ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DA PRAIA DA
VITÓRIA
THE PRESENTATION
ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DA PRAIA DA VITÓRIA
THE PRESENTATION
Escola Profissional da Praia da Vitória (EPPV) is a private school which
carries out public interests and that is the property of Fundação de
Ensino Profissional da Praia da Vitória.
This foundation is a collective property without any lucrative goals and
ruled by its own statutes.
ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DA PRAIA DA VITÓRIA
THE PRESENTATION
As an institution with credentials in vocational training, EPPV
seeks to contribute for the vocational training of local and regional
youth, the future qualified professionals of the Azores.
The school establishes a link between businessmen and the social
surrounding, in order to suit and modernize human resources and
develop in young people the awareness that a career is a permanent
search for improvement and professionalism.
ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DA PRAIA DA VITÓRIA
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The aims of EPPV
- To contribute to young people’s qualification as a whole and their appropriate
preparation for a qualified performance;
- To develop a closer relation between the Foundation and the economic, social
professional, associative and cultural institutions;
- To promote with other and regional agents and institutions the training
of qualified human resources able to satisfy the development of the municipality
of Praia da Vitória, of Terceira Island and of the Azores;
- To exchange educational services with the community;
ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DA PRAIA DA VITÓRIA
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The aims of EPPV (cont.)
- To analyze local and regional qualification needs and give the
adequate formative answers;
- To teach technical courses and vocational training;
- To render extra-curricula educational, namely to adults;
- To enable contact between the students and the working world and
professional experience, preparing the students for a proper social
and professional integration.
ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DA PRAIA DA VITÓRIA
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Training Models
Initial Vocational Training:
-Vocational courses;
-Apprenticeship courses;
-“profij” courses (a vocational course which enables young people
aged 14 to 18 finish 9th grade);
-Technological or artistic specialization courses;
- Others
ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DA PRAIA DA VITÓRIA
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Professional qualification
Teachers pedagogical training
Employed and unemployed people training
Labor market training
Areas of Training
Hotel Management and Restaurant
Audio-visual and Media Production
Accounting
Computer Sciences
Electricity and Energy
Electronics and Automation
Building and Construction
Agriculture and Animal Raising