From the RECE Network "State Network of Educating Cities", which the Barcelona City Council is part of, it is possible to create thematic networks promoted by different cities of the Spanish State that are part of the network. One of them is "the city that educates in training and employment", promoted by the City Council of Malaga.
The main objective is to contribute to the improvement of the employability and the quality of the citizens´ employment. This will allow the improvement of the society, the creation of new opportunities and the improvement of the quality of life.
On the 22nd of September we had the second meeting of the network where it was decided what the work plan would be. To facilitate the task, working groups were assigned and, by delegation from the City Council of Barcelona, the Foundation will form part of the group "creating a training and employment forum" where will be an exchange of information and documentation about the regulated and non-regulated supply and the needs and professional profiles demanded by the business fabric.
Here you can contribute all the experience of Barcelona Activa and the FP Observatory. The next meeting in person will be in Malaga on the 11th of November.
Once again, we are collaborating with the German school @glasfaschule_rheinbach receiving a group of 10 Graphic Design and Media students who will be doing their internships in Barcelona inthe coming months. This year, mobility is back, and treading hard. More than 40 students are doing internships in Barcelona.
As an activity of the Taula FP&Construcció 4.0, we have organized a tour of visits with FP Building and Civil Works centers in Madrid, Segovia, BCN, AMB, and technicians from Barcelona Activa and Xarxa FP.
We visited l’Ateneu de Fabricació Digital de Gràcia, a public space for training and creating digital fabrication projects linked to new technologies, specializing in creativity, crafts, textiles, fashion and biomaterials, which can offer support and knowledge to many projects of VET students and teachers.
We also visited the single-family home in Alella, an innovative and sustainable project created in BIM, an example of wood construction (CLT) by Artio Studio.
Visit VET Building and Civil Works centers
Next year, Institut Escola del Treball de Barcelona will expand its offer with PFI studies, the intermediate degree of construction, and the new specialization course in BIM, which is why it will become the only center in Barcelona with all the training offers for Building, and also the only center in Barcelona that has Wood.
Institut Provençana de l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, a center with GM and GS, focused on sustainable construction, circular economy, and Construction 4.0, and where they also launched a new specialization course in BIM. In turn, it should be noted that three of its students from the CFGS of Building Projects won the Metropolis FP Lab d’Arquima Award, a leading company in passive industrialized construction.
We’ve presented a practical guide to implement the Dual VET in town halls at the El Molí library of the Molíns de Rey Town Hall with Fabian Mohedano, executive president of the FPCAT Agency and Montserrat Ballarín, vice president of the social and economic development area of the Barcelona Metropolitan area.
This report explains the implementation process of Dual VT within the municipalities to facilitate its extension. Starting from the experience of twelve municipalities that already have dual VET students, it is analyzed how the initiative arose, how it was implemented, what barriers have been detected and what proposals exist to improve the experience. As a synthesis of these experiences and other complementary information, a series of tools are presented to accompany and facilitate the adoption and extension of dual VT to local entities.
On Friday, July 1, the closing ceremony of the Metropolis FPLab, 4th edition, took place at the school and center of FP Antoni Alguerí in Sant Just d’Esvern.
The project brings together the metropolitan talent of VET and the most innovative companies in Barcelona and the Metropolitan Area. We opened the event with Joan Basaganyas, Mayor of Sant Just d’Esvern, Montserrat Ballarín, Vice President of the Social and Economic Development Area of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area and Immaculada Font, Director of the Vocational Training Center of the Antoni Algueró School.
The event continued with the testimonies of three companies that have been part of the project; the company GPAInnova and the Consortium of the Zona Franca explained their experience as new additions to this edition and in TMB, which have accompanied us since the first edition highlighted the growth of the project.
Finally, the winning projects of this edition were recognized. Winners will receive a scholarship to carry out their project.
The winners of the 4th edition of the Metropolis FPLab are:
On June 21, 2022, the Night of Entrepreneurship was held at the Museu de les Aigües of Cornellà de Llobregat, which already includes the 13th edition of the FPEmprén Awards and the 4th edition of the FPConsolida awards.
