ESC: Volunteering in a vocational training centre in Alzira, Spain

CIPFP Luis Suñer Sanchis is a public educational institution located in Alzira (Valencia), Spain. It has been a technical institute specialized in Higher Education and Secondary Vocational Training for more than 40 years. Alzira is a medium-size town (46.000 inhabitants) which has a very diverse industrial activity that includes fields such as food, agriculture processing, cars, dye, spinning, publishing, furniture, building materials, packaging, transport and logistics, etc. Nowadays our institution's staff consists of 70 teachers and we have nearly 700 students. We have experience of more than ten years in different Erasmus projects at different levels and, besides organizing our own projects, our school takes part in different Consortiums and Associations from countries in and out of the EU. We have also been hosting Volunteers from the European Solidarity Corps for the last five years, from different countries such as Turkey, Poland, Belgium or Greece. - The Higher Education degrees on which our students can enrol are the following: *Administration and Finance *Transport and Logistics *International Trading *Labour Risk Prevention *Electronics Maintenance *Renewable Energies -In the field of Vocational Training (secondary level) we offer the following two-year courses: *Administrative Assistance *Commercial Activities *Telecommunications *HVAC Installations *Electromechanics A portion of these studies is carried out by doing internships in companies for one or three months. Our plan is to give our students the opportunity to complete this part of their courses in a European country of their choice, therefore promoting the goal of building a European Education Area.