Institut La Bastida

Institut La Bastida is a public educational center in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, under the Generalitat de Catalunya, focused on vocational training. It offers basic vocational training, with training and insertion programs (PFI and IFE), intermediate and higher-level vocational training cycles, and professional certificates. Among its professional families are Personal Image, Socio-Cultural Services and Community, and Physical and Sports Activities. The center has an ATECA Classroom, linked to teacher training and educational innovation, and among its teachings is the higher-level cycle of Early Childhood Education, aimed at designing, implementing, and evaluating educational projects for children aged 0 to 6 years. The cycle of Communicative Mediation is also taught, which has participated in the debate on the future decree of the Catalan Sign Language. Information about the center is published on the XTEC platform.

The center develops dual training in collaboration with companies, with joint evaluation and improvement processes, and maintains international exchange projects, such as the one carried out with Stange Videregående skole in Norway. In addition, it promotes student participation activities, including the school magazine La veu de l'alumnat, and a network of alumni (Alumni FP). A representation of the center has participated in the Vocational Training Congress held in Santander.