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• Both parties will jointly collaborate on modernizing the subject matter of the
car industry trades
• Company employees’ work experience and non-regulated training will be recognised
as part of the Vocational Training programme
The Department of Education of the Catalan Government and SEAT have signed a four-year extension to their agreement to undertake to enhance professional training in Catalonia by modernising and adapting it to the new challenges of the labour market, with a focus on the needs of the automotive sector. The collaboration has been signed at the company’s headquarters by SEAT Vice-president for Human Resources Xavier Ros and the general director of Initial Vocational Training and Special Education Systems Melcior Arcarons.
This new agreement will also enable SEAT employees’ work experience, non-regulated training and in-company continuous training to be recognised as educational units of initial vocational training. In addition, both parties will contribute to the elaboration and organisation of training curricula of the car sector trades, and at the same time SEAT will collaborate in training the teaching staff of the Generalitat.
Melcior Arcarons underscored the main aspects of this agreement in favour of the quality and value of professional training: “The planned measures contribute to deploying the three strategic lines of action to improve vocational training in Catalonia: update the curricular content of qualifications, enhance flexibility and accessibility to training programmes and extend dual vocational training”, explained Arcarons. “This four year renewal to the collaboration agreement with SEAT, the largest industrial company in Catalonia, with a comprehensive, sustained, serious commitment to professional training, is confirmation of this strategy”, he added.
Furthermore, SEAT Vice-president for Human Resources Xavier Ros stressed “SEAT’s commitment to training activities that enhance the skills and redeployment of the professionals in the sector and of the young people who seek to specialise in this professional sector. The car industry is undergoing changes that will completely transform its activity; therefore it is essential that workers are prepared to respond to these challenges and the new demands of industry 4.0”.
The SEAT Apprentice School, a long-term commitment
SEAT’s Apprentice School is a training benchmark in Spain, and more than 2,600 students have passed through its doors in its nearly 60 years of existence. Since 2012 the school has been implementing the country’s pioneering Dual Vocational Training system, which is inspired by the German model. SEAT’s educational system features more than twice as many hours of practical work, theory and continuing education than other similar initiatives, and the large volume of applications the school receives every year attests to it success.