Attracting student vocations into engineering careers: EnginyCAT: Catalonia promotional and prospective plan

Abstract

In the developed countries vocational demand for scientific and technical studies is a serious concern for government, universities and companies and different analysis and programs are promoted to try to compensate the steady decrease of their demand. In this communication the phenomena for Spain, with an spatial emphasis in Catalonia, will be reviewed in the European context, and some clues for promoting new engineering vocations will be given.