Salesian center is first vocational training center in Spain to launch TechPro2

 

(MissionNewswire) Salesians with the Padre Aramburu Center have signed an agreement with CNH New Holland Group to join the TechPro2 program, which has trained more than 13,000 professionals since 2008, and is taught in 58 schools around the world. It is a step forward in training professionals specialized in agricultural machinery. The Salesian center is the first vocational training center in Spain to launch TechPro2 project with the agricultural machinery group CNH New Holland.

CNH New Holland has initially provided a tractor for the students. The goal is that various agricultural machinery will rotate through the Padre Aramburu Center workshops.

A Salesian explained, “This is an exciting first step to have a vocational training center in Spain with this project, providing students with the necessary skills in agricultural machinery. We are then able to cultivate a specialized workforce.”

Daniela Ropolo, head of development of CNH’s sustainability initiatives, added, “The main objective is to train young people by offering them the technical skills they need to build a professional future and at the same time enable the CNH Group to have professionals trained in their agricultural machinery specialty.”

Teachers have already been trained at the CNH’s facilities in Madrid so that they can integrate a part of the agricultural machinery into the center’s automotive program. After learning in the classroom, students are immediately able to start assembling and disassembling the machinery learning the hands-on skills for employment.

Javier Marina, general director of Padre Aramburu Center, said, “The collaboration between the center and the company is vital. It is a great opportunity for students to leave the school well trained to enter the agricultural machinery sector. One of the things that the industrial sector and the agricultural sector need is technical personnel.”

Salesian missionaries in Spain provide primary and secondary educational as well as vocational and technical school to ensure youth acquire employment skills for the futures. Salesians also work to meet the basic needs of those in poverty and offer workforce development opportunities to ensure an easier school to work transition.

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Sources:

ANS – Spain – Salesianos Padre Aramburu, pioneers in agricultural mechanics training

Salesian Missions – Spain

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