Welcome
CIFP.SOMESO is a technical high school (Vocational School) in the north-west of Spain (Galicia- La Coruña). It has different (IVT cycles) professional families: Lower-Level of Initial Vocational Training (16-19 years old) and Higher-Level Vocational Training (18-21 years old).
We have a special programme for students with learning disabilities or social integration problems. This programme is called PCPI - Initial Professional Qualification Programme-, and we also have a special programme for adults.
Our specialities are:
Mechanical Manufacture, Wood and Furniture, Maintenance of Vehicles, Personal Image and Building and Civil Works.
We have different Departments: - Mechanical Manufacture Department - Wood and Furniture Department - Maintenance of Vehicles Department - Personal Image Department - Building and Civil Works Department - (FOL) Working orientation and Training Department - Vocational Guidance Department
We have an staff of 92 teachers, 3 administratives and 1 secretary, 1 headmaster, 1 study director 1 second headmaster. There are about 900 students.
We are interested in working with other foreign countries in two European Programmes:
Leonardo da Vinci Programme and Grudving Programme
THIS YEAR 2010 WE ARE WORKING IN TWO EUROPEAN PROGRAMMES:
LEONARDO DA VINCI- MOVILITY (VETPRO) FOR TEACHERS and
LEONARDO DA VINCI-PARTNERSHIPS-
LEONARDO DA VINCI- PARTNERSHIPS- (2010-2012)
Title: FOR TOMORROW
Partners:
1-LENO CONSULTING (France) “Coordinator”
2-Ibis acam Bildungs GmbH (Austria)
3-VHS-Bildungswerk für Brandenburg und Berlin GmbH, Weiterbildungszentrum Eberswalde(Germany)
4-CIFP SOMESO (Spain)
SUMMARY:
The Construction field is the most important industrial employer in Europe (7,6% of the jobs, 10,4% of the GDP, about 49M workers in the EU depend, directly or indirectly, on the construction sector). But the construction field is also responsible for 40% of the energy consumption and 21% of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions in EU.
Amongst the solutions recommended to reduce those effects, both educational and vocational training, will play a major role. It turns out to be urgent to train students, employees, teachers and trainers working in the construction field to ecological construction. In France, the report from the construction field comity (Plan Bâtiment Grenelle-12/2009), insist on this point:"The place of training is considered very important by the professionals of the sector to accompany them in the evolution of their job".
Our consortium regroup 4 training organisations working with students, jobseekers and employees. The main objectives are to organise exchanges with experts from every participating country to analyse:
1/ The regulations in each country regarding eco-construction. For example, it is possible to obtain insurances and guarantees when building a straw house in Germany or Austria but not in France.
2/ How is eco-construction integrated within the educational and training system in each partner country.
We will reach the objectives by implementing several international meetings,dissemination activities and expert exchanges.
The main results of the project are a report on the regulations in the field of eco construction in every partner country,a report on how eco-construction is integrated in each national educational and training system. Furthermore we will have a website with the gained information on it plus contacts of the network partners.
MOTIVATION:
FOR TOMORROW: IMPROVING THE ECOLOGICAL TRAINING IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR
Global warming is nowadays a truth and a fact. It is also well proved that the construction industry plays a major role in those events. Despite those facts, in most of EU countries ecological construction is still marginal and not completely or not at all included in training programs.
It becomes urgent to act and to implement eco-construction products and technics in training programs at all level:
- Schools; - Universities; - Training centres; - Enterprises.
Such an implementation could change the habits of the construction sector and help the professionnals to reach their objectives to reduce their energy consumption and their Greenhouse Gas emissions. This could also have effects on the legal frame in EU countries and help to obtain similar regulations regarding natural products used for construction. There is a big chance that the prices of safe and natural construction products could raise down if there were commonly used. The price of an ecological construction solution is still an important barrier to its development. In most of the countries, it would cost between 20 and 30% more to choose eco-construction rather than traditional construction. In Germany, for instance, it is possible to build a low energy consumption house for the same price as a traditional house, that is the kind of objectives most of the EU countries should try to achieve.
Finally, the development of eco-construction would help on 2 more levels:
1 - Employment: The potential number of houses and buildings to restore to fit with new energy regulations is dramatically important. Such a work would create a lot of employment. Then if ecological construction is taught with respect to all the sustainable development principles, it would help to consider access to recruitment for women that are more and more attracted by the construction sector but it is still difficult for them to find a job as a builder.
Finally, the construction sector is planning that numbers of its employees are going to retire soon and it is still difficult to recruit young person. An ecological orientated development would ensure more attractiveness for young student or unemployed person. This branch is a chance and a new vocational field at the labour market.
2 - Health: It is a well known fact nowadays that construction materials are for most of them made with hazardous products. Their side effects are harmful for workers but also for the people living in the house. Ecological construction would increase the use of safe and natural products and would generate less diseases linked to hazardous substances contained in construction products.
OBJECTIVES:
The central aim of this Learning Partnership is the transnational exchange of experiences and good practices about ecological construction training.
The specific objectives of the partnerships are:
- to understand the regulations in every partner country concerning ecological construction,
- to understand how is eco-construction integrated into the educational and training system in each partner country,
- to meet the changing requirements of the labour market for Training centers.
This can be achieved with the following steps:
(1) Analysis (exchange of experience on national and international level),
(2) Transnational expert meetings,
(3) National reports on regulations and integration of eco-construction into educational and training systems,
(4) Project Website,
(5) Guide of best practices examples.
All the project work will be used to provide a strong basis to the implementation of a further project with an enlarge partnership.
LEONARDO DA VINCI MOVILITY PROYECT (For Teachers during the years 2010-2011)
Title: Spanish Teachers of Building Sector Experience Sustainable Construction in Europe
SUMMARY:
The project involved 5 teachers in building and civil works, a teacher of the management team and the coordinators of European projects of the center.It is aimed at establishing contact with a vocational training center in Berlin with bio-building practical experience as well as with business and companies, to establish future partnerships.At first we hope to expand the knowledge of teachers with regard to experiences in bio-building and otherwise establish a project guide for future collaborations and student exchanges to make the training students in this sector in Berlin.Mobilities will be held in two turns of four teachers at every turn: September-October 2010 and April-May 2011.
NOVA WEB DO CIFP SOMESO EN . http://www.cifpsomeso.edu.es
