On June 6, the Professional Training Council and the Barcelona City Council discussed the current situation of educational policies in the city in the last Plenary of the course and the municipal mandate.
With this joint event of the two Councils, held at the Milà i Fontanals Institue, the aim was to create a space for collective discussion and reflexion of the educational community and the ecosystem of the Barcelona VET on the current state of the city’s educational policies.
For this reason, the report of Educational Opportunities of Barcelona 2022, the fourth biennial research edition produced by the Metròpoli Institute, was publicly presented. This report analyses the situation of education in the city of Barcelona, paying particular attention to educational inequalities.
The Foundation holds the third vice presidency of the VET Council and actively participates in all activities.
At first it spoke about the implementation of the Dual VET. In general terms, we need to work with companies to advise them on the incorporation of Dual students into the company. We need to work hard to be able to speed up the implementation of Dual VET.
The benefits of Dual VET were also discussed, such as the adapting to the real needs of companies, a better preparation in the truly essential skills of the profession, knowledge of the real working environment and a holistic vision of the company’s activity.
The third block dealt with international mobility: knowledge of different working techniques and methodologies or useful alternatives to apply once the students come back. In terms of student mobility, the Dual prepares them better to respond to new or in constant change working environments.
The fourth and final block was dealing with the benefits of Dual VET; we need an agreement between companies and educational centers to facilitate its implementation. On issues of agreements, timetables, rotation within the same company or in others…
The BCN Vocational and Education Training Foundation has organised and carried out four international mobilities for companies, VET centers and institutions, with the aim of getting a better understanding of the vocational training system in other countries (Germany, Canada, Finland and the Netherlands).
In the first mobility, teachers and educational professionals in the field of logistics visited the Hamburg Institute for Vocational Training and the Port of Hamburg in Germany.
In the second mobility, the Foundation visited the MBO Raad Institute to learn about the vocational training system in the Netherlands.
The third mobility was the first one outside the European Union, where Núria Varella, Training in Working Centers tutor at the Costume and Spectacle Cycle at the Anna Gironella Mundet Institute, spent a stay to meet the VET in Montreal, Canada; a mobility that is useful to prepare the same mobility but for students next year.
The fourth mobility was in Finland, Espoo, accompanying a mobility of Barcelona management teams. We have visited Omnia, it is a wonderful opportunity to establish synergies!
The main aim of the stay is to learn about the Finnish education and vocational training system and, specifically, the innovative ecosystem of a European Vocational Training Centre: Omnia. We have known Omnia’s management, strategy and leadership model as a centre of vocational excellence, and how they connect with other companies. We have also been to Omnia Makerspace, an innovation and digitization space for Omnia students within the Aalto University precinct.
We thank the different centers and institutions for their cooperation in these international mobilities.
On May 9, the annual meeting of the monitoring committee of the Barcelona City Council’s Dual VET project took place at the Barcelona City Council’s Hall of Chronicles. The committee consists of a representation of people referring to the Barcelona City Council (districts, managements, Municipal Institutes), representatives of the VET centres, and members of the monitoring subcommittee (CEB, Barcelona City Council, Department of Education of the Government of Catalonia and BCN Vocational and Education Training Foundation).
The Foundation, commissioned by the City Council, coordinates the collection of VET fellows requests and the CEB is responsible for assigning the places at the centers.
The meeting was useful to take stock of the past year, the welcome presentation on the City Council and the planning to incorporate now the new 2023-2024 interns.
The Barcelona City Council has supported Dual VET since the start, in 10 years 2013-2023 it has hosted more than 2,000 Dual VET interns of 21 professional profiles with an investment of + 6M€.
For the 2023-2024 academic year, the Barcelona City Council plans to incorporate 310 Dual VET interns from 23 professional profiles, being a benchmark for dual vocational training in the public sphere.
More than 550 vocational training teachers have actively participated in the 9th VET Congress, organized by “FP Empresa” and “CaixaBank Dualiza”. All of them have promoted the new collaboration between VET centers and companies that will take place following the implementation of the VET law. The Congress took place at the Cidade da Cultura, Galicia, in Santiago de Compostela.
The discussions during these two days has been focused on the challenges that society will have to face for the proper development of the new legislation, the role that business and trade union organisations will play to try to facilitate the training involvement of companies and the relationship with VET centres, as well as the role of business tutors in Dual training.
Els debats durant aquests dos dies s’han centrat en els reptes que la societat haurà d’afrontar per al desenvolupament adequat de la nova normativa, el paper que jugaran les organitzacions empresarials i sindicals per facilitar l’implicació formativa de les empreses i la relació amb els centres de formació, així com el rol del tutor o tutoressa empresarial en la formació dual.
The Minister of Culture, Education and Universities of Xunta de Galicia, Román Rodríguez, has stressed the importance of companies’ confidence in the VET, stating that “business will have to rely even more on the VET” with the introduction of the new law that dualises all training. Rodríguez has also emphasized that “business trust Vocational Education and Training initiatives to recruit professional resources to expand the workforce”, as 85% of students who take up VET in Galicia find work immediately, and regarding dual training, the percentage reaches 100%.
Among the companies that were prominent participants in the congress were Iberdrola, Spain Nestlé and the Pescanova Group, which have highlighted their responsibility under the new regulations.
During May, 34 VET students from centers of Barcelona, Alcoy and Madrid have completed professional internships in Lisbon, Munich or Toulouse. Through this experience, students have been able to improve their employability, acquiring and strengthening their technical, personal and linguistic skills.
