprubi

Tutored by Núria Funollet

CFGS – Institut Salvador Seguí-Barcelona

Nerea Quixal, Carlota Nin, María González and Claudia Rodríguez 

Tutored by Elena Mayordomo

5. Intelligent Manufacturing and Digital Transformation Award

CFGS – CEIR ARCO Villarroel-Barcelona

Alba Edo and Sara Roso 

Tutored by Sarai López

6. Social and Solidarity Economy Award

CFGM – Institut Bernat el Ferrer Molins de Rei

Alejandro Taxonera, Sergio Ausach and Ignacio Estévez

Tutored by Mª José Medina

CFGS – Institut Pedraforca Hospitalet de Llobregat

Irene Ramírez, Rafael Borreguero and Joan Vigo

Tutored by Roger Romero

CFGS – Institut Esteve Terradas i Illa Cornellà de Llobregat

Propelled by the students of the upper degree cycles of Administration and Finance and Assistance to the Management

tutors Rafael Segura, Carla Bertolin and Gerard Garcia and the director of the center Olga Quesada.

7. Secondary Award to best commercial proposal

Institut Bernat el Ferrer Molins de Rei

Fabian Doizi and Rubén Jordán

Tutored by Mª José Medina

8. FPempren Prize for Women’s Talent

CFGM – Centre López Vicuña Barcelona

Núria Oliveras, Melisa García and Blanca Camuñas

Tutored by Montse Piera

CFGS – Escola de Mitjans Audiovisuals EMAV-Barcelona

Marta La Parra and Júlia Llamas 

Tutored by Ona Vega

9. ICIL Award – Logistic Management

CFGS – Prat Educació- Barcelona

Pau Guiu, Irene Sierra, Ignacio Moyano and Abdelaziz Hachi

Tutored by Albert Baile

10. Entrepreneur Award

CFGM – Institut El Palau de Sant Andreu de la Barca

Judith Ramos

Tutored by Francesc Roca

CFGS – Escola Pia Nostra Senyora- Barcelona

Núria Anguera, Oriol Garcia, Alejandro Mora and Laura Ruiz 

Tutored by Aina Surroca

CFGS – Escola Santíssima Trinitat Barcelona

Carlos Jané, Carlos Hernández and Marian Taouil 

Tutored by Julio Llorente

Eventually, the event was closed by Anna Simó, Minister of Education of the Government of Catalonia, thanking all participants and parties involved for their collaboration in this “Entrepreneurship Night” 2023.

The BCN Vocational and Education Training Foundation is committed to promoting entrepreneurial skills between the VET students through this public display, recognizing the best entrepreneurial VET projects in Barcelona and AMB.

On the 8th and 9th of June, the European partners of the Logistic VET Hub project met in Kuopio for the 4th follow-up meeting of the project, organised by Savon ammattiopisto Sakky.

We had the opportunity to meet and discuss the main good practices identified so far and to launch the latest work package of the project, in which strategic recommendations will be developed to encourage vocational training in the logistics sector throughout Europe.

In addition, we have continued to organise the next international training period aimed at 21 VET logistics students from various centers of Barcelona and the Barcelona Metropolitan Area, Tartu (Estonia), Lisbon (Portugal), Groningen (the Netherlands), Kuopio and Rovaniemi (Finland) and Skelleftea (Sweden), which will take place in Tartu from the 10th to the 15th of September in order to learn about Estonia’s global logistics sector.

You can find the resolution of the participant selection process here.
Next October we will be holding the final act of the project, which will announce the main results and the most significant international good practices.

We have held the award ceremony for the finale of MetropolisFPLab. In this 5th edition, we broke the record of participants: 13 companies, more than 40 centres, more than 360 teams and more than 1400 students. At the final ceremony of the prizes, held at the Provençana Institute from l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, more than 120 people attended, a success! 
It is a project that is constantly growing, increasingly and more innovative, including more sectors, more companies and more centres. It has been a great satisfaction to see the enthusiasm with which all parties participate and experience the project. Again, an undoubted demonstration of the talent in the VET. Compliments to all participants, and congratulations to the winners of this edition.

