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‘MelillaSkills’ makes the CIFP Reina Victoria Eugenia the epicentre of Vocational Training talent

05/11/2025
  • Fernández Treviño: “These competitions value the effort, enthusiasm and training of VET students”
  • During two days, students from 13 professional families test their knowledge and technical skills.
  • The winners will represent Melilla in the national championship ‘SpainSkills’, which will be held in Madrid next February

The Provincial Director of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD), Elena Fernández Treviño, opened this morning the local phase of the competition ‘MelillaSkills 2025’, which is held today and tomorrow at the Queen Victoria Eugenia Integrated Vocational Training Centre (CIFP).

During the opening, Fernández Treviño highlighted that these days “value the skills, training and effort of VET students, fruit of the work they do together with their teachers”. The Provincial Director thanked “the whole organization, the teachers and the tutors skills for their dedication, the participating students and the host center, which is also in works, which has been an even greater effort than in other editions”.

This edition has the participation of students from four educational centers: CIFP Reina Victoria Eugenia, IES Juan Antonio Fernández, IES Leopoldo Queipo and IES Rusadir; and a total of 13 professional profiles belonging to different Families of Vocational Training.

The students face tests in specialties such as Electrical Installations, Floristry, Aesthetics, Automotive Technology, Kitchen, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Plumbing and Heating, ICT Network Systems Administration, Cloud Computing, Web Development, Social Health Care, Window Dressing and Bakery, as well as Pharmacy and Parapharmacy, which participates in exhibition mode.

“Melilla has been participating in these competitions for many years, being in a very good position, with gold, silver and bronze medals”, said Fernández Treviño, who also encouraged the students “to compete with enthusiasm and concentration in demanding tests and against time, which simulate real work spaces and reflect the job insertion that FP pursues”.

The Provincial Director stressed that this year the student Ali Bouchich has been appointed champion of the ‘Skills’ for his career and example of improvement. “He studied the Basic Degree in Cooking, studied the Middle Degree in Floristry, made compatible work and studies, and took the name of Melilla very far in previous editions”, he detailed.

Programming ‘MelillaSkills 2025’

The tests take place on Wednesday and Thursday, from 9:30 to 13:30 and from 16:30 to 19:30, and the winners will represent the city in the national phase of ‘SpainSkills’, which will be held from 24 to 28 February 2026 in Madrid.

Tomorrow Thursday, at 10:00 a.m., César García Cortés, from the Bertelsmann Foundation and CaixaBank Dualiza, will give in the morning the workshop “Orientation strategies towards the new Dual VET”, aimed at counselors and counselors from all educational centers, as well as teachers and interested students.

In addition, the General Secretary of Professional Training, Esther Monterrubio, will travel to Melilla to visit the different spaces of the competition and preside over the closing ceremony, scheduled at 8:00 p.m. at the Melilla Puerto Hotel, together with the Government Delegate, Sabrina Moh, and the other collaborating institutions.

Fernández Treviño concluded by congratulating “the Professional Training team for the enormous organizational effort, the School of Art for the signage and the students of Image and Sound, which covers the event during the two days”. “These competitions reflect what VET represents: enthusiasm, effort, work and future for the youth of Melilla”, he stressed.