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The Ascamm Foundation inaugurates the academic year 2006-2007

04/10/2006

on October 4, 2006

Ascamm Foundation, headquartered in the Parc Tecnològic del Vallés (Barcelona), you will open on 5 October, the course acadèmico 2006-2007. The opening ceremony will take place from 18 h, in the afternoon, with a visit to the facilities. Later and after a few words of Xavier López and Ramon Costa, Director-General and the Ascamm Foundation Training Director, speaking respectively, Myriam Garcia-Berro, Director of corporate development of the Ascamm Foundation with the lecture "The new profiles in the field of traditional sectors and the manufacturing technologies".

Then, Josep Llagostera, Director D'enginyeria de Producte of Germans Boada SA company, will speak on the theme "The future professionals for industrial enterprises"

After a subsequent Symposium, the Act ends with the intervention of Consol Pla, 2a. Deputy Mayor and Councillor of the Area of culture of the city of Cerdanyola.

Since the Ascamm Foundation indicated, inter alia, that "the constant incorporation of new technologies, tools and processes, but also-implementation, more intensive growing of the technologies of the information to the organizational and productive processes, as well as the management of the knowledge or innovation"", they behave the emergence of a set of new professional skills in all areas, including the industrial sector".

It also notes that "the definition of traditional professional profiles has been extended with a number of new roles and responsibilities to meet these new needs." Will "the keynote of this academic year 2006-2007 focus on these new profiles, both from the technological point of view of the perspective, and from the demand for the organizations themselves."

A steady increase of students attending courses and vocational training program the Ascamm Foundation has been producing over the past few years. During the past year were more than 1,600 persons were trained, were offered a total of 10,420 hours divided in 160 action training, within the specialties of CAD/CAM/CAE, mecànica, management, mould manufacturing and dies, and the transformation and design in plastic.