- The total investment for all the autonomous communities amounts to 1,307 million euros, distributed in five agreements: educational quality, modernization, qualification, professional training for employment and reinforcement of training centers.
- This new investment will affect one million people through training actions aimed at workers, accreditation of professional skills, reinforcement of bilingual education or digital training, among others.
3 May 2023 - The Government, on the proposal of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, has today approved the distribution of 193,910,684 euros to Catalonia for the implementation of various actions in the field of Vocational Training that consolidate the transformation of the VET model in the region.
The total investment for all the autonomous communities amounts to 1,307 million euros, distributed in five agreements in the field of educational quality, modernization, qualification and requalification (reskilling and upskilling), vocational training for employment and reinforcement of training centers.
Quality and modernization of Vocational Training
In particular, Catalonia will receive a first item of 45.2 million euros, aimed at the development of measures for modernization and growth of the Vocational Training education system, which has a global investment of 299 million.
As part of this first round, the Council of Ministers has approved two agreements. On the one hand, an investment of 273.3 million euros, of which 41.3 million correspond to Catalonia, destined for actions of the Modernization Plan of the FP, such as the accreditation of professional competences of more than 85,800 people, the creation of bilingual groups, the implementation of 70 applied technology classrooms and the creation of new entrepreneurship classrooms up to a total of 151.
On the other hand, a territorial cooperation program for the promotion of quality actions endowed with 25.7 million, of which Catalonia will receive more than 3.8 million euros, which also includes participation in the network of centers of excellence, mobility of teachers and students inside and outside Spain and dissemination actions.
Vocational training for employment, qualification and requalification
The training of workers is another of the fundamental areas of action of these agreements, which allocate a global investment of 867.2 million euros to Vocational Training actions for employment, of which Catalonia will receive more than 128.2 million that will reach more than 32,100 employed and unemployed workers.
In addition, Catalonia will receive another 16.4 million euros to carry out qualification and requalification actions (reskilling and upskilling) that will reach more than 29,800 people. This item has a total investment for all the autonomous communities of 111.5 million, which will benefit more than 203,000 people.
Strengthening the network of digital training centres
Finally, the Council of Ministers has also approved the distribution of more than 4 million euros to Catalonia to guarantee the operation of the 154 existing training centers in the region and promote the creation of new centers.
In total, this investment line is endowed with 29.3 million euros for the maintenance of 1,047 training centers throughout Spain and the creation of 314. These centres provide basic digital training to people who are vulnerable due to age, level of training, place of residence or belonging to groups at risk of exclusion.