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

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.