The cross-border dual vocational training project and homologation of titles, of the Galicia and North Portugal European Group, was selected by the “B-Solutions” program, followed by the assessment by a jurist appointed by Brussels, was revealed this Monday.
A source from the Galicia and North Portugal European Group (GNP-EGTC) told the Portuguese agency that the expert’s report will be completed within three months, indicating the next stages of the project.
In a statement sent to the newsrooms, the Galicia – North Portugal EGTC pointed out that the project to implement cross-border dual vocational training and homologate titles in the two countries was one of those selected by the European Commission, through the Association of European Borders Regions (AEBR), in the area of employment and training, in the current call of the “B-Solutions” program.
The 2022 “B-Solutions” program aims to provide specialized legal support in the areas of institutional cooperation, employment and trainingcross-border public services and the environment along the internal borders of the European Union.
The project now selected “focuses on finding ways to remove obstacles or simplify the implementation of dual cross-border vocational training”.
This “dual training aims at the professional qualification of people in a system of alternating professional activity in a company with training activity in an educational center”.
“Students combine their studies with work in a company. In this case, the studies are carried out in one place and the work must be carried out in a company on the other side of the border. The objective of the project is to formalize the qualification of VT in both countries as much as possible”, specifies the EGTC.
The European group highlights that “the border between Galicia and the North of Portugal is the most populated, concentrating more than half of the mobility of cross-border flows of people and vehicles”.
Being the most dynamic area in economic, social and cultural terms on the entire Iberian border, it is also the most economically active and has the largest number of cross-border workers. Many similar jobs and training traumas constitute a big bureaucratic problem when crossing the border”, he adds.
The project presented by the EGTC Galicia – North of Portugal “aims to eliminate obstacles or simplify problematic procedures for students and workers and for the business sector”.
The EGTC of the Galicia — North Portugal Euroregion is made up of the Galician Regional Government and the North Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR-N).
Source: Observadora
