• Observe and analyse, at the national level, the evolution of the productive sectors, in order to adapt the training provision to the needs of the labour market.
• Study the suitability of facilities, equipment and teaching resources, develop training organisation and management techniques and propose the application of quality criteria, indicators and devices for training centres and organisations.
• Establish collaborative links, including the management of virtual networks, with regional qualifications institutes and agencies, universities, technology and research centres, integrated vocational training centres, companies, and other bodies, to promote research, innovation and the continued development of vocational training, as well as to observe and analyse the scientific and technological developments related to the training processes and to the sector of reference.

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• Implement training innovation initiatives linked to the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications in order to validate their suitability and, where appropriate, to develop content, methodologies and teaching materials in order to suggest ways of updating them.
• Contribute to the design and development of technical and methodological improvement plans aimed at teaching or training staff, experts and professional counsellors, as well as the assessors involved in professional competence recognition processes.
• Collaborate with the most prominent employers' and trade union organisations, as well as with the Joint Commissions set up under state-level sectoral collective bargaining.
• Participate in international programmes and initiatives in its field of action.

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• Collaborate with the National Qualifications Institute in updating the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications.
• Collaborate and, where appropriate, carry out the necessary studies to establish certificates of professional competence, as well as participate in the implementation, custody, maintenance and updating of their assessment tests.
• Collaborate in the procedure for the assessment and accreditation of the professional skills acquired through work experience.

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The functions performed by this department are related to the coordination and development of Labora initiatives related to the training of trainers, new methodologies and competence in digital teaching, the development of digital teaching content, and the administration of the LABORA Formació Virtual Campus.

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