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Training stay for European teachers in the electric vehicle sector in Tartu, Estonia

The first of the four training stays for teacher mobility of the European Erasmus+ project ElectriCars VET Hub, coordinated by Xarxa FP, took place from September 9 to 15 in the city of Tartu (Estonia) with the aim of knowing the Estonian VET system, detecting the needs of the electric and hybrid vehicle sector and starting to jointly develop a virtual pilot course with respect to the new regulation and safety measures of sustainable vehicles.

In this stay, 10 teachers from the Institut Escola del Treball of Barcelona and the Institut la Guineueta, new Institute of Security and Mobility of Barcelona, Liceul Energetic Constanta (Romania), Lapland Vocational School (Finland), Fondazione Lepido Rocco (Italy) and Tartu Vocational College (Estonia) participated. In October, the second training stay in Romania will be held to continue with the development of the pilot course.

NEW CALL SIMULATED COMPANY, academic year 2024-25

The Simulated Business project (Simulation of Companies with Educational Purposes) of the BCN FP Foundation is an innovation project that seeks to complement training with completely practical knowledge and enhance the transversal skills of VET students, in order to facilitate the subsequent incorporation into the labour market.
The deadline for submitting applications is Monday 7 October and must be done through this FORM.

The call is aimed at all FP centers in Barcelona and its metropolitan area that teach during the 2024-25 academic year one of the intermediate and/or higher degree training cycles of the following professional families:
· Business and Marketing Family
· Family Administration and Management
The projects must be executed in the academic year 2024-2025 and each institute or centre may submit a single application.

You can consult the rules of the call and more information at: Company Simulation Project – Fundació BCN FP (fundaciobcnfp.cat)

DONA TIC Awards-2024-selection applications

The Foundation participates as a member of the jury of the DonaTIC 2024 Awards, promoted by the Government, through the Secretariat of Digital Policies of the Department of Business and Labour and within the framework of the DonaTIC Plan.

On Thursday, September 12, at the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona, the jury of the honorary committee met in order to select from the 70 semifinalists, the three finalists and the winner of each of the 10 categories.

Since its first edition, in 2015, the DonaTIC Awards have received a total of 707 applications and have established themselves as a benchmark in the recognition and dissemination of the role and talent of women in the technological and digital field. 

This year the tenth edition of the awards is celebrated and the ceremony of the DonaTIC 2024 Awards will take place on October 10, 2024, where it will be revealed who will be the winner in the ICT FP student category.

Visit PRUB and Propotypes – Sectoral Table FP&Construction 4.0

On Friday, September 13, we organized, for the VET centers of Bcn and AMB and members of the Table, a guided tour to know the Urban Regeneration Program (PRUB) of the Municipal Institute of Urbanism of the City of Barcelona. This programme deploys a global, unitary and multidisciplinary strategy of actions on vulnerable urban buildings and fabrics in situations of inadequacy or degradation, a step forward is being taken to create comprehensive solutions to promote rehabilitation through sustainable and innovative construction systems.

We were also able to visit the three prototypes of industrialized construction (Aligra, Regenar Barcelona and InnoFab) that are being tested on a plot of the Diagonal-Besòs Campus of the UPC. They are the three winning proposals of the challenge launched in 2022 by the BIT Habitat Foundation and the Municipal Institute of Urbanism to look for innovative solutions for the rehabilitation of housing buildings.

Through these industrialised construction prototypes, the comfort, habitability conditions and sustainability of current buildings can be improved, which will allow reducing CO2 emissions and energy consumption. In addition, construction models are low-emission and with limited costs to allow a high volume of housing to regenerate in the coming decades and thus influence the decarbonization commitments of the city of Barcelona within the framework of the climate mission.

Connecting FP and Construction 4.0 trends is one of the challenges of the Table to train the best VET talent.

For more information: Sustainable Construction in terms of VET.

APPOINTMENTS

The BCN Vocational Training Foundation is a bridge between the educational field and the economic and social environment, in these links you can find the new organigrams of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training and of Business and Labour.

https://educacio.gencat.cat/ca/departament/organitzacio/organigrama

https://empresa.gencat.cat/ca/departament/transparencia-i-bon-govern/normativa-i-organitzacio/emo_organigrama_departament

LINKS TO SOME ARTICLES

Measurement plan: Graphical Via Project

The Via Gràfica project consists of the creation of an event promoted by IFP Antoni Algueró that brings together three groups: school, business and local institutions, in an act to promote talent. In this way, face-to-face and direct contact between people from the world of graphic arts will allow to generate synergies and opportunities, both for companies and for the students of the center that ends a training stage.

