Last Tuesday, day 2, we started our new project: EU Water Challenge VET Labs. In addition, we also enjoyed the meeting with our EU partners of this new project. It will be a MetrópolisFPLab scaled up internationally with innovative pedagogy, ecological theme and VET at the center of everything. Thank you very much to our partners, let us do it!
On Friday, March 3, 2023, we resumed the activity of the Industrial VET and Construction 4.0 sector tables in an industrial environment such as the Stage2 headquarters at the TMDC.
25 people from industrial VET centers, economic, social and VET ecosystem agents participated, with the aim of generating synergies between centers and industrial fabric, startups, in a space of co-creation, entrepreneurship and training for students and teachers.
We met Stage 2, the first industrial startup accelerator in the country, created in 2022 by Oriol Pascual and a group of 10 entrepreneurs, with an investment fund of 15M€ and the challenge of accelerating 150 industrial projects until 2030.
Likewise, we invited the Industrialized Construction Cluster of Catalunya, a new and benchmark platform for the development of Construction 4.0 in Catalonia, which will work around four axes: Industrialization, Digitalization, Sustainability and Training.
And we closed the session visiting TMDC the first coworking for manufacturing artisans located in Poblenou, Barcelona. It is an industrial workshop of more than 2000m2 equipped with portable machinery, industrial machinery and CNC machinery to work on wood, iron and plastic, with very interesting projects.
As a result of this day we will launch actions to respond to two challenges:
To attract young people, and especially girls, to STEAM cycles
To strengthen the relationship between companies and centres to train the talent that companies need.
In recent weeks, several creativity workshops have been carried out, where more than 800 students participating in the MetropolisFPLab have passed! We have given work dynamics to be able to propose complete ideas that solve the challenges posed.
At the same time, we have continued to visit the participating entities to know how they operate and that the teams can make proposals that fit these companies 100%.
On February 2 we visited Campus 42 Barcelona located in the Parc Tecnologic of Barcelona Activa in the Nou Barris district. It is a non-profit programming school that was born in Paris in 2013. It has landed in Barcelona thanks to the promotion of Fundación Telefónica, and the collaboration of the Barcelona City Council and the Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Campus 42 Barcelona is an innovative and free programming campus, with a revolutionary, gamified methodology, of an average duration of three years, is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so that students can learn at their own pace.
It has a network of 47 campuses spread over the 5 continents. On campus they learn programming, cybersecurity, design, blockchain, etc., as well as communication, leadership, tolerance to frustration, teamwork…
Campus 42 Barcelona is open to all VET centers, organize scheduled visits, programming workshops for non-programmers, Artificial Intelligence immersion workshop, etc.
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.
You can confirm attendance through this form.
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.
NEW SUPPORT ANNOUNCEMENT
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.
PARTICIPATION CALENDER:
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:
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.
