Institut El Palau

Institut El Palau is a public educational center in Sant Andreu de la Barca. It offers compulsory secondary education (ESO) and Bachillerato (upper secondary, ages 16–18), as well as basic, intermediate, and advanced vocational training (FP) programs. In basic level, it provides administrative services; in intermediate level, it offers electrical and automatic installations, mechanization, welding and boiler-making, administrative management (including a version with a professional profile in the healthcare field), and pharmacy and para-pharmacy; and in advanced level, it provides administration and finance, industrial automation and robotics, and production programming in mechanical manufacturing with a professional profile in molds and matrices. The offer is completed with training and insertion programs (PFI) for office activity assistants and general administrative services, as well as for installation assembly assistants in electrotechnical buildings, along with dual vocational training.

The working languages of the center are Spanish and Catalan. The institute has an educational project, a linguistic project, and a digital strategy, and it has a family association (AFA). Among its published documents and resources are the organization and functioning rules, the emergency plan summary, the center's plans, and the course and vocational training calendars, along with information about the management team, the school council, and the secretariat, as well as the possibility of taking a guided tour of the center.

In the field of vocational training, the center develops innovation programs linked to entrepreneurship, guidance, business, and mobility. Its website also includes a gallery of videos and multimedia materials from the center.