The next course will open its doors at IES No. 5 in Sagunt and, with this, the Eduardo Merello and Jorge Juan institutes will be centers exclusively offering Vocational Training. In addition, to these two exclusive vocational training centers will be added the specific training center that has been planned linked to vocational training studies and which will train technical profiles of various kinds linked to the technical personnel needs of the future SEAT-Volkswagen gigafactory, the called Campus Battery.
This expansion of training capacities that extends to the Camp de Morvedre region is key for the automobile industry, but also for other local industries, as explained by the president of the Camp de Morvedre Business Association (ASECAM), Cristina Plumed. The association participated on Wednesday in a conference with representatives of companies from Camp de Morvedre and educational centers both in this region and in Alto Palancia, in which the present and future of Vocational Training as regards these areas were analyzed and debated. of the Valencian Community.
“With the new centers there will be more places and there will be more training cycles, but on the other hand, this situation continues to give us respect because there are profiles that are needed throughout the industry, not just in the gigafactory,” acknowledges Plumed.
To detect the needs of the territory, Cristina Plumed values ??the territorial councils and points out that the companies in the area have a lack of labor both in the metal-mechanical sector and in industrial maintenance or logistics. In the latter, she explains that there is a lot of demand, since “we still have companies in Parc Sagunt I in which there are still investments pending execution,” she explains.
Companies in Camp de Morvedre need more students trained in Vocational Training to arrive because they explain that there are numerous difficulties in covering some profiles that they consider to be poorly regulated. In fact, they ensure that there is an “imperative need” in the short and medium term to fill certain positions, a need that, with the passage of time, will increase.
To deal with it, they propose improving the preparation of cross-curricular subjects, with great emphasis on English, holding meetings between companies, centers and families, that there be a more direct collaboration between all of them, that SMEs that take in FP students be rewarded Dual, that there be a business presence in educational centers or that industries and SMEs define what they need in terms of skills and attitude of students for a future insertion in the world of work.
To make matters worse, ASECAM will commission a study this year from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) to carry out an analysis of the future needs of the industry in the innovation sector because there are profiles that they consider may be “very necessary” and not they want to let them escape. Let us remember that the UPV, and its pool of engineers, was decisive in the choice of Sagunt as the headquarters of the PowerCo gigafactory.
The presence of the UPV is not the only one in the territory, as the University of Valencia will soon have its own headquarters in Sagunt with research and innovation, and also with training in culture and heritage.
On the other hand, until the PowerCO Battery Campus becomes a reality, its classes will be provisionally given at the Cheste Educational Complex, until the integrated training building next to the factory is up and running. Education confirms that throughout the next academic year 2023-2024, the training of the teachers of the future CIPFP of the gigafactory will be carried out, with the objective that the students can start classes in the following academic year, 2024-2025, in the Educational Complex of Cheste.
In the future, the center attached to the battery plant will have the capacity to train 400 students in a curricular design that will be adapted to PowerCo’s needs and will occupy a plot of almost 16,000 square meters in the Parc Sagunt industrial park. But for that, there is still.
