\ The aim is to reach 15 applied technology classrooms in vocational training centres in the Balearic Islands.
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\ Throughout the day, experiences and good practices are shared, while at the same time encouraging schools to create their ATECA classroom
The Director General of Vocational Training and Higher Artistic Education, Antoni Baos, today inaugurated the 1st ATECA Conference aimed at educational centres in the Balearic Islands. Organised by the Planning and Participation Service through the Centre for Training, Innovation and Development of Vocational Training of the Balearic Islands (CFINFP), this conference aims to initiate the path of an active and participatory working community around these classrooms, as well as to share experiences, doubts and challenges.
Around sixty teachers from integrated vocational training centres (CIFP) and centres from all the islands that offer vocational training will meet today at the Parc Bit in Palma to explore the functions and advantages of these applied technology classrooms in greater depth. Centres with ATECA classrooms and centres that are considering implementing them in their centres will be taking part.
The Director General of Vocational Training and Higher Artistic Education, Antoni Baos, stressed “the importance of these first days of coordination and collaboration between centres that have applied technology classrooms (ATECA classroom), as they give quality to the vocational training studies that are taught in these centres and, above all, create synergies with the productive sectors that are now very important for the diversification of the productive fabric of the Balearic Islands”.
The experience of the Simulation Centre and 3D Unit (SIMSE) of the Son Espases University Hospital, by the centre’s coordinator, Leandro Brogi,
opened the presentations at the 1st ATECA Conference. This was followed by the ATECA classroom experiences of IES Pasqual Calbó i Caldés (Maó), *CIFP Pau Casesnoves (Inca) and CIFP Nauticopesquera (Palma).
During the second part of the conference, Biel Burguera, an expert in 3D printing, will give a talk on “Technology classrooms applied to the productive sectors of vocational training”. Finally, a coffee-chat with round tables will close this ATECA Day.
Innovative classrooms
The ATECA classrooms are part of the 1st Strategic Plan for vocational training in the education system 2019-2022 of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, which provides for the incorporation of digitisation, innovation and entrepreneurship in the vocational training system. In the Balearic Islands, 915,000 euros have already been invested in this area.
In the 2022-2023 academic year there will be a total of 15 applied technology classrooms in the productive sector (ATECA), as 6 new ones will be incorporated, in addition to the 9 created between the last academic year and the previous one. These spaces imitate work environments, incorporating resources specific to each productive sector by means of simulators and other technological elements. In these classrooms, students from different professional families can carry out tasks that bring them closer to the workplace environment and practice the use of innovative technologies, such as virtual reality, health simulators or 3D printing and scanning. The centres that already have these classrooms are CIFP Francesc de Borja Moll (Palma), CIFP Pau Casesnoves (Inca), CIFP Joan Taix (Sa Pobla), CIFP Juníper Serra (Palma), CIFP Nauticopesquera (Palma), IES Calvià, IES Manacor, IES Algarb (Sant Jordi de Ses Salines) and IES Pasqual Calbó i Caldés (Maó).
This initiative is part of the Government’s strategic lines for changing the production model of the Balearic Islands and is financed by the Next Generation funds.