The winners of the MetropolisFPlab edition are:

	CHALLENGE	Challenge	ENTERPRISE TUTOR	TEAM (center)	From	Members	NAMES	CENTER TUTOR
1	Mesoestetic	How can we find solutions to reduce the digital divide of our workers against new automatic production lines?	Arnau Casanova	DAWtomaticos (Escola del Treball)	Barcelona	3	Sergio Hortas Lijó Adrián Vico Aaron Belayni Moreno	Dani Triano
2	Arquima	How could we make better use of the different types of wooden waste to have a greater economic performance?	Alan Gutiérrez	Provenworks (Ins Provençana)	Hospitalet de Llobregat	3	Iván Romero David Llusà Darwin Padilla	Paco Sánchez
3	Audens Food	How could we make a second use of the left over flour from the production processes in order to use it in the current value chain?	Beatriz Sotorrío Jaume Montes	Pequeño ayudante de santa claus (Ins Severo Ochoa)	Esplugues de Llobregat	5	Alex Dorador Pere Homero Marmol Mireia García Judith Mena Yesenia Salazar	Maria Martínez
4	Marina Barcelona 92	How can we create a system that centralizes demands for the use of the dron, defines the routes that it has to go through, and that sorts the waste that it collects?	Marc Hervás	MAOA (Ins La Ferreria)	Montcada i Reixac	4	Marc Barrio Andrés Criado Alex Buenaventura Óscar Rivera	Susana Pérez
5	Aigües de Barcelona	How can we reduce water consumption and ensure good supply in all areas in order to deal with drought?	Pere Verger	New Wave (Escola del Treball)	Barcelona	3	Andru Colque García Shariel Estremadoiro Gongora Estefany huanca martinez	Enric Garcia Mercè Camarassa
6	Port de Barcelona	How can we rethink the “Port Vell” (Old Port) public spaces for them to be more environmentally sustainable considering climate change and the energy crisis?	Javier Romo	ARQUA (Ins Provençana)	Hospitalet de Llobregat	4	Nerea Ortega Marc Villegas Christian Yacila Luis Steven Sanguña	Paco Sánchez
7	Pla Estratègic Metropolità (PEMB)	How can we get young people to know and interact with other parts of the Barcelona metropolitan area that are not in their neighbourhood or city?	Lluïsa Guàrdia	EQUIP 8 TARDA (Ins Poblenou)	Barcelona	3	Nadine Alonso Irene Perez Planells Paula Canongia Mejía	Ana Martínez
8	Hospital del Mar	How could we apply e-health tools to reduce the incidences that appear during the maneuvers of an in-hospital cardiorespiratory arrest?	Cristina Campà Laia Lacueva	D.A.D.C (Ins Bonanova)	Barcelona	4	Chainaz Lahboub Daihana Insaurrlde Alba Sánchez Dure Shahwar	Àlex Monnà
9	Consorci de la Zona Franca (CZF)	How can we succeed in attracting female talent to the industrial sector?	Raquel Garcia	Mariners (Prat Educació)	Barcelona	4	Arnau Sanchez Mas Juan Manuel Restrepo Daniel Arranz Manchón Mireia Batista	Sònia Menéndez
10	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya	How can we improve digitization in the management of Circuit spaces (such as hospitality spaces, boxing track rentals, parking spaces, etc.)?	Erica Mandome	Inclusive Gas (EMT Granollers)	Granollers	4	Pol Galvez Marc Alcaide Youssef N’sairi Joan Morales	Eva Tàpia
11	Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB)	How can we improve TMB communication when there are cuts of service on subway lines to make people know the reasons and the possible alternatives?	Bernat Fernandez Jesús Alegre	Creative User (Escola del Treball)	Barcelona	3	Raúl Domínguez Helen Anaïs Gualli Daniela Chirinos	Alex Sànchez Cecilia Sales
12	Consorci Sanitari del Maresme	How could we improve the experience of patients in health center rooms to bring more value to the wait they have to carry out?	Jana Cela Rosa Monteis	Napal (Campus Docent Sant Joan de Déu)	Sant Boi de Llobregat	3	Alexia Alvarez i Martin Naiara Goñi Paula Redondo	María Montes