Tarragona, Spain tries out speed dating between companies and training centers

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

Fundación ATRESMEDIA and Fundación MAPFRE, under the Discover the FP project, and the Tarragona Chamber, have celebrated the “Come to the FP” conference, with the aim of facilitating contact between companies and training centers to learn about the advantages of Vocational Training.

The project applies speed dating techniques to multiply contacts between company representatives and managers of training centers in a short space of time.

The Official Chamber of Commerce of Tarragona has hosted this meeting between companies and centers, in which different heads of Repsol Petroleum, Leroy Merlin, Xarxa Santa Tecla, Grup Bou, Minimum and Tarraco Center, and the local educational centers Institute have gathered Pere Martell, Comte de Rius Institute, Callípolis Institute, Andreu Nin Institute, Escola Hotelería y Turisme de Cambrils and Vidal i Barraquer Institute.

The representatives of the companies that have participated in this fourth speed dating have had about ten minutes to exchange opinions and experiences with those responsible for the training centers. Both parties have exposed their needs and subsequently deepened with the most related entities.

For the President of the Chamber of Tarragona, this initiative allows "to create links between companies and training centers to break the disinformation that often accompanies the FP, as well as to boost the employability of our young people and the improvement of business competitiveness."

Lary León, Manager of the ATRESMEDIA Foundation, said that "these meetings allow a relaxed, sincere and agile approach between two of the most important agents in strengthening Vocational Training, allowing for lasting relationships between them."

For his part, Antonio Lorenzana, representative of the MAFPRE Foundation in Tarragona, has indicated that “it is important for the economy and employability to build bridges between the training centers of our youth and the business world to facilitate not only youth employment, but also to adapt educational itineraries to the real needs of the market.”

In the coming weeks these sessions will be held in Oviedo and Linares, having visited different Chambers of Commerce of Spain in Valladolid, Granada and A Coruña.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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