Mobility at cemer

Mobility at

CEMER Encinas Reales CEMER Villa del Río
Ronda de la Manga 8 14913 Encinas Reales (Córdoba) tlf.: 957 59 82 97 Polígono de la Vega. Plaza de Jose Sanchez14640 Villa del Río (Córdoba) tlf.: 957 17 71 09

CONTENTS
About CEMER
- Products - Prizes

Programmes
- Youth in Action
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Erasmus

Services to foreign students
- Services
- Tutoring
- Contact

Collaborations:
- Previous activities
2004- 2010

Encinas Reales
Villa del Río


About CEMER
CEMER is a National Reference Center for Vocational Training in the Wood
and Furniture Sector. It is a public institution which belongs to the Andalusian
government.
CEMER provides training for two types of people-objective:

- Unemployed (FPO/Vocational training)
- Employed (Lifelong learning/ Continuing training)

There are several FPO/ Vocational training courses:

- Specialist in Furniture Varnishing and Lacquering
- Specialist in Industrial Furniture Manufacturing/Carpentry
- Specialist in Industrial Furniture Manufacturing/Assembly
- Specialist in New Furniture Production and Design Technologies
- Specialist in New Upholstered Furniture Production and Design Technologies
- Specialist in Foreign Trade and Management Strategies
- Specialist in Furniture Design

CEMER has two headquarters, one of them is located in Encinas Reales and
another one is situated in Villa del Río. Both centers are in the province of
Córdoba as the Wood- Furniture Industry is currently one of the most
important sectors in Córdoba.


Products - Prizes
2004
The XII Furniture Design Competition “Ciudad de San Sebastián” 2003- 2004
- 3rd place for Ramón Heredia, Benjamín Ramírez y Raúl Real
The I Poster Competition Hirutxulo
- 1st place for José Luis Toledano

2006
ZOW Spain 2006
- 1st place for Mario Martín, Alejandro Álvarez, Rafael Panadero and Alejandro Romero
- 2nd place for Francisco Antonio León
- 3rd place for Pedro Agustín Pérez
The II Poster Competition Hirutxulo
- 1st place for Salvador Márquez

2007
International Wood Design Competition “DIMA” 2007
- 1st place for Daniel Pineda
The I International Olive Wood Craftwork Conference
- 1st place for the poster realized by Manuel Ruíz Moreno

2008
The XIV Furniture Design Competition “Ciudad de San Sebastián” 2007- 2008
- 1st place for Miguel Ángel Tejero
- 2nd place for Mª Carmen Marín
The III Poster Competition Hirutxulo
- 1st place for Rafael Salido


Products - Prizes


Youth in Action
EVS
The Youth in Action programme offers young Europeans the chance to make a real
difference to the world – and to their own lives – through the European Voluntary
Service.
The European Voluntary Service (EVS) provides young Europeans with the unique
chance to express their personal commitment through unpaid and full-time voluntary
activities in a foreign country within or outside the EU. In this way, it seeks to develop
solidarity, mutual understanding and tolerance among young people, thus contributing
to reinforcing social cohesion in the European Union and to promoting young people‘s
active citizenship. Learning for life!
Open to all young people aged 18 to 30, EVS is a true ‘learning service’. Beyond benefiting
the local communities, by participating in voluntary activities, young volunteers can
develop new skills and, therefore, improve their personal, educational and professional
development.


Volunteers can benefit from specific training throughout the activity and agree on
their expected learning outcomes, processes and methods in advance. Their learning
experience is formally recognised through a Youthpass. Participation is free for the
volunteers who also get board and lodging, insurance cover and an allowance for
the duration of the project. Special conditions apply to encourage the participation of
young people with fewer opportunities.

A successful EVS project requires close co-operation among at least three key players:
a sending organisation, a host organisation and the volunteer. One of the organisations
involved in this partnership also plays the role of coordinating organisation and applies
for an EU grant on behalf of the partnership. Organisations perform a number of roles:
they identify volunteering opportunities and develop projects that benefit the local
community. They also recruit and prepare the volunteers, host them, and ensure
follow-up.
EVS activities can be carried out both individually or in group. Up to 100 volunteers can
now participate in the same EVS activity.
One thing all the activities have in common is a clear European and intercultural learning
dimension. EVS is a mutually beneficial process, where everybody gains from getting to
know the other‘s culture.
EVS is one in a group of EU projects.

