The new facilities of Antiguako Ama Arrantza Eskola will have a new cycle of Intermediate Degree in Navigation and Coastal Fishing, which is added to the rest of the educational offer available.
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The new one Ondarroa Fishing School, Antiguako Ama Arrantza Eskola, has inaugurated its new facilities this morning, located at the headquarters of the old ikastola Txomin Agirre, in the Kamiñazpi neighborhood of the municipality. The new school will allow the nautical fishing sector to be promoted in Bizkaia, and especially in the Lea Artibai region.
The School has abandoned the old building in which it was located since 1949, on San Inazio street, to move to completely renovated facilities adapted to its educational offer.
Thus, according to those responsible, it will allow the promotion of the nautical fishing sector at a transcendental moment, “without sufficient generational relief to cover the demand”, as explained by the director of the center, Bittor San Millán. “All this, taking into account that the port of Ondarroa is one of the most important fishing ports on the Cantabrian coast”, he added.
Training also in the port
The new Fishing School, with 2,500 square meters and an investment of more than 2.5 million euros, will have a new cycle of Intermediate Degree in Navigation and Coastal Fishing, which is added to the rest of the educational offer: Intermediate Degree in Naval Mechanics, the Higher Level of Height Pattern and the Higher Level of Machines. In addition, the center will launch in the coming months the innovative Ethazi methodology, with which students work through challenges and projects.
In addition, non-regulated training will also become part of the educational offer with new professional certificates. In this way, among others, shallow professional diving courses will be taught in the port of Ondarroa, aimed at completing nautical-fishing training.
In addition to renovating and domotizing the building, the most advanced simulation technology has been installed, both for navigation and fishing, as well as for machines and electrical control. “They are digital equipment, as if it were a video game, in which the students can control the electrical systems, the valves… or steer the boat with all the instruments, even make the appropriate maneuvers for fishing, among many other things” explains the director.
In addition, the school has industrial cold workshops specialized in fishing, benchmarks throughout the region, engine and machining workshops, or advanced welding equipment and facilities. “On a ship, the professionals of the different cycles learn everything; that is why they are highly valued, both at sea and on land,” explains San Millán. In fact, the professional opportunities in the sector are very broad and unemployment is residual. “Students find work in a short space of time,” says the director.
The nautical school is part of the EBI Elizbarrutiko Ikastetxeak network, dependent on the Bishopric of Bilbao, to which the Txomin Agirre ikastola also belonged, which closed in 2019 due to the drop in enrollments and the drop in the birth rate in the municipality and in the rest of the region.
Source: Eitb
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