[INFORMATIONAL DAY] PRESENTATION OF URV MICROCREDENTIALS: ACQUISITION OF SPECIFIC COMPETENCES THROUGH SHORT TRAINING (LESS THAN 15 ECTS). Hybrid modality

Microcredentials are official certifications that recognize the acquisition of specific skills through short training courses, generally less than 15 ECTS credits. They are designed to be flexible, modular and adaptable to the needs of professionals, allowing accumulation and combination to create personalized training itineraries.

The European Union promotes micro-credentials to:

• Promote lifelong learning.
• Improve employability and labor mobility within the European space.
• Facilitate the retraining and updating of skills.
• Promote the digital and green transition.

These initiatives are part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, financed by the European Union's Next Generation funds (until June 2026).

Benefits for professionals

• Flexibility: Training adapted to the availability of professionals, with face-to-face, virtual or hybrid modalities.
• Expanded access: A previous university degree is not always required.
• Recognized certification: Qualifications issued by universities and registered in digital formats such as Europass, facilitating their portability and recognition on a European scale.
• Subsidies: Up to 70% of the cost of tuition may be subsidized for people between 25 and 64 years old if they are citizens of the European Union.

Benefits for companies

• Tailor-made training: Possibility of co-designing microcredentials with universities to adapt them to the specific needs of the sector.
• Easy verification: Companies can verify the authenticity of microcredentials through services provided by the European Commission.
• Talent development: They facilitate the identification and promotion of internal talent, as well as the recruitment of professionals with specific skills.

Images and recording of the course: we inform you that, in compliance with the provisions of the RGPD, the current legal regulations on data protection and Law 1/1982 on civil protection, the right to honor, personal and family privacy and one's own image, photographs will be taken during the course and in certain cases they will be recorded and/or broadcast live. In no case will the name of the Interested Party be published. The image is used legitimately by the legitimate interest of the College to promote these courses and their possible subsequent viewing by attendees.

Due to the fact of attending, these images will be kept and while the course is posted on the platform. Once the deadline for later viewing has passed, it will no longer be posted on the platform and the images will be deleted with appropriate security measures.

Likewise, you have the right to request access, rectification, portability and deletion of your data and the limitation and opposition to its processing by sending an email to dpd@cetit.org. For more information on data protection rights, access our website: http://www.enginyerstarragona.cat/home/article/privacitat.