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/index_en.htm


EVS at CEMER
CEMER has had positive experience with EVS projects.
The first project, called “PROMOTION OF EUROPEAN MOBILITY OF
YOUTH”, was developed in 2008. Two volunteers from Poland had the
opportunity to carry out their EVS project for six months.
The basic aims of this project are:
- To encourage transnational mobility
- To promote the exchange of experiences among young people
from different countries and social realities
- To provide an opportunity to get to know the experiences of
former students of CEMER who have already taken part in mobility
projects such as Leonardo da Vinci or Comenius
- To motivate our students to participate in mobility and
transnational projects and help them to be more open to other
cultures and ideas
- To foster values of solidarity, tolerance and equal opportunities
among the young

The second EVS project, named “Creativity for Youth”, started in
autumn 2009 and it was developed by two volunteers from Austria.
The main objectives of C4Y are to promote creativity and innovation
in different areas and to foster European cooperation in the youth
fields.
During this project, the participants could work on the promotion
of creativity and innovation through training and cooperation with
International Mobility Department of CEMER.


Leonardo da Vinci
The Leonardo da Vinci programme links policy to practice in the field of vocational
education and training (VET). Projects range from those giving individuals the chance
to improve their competences, knowledge and skills through a period abroad, to
Europe-wide co-operation between training organisations.
Part of the European Commission‘s Lifelong Learning Programme, the programme
funds a wide range of actions, notably cross-border mobility initiatives; co-operation
projects to develop and spread innovation; and thematic networks. The potential
beneficiaries are similarly wide – from trainees in initial vocational training, to people
already in the labour market, as well as VET professionals and private or public
organisations active in this field.


Leonardo da Vinci enables VET organisations to work with European partners, exchange
best practices, increasing the expertise of their staff and respond to the teaching and
learning needs of people. It therefore supports efforts to make vocational education
more attractive to young people.
By helping European citizens to acquire new skills, knowledge and qualifications, the
programme also aims to bolster the competitiveness of the European labour market.

Innovation projects have always been at the core of the Leonardo da Vinci programme.
They aim to improve the quality of training systems through the development and
transfer of innovative policies, contents, methods and procedures within vocational
education and training.

http://ec.europa.eu/education/index_en.htm


Leonardo at CEMER
WORKWOOD is an example of Leonardo da Vinci projects
developed by CEMER. It Is aimed at providing placements for
students of the Vocational Occupational Training or Continuous
Training courses of CEMER who need to gain practical experience,
improve their language skills and add a European dimension to their
qualifications.

Our aim is to achieve their labour insertion or job improvement in
order to reduce sectoral and regional unemployment rates and to
improve the relation between training and job. At the same time,
we would like to promote the use of new technologies in the wood
sector, improve language and transversal skills of (future) wood
professionals, and improve the quality of our vocational training
offer.
WORKWOOD wants to achieve that the participants continue their
practical training implementing the knowledge acquired in our centres
in Italy, Ireland and Portugal. Our students have the opportunity to
complete their training and work placement abroad for 14 weeks (3
weeks of language and cultural preparation and 11 weeks of work
placement in leading companies of the Wood- Furniture sector).

Thanks to this opportunity of transnational mobility, the Andalusian
wood sector will have better qualified professionals who are familiar
with the methods and processes used in European countries, leading to
the creation of new jobs, socioeconomic development, cooperation
and dissemination of best practices in companies across Europe.


Erasmus at CEMER
Another example of our mobility projects activity is the student
exchange under Erasmus Programme.
Erasmus is the EU‘s flagship education and training programme,
enabling more than 180,000 students to study and work abroad
each year, as well as supporting co-operation actions between
higher education institutions across Europe. It caters not only for
students, but also for professors and business staff who want to
teach abroad and for university staffs who want to be trained
abroad. In addition to mobility actions, the Programme supports
higher education institutions to work together through intensive
programmes, networks and multilateral projects.

Between the years 2003 and 2009 CEMER participated in 3 Erasmus
Projects. CEMER hosted students from:
- University of Paris XII Val de Marne (France)- 3 students
(Length of stay - 3 months)
- Budapest College of Management (Hungary)- 3 students
- Politecnico di Milano (Italy)- 5 students


Services to foreign students
- Own staff in Language Training: Spanish lessons
- Training adapted to students‘ specific needs
- Enterprise search for Practical Training
- Accommodation formalities
- Allowance
- Organization of cultural programme
- Provision of a personal tutor


Tutoring
- Welcoming students at the airport and arranging the accommodation
- Information meeting where the participants receive information about
the purpose and contents of the programme
- Keeping in touch with language tutors in host organization
- Paying attention to students’ needs and helping them to solve problems
and make decisions
- Etc.