During the 24th and the 25th of May, the final presentations of the MetropolisFPLab were held, where the 36 finalist teams of the 12 challenges showed their final proposal to the jury, consisting of the company or entity launching the challenge, innovation experts, and the project’s instigators. Students have presented the most innovative ideas, which they have been working on for more than 5 months, in order to find the most attractive proposal that best solves the challenge. On June 1st, the closing act will be held, where the winning teams will be elected in situ and a new edition of the project will be closed.
The renewable energy sector iis in need of solar panel installares and energy efficiency technician as the most relevant profiles in the sector. The sector considers that templates will have formative needs related to energy storage systems (accumulation, batteries, etc., photovoltaic installations, smart grids and improved flexibility and reliability of operations (automation, IoT, analytical data, Scada., etc.), self-consuming facilities and energy communities. The VET degree in Electrical and Automatic Installations has a much higher enrolment than the rest and the latest courses have seen a slight increase in enrolment. Registration of the Higher Degree of Renewable Energy follows a trend of growth in recent years. Most license plates are concentrated in private centers. Last Tuesday, 28 March, the BCN Training Professional Foundation presented the emerging economic sectors and vocational training in the Barcelona metropolitan region. This study analyzes the renewable energy sector from a PF key approach. The study focuses on learning and analysing the characteristics and dynamics of the labour market, the training and skills needs of companies and the different range of vocational training offers. In addition, the main innovative trends are described and the most sought-after, hard-covered and emerging profiles of the sector are identified.
The study was produced from a survey involving almost 100 companies in the sector and 28 interviews and discussion groups with different key players. It has been developed by the BCN Professional Training Foundation in collaboration with CaixaBank Dualitza and the support of Barcelona Activa and the Barcelona metropolitan area.
The welcome was given by Lieutenant Mayor of Badalona, Mr Alex Montornes, followed by Mr Fabian Mohedano, Executive Chairman of the Professional Qualification and Training Agency of Catalonia of the Government of Catalonia and closed the presentation ceremony by Mrs Monntserrat Ballarín, Vice-President of the AMB’s Social and Economic Development Area.
The renewable energy sector considers the profile of solar installation builder and maintainer a key profile in the sector. Followed by the energy efficiency and energy audit technician, manager-supervisor and launch of solar installations, promoter or salesperson of ESER and installer and maintainer of electric vehicle loading points, Àngel Tarri.o and Ana Vicente, coordinator and researcher responsible for the study of the Observatory of the Barcelona Training Professional Foundation.
Other emerging profiles that are considered important are that of an energy storage specialist, energy community manager or dynamitor and energy monitoring technician and data analyst.
With regard to the specific profile of mounter and/or maintainer/or solar installations, the results show that integral or hybrid profiles will be increasingly demanded in the coming years. The proliferation of domestic installations means that more and more professionals with integrated knowledge of photovoltaics, charging points, electric and/or aerothermic batteries (both from the part of installations and the maintenance of these facilities) are required.
The presentation brought together a round table with representatives from the sector: Mr Raúl Rodríguez, director general of FEGICAT, guild of Installers, Mrs Esther Morlanes, director ALTERNA Energia and member of the Territorial Council of UNEFCAT, Mr Víctor Cusí, president of EOLICCAT, Patronal eolics of Catalonia and Mr Javier Azorín, head of training and talent development of IBERDROLA Spain. The discussion, in relation to the training needs identified by the sector, considers that future templates have or will have training needs related to energy storage systems (accumulation, batteries, etc., photovoltaic installations, smart grids and improved flexibility and reliability of operations (automation, IoT, analytical data, Scada., etc.), self-consuming facilities and energy communities. Formative shortages related to green hydrogen and hydrogen value chain systems, electricity distribution networks and generation of renewable gases from waste and electric and hydrogen vehicles are also noted. Ultimately, these results show that most of the training needs are associated with the new trends in the sector.
The study also identifies the main trends in enrollment and employment insertion of training cycles with the most linking to the EERR sector in RMB.
The Median Degree in Electrical and Automatic Installations has a much higher enrolment than the rest and the latest courses have seen a slight increase in enrolment. Registration of the Higher Degree of Renewable Energy follows a trend of growth in recent years. Most license plates are concentrated in private centers. The Middle Degree of Calor Production Installations and the Upper Degree of Energy Efficiency and Solar Thermal Energy have suffered a decline in registration in recent years. The last course analyzed has a very low enrolment. These cycles are strongly masculinized—especially middle grade cycles—and no significant reversal of this trend is observed over the years, with % of women still very little relevance. The dual modality is not widespread in these degrees, especially in the case of upper grade degrees. The Upper Degrees of the Energy and Water Family and the Middle Degrees of the Installation and Maintenance Family have higher employment levels than the respective average of the Upper and Middle Degree cycles, respectively.
Last Tuesday, 2nd, we started our new project: EU Water Challenge VET Labs. We also enjoyed the meeting with our EU partners on this new project. It will be a FPLab Metropolis scaled internationally with innovative pedagogy, ecological thematics and FP at the centre of everything. Thank you very much to our partners, let’s do this!
On the 3rd of November we start the new announcement of the 12th edition of the FP Innovation Measure-Plan, course 2022-2023.
The plan is run by the Fundación BCN Formación Profesional, with the collaboration between the Área Metropolitana of Barcelona and the Diputación of Barcelona, with the main objective to promote the innovation and quality of the professional education system in the district of Barcelona.
The support announcement aims at all centers and/or institutes that impart initial teaching of professional education (sports and arts also inclusive) of the district of Barcelona and which have the objective to reward educational projects of innovative character.
ANNOUNCEMENT BASES
APPLICATION FORM
PARTICIPATION CALENDER:
Publication of the announcement: 3rd of November 2022
Application presentation: 13th of December 2022
Announcement resolution: 1st fortnight of February 2023
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