The Alicante Chamber of Commerce and the CEU Cardenal Herrera University yesterday presented the CEU Chamber Campus to more than 300 people, a training project that was born, in the words of the president of the Chamber, Carlos Baño, "with the objective of leading business training and employability in the province of Alicante".
The presentation took place in the Panoramis business center, in whose old cinemas this project will be located, the construction of which has a budget of more than 3 million euros, of which 1.5 will be provided by the Generalitat Valenciana.
Baño assures that there are already more than 60 companies that have joined the project. “It was born to meet a need of our entrepreneurs, the demand for qualified workers in all sectors, both traditional and emerging. “We are committed to providing a solution to the gap between the needs of the labor market and academic training,” he declared during an event closed by the Minister of Education, José Antonio Rovira.
According to the information provided by its promoters, the CEU Chamber Campus will offer from Focus programs of 20 hours, to Masters of 600 hours, through Specialization Diplomas, which will be between 200 and 400 hours.
The profile of the students is differentiated into two levels: one in which only people with no experience or whose professional career does not exceed two years can enroll and "advance" level programs, which will only admit people with more than five years of experience. professional experience.
The rector of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University, Higinio Marín, highlights that the Chamber and the CEU share “a social sense in everything we do, a social sense of business activity that is reflected in the training offers of this Business School. By the way, with facilities that no Business School in Spain has.”
For his part, Minister Rovira stated that “the CEU Chamber Campus is a strategic alliance between education and the business sector aimed at achieving maximum employability. Training, ambition, supply, qualification and employment form a coalition that we must make the most of”
Baño highlighted that the center will have an ambitious scholarship program "so that no one is left behind, this is going to be the school that rewards effort, the culture of effort above economic possibilities."
José Amiguet, director of Institutional Development at the CEU UCH University, explained that "it is not about training managers for large multinationals", but rather the aim is to "adjust the training offer to the reality of the environment and thus improve the capacity of the professionals of the Alicante companies to provide added value". For this reason, some of the first sectoral programs will specialize in the food, tourism, decoration, fashion and footwear sectors.
Elaborating on this idea, Baño assures that “the Chamber anticipates, detects and contributes to the campus the needs of the productive sectors given its daily contact with the business reality of the province and the CEU, a leader in quality training at all levels, develops all this offer.”
The president of the Chamber also explained that the center will also offer Vocational Training programs, will have a school of haute cuisine and a business accelerator.
