The inauguration of this ‘TechPro2’ educational project  took place at 12 noon last Thursday, in the assembly hall of Salesianos Padre Aramburu in Burgos.

New Holland has initially provided a tractor for the students to work with. The idea is that various agricultural machinery will rotate through the Salesianos Padre Aramburu workshops.

Important institutional presence

Daniela Ropolo, Head of Development of CNH Sustainability Initiatives, Javier Lodares, CNH Ag Iberia Business Director, Ángel Pérez, CNH Italy & Iberia Technical Training Coordinator, and Javier Marina, General Manager of Salesianos Padre Aramburu, took part in the presentation and signing of the agreement.

Also in attendance, along with the students and automotive mechanics teachers at the centre, was Jesús Sendino Pedrosa, deputy of the Provincial Council. The head of the Training Department of the Provincial Management of the ECYL, Luz Segura Martín. Isabel Pinto, head of the FP Dual en la Empresa Programme - Burgos Chamber of Commerce. Óscar Ignacio López Pino, in charge of the Education Training Programmes Area. The president of FP Burgos, José Enrique García Agüera. Representing the FAE (Confederation of Business Associations of Burgos), Javier Herrán, member of the organisation's Executive Committee and Gustavo Sánchez Santos, Technical Coordinator. The vice-president of the Federation of Metal Companies (FEMEBUR), Maite Castrillejo. The Innovation Coordinator of Escuelas Católicas de Castilla y León, Ángel Martin Villota and on behalf of the Salesian Inspectorate Santiago el Mayor, Miguel Esquiroz, Managing Director of Tech Don Bosco.

Padre Aramburu, pioneers in agricultural mechanic training

It is the first vocational training centre in Spain with this project, providing students with the necessary skills to open up their future in the technical assistance of agricultural machinery and also helps the group to have specialised workers.

The ‘TechPro2’ project is a pioneering programme in Spain with a multinational that offers students training in agricultural mechanics and work experience in dealerships.

The company's sustainability director, Daniela Ropolo, explained the main objective, which 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 speciality, agricultural machinery’.

The teachers have been trained at the company's facilities in Madrid so that they can integrate a part of the agricultural machinery into the Centre's automotive programme.

The general director of the Centre, Javier Marina, stated that ‘collaboration between the school 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.’

‘The fundamental step, as Don Bosco said, is to learn by doing: After learning in the classroom, the students go to the workshop and immediately start assembling and disassembling, explained Ropolo, who added that at the end of the course they will have an official certificate that will be valid in the labour market.

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