Description
The CIFP Hespérides is an integrated VET center that offers training aimed at both obtaining degrees and certificates of professionalism. It provides students with training that allows them to adapt to job changes that may occur throughout their lives as well as educating people who respect the rules and the environment. It was created in 1953 with the name of “Almirante Bastarreche”, which has endorsed its extensive experience in teaching Vocational Training.
The Center is located in the Santa Lucía neighbourhood of Cartagena (Murcia), with a great maritime fishing tradition. The Center attends to about 600 students of Middle Grade Training Cycles, Higher Level Training Cycles and other forms of Vocational Training for employment aimed at active workers and the unemployed.
To carry out its work, the Center has a team made up of 56 teachers, organized into 6 professional family departments, besides the Department of Business Relations and the Department of Information and Vocational Guidance.
The center’s participation in the Erasmus + program shows a firm commitment with the international vocational development of our students and a determined bid for quality of training and promotion of employment opportunities
The centre’s collaboration projects with companies from Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Norway, Poland and Portugal provide our students with the possibility of carrying out their professional internships in foreign companies within the framework of workplace training, or like recent graduates.