Representatives of the Spanish Intertextile Council, the Valencian Community Textile Entrepreneurs Association (Ateval), Valencia Polytechnic University Alcoy Campus, Aitex and the Spanish Habitat Federation held a meeting at the Habitat Fair this Wednesday. In Valencia, where the request from the Generalitat Valenciana Education Department was unanimously accepted Recovering university education of Textile Engineering diploma in the community.
The business structure of the Valencian textile industry is characterized by its clearly oriented towards global markets. This Consists of 1,458 companiesWith a turnover of 2.010 million euros and exports of 1.041 million, it currently provides direct employment to 21,760 workers.
Pepe Serna, president of Ateval and vice president of the Spanish Intertextile Council, said: “Companies in the Valencian textile cluster are characterized by their great capacity for innovation and product development, as seen in recent years. Against Valencian textiles, the advanced age of the workforce, scarcity of substitutes and high demand for qualified professionals”.
Exactly because of the above-mentioned indices, the agencies attending the meeting consider it appropriate to recover higher engineering studies in this textile branch.
According to Vicente Blanes, director of Aitex, “The training of the degree will be taken in pairs as we have an agreement with UPV to have part of the program taught at our facilities. This will allow for a more technical training and direct contact with business reality”.
The measure will, on the one hand, complement the already existing Vocational Education offer, one of the most requested postgraduate courses, the Master’s Degree in Textile Engineering, which Alcoy Campus has in collaboration with Aitex. The counties of LlAlcoià and Vall d’Albaida, the epicenter of the Valencian textile industry.
Manuel Díaz, president of the Spanish Intertextile Council, said, “With the inclusion of UPV’s Alcoy Campus second city in the state to offer such a degreebecause currently you can only study at the Terrassa Campus of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya”.
According to Pau Bernabéu, director of UPV’s Alcoy Campus, “we have facilities, we have teaching staff and we have the support of companies that need qualified professionals. The industry needs engineers who know how to respond to the challenges posed by the markets and the industry.. This was requested by business through the advisory council of UPV’s Alcoy Campus”.
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