The 2025/2026 academic year has already begun at the Somorrostro Training Center with more momentum than ever. This year we have around 2,200 students spread across 102 formal training groups: 18 in secondary education, 14 in upper secondary education, and 70 in vocational training (10 basic level, 20 intermediate level, 38 advanced level, and 2 specialization courses). The figures speak…

Until 6 October 2025, applications will be accepted for scholarships and study grants for non-university students for the 2025-2026 academic year (in our case, aimed at secondary school, sixth form and vocational training students). You can now apply for them online at the following web address: https://www.euskadi.eus/ayuda_subvencion/2025/no_uni/web01-tramite/es/ Applications may be submitted in person at the school office. Information will be…

On 18 July, the third edition of the Inter-University Master’s Degree in Hydrogen Technologies (MITH), a pioneering qualification in Spain that is committed to training professionals in one of the strategic sectors of the energy transition, was held on the Mondragon Unibertsitatea campus in Bilbao. A total of 32 students graduated at the event, which was held simultaneously at the…

The Somorrostro Training Centre has taken a step forward in the technological vanguard with the project “Internet de las cosas (IoT) a través de comunicaciones satelitales 5G”, financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sport’s Grants for innovation and applied research projects and knowledge transfer in Vocational Training. This project is carried out in collaboration with the…

Somorrostro has opened the registration period for the new Training for Employment (FPE) courses that will start in September 2025. These are free courses, 100% funded by Lanbide and the European Social Fund, designed for employed people who want to improve their professional profile without giving up their job. The training is specially designed to facilitate work-life balance: it is…

Tknika, the Basque Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in Vocational Training, has successfully concluded the course ‘Use cases of 5G private networks’, an initiative that consolidates its commitment to advanced training in emerging technologies. This eminently practical course has brought together teachers from different Vocational Training Centres in the Basque Country, including our colleague Vicente Llarena, teacher of telecommunications…

During the second half of June, our center has taken another step in the development of the SIMUJOB Project, an innovative program funded by the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports and the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. SIMUJOB uses artificial intelligence and virtual reality technologies to create immersive job interview simulations, to prepare vocational training students for effective…

Somorrostro Training Center has delivered today 7 computers to Caritas Bizkaia, in an act that symbolizes the commitment of the center to technical training and social responsibility. The delivery was made by Javier Laiseca, director of Somorrostro, to Carmelo Corada, head of the “Empresas con Corazón” program of Caritas. This donation is the direct result of the participation of our…

The second-year students of the Degree in Mechatronics Engineering, a degree taught by Mondragon Unibertsitatea in collaboration with the Somorrostro Training Center, have closed their training stage in our center with the final presentation of the POPBL (Problem-Oriented Project-Based Learning) project, an integrative proposal that puts into practice everything they have learned during the semester. For more than a month,…

This Friday the Meatzari Aretoa theater of Muskiz has hosted the graduation ceremony of the 4th ESO students of the Somorrostro Training Center. An event full of emotion in which more than 100 students have put the finishing touch to a fundamental stage of their academic life. The hall, full of families, teachers and friends, has witnessed a very special…