Interviews with adult educators from Spain

INCrEAsE Interview – EMILIO SAMPEDRO

Profession: TRAINER
Organization: IMPULSO COOPERATIVO
Country: Spain

He has been teaching business management for 25 years, specialized in accounting and finances. He has never had exclusively immigrant groups, but in many of his courses immigrant adults have participated along with Spanish adults.

INCrEAsE Interview – EMILIO SANZ

Profession: TRAINING COORDINATOR
Organization: FUNDACION PASCUAL TOMAS
Country: Spain He has 30 years of experience as a trainer in the area of new technologies. Many of the courses he has taught have involved immigrant students from many different backgrounds

INCrEAsE Interview – FERNANDO BENAVENTE

Profession: TRAINING COORDINATOR
Organization: IFESCOOP
Country: Spain

For 37 years he has been providing training in the areas of new technologies and business management. In recent years he has given many courses to immigrants and refugees.

INCrEAsE Interview – JAVIER GONZALEZ

Profession: EDUCATION
Organization: FREELANCE TRAINER
Country: Spain

He is a psychologist and has more than 20 years of experience in the field of training, mainly in human resources management and social skills.

INCrEAsE Interview – JOSE DOMINGO MARTINEZ

Profession: INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABLE SERVICES COORDINATOR
Organization: DIPUTACION PROVINCIAL DE VALENCIA
Country: Spain

For 25 years he has been providing training for adults aimed at improving the employability of people, especially young job seekers.

INCrEAsE Interview – MAMEN MIR

Profession: TEACHER
Organization: IES JOSÉ BALLESTER GOZALVO
Country: Spain

She is a physical education teacher and has been teaching this specialty for 35 years, and always to multicultural groups, having trained students of many different nationalities.

INCrEAsE Interview – MARIO ROS

Profession: TRAINER
Organization: FUNDACION PASCUAL TOMAS
Country: Spain

He has been training in computer science and new technologies for 17 years. Some courses have been developed in multicultural environments, but always with a small percentage of immigrant students in each course.

INCrEAsE Interview – PEPE ALBORS

Profession: TRAINING COORDINATOR
Organization: FEVECTA
Country: Spain

For 35 years he has been providing training in the world of cooperativism, either for members of cooperatives or for adult entrepreneurs who want to create their own cooperative, among whom there are many immigrants.

INCrEAsE Interview – PILAR MENA

Profession: TEACHER
Organization: UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA
Country: Spain

She has been teaching professional training and business management for only 5 years, but to a very high number of students each year (about 340 each), quite a few of them immigrants (about 30%).

INCrEAsE Interview – VERONICA TELLO

Profession: EDUCATION
Organization: FREELANCE TRAINER
Country: Spain

She has been providing training and counseling to immigrants, refugees and other groups at risk of social exclusion for more than 5 years.