Contact
Araceli Cabello Jimenez
(Head of the Project Department)
acj@cemer.es

Sonia Ruiz Navarro
(Teacher and tutor)
srn@cemer.es

Katerina Nesterova
(Teacher and tutor)
knx@cemer.es


Collaborations
- Collaboration with the University of Malaga
- Collaboration with the University of Granada
- Collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano
- Collaboration with the Politechnic University of Bucarest (Romania), regarding
research on new technologies applied to the Furniture Sector
- “Training in Technology: a 21st Century European Challenge” project financed
by European Social Fund and in collaboration with the University of Brno (Czech
Republic)
- Collaboration in different research with the University of Seville (Faculty of Politics)
- Networks and Socio-Institutional Innovation in Local Production Systems
- Organizational and Technological Changes in the Local Production Systems in
Spain: Comparative Analysis of Innovative Processes at a Regional Level.
- Methodology and Indicators for the Diagnosis and Analysis of the Local
Production Systems and Innovative Means in Andalusia.
- Collaboration with the Technological Centre of Wood and Furniture of the Region
of Murcia (CETEM)
- University of Paris XII Val de Marne
- Carl Malmsten College- University of Linköping (Sweden)
- Public Welfare Centre of Brussels CPAS
- Budapest College of Management in Hungary
- Around 900 Andalusian companies have regular contact with CEMER and the
organization keeps collaborating with all the furniture local production systems in
Andalusia.


Previous Activities

2004
- Italian students at CEMER
- Portuguese students at CEMER

2005
- French students at CEMER
- WORKWOOD III: 31 students (Varnishing, Foreign Trade, Industrial Manufacturing and
New Technologies Applied to Furniture Upholstery sections) had their work placements
in companies in Germany and Italy.


2006
- Swedish students at CEMER
- WORKWOOD IV: 40 students (Industrial Manufacturing and New Technologies
Applied to Furniture and Carpentry Production and Furniture Upholstery sections)
had their work placements in companies in Italy, Ireland and Belgium.
- CONSORCIA2: a group of 20 Vocational Trainers/ Training Managers had a 1
week stay in different European centres.
- PRODUCTION AND MAINTENANCE FOR APPRENTICES PROD-MAIN: a group of 10
students from CENFIM (Portugal) had a 3 week stay at CEMER.

2007
- Mobility of Hungarian young technicians . CEMER has organized and coordinated
the visit of 2 students from Budapest College of Management (Hungary)
- Mobility of Italian young designers and Portuguese young specialists. CEMER has
organized and coordinated the visit of 2 young designers from Antonio Mattioti
School (Italy) and 2 specialists from Cenfim School (Portugal)
- TALENTED: CEMER has organized cooperatively the visit of 2 young Italian
designers from The Polytechnic University of Milano.


2008
- Finnish students at CEMER
- Hungarian students at CEMER
- WORKWOOD V: a group of 13 students had the opportunity to complete their
training and work placement in Italy and a group of 17 students had a 14 week
stay in Ireland.
- 2 young volunteers from Poland developed their European Voluntary Service
(EVS) project at CEMER

2009/2010
- WORKWOOD VI: a group of 9 students had their work placements in leading
companies in Italy and a group of 11 students had a 14 week stay in Ireland.
- 2 Austrian volunteers made their EVS project at CEMER


Encinas Reales
Long time ago, the lands where Encinas Reales is today located, belonged
to the Duke of Medinaceli, Lord of Lucena.
Actually this village has around 2.500 inhabitants.
THE CHURCH
The parish church is devoted to Nuestra Sra. de la Expectación (Our Lady of
Expectancy) who is one of the patron saint of our village.
EL CALVARIO
Undoubtedly, this is the most emblematic place in our village. El Calvario
has become a symbol of Encinas Reales, as it is placed close to the road, so
that it can be seen by every traveller who passes this way.


Villa del Rio
Villa del Rio is a town situated in the eastern part of Cordoba province,
just on the border with Jaen on a spacious plain by the left side of the
Guadalquivir river. It has a population of 7,296 people.
The main source of wealth is the furniture industry. Currently, there
are more than one hundred factories devoted to the manufacture
of chairs and upholstered furniture.


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