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El IMH de Elgoibar, sede del proyecto de formación profesional ‘The Gap’The IMH of Elgoibar, headquarters of the project of professional learning ‘The Gap'
9 February 2012
The project Leonardo da Vinci of professional learning that carries by name ‘The Gap between Factory Skills and School Skills' realise his fourth meeting in Elgoibar between the 6 and on 10 February. The previous meetings have taken place in Denmark, Norway, Northern Ireland and Finland and in each one of them have partipado, by formative centre, four students and two professors of Laksevag Videregaende Skole, SDE College, Northern Regional College, Jyväskylä Educational Consortium JAO and IMH.
By means of the project ‘The Gap' the participants have the possibility to know the industry and the formative system of professional learning of the surroundings of each partner participant. The 30 participants of the project that will gather in Elgoibar will visit the companies Soraluce, Launik, Bost, Mondragon Assembly and Lathes Guruzpe, and in each one will analyse a subject or process. To help them in this task, students of the School of Engineering IMH in Alternation that work in these companies will be his guides during the visits.
In this phase, the alumnado participant of the IMH will be of the first year of formative cycles of upper degree: Alberto Martinez and Aitor Izagirre of Design of Mechanical Manufacture, Asier Crag and Alain Murillo of Maintenance of Industrial Team, and Beñat Sierra of the cycle Programming of the Production of Mechanical Manufacture. The professors of the IMH will be Mariaje Ayestaran Eneko Ansotegi, Jon Egaña, Asier Garcia and Mikel Arregi.
The last meeting will realise in April in Finland and later the IMH, like coordinator of the project, will present the final memory, with the contributions of all the partners.
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