7.3.3. Opening Classrooms Mentor
| Commitment, initiative and activity | Start | Fin | State | |
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7. Education and Training in Open Government 7.3. Bridging the digital divide: training and accreditation of rural women’s skills 7.3.3. Opening of Mentor Classrooms | 04/01/2021 | 08/31/2021 |
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State of implementation
The new Mentor classrooms, created according to the calls for 2020 (1) and 2021 (2), which calls for grants to local authorities and public bodies dependent on local authorities for the creation of Mentor classrooms, are operational once two actions are carried out:
The local entities subscribe to the mandatory collaboration agreement with the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, the formalization of which is subject, above all, to the dates on which local entities present it to the municipal plenary, and to the process of internal review, before registering it in the State Electronic Register of Organs and Instruments of Cooperation of the State Public Sector, for subsequent publication in the Official State Gazette.
The administrators of Aula Mentor designated by the local entities receive the necessary training to manage the classroom and the virtual platform in those functionalities related to the registration, information and orientation of adults interested in taking Mentor training.
The commitment to increase training opportunities for women in the rural context, within the framework of this activity, is associated with the expansion of the network of Mentor Classrooms in the terms foreseen in the Plan for the Modernization of Vocational Training. In this way, the creation of new Mentor Classrooms operates through annual calls for grants to local territorial entities and public entities dependent on local territorial entities, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
From November 2020 to October 2023, by Resolution of the General Secretariat of Vocational Training, 8 calls for grants for the creation of Mentor Classrooms and/or Vocational Guidance Units have been convened. The ninth call for grants for the creation of new Mentor Classrooms is currently under way. To provide continuity to previous reports on this measure, it should be noted that, in 2023, for the creation of new Mentor Classrooms the following actions have been carried out:
With date of 16/03/2023 and concession resolution of 07/08/2023, the opening of 68 new Mentor Classrooms has been subsidized, which, in addition to the existing ones, configure as of September 2023, a network of 1301. Classrooms Mentor according to the following typology:
65.15% of the Mentor Classrooms depend on entities locales.El 27.13% are located in adult education centers, dependent on educational administrations competentes.El 7.68% are that particular type of classrooms that we call Vocational Guidance Units and that were activated in January 2023. They are classrooms that provide a specific service of professional orientation consisting of: a) Informing and advising on offers and training itineraries to improve qualification, facilitating access to those resources that best respond to the training needs of the people attended, and b) Informing, guiding and carrying out work of registration and accompaniment on the procedures of accreditation of competences acquired by work experience or other non-formal and informal means of training.
By Resolution of the General Secretariat of Vocational Training, dated 05/10/2023, the second annual call for grants for the creation of new Mentor classrooms dependent on local entities and public entities dependent on local territorial entities has been convened. This call, the ninth in the series, has an endowment of 3,688,000.00 € (three million six hundred eighty-eight thousand euros) that will be distributed in 922 modules of 4,000.00 € (four thousand euros). The deadline for submitting applications is October 25. The resolution of the call will increase the number of classrooms and, with it, the possibilities of access to permanent training for the adult population; particularly for women in rural areas.
From the growth experienced in the last three years by the Aula Mentor Open Training Program, it is appropriate to highlight as relevant the bet that has been made for its implementation in less densely populated municipalities. As a result, 61.56% of the new Mentor Classrooms created are in municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, of which 73.15% correspond to municipalities with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants.