On February 7, at the Roca Umbert venue in Granollers, the workshops of the Metropolis FPLab began. As the Diputació de Barcelona joins the project, it has been possible to expand to the territories of Granollers and Mataró. Nearly 300 VET students from these territories have started the creativity workshop, which has had the institutional welcome and presentation of Francesc Arolas, Councilor for Education, Children and Adolescence; Open Government and Transparency of the Granollers City Council; and with Miquel Àngel Vadell, Councilor Delegate for Education, Vocational Training and Universities of the Mataró City Council. Also with Neus Gómez, consultant technician of the Management of Education Services of the Diputació de Barcelona.
The participation of the Diputació de Barcelona is framed in the transformative project “New Educational Opportunities 4.10.”
During the last quarter, we have received more than 25 students, from different Europeas cities, from various professional training profiles. We are sure that during their stay they will learn and contribute a lot to the companies where they are doing their internship. We collaborate with companies such as Baluard, DFactory or CIM UPC.
Act Take the flight: Young people who start business next Thursday, February 9 at 5.45pm in the Mirador del Convent room in Barcelona Activa (Plaça Pons i Clerch, 2, 1st floor).
Barcelona Activa, PimecJoves and Metropoli Abierta organize a meeting to share experiences of young people who are growing their projects.
The round table will consist of:
· Marta Rodríguez, CEO of the startup of labour equality BlindStairs
· Francesc Font, Co-Founder & Co-CEO from Incapto Coffee
· Mar Alarcon, promoter and Co-Founder of Therap. me, for mental health and former promoter of SocialCar.
· Moderate: Manel Manchón, Journalist and Deputy Director of Metropoli Abierta
At the end of the event, a networking space will be offered.
We launched the project “EU Water Challenge VET Labs”, the result of internationalizing the MetropolisFPLAb. The project is a pilot test, the main objective of the EU Water Challenge VET Labs project will be to establish the first international VET awards for European VET students. It will respond to a single social challenge: identifying innovative nature-based solutions to mitigate the effects of floods and improve water retention within an imaginary European city, called “Methropolis”.
The company that will present the challenge will be Veolia, represented by the Barcelona School of Water during the project. In reality, the imaginary city of ‘Metròpolis’ is invented and developed by the company and includes a series of common/combined characteristics of a typical city in Denmark, Belgium and Spain so that it will emulate the different contexts in a single city.
This competence will be based on the use of the challenge-based learning approach (CBL) and other open innovation methodologies applied to EFP to learn to solve real-world challenges, while obtaining deeper knowledge and skills needed to thrive in a changing world.
The project coordinators and partners will be:
BCN Professional Foundation (Barcelona, ES)
Project partners:
-Mercantec (Viborg, DK)
– From Wijnpers (Louvain, BE) -INS Esteve Tarrades (Barcelona, ES)
– Barcelona Water School, as a representative of Veolia.
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
The 14th edition of the FPemprèn Awards has started, aimed at students of education cycles of medium and superior grade from Barcelona and its metropolitan area.
PRE-INSCRIPTION phase of projects and participants
The participants will have to formalize this participation filling the following form and attaching the whole documentation that is requested in it:
Application letter, addressed to the management of the Fundación BCN Formación Profesional. Only one letter per center has to be sent, specifying the project(s) to be presented.
Motivation letter, elaborated by the student or student team who presents the project to the gathering.
The pre-inscription form for the Awards will remain open UNTIL THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY (the whole day), the deadline for submitting all the documentation requested. Delayed applications won´t be accepted.
MASTERCLASS: Generation of ideas with impact
Before the pre-inscription of the projects, we have prepared the masterclass “FPemprèn Awards: generation of ideas with impact“ aimed at students and teachers of professional education who are intested in learning about tools and methodologies which help in the first phase of the development of the enterprising project: the process of ideation and detection of an enterprising idea which may have potential and generate impact. The session will be imparted by Juan Àlvarez de Lara, Founder & CEO of Seed&Click, on the first of december, from 10:00 to 11:30, through the platform Zoom.
Those who are interested in attending the online masterclass can register until the 29th of november (inclusive) in the following link. One day before the training you will receive an email with the link to access the online session.
Tuesday 10th October 2022, at 18:30, the 8th edition of the DonaTIC Awards was celebrated at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, promoted by the Department of the Vice-Presidency and the Digital Policies and Territory, in collaboration with the Institution of Women (Institut Català de las Mujeres), the Women, Business and Economy Observatory of the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona and the association Tertúlia Digital.
