On July 13, the Catalan Coordinator of Foundations organized an Intercommittees meeting at the Pasqual Maragall Foundation. We had the opportunity to learn more about the foundation hard work in the research on alzheimer. We also had the opportunity to work in the different committees to be able to know what do we do and to establish more synergies. The coordinator’s management team will collect all the information, that will be useful to promote its strategic lines.
The restaurant of La Pau, of the el Llindar Foundation, served a catering to close the meeting and wish us a good summer.
The Foundation, as partners of the Professional Life Project (Projecte de Vida Professional) we have collaborated in the second edition of the Summer School, aimed at guidance professionals (Formation and Labour Orientation, Upper Secondary School and Compulsory Secondary Education orientators), with the aim of updating knowledge and acquiring new resources for classroom orientation.
The Foundation gave an online session about: What do professionals in the VET orientation need?, on the 12 of July from 11.30 a.m. to 12.45 a.m.
Activities such as these allow the sharing of knowledge, experiences and resources among professionals. Professional guidance is crucial to be able to take the right choices, while facilitating the connection between the needs of the labour market and the aspirations of the students.
The Foundation, and within the framework of the VET and Industrial construction Table 4.0, we have organised a conference with the Industrialized Construction Cluster of Catalonia (CCiC) and the “Escola del Treball”, aimed at the teachers of centers and entities that provide VET of Construction and Civil Works, Wood, Installations, Electricity, Mechanics and Design.
The conference took place on Thursday 29 from 10 to 12 in the Carmelo Gómez conference hall of “L’Institut Escola del Treball” of Barcelona.
The BCN Vocational and Education Training Foundation has proposed the basics of the new Sectoral Study of Sustainable Construction in the AMB VET sector that we are working on from the Observatory. We have also presented the Industrialized Construction Cluster of Catalonia, in charge of Pere Armora, President of CCiC, and Ignasi Pérez Arnal, Vice-President and CEO BIM Academy.
We have seen the closing act of the YEP MED project, led by the Escola Europa and the Port of Barcelona, and with the support of the BCN Vocational and Education Training Foundation . One of the final results of the project has been the preparation of the report Update of the the professional profiles of the Barcelona port community.
The project, promoted by several Mediterranean cities and VET centers, has generated new training itineraries, in collaboration with Barcelona Activa, and has had a high level of success in participation and insertion.
Today, the “Entrepreneurship Night” 2023 took place, celebrating the 14th edition of the FPempren Awards and the 5th edition of the FPconsolida. It has been a night full of recognition and inspiration for young entrepreneurs in vocational training. The event, organised by the BCN FP Foundation with the support of the Barcelona City Council and the Barcelona Metropolitan Area, has featured prominent representatives of the field and personalities of the education and entrepreneurship world.
The inauguration ceremony started with Sara Berbel, president of the BCN Vocational and Education Training Foundation, Fabian Mohedano, executive president of the Professional Qualification and Training Agency of Catalonia, María Truñó, Education Commissioner of Barcelona City Council, and Montse Ballarín, vice president of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area.
During the event, two witnesses of entrepreneurship success have been presented: the experience of Marc Almeda, founder and CEO of WePrefereat, and the experience of the Provençana Institute of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, by Paco Sánchez, who has presented the nursery of companies that they developed on the centre itself. For this initiative, Marta Carrió, president of Netmentora Catalunya, and Anna Simó, Minister of Education of the Government of Catalonia, have presented the fifth FPConsolida Award to the Institut Provençana.
The awards were presented with 10 awards categories, according to the best-targeted project in terms of its coherence, feasibility, consistency and the added value that it brings to the sector in particular. The award centers of this 14th edition have been:
1.Energy and Environment Award
CFGM – La Salle Barceloneta- Barcelona
Marc Galofré, Sami Bouazzaten, Beatriz Díaz and Ulises Aitor
Tutored by Núria Funollet
CFGS – Institut FP Sant Cugat
Fàtima Tachrift, Mojie Lin, Paula Mónica López and Zumar Zulfiqar
Tutored by Olga Oliver
2. Health and Care of People Award
CFGM – Escola Solc Nou Barcelona
Silvia Enríquez, Ikram El Abbassi, Raissa Nicole Chávez and Laura Vico
Tutored by Neus Boncompte and Cristina Moll
CFGS – Escola Pia Nostra Senyora-Barcelona
Nerea Galán, Meritxell Guerrero, Helena Iglesias, Eduard Salvadó and Martina Villar
Tutored by Marc Rodríguez.