The event, presented and guided by Bibiana Ballbé, was opened by Manuel Camerón, General Manager of Agbar in Spain, Sara Berbel, Executive President of the Foundation BCN Formació Professional and Pere Fàbregues, Vice President of the Foundation BCN Formació Professional and Montserrat Ballarín, Vice President of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area.
The FPEmprén awards are a public recognition of the best business projects carried out by Vocational Training students from VET institutes and centers in Barcelona and its metropolitan area. The purpose is to promote the recognition and social prestige of VET and, in turn, promote entrepreneurship from a pedagogical point of view. The awards project includes the training of teachers from the participating centers to introduce or update them to the ecosystem of entrepreneurship. The training is directed by leading institutions and companies of Catalan entrepreneurship such as Seed&Click or Barcelona Activa. The awards often serve as a ticket for later consolidation of some winning projects through the FPConsolida awards and the awards for Catalan entrepreneurship that are later held by the Department of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Among the award categories there are the Best Elevator Pitch Award, FPEmprén for female talent, Energy, Sustainability and Environment Award; Health Sport and Wellness Award; Culture and Leisure Education Award; Hospitality and Tourism Award; Social and Solidarity Economy Award; Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation Award; ICL Award – Logistics Management and Entrepreneur Award.
After the welcome, the FPConsolida awards were distributed together with Netmentora Catalunya and the Department of Education.
The objective of this award is to promote entrepreneurial projects led by students and ex-students of professional training in order to accompany them in the process of consolidating their projects.
It featured the intervention of Elionora Solé, HR Director Spain at Cofidis and Member of the Board of Directors of Netmentora Catalunya and José Antonio Andrés, deputy director general of Vocational Training Programs and Projects of the Department of Education, Generalitat de Catalunya. The winner of this 4th edition of the FPConsolida Awards was Noé Alexandre, head of the Noè Alexandre refrigeration and air conditioning company.
Finally, it was passed to the delivery of the 13th edition of the FPEmprén awards. This edition has had 71 projects, of which 61 have passed to the final phase. In total, 27 VET centers and a total of 245 students from the city of Barcelona and its Metropolitan Area have participated.
The event was closed by Mr. Fabian Mohedano, president of the Catalan Council for Vocational Training and Qualification of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
The project “Programa de Formació i Inserció: Pràctiques Professionals”, led by XarxaFP (International Mobility Association of Barcelona City Council), aims to improve employability and avoid disengagement from the education system of young students of PFI and is a step forward in the internationalization of training and insertion programs in our country. Last Monday, June 13, the closing ceremony of the first state-level mobility project for the educational level of PFI took place in the Salón de Cròniques of Barcelona City Council.
The event was chaired by the the councilor for education, Mr.Pau Gonzàlez, Mrs.Marta Ortueta (electronically), the director of the vocational training Unit of SEPIE, Ministry of Universities and Mrs. Maria Jesus Cervero, president of the XarxaFP.
Mr. Pau Gonzàlez, Councilor for Education of Barcelona City Council opened the event by pointing out that the project has been a success due to the joint involvement of the institutions, and the involvement of all the people involved: management teams, coordinators of mobility, tutors of the training and insertion programs. The project responds to the city council’s commitment to making international mobility more inclusive at all levels of education and breaking with the idea that Erasmus is only for the university. International internships are important for professional experience, language skills but especially for personal skills that are key to their professional and personal development (initiative, confidence, flexibility, organization, teamwork, etc.).This project is just the beginning of a long road that we hope will be successful and full at all levels.
Finally, the councilor thanked the vocational training centers for trusting the city council in this new adventure, as well as the organizations XarxaFP, Fundación BCN Formación Profesional, and the technicians in charge of executing the project more directly, for their commitment. in the project and for all its support.
