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As a National Reference Centre, our functions are defined under Article 4 of Royal Decree 229/2008, of 15 February, which regulates the vocational training provided by these centres and states that their functions are as follows:

• Observe and analyse, at the national level, the evolution of the assigned productive sector, in order to adapt the training offered to the needs of the labour market.
• Collaborate with the National Qualifications Institute in updating the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Participate in international programmes and initiatives in its field of action.
• 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 in the professional competence assessment and accreditation procedure, in accordance with the provisions established under Article 8 of Organic Law 5/2002, of 19 June, on Vocational Training and Qualifications.
• Perform any other similar functions assigned to them in relation to the purposes assigned.

Our functions as a LABORA Formació Centre include:

• Providing the training courses leading to certificates of professional competence in the professional sectors or areas that it is authorised to run and other training courses, preferably associated with the group of professionals in the wood, furniture and cork trades.
• Informing and guiding the students taking our courses.
• Managing the vocational training courses included in the centre's own programme and those assigned to the centre because they are within our area of influence.