Del Pozo appreciates the collaboration with the aeronautical multinational and highlights the investment of 13.4 million in the new educational infrastructure, the largest budget in the history of the Regional Ministry

The Regional Minister of Educational Development and Vocational Training, Patricia del Pozo, attended the reception of a tail stabilizer from an Airbus A-330 aircraft intended for the equipment of the new Integrated Public Vocational Training Center of aerospace reference in La Rinconada (Seville). This center, with a budget of 13.4 million euros and which will be inaugurated this year, is the educational infrastructure project with the greatest investment in the history of this Regional Ministry.

Del Pozo thanked Airbus for donating this material, “which will undoubtedly be very useful for the training of students.” The stabilizer, which comes with the necessary tools for its handling, has been provided by the aeronautical multinational within the close collaboration it maintains with this department.

The tail rudder, whose function is to help control the aircraft with respect to its vertical axis, is made of carbon fiber and has dimensions of 16 meters long by 5.60 meters wide. It will be used for the Intermediate Level training cycle on Structure Assembly and Installation of Aeronautical Systems. It will also be used by the Higher Degree training cycles in Aeromechanical Maintenance of Aircraft with Turbine Engines; Aeromechanical Maintenance of Helicopters with Turbine Engines and Maintenance of Electronic and Avionic Systems of Aircraft. Likewise, it may be used for Specialization Courses and for training leading to professional certificates.

Integrated Center

The counselor explained that the Integrated Vocational Training Center will teach intermediate and higher level education related to the aeronautical sector and the professional family of Transport and Vehicle Maintenance. The new center will be located in La Rinconada (Seville), thus reinforcing the strategic importance of the area, since the San Pablo Airport, the Aerópolis Aerospace Technology Park, the EADS-CASA factory (Airbus Group) and the Ryanair maintenance center.

The future center, which will accommodate 900 students, stands on a plot of 12,049.30 square meters that has a constructed area of 10,255 square meters to house a main building and four warehouses for workshops.

The main building is distributed over three floors and a basement for parking. The ground floor will have an administration area, spaces for concierge, repography, secretariat, offices of the management team, library, cafeteria and assembly hall, with a planned capacity of 200 people. The first and second floors will have 15 multipurpose classrooms, workshop classrooms, laboratories and offices, and a meeting room for the departments.

As for the workshop buildings, numbers 1 and 2 will be used for the aeronautics program, the first of them with a completely open-plan, hangar-type configuration. Halls 3 and 4 will house the automotive and maintenance/logistics training courses and all of them will be built in a line, linked together by an open roof that will be fixed to the porch of the classroom building. All ships have a service area with changing rooms, cleaning and storage areas. Between them, they house 21 spaces for workshops, laboratories and technical classrooms, in addition to the hangar (ship 1) of 455 square meters.