FONDO FORMACION EUSKADI

FONDO FORMACION EUSKADI (FFE) is a non formal VET center whose mission is the
development of people and improvement of organizations. FFE is located in the Basque Country,
with more than 30 years of experience in occupational and continuous vocational training for
employees and unemployed, people at risk of social exclusion; consultancy and advisory to
companies; management by competencies and employment training plans (most of them focused on
disadvantaged groups, such as immigrants, women, long term unemployed…); local development
projects; professional guidance and advisory and support to learning.
FFE has developed a strong expertise in designing and providing training modular courses for
different sectors and for different target groups. FFE also managed several regional and European
projects aiming at improving competences of people in general and specific target groups in
particular; reducing the mismatch among the training offer provided by VET institutions and skills
required by companies and improve the knowledge about apprenticeship among VET centers and
companies. FFE has got a strong expertise in designing training and building capacities for different
sectors and different target groups, and specially, updating competences and requalifying the most
vulnerable groups of adult learners, immigrants and women with low level or no qualifications. The
fields of study and application are extremely varied: LLL Strategies, Age Management; cohesion
instruments to support mutual potential development in productivity and employment; study of the
relationship between processes and organization in SMEs; diffusion of innovation to increase
creativity.
FFE has different training centres in the Basque Country and more than 100 professional workers (36 associated worker, 50 management and administration professionals, 80 trainers) with different
profiles that include from consultancy, training and human resources management, trainers,
administration …
FFE has a wide experience in transnational cooperation projects for the research, development and
innovation in the improvement of competences. Also FFE works in different regional projects for the
development of competences of adult people in different areas and from different profiles, and also of staff in the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, the Basque Government, Regional
Governments, Municipalities and public agencies.