This Wednesday, July 27, at the headquarters of Fundación Esplai in El Prat de Llobregat, 26 young people who have just finished their training process within the framework of the youth guarantee programEnfoca’t.
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This Wednesday, July 27, at the headquarters of Fundación Esplai in El Prat de Llobregat, 26 young people who have just finished their training process within the framework of the youth guarantee program Focus -a youth employability project in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector – have received their certification and have presented their projects to a group of companies in which they will start a selection process to start working.
Centre Esplai has hosted the closing ceremony and the presentation of projects of the youth guarantee courses of the Enfoca’t program, which have been training during the past months in Barcelona and Vic.
The event was attended by Ricard Faura, head of the Digital Inclusion and Training Service of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Jordi Marin, General Director of Catalonia of Microsoft, Laura Lopresti and Ricard Leal, of Altran Barcelona, Albert Baucells, of Itteria, companies that are collaborating in the project that have the need to hire people with the professional profile that these young people have been acquiring thanks to their training in Enfoca’t, and representatives of Fundación Esplai.
The young people presented, in six groups, the technological projects they have developed during their training period.
Closing ceremony of the courses in Reus and Tarragona
On July 11, at the Redessa business incubator in Reus, the presentation of the final projects of the training group of the Enfoca’t program in Reus and another group of young people who are receiving this type of training within the framework of the courses of the Servei d’Ocupació de Catalunya (SOC) was held.
In front of an audience formed by representatives of the companies Viewnext and T-Systems, members of the SOS, members of the General Directorate of Telecommunications and the Knowledge Society, the Fundació Esplai team and also the rest of the students, students and companions who attended the event.
Throughout the morning, 24 young people grouped in work teams were presenting the cross-platform applications they had developed during the last month of the training, and showed their functionalities live. It was not only a closing ceremony of the program but an opportunity to show, in front of companies interested in hiring, what they learned during these 8 weeks of training, both in more technical aspects and in the field of their competences. At the end of the event, the course certificates were given and everyone was able to speak in a more relaxed way at the snack organized for the occasion.
More training in September
For those young people who still want to participate in the program, the second phase of the project is planned, which includes two more training groups in Barcelona that will begin in the second half of September. For this phase we have the collaboration of more companies in the sector and we will carry out a training oriented to programming for Microsoft environments (.NET and NAV).
What is Focus?
Fundació Esplai and the Generalitat de Catalunya, within the framework of youth employment programs financed by the European Social Fund (Youth Guarantee Programs) launched at the beginning of this year 2016, a plan aimed at the employability of young people in the technology business sector. The main objective of which is to promote the meeting between technology companies and young people looking for work in the field of programming. To do this, they are trained in different programming languages, database management and software design in corporate environments; In addition to accompanying them in the acquisition of the social skills necessary to join a changing work environment.