3. Oci and Welfare Award
CFGS – Escola d’Hoteleria i Turisme CETT-Barcelona
Marta Ferrer, Jiasheng Fang, Arnau Jordà, Qi Wang and Jingyu Li
Tutored by Sylvia Puigdemasa
4. Education and Culture Award
CFGM – La Salle Barceloneta-Barcelona
Camilo Botero and Africa Camprubi
Tutored by Núria Funollet
CFGS – Institut Salvador Seguí-Barcelona
Nerea Quixal, Carlota Nin, María González and Claudia Rodríguez
Tutored by Elena Mayordomo
5. Intelligent Manufacturing and Digital Transformation Award
CFGS – CEIR ARCO Villarroel-Barcelona
Alba Edo and Sara Roso
Tutored by Sarai López
6. Social and Solidarity Economy Award
CFGM – Institut Bernat el Ferrer Molins de Rei
Alejandro Taxonera, Sergio Ausach and Ignacio Estévez
Tutored by Mª José Medina
CFGS – Institut Pedraforca Hospitalet de Llobregat
Irene Ramírez, Rafael Borreguero and Joan Vigo
Tutored by Roger Romero
CFGS – Institut Esteve Terradas i Illa Cornellà de Llobregat
Propelled by the students of the upper degree cycles of Administration and Finance and Assistance to the Management
tutors Rafael Segura, Carla Bertolin and Gerard Garcia and the director of the center Olga Quesada.
7. Secondary Award to best commercial proposal
Institut Bernat el Ferrer Molins de Rei
Fabian Doizi and Rubén Jordán
Tutored by Mª José Medina
8. FPempren Prize for Women’s Talent
CFGM – Centre López Vicuña Barcelona
Núria Oliveras, Melisa García and Blanca Camuñas
Tutored by Montse Piera
CFGS – Escola de Mitjans Audiovisuals EMAV-Barcelona
Marta La Parra and Júlia Llamas
Tutored by Ona Vega
9. ICIL Award – Logistic Management
CFGS – Prat Educació- Barcelona
Pau Guiu, Irene Sierra, Ignacio Moyano and Abdelaziz Hachi
Tutored by Albert Baile
10. Entrepreneur Award
CFGM – Institut El Palau de Sant Andreu de la Barca
Judith Ramos
Tutored by Francesc Roca
CFGS – Escola Pia Nostra Senyora- Barcelona
Núria Anguera, Oriol Garcia, Alejandro Mora and Laura Ruiz
Tutored by Aina Surroca
CFGS – Escola Santíssima Trinitat Barcelona
Carlos Jané, Carlos Hernández and Marian Taouil
Tutored by Julio Llorente
Eventually, the event was closed by Anna Simó, Minister of Education of the Government of Catalonia, thanking all participants and parties involved for their collaboration in this “Entrepreneurship Night” 2023.
The BCN Vocational and Education Training Foundation is committed to promoting entrepreneurial skills between the VET students through this public display, recognizing the best entrepreneurial VET projects in Barcelona and AMB.
The BCN Vocational and Education Training Foundation has participated in the 7th edition of the professional orientation days, on June 15, which took place in the Auditorium of the Central Headquarters of Barcelona Activa and in streaming on their Youtube channel.
This technical conference is organised annually and is aimed at technicians , coordinators and heads of entities that are part of projects and guidance services, as well as professionals from the education world and human resources.
This year, the goal was promoting quality employment, and our intervention was focused on talking about professional opportunities, where we presented tools and resources for professionals, and we were able to discuss and reflect on future trends in the labour market.
On June 26, a tribute was paid to Vicenç Oller, former president of the Cercle and the Cercle d’Economia Foundation, who played a pivotal role in the creation of the Education Award, which celebrated its 15th anniversary. The award-winning schools from all those years were invited, and the innovative projects of the educational centers of Catalonia were given visibility.
During these years, the Education Award has been established as one of the most prestigious and recognised awards in the field of education in Catalonia. It has an award category for a Vocational Training Center. The Foundation participates in the jury.
On June 13, in Palau Macaya and within the framework of the Industrial Pact Training Commission, a conference was held to show an X-ray of the current situation of the VET and to analyse the professional profiles and future VET, based on some of the most recent contributions of various experts and the reports of CaixaBank Dualitza.
The role of public-private partnership as a key factor in boosting the local economy and in people’s professional development was discussed. The Foundation participated in the Round Table and was able to discuss the impact of the territory with various agents of the VET ecosystem.
On June 9, at the Caixafòrum, we attended the presentation of the BCN Port Innovation Foundation. This Foundation wants to turn Barcelona into a smart international reference port beyond the sea: a sustainable, multimodal, agile, resilient and transparent port.
Barcelona Port Innovation will actively contribute to the achievement of the strategic objectives of the port, where vocational training also plays an important role in providing part of the necessary professional profiles.
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.
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