The DonaTIC Awards have been one of the outstanding initiativesof of the Government´s Plan DonaTIC, which was created with the aim of raising the existing glass roof in the technoly sector, which focuses on the women´s presence and on promoting their participation and empowerment in the construction of the digital society with equality criteria.
The Awards are divided into eight categories and two sub-categories, one of them for a FP TIC student who has developed an outstanding project or initiative in this field.
This year, the winner was Fátima Syed Shahzadi, student of the CFGS Multiplatform Application Development (WAD) from the Instituto Juan de Austria of Barcelona. She occupied the first place together with a classmate, in the Wapps contest (the best student websites in Catalan) in the category of the best phone application. They created an app that is a catalogue for searching series, movies, books, music and video games in Catalan.
The finalist of the Awards was Judith Barrajón, student of the CFGS Website Application Development (WAD) of the Barcelona Jesuitas El Clot.
Congratulations to those two and all the DONA TIC Award winners for their talent and for beeing future STEM references for girls and adolescents.
The Fundació is part of the jury of these Awards and wants to highlight the FP student winners of all previous editions.
2017 Marina Blasco Sánchez Instituto Escola del Treball, Barcelona
2018 Cristina Martin Planelles Instituto Bosque de la Coma, Olot (Girona)
2019 Anna Dacosta Martín Instituto Esteve Terrades e Isla, Cornellà de LL.
2020 Agnès Malé Gabarró Instituto Esteve Terrades i Illa, Cornellà de LL.
2021 Sara Puig Cabruja Jesuitas El Clot, Barcelona
2022 Sahar Fátima Syed Shahzadi Instituto Juan de Austria, Barcelona
Women registered in the FP cycles represent 9%, the labour market insertion rate of these professional field is 98,92%. The technology sector is growing exponentially every year and generates many stable and well-payed employments. Many professionals are needed for working in the TIC and it is the key to attract young people, especially more girls, to these FP TIC studies, a challenge that affects all of us- families, schools, companies, institutions and governments.
From the foundation Fundació BCN Formació Profesional, we have co-organized with Barcelona Activa a sectorial and networking Day about electric vehicles, for the 19th October 2022, at the Sala Emprèn of Barcelona Activa.
A day in the key of occupation which allowed to present tendencies, skills and professional profiles which are needed by the companies linked to the electric vehicle and sustainable mobility.
The framework presentation to learn about the occupation creating tendencies was hold by Mr. Agustí Chico, director of singular projects and Transversial laboratories of Eurecat.
It was completed with occupation data and indicators by Ms. Àngels Santigosa, head of the department of Economy Management, Resources and Economic Promotion Studies of the Barcelona City Council, and by Ms. Ana Vicente, technician of the observatory of the foundation Fundació BCN Formació Profesional, who presented the profiles and training required for working in this sector.
A round table with companies provided their vision on the professional profiles which are required and valuable in the moment of contact and what recruitment channels they use.
You would like to learn more about the training system of Catalunya and discover the working fields which it enables you to have access to? On November 9, from 16:00 to 16:30, the foundation Fundació BCN Formació Profesional organizes a workshop within the framework of the Saló de l’Ocupació 2022, with the aim to get to know training cycles and professional certificates. The participants will be able to elaborate their own training and preparatory itinerary, which characterizes their current trainig, their professional objectives and how we can improve their competential profile.
Last Thursday, October 20, the presentation session of the 5th edition of the MetròpolisFPLab was held. All the parties involved in the project, including training centers, the organizing team, and participating companies and institutions, held a virtual meeting to start the new edition of the project. Anna Hernández welcomed the session, emphasizing a project that does not stop growing. This edition disposes with the participation of the Barcelona Provincial Council, specifically with the Municipality of Granollers and Mataró; in this way, the MetròpolisFPLab approaches new students and areas of the territory. The various participating companies/institutions presented their challenge to the tutors of the educational centers, so that they can transfer the information to the students. Specifically, we have 13 new challenges, nine entities that have already held various editions (The Port of Barcelona, Aigües de Barcelona, MB92, the Circuit de Catalunya, GPA innova, the Pla Estratègic Metropolità de Barcelona, TMB, Arquima and the Consorci de la Zona Franca) and four new entities that join the project (Mesoestetic, the Consorci Sanitari del Maresme, l’Hospital del Mar, Audens Food). The registration period for centers that want to participate is now open. Through this link, you can consult all the relevant information about the rules of the call for the 5th edition, which you will find in the MetròpolisFPLab section of our website
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