Galicia/North Portugal start process for professional training – Observer
The duo cross-border vocational training and cross-border project project approval, for the selected Welsh European Group and for the “B-Solutions” programme, following the assessment by a legal expert appointed by Brussels, was released this Monday.
A source from the European Grouping Galicia and Northern Portugal (GNP-EGTC) told the Lusa agency that the expert’s report will be completed within three months, indicating the project’s next steps.
In a statement sent to the newsrooms, the EGTC of Portugal said that the project to implement cross-border professional training and homologate it in the two countries was one of those selected by the European Commission, through the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR), in the area of employment and training, in the current call for 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 selected project “Selected center on finding ways to remove double obstacles or simplify the implementation of cross-border vocational training”.
This “double training aims at the professional qualification of people in a company with training activity in an educational centre”.
“Students combine their studies with working in a company. In this case, the studies take place in one place and the work must be done in a company across the border. The aim of the project is to make VT qualification as official as possible in both countries”, 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 people and vehicles”.
Being the largest space in economic, social and cultural terms of the entire Iberian border, it is also the most economically efficient and has the number of cross-border workers. Many jobs and training traumas constitute a major bureaucratic problem when crossing the border”, he adds.
The project presented by the EGTC Galicia Norte de Portugal “aims at removing obstacles or simplifying problematic procedures for students and employees and for the business sector”.
The EGTC of the Euroregion Galicia — Northern Portugal is made up of the Junta de Galicia and the Commission for Coordination and Regional Development of the North (CCDR-N).