The project was launched in 2012 as a pilot initiative promoted by the Barcelona City Council through the Municipal Institute of Education (IMEB) and the Barcelona Education Consortium (CEB).
During the 2012–2013 academic year, the first framework collaboration agreement was signed, allowing 60 Higher-Level VET students in Early Childhood Education to join 30 municipal nursery schools through the dual VET scholarship programme. The experience proved so successful that it was gradually expanded to other municipal departments and facilities.
Today, the Barcelona City Council welcomes around 300 VET students each year across its different municipal departments and facilities: 10 districts, 7 Area Directorates (Economy, Resources, Culture, Social Rights, Security, Urban Planning and General Services) and 10 municipal institutes (Markets, Culture, Social Services, Education, Housing, Sports, Innovation, Parks and Gardens, etc.), as well as public companies such as Barcelona Activa and foundations supported by the City Council.
During the 2026–2027 academic year, the Barcelona City Council will host 303 VET students through intensive dual VET programmes supported by training scholarships. They come from 23 public and publicly funded VET centres in Barcelona and represent 23 different professional profiles. If we also include the students hosted by BTV and ASPB, public entities owned by Barcelona City Council, the total will reach 327 dual VET scholarship students.
This project is the result of a successful collaboration between the Barcelona City Council, the Barcelona Education Consortium, the Department of Education and Vocational Training of the Government of Catalonia, and the BCN Vocational Education and Training Foundation, which coordinates the project.
The project has become a benchmark for other local authorities and has received several awards:
- 2024 – VIII Alianza para la FP Dual Award
- 2025 – Catalonia FP Biz Day Awards (Barcelona City Council and BCN VET Foundation)
For further information, please contact cdaude@fundaciobcnfp.cat.
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Experiences
Noèlia Serrano studied Audiovisual and Live Entertainment Production at EMAV School, and completed her Dual VET at the Barcelona Film Commission, part of Barcelona City Council.
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Paula Jesus studied the Advanced VET in Design and Editing of Printed and Multimedia Publications at Escola del Treball in Barcelona, and completed her Dual VET at the BCN VET Foundation in the 2023/24 academic year.
Sergi Bagur studied the Advanced VET in Marketing and Advertising at Institut Lluïsa Cura, and completed his Dual VET at the BCN VET Foundation in the 2024/25 academic year.ㅤㅤ
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Experiences of students who studied or are currently studying the Advanced VET in Early Childhood Education at Institut Miquel Tarradell, carrying out their Dual Vocational Training in various municipal nursery schools.
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Quality Excellence Distinction
at the Catalonia FP Biz Day 2025 Awards
On November 13, the award ceremony for the second edition of the Catalonia FP BIZ DAY Awards, promoted by the Department of Education and Professional Training in collaboration with Caixabank Dualiza, was held at the Citilab in Cornellà del Llobregat.
The BCN VET Foundation has been distinguished with the Quality Excellence Certification in the dual vocational training reception process with the support of the Lluïsa Cura Institute.
These awards are recognition of the efforts of the organizations to promote the development of dual vocational training (in an intensive regime), the quality of the service provided and the collaboration between companies and educational centers. The Foundation, together with the Management of Mobility, Infrastructure and Urban Services and the Municipal Institute of Finance, are the three units of the Barcelona City Council certified within the framework of the Dual VET project in the Barcelona City Council, which each year has nearly 300 dual VET grantees. The next step is to add municipal departments with the seal of quality excellence.
This 2025-2026 academic year, the Barcelona City Council has 298 VET grantees, from 19 professional profiles and 23 VET centres in Barcelona city.
Barcelona City Council’s commitment is to intensive Dual VET, in the grant modality, training 2,870 VET grantees with a total investment of €9.8M (2013-2026).
Thanks to everyone involved!
We have won the #PremioAlianza for the #FPDUAL of the Bertelsmann Foundation and the CEOE Foundation
For this project in the “Organization” category. A commitment of the public sector as a generator of knowledge and talent.
Governance bodies
- Follow-up Subcommittee: Formed by representatives of the Barcelona Education Consortium (a public body co-managed by the Generalitat de Catalunya with competence in planning the public training offer in the city), the Department of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Management of People, Organization and Electronic Administration of the Barcelona City Council and the BCN Vocational Training Foundation (mostly co-participated by the Barcelona City Council and the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona).
This is the space for proposal, evaluation and incorporation of elements to improve the project. It meets periodically every two/three months.
- Follow-up Committee: It is formed by the members of the subcommittee + representatives of centers (dual VET coordinators) and referents of the municipal dependencies.
It is convened once a year to take stock, evaluate and plan the project.
The BCN Vocational Training Foundation works as a Dual Accelerator Unit and coordinates the request for places from the City Council, through an application form (which incorporates links to the activity plans of the most demanded cycles) with the aim of fitting the tasks with the most appropriate cycle. It also offers a service of advice, management and dissemination of the project for the entire municipal structure. The allocation of places to the centers is carried out from the Consorci d’Educació de Barcelona.
