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The Escola Europea and Port of Aqaba strengthen their ties
/in Escola news, Issue 43 | Summer 2022Between the 10th and the 11th of April, the director of the Escola Europea – Intermodal Transport travelled to Aqaba (Jordan) to work together on driving the YEP MED project forward.
The Escola and the Port of Barcelona get closer to sustainability
/in Escola news, Issue 43 | Summer 2022The second decade of the 21st century has brought sustainability into the limelight in many ports of our globalised world. The port of Barcelona has already been involved in numerous activities related to sustainability over the years, and in March 2022 it has selected the Escola Europea to officially serve as the Technical Office of Port Sustainability – with a strengthened effort to reach the goals set by the Spanish and European authorities that aim to curb transport emissions by 2030.
The Escola and the Baku Port cement their collaboration
/in Escola news, Issue 42 | Spring 2022On the 10th of March, the director of the Escola Europea – Intermodal Transport Eduard Rodés signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Head of the Baku Port Training Center Orkhan Adigozalov.
Let’s learn together
/in #DidYouKnow, Educating the sector, Escola news, Issue 42 | Spring 2022“We learn together” is a declaration of principles and an arrow into the heart of someone who has dedicated a large part of their professional life to education and training
Rail takes centre stage in the Escola’s first in-person SURCO course of 2022
/in Escola news, Issue 42 | Spring 2022With the European Year of the Rail coming to an end in December 2021, the Escola’s team continued the momentum and began the new year with an edition of the SURCO Operations II course
Discovering the Port and Forma’t al Port: teachers and students get to know the Port of Barcelona in the final weeks of the year
/in Escola news, Issue 42 | Spring 2022The Forma’t al Port programme managed to recover the numbers of students trained pre-pandemic and trained 590 students in a single year.
Escola retains popularity with 1700+ students in 2021 despite the pandemic
/in Escola news, Issue 41 | Winter 2021Distance learning, digitalisation and online courses marked the evolution of the Escola Europea’s courses despite the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, as was outlined during the bi-annual Executive Committee meeting of the institution held on the 29th of November 2021.
The Escola Europea to kick off 2022 with a course in railway intermodality
/in Escola news, Issue 41 | Winter 2021Between the 24th to the 28th of January 2022, the Escola will bring back the in-person railway intermodality courses with the newest edition of the SURCO Operations II course. The course offers advanced training in intermodal logistics and international freight transport.
Escola Europea gets back on board with MOST Italy “GLIPS” course
/in Escola news, Issue 41 | Winter 2021Between the 6th and the 11th of November, the Escola Europea – Intermodal Transport organised an innovative course with 35 participants to celebrate the first edition of the MOST Italy – GLIPS course.
Stakeholders of the “Formati al Porto” project meet to review the academic achievements of 2020-2021
/in Escola news, Issue 41 | Winter 2021The “Formati al Porto” project, strongly supported by the AdSP of the Central-Northern Tyrrhenian Sea and the Escola Europea – Intermodal Transport, aims to make it easier for today’s students – who will be the professionals of the future – to learn about the professions of the port-logistics sector, with a specific focus on maritime activities and sustainable intermodal transport.
The Escola Europea takes one step closer towards sustainable transport
/in Escola news, Issue 41 | Winter 2021, Uncategorized @caFrom 13 to 15 October, the Escola organised the first edition of the course “LNG in ports: port systems, its rates and operational management” – a specialised training course in sustainable transport on the role of natural gas in Spanish ports
Autumn courses bring a hint of normalcy back to the Escola’s MOST courses
/in Escola news, Issue 40 | Autum 2021It has been a difficult 2020-2021 for most of us – with many having to completely reshape and rethink their operations in a newly virtual environment. The Escola has spent a big part of last year and the first half of 2021 offering our signature courses through the Google Classroom lens – hoping to try to bring the Escola’s signature experiential approach to the net. The longing for the traditional approach has not disappeared, however, and both the Escola and the centres have waited for the health crisis to diminish and for on-board courses to be deemed safe again. This moment has arrived in the second semester of 2021.
Escola’s restarts its MOST courses
/in Escola news, Issue 40 | Autum 2021Last Saturday, on the 3rd of July, the intermodal transport course “Motorways of the Sea training – MOST” started in Barcelona. In total, 35 students from 11 different nationalities studying Master’s programmes in Logistics and International Trade, Internationalisation of SMEs and Customs Law and Management at the University of Barcelona participated in the 4-day long training.
The Escola Europea and Click&Cargo develop a virtual port to be used in simulation exercises
/in Escola news, Escola projects, Issue 39 | Summer 2021Participating in the event from the Escola Europea were its director Eduard Rodés and its Chief Business Officer Marta Miquel. The Project Manager from Click & Cargo, Valentina Salinas and the head of development Alex Rodriguez, alongside Marisa Clavero – a teacher from the Institut Lluïsa Cura, and Guillem Sardañés, CEO of the freight forwarding company eGlobe, also joined the press conference to explain the details of the agreement.
Port of Civitavecchia : a new classroom named after Raffaele Meloro
/in Escola news, Issue 39 | Summer 2021Eduard Rodés, director of the Escola Europea, celebrates the inauguration of the Port of Civitavecchia’s first classroom named after Raffaele Meloro In spite of the difficulties caused by the pandemic, […]
The Escola responds to growing demand and trains professionals in the cold chain
/in Escola news, Issue 39 | Summer 2021Following the first edition of the course on “Temperature-Controlled Supply Chains” before the pandemic began, the Escola Europea has successfully held the second edition during the last week of April and the first week of May, training professionals in the Cold Chain.
The Escola Europea-Intermodal Transport goes digital to enrich its training model
/in Escola news, Issue 39 | Summer 2021The Steering Committee of the training center, which met on Wednesday April 21st in Barcelona, has assessed the actions carried out last year and has defined the new strategy for […]
Benvenuti alla Escola in Italia
/in Escola news, Issue 38 | Spring 2021Against all odds, 2020 has turned out to be very successful for the Escola in the Italian environment. Having officially created a physical office in the country (in the spring – we have had a physical presence since 2019), with the incorporation of our Country Manager Marco Muci to the Civitavecchia office, the Escola vamped up its efforts to promote its training initiatives among the local institutions. In addition, a new member – Martina Trincia – has joined the Escola team to help with all activities in Italy.
Public and private sectors commit to the YEP MED project – and work to bring more women to the port sector through dual training
/in Escola news, Escola projects, Issue 38 | Spring 2021This past Tuesday, representatives of the public and private sector of the Barcelona port community met in the headquarters of the Port of Barcelona – the World Trade Centre- to sign the Strategic Agreement for the promotion of training under the sector of the port economy, maritime, logistics, transport and international trade.
Barcelona: EU-funded YEP MED trains future professionals in the port management and logistics sector
/in Escola news, Escola projects, Issue 38 | Spring 2021This week the first course of the YEP MED project’s vocational training series, funded by the EU’s ENI CBC Med Programme, came to a close in Barcelona. The week-long course, initially scheduled to take place virtually, took a hybrid format when it became possible to host some lectures in the Escola’s classroom in person – the Aula dels Estels – and to physically visit the Port of Barcelona.