The Ministry of Employment, Universities and Enterprise, through the Regional Employment Service (SEF), today signed an agreement with the Traza Group that will allow students of the National Reference Center of Cartagena to carry out practices in the laboratories of this company specialized in food security.
Specifically, they are the students of the two courses of the specialty of 'Microbiological and biotechnological tests' that are taught in this center and include non-work professional practices to complete the training of their students.
One of these courses is the one leading to a certificate of professionalism in this specialty chemistry that, with a duration of between 200 and 300 hours, adds to four modules of theoretical and practical training a module of 80 hours of laboratory practice.
The other course of microbiological and biotechnological analysis offered by the center of the port city does not lead to a certificate of professionalism, but it has a commitment to carry out non-labor professional practices.
The students of both training actions interested in opting for these practices in the Traza Group, which are not remunerated but are within the compulsory curriculum of these teachings, must have previously passed the theoretical part of the course.
For SEF's director general, Alejandro Zamora, "these types of agreements help us in two ways: first, to be in direct contact with the productive sector of the chemical sector, which allows us to attend to their demands in terms of training , and on the other, to provide students with a first contact with the world of work.
Formative reference of the chemical sector
The National Reference Center of Cartagena, a subsidiary of the SEF, was declared a national reference center in the family of Chemistry by the Central Government last February.
Chemical professionals are among the most specialized and qualified in the business field, so they require a high level of training.
For this reason, the National Reference Center of Cartagena constantly changes its training offer and currently offers high level training and technical level in the areas of 'Analysis and control', 'Chemical process',' Pharmachemistry ',' Pulp, Paper and Cardboard 'and' Transformation of Polymers of the Professional Chemical Family '.
The National Reference Center of Cartagena teaches between 25 and 30 courses per year and trains more than 500 students.
As for the level of insertion of these courses, which varies according to the specialty, between 40 and 60 percent of the students who are trained in the Center find work once completed their training.
Source: CARM