General report on FP Prospective

We attended the presentation of the General Prospective Report 2023-2026 of the FP Catalunya Agency, presented by Fabian Mohedano. 

A basic tool for the prospective and prospective of Vocational Training in Catalonia. From our VET Observatory, we want to continue contributing, with territorial key, to the country’s VET system.

“Talent Professional” conference to promote training in Barcelona

On Friday 28 June at 09.15 am, the AMB will hold the “Professional Talent” conference to promote talent and publicize the projects in collaboration with the BCN Vocational Training Foundation. It will have the participation of the General Directorate of Vocational Training, the Public Agency for Vocational Training and Qualification, and the Directorate of Active Employment Policies of the SOC.

Registrations are made through this link.

We would like to have your participation to know the lines and jointly assess the contributions and their interest.

The Sociocultural Activities of June of Singulars

The participants of the Singular Project have done a series of activities during June.
First of all, they contributed their reflections with care and advice services on drug use, the use of screens, and other risky behaviors in the prevention program “Let’s Chat!”
The following week, they went to DFactory Barcelona to meet the companies Leitat, Tetravol SL, and 5Skill Solutions. It was a day full of innovation and learning!
On Friday 7, we organized a visit to the Municipal Institute of Education of Barcelona for young people who graduated from the CFGS in Early Childhood Education, where they were able to solve all their doubts.
The following week they went out to visit the most emblematic places of the Poblenou neighborhood with about thirty users of the Pere Relats Foundation residence.
Next Friday they took a plogging walk, through various parks on Montjuïc, enjoying its beauty, and collecting the garbage that we were finding along the way, keeping Barcelona clean and caring for nature.
We have also learned to dance popular dances and we were taught La Casa dels Entremes, last but not least, we have participated in one of the rehearsals of the Castellers de la Vila de Gràcia.

Training stays for teachers and management teams of vocational training

During May and June, two training stays were carried out in Estonia and Germany thanks to the Erasmus programs coordinated by the BCN Vocational Training Foundation.

First, 20 members of the management teams of vocational training centers in Barcelona and its metropolitan area have spent a stay in the city of Tartu to know first-hand how one of the professional training centers of European excellence is managed and organized, such as the Tartu Rakenduslik Kolledž VOCO (https://voco.ee/). 

Anmateix, the delegation of vocational training centers was also received by the deputy mayor of Tartu, by the companies Toyota and A. Le Coq Brewery, and by the professional training center specialized in health Tartu Health Care College (https://www.nooruse.ee/en/). Finally, the delegation was also able to visit the organization of Tartu as the capital of European culture in 2024 (https://tartu2024.ee/en/).

Secondly, 15 members of training centers in the field of intelligent and advanced industry were able to carry out a training stay in Hanover coordinated by the Industrie- und Handelskammer – IHK Hannover (Cambra de Comerç de Hannover) to know how industrial professional training is adapting to changes in the sector and how Germany tries to attract talent to professionalizing industrial studies. 

During the stay, the Befrufsbilden Industrial Vocational Training Centre was visited by Schulen Neustadt a. Rbge. (https://www.bbs-nrue.de/) and the electronic and industrial production companies Clarios (https://www.clarios.com/es) and Sennheiser (https://www.sennheiser.com/es-mx). Finally, the delegation was able to visit the Ideen Expo (https://www.ideenexpo.de/),

one of the European events of reference in the capture and promotion of industrial vocations in Europe. 

It should be noted that more than 30 centers were able to participate in the training stays: Institute of Audiovisual Media EMAV, Food Institute of Barcelona, Institut Escola d’Hoteleria i Turisme de Barcelona, Institut Pedraforca, Escola Massana, Centre d’Art i Disseny, Fundació Sagrat Cor Sarrià, Institut Joan Brossa, Institut Escola del Treball, Institut Salvador Seguí, Institució Cultural del CIC – Fundació Privada, Institut Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia Badalona, Institut Alexandre Mussa.