Illustration contest. Asociación Mundus announces the winning proposal of the I Illustration Contest "Illustrate your Mundus", an initiative that aimed to promote the participation of people who collaborate or want to collaborate with Mundus through design and illustration. The winning image, by Carmen Robles Fernández (Granada, 1994), will be printed in the new edition of the association's tote bags.

CONTEST. Asociación Mundus is looking for travel artists who would like to tell their own stories as through the art of drawing by telling their adventures while in a mobility project . We are launching the first edition of the contest “Illustrate your Mundus” with the objective to find a drawing piece to print in our tote bags and recycled notebooks, which will travel around the world. The main topic of the contest is: “Everything I have learnt before, during or after a mobility project”.

Erasmus + VET Aragon. The Asociación Tutelar Aragones de Discapacidad Intelectual (ATADES) and Mundus have signed a collaboration agreement to cooperate in the reception of international internship students. This April, 30 Bulgarian students from the field of agricultural studies will carry out their professional training practices at the Gardeniers Special Employment Center.

EAfA. Last Friday, March 22, Mundus Association was crowned as a new member of the European Alliance for Apprenticeships (EAfA),a network of European agents involved in improving the quality of practical training in Europe. Mundus has joined EAfA as an organization that works every day to improve professional training through internships in European companies.

Quique Miana, director of Mundus in Zaragoza, visits AXXEL, a Finnish VET center, with which we collaborate by sending and hosting vocational training students. This center is a benchmark in the training of VET students in the Nordic country.

At the end of the year, Mundus was one of the sponsors of the annual Ideas for Zaragoza debate, in which he presented a pilot project that will be carried out during the year 2019. Through this project, it is intended to enhance international knowledge of the city of Zaragoza, while seeking to engage its young people to be European ambassadors and ambassadors of the city.

VET practices. Asociación Mundus collaborates with Cankook, a restaurant in Zaragoza, which has welcomed foreign students who come to Spain to carry out the practices of their training cycle. From Mundus we want to congratulate you since you have been given your first Michelin Star.

Mundus has been in Madrid as a guest at the European Solidarity Corps event: volunteering and solidarity employment, organized by the Office of the Representation of the European Commission in Spain together with the Minister of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare, María Luisa Carcedo. Our partner Ruth Palacios, Mundus volunteer coordinator, has participated in the My Experience in the European Solidarity Corps round table, together with young former participants in volunteer projects.

The students of the EMT Granollers Institute who had previously submitted their application to participate in the Erasmus + VET program to carry out their internships abroad have attended the interview round at the center to decide who will finally live a professional internship experience abroad.

We continue to introduce the great people who work at Mundus. Now it's the turn of Pilar, our Zaragoza-based VET project coordinator (FP internship abroad) in Zaragoza. Pilar is responsible, among many other things, for taking care of every detail in the reception of students arriving from European institutes to carry out their internships in Aragon companies. Do you want to know more about her? Ahead!

We introduce you to Ruth Palacios, our volunteer program coordinator at Mundus. This Catalan is an inveterate traveler. At eighteen she left her small town on the coast of Barcelona to live in the city. Since then, she has not stopped moving through different places, and today she continues to dance for the world. She has been a Mundus collaborator since 2016, but now we have her full time in the office. You still don't know her? Keep reading!

We present Marta Albújar, a new addition to the Mundus team. Marta deals with communication tasks in the association and coordinates projects in the youth field. The new member of the team arrives thanks to the "Joves en Pràctiques" Youth Guarantee program and has much to tell us ... Enter and find out!

This is Kike, our mobility coordinator at Mundus Zaragoza. This young man from Zaragoza joined the Mundus team in 2017 to be in charge of the coordination of the VET program of professional training practices abroad. Come in and meet him!

MUNDUS has participated for the second year in the annual EfVET conference, an independent association that brings together professionals, centers and professional training organizations (VET). This year, the conference was held from October 23 to 27 in Como (Italy) and has been an opportunity to exchange good practices in this area.

This is Sarah, our VET coordinator in the office of Mundus Barcelona. Sara has just officially joined the Mundus family thanks to the Youth in Youth Guarantee Practices program. Why are you dying to know more about her? Come in and meet her!