Then, Ms. Marta Ortueta, thanked all the institutions involved for making possible the development of the project. “Erasmus + is a program made by people, personal situations, a living program,” said the director of the Vocational Training Unit of SEPIE. “We, as institutions, can encourage and promote the program, but it is thanks to you, the participants, that all Erasmus is possible, you are the most important ambassadors.”
The opening of the event ended with the gratitude of Mrs. Maria Jesus Cervero, President of the XarxaFP, who explained how we have been promoting and promoting the internationalization of vocational training in Europe for almost 25 years. “I can proudly say that the young people present here today are the first generation of Erasmus in the Training and Insertion Programs. You are the first but I am sure you will not be the last and we are very clear that in the future doing Erasmus internships in a PFI should be almost as common and everyday as it is today to do them at other educational levels. We believe that the word Erasmus should not only be the property of universities and that vocational training, at all levels, has a lot to show and offer to society, ”concluded the president of XarxaFP.
The project is aimed at young people with fewer opportunities or with obstacles for social, educational and cultural reasons that make it difficult for them to access the labor market and is based on an updated analysis of the common needs of the 13 vocational training centers that make up the consortium promoter of the initiative, and the willingness of all of them to start offering more inclusive mobility opportunities for their PFI students.
This includes 3 group internships for a total of 32 young PFI students, in the cities of Lisbon (Portugal), Munich (Germany) and Toulouse (France) for fifteen days.
Then, the tutors explained their experience during the course of the project as well as that of their students, a very positive experience. It was asked to be repeated and reproduced more regularly. The tutors of the Escola del Treball, INS Escola d’Hoteleria i Turisme centers also highlighted the series of skills that are acquired or reinforced with this project: Basic skills: skills for accessing the labor market, (mobility, functional calculation and basic computer science), knowledge of English / French), b) Transversal skills: adaptability, learning to learn, communication, emotion management, initiative-autonomy, organization, responsibility and Technical and professional skills according to professional profile, vocabulary and language professional in English or French, according to professional profile.
The event ended with the presentation of the diploma of recognition by Councilor for Education Pau Gonzalez and the President of XarxaFP Maria Jesus Cervero.
A day of reflection, which served to know trends, visions of the future and share a dynamic of work to detect obstacles and opportunities and where without a doubt the professional training will be key for the transformation of the sector of the new mobility and to achieve a Sant Boi sustainable and healthy by 2030.
The Plan for Measuring Innovation in Vocational Training it’s a project that promotes values on experimentation, key competencies and teamwork and it’s guided by the improvement of educational success and the labor insertion. Currently there are 11 editions of the plan, where more than 700 innovational projects have participated, and 363 have benefited economically. Thanks to the support of the AMB and ours, more than 5,000 VET students have been able to take part in these projects.
This May we have run a campaign to visualize some of the projects promoted in recent editions; The Rambla Prim Institute team presented a buoy project capable of sampling microplastics in marine and inland waters.
The Guillem Catà Institute in Manresa is promoting the setting up of a textile quality control laboratory, and Anna Gironella’s team uses virtual reality to make students aware of the importance of occupational hazards before starting work practices.
The proposal of the Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia Institute, in Sant Joan Despí, promotes that students accompany the health staff of the CAPs in home care, to learn about this type of intervention.And in the same way, more than 350 projects of the Demarcation of Barcelona have become reality thanks to the Plan of Measures, a project that does not stop growing!
The 25th of May, together with the people management area, organizational development of Barcelona City Council and the RRHH field of the IMEB-Municipal Institute of Education we attended the celebration for the 10th anniversary of Dual Vocational Training at Catalonia.
Dual vocational training has been a clear commitment of Barcelona City Council since the beginning when the regulations were approved, both helping to promote it and being a “training institution”. Since 2012, Barcelona City Council has hosted 1,716 scholarship holders, which is why it received an award as a company with the largest number of dual students.
The Municipal Nursery Schools of Barcelona were pioneers in Dual Vocational Training, currently the aim is for each of the 103 Nursery Schools of Barcelona City Council to have a Dual Vocational Training student.
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