MetròpolisFPLab is an innovation project promoted by the Metropolitan Agency for Economic Development of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, Barcelona City Council, Barcelona Provincial Council, and the BCN Vocational Training Foundation with the aim of evaluating the talent of vocational training students, bringing them closer to the labour market, promoting the acquisition of key skills and their job placement.
It is an open innovation project, challenge-based learning where participating companies and institutions formulate real challenges to those who respond, in a fully accompanied way, to vocational training students. The winning team has a grant to start developing its project within the corresponding organization. The objectives of this project are:
Meeting point between companies and VET educational centers.
Enhance students, improving their employability and skills.
Innovative projects resulting from demands between the world of business and territory.
The open innovation methodology allows to promote entrepreneurship, teamwork, the promotion of cross-cutting skills; factors that will be key both for job placement and for employability throughout life. And it is a meeting point between VET centers and the business fabric, in order to generate economic, social and cultural value in the territory. Students will have to generate innovative projects through their ideas, bringing the demands of the business world and the territory itself closer to the proposed capacities for improvement. All this will allow the potential of the students to emerge contributing to the improvement of their labor insertion and employability.
9th edition of the MetròpolisFPLab 2026 – 2027
The guidelines for the new call for the 2026/2027 academic year are now available.
Discover the new innovation challenges and all the details below:
The presentation session for the 9th edition of MetropolisFPLab took place on Tuesday, October 6 at
10:00 a.m., where all the details of the new call and the innovation process were presented, and
participants learned about the challenges directly from the participating companies and institutions.
You can review the recording of the session below:
And find here the presentation projected during the virtual session
For any questions, please contact Júlia Zivic at jzivic@fundaciobcnfp.cat or Gemma Sepúlveda at gsepulveda@fundaciobcnfp.cat.
Below, find all the information regarding the previous edition:
- MetròpolisFPLab8 Call Rules (catalan)
- Presentation of the virtual session of the 8th edition – 1/10/2025
- Video of the virtual session of Presentation of the 8th edition – 1/10/2025
Learn about the challenges of the 8th edition below.
Collection of challenges from all editions
Organizers:
With the support of:
Collaboration of:
For more information about the project, please contact gsepulveda@fundaciobcnfp.cat or jzivic@fundaciobcnfp.cat.
