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Barcelona City Council has ruled in favor of INGITE and METGEC and will finally allow engineering graduates to access Group A1 public competition places with equal rights as second-cycle engineers. The City Council has rejected the allegations presented by four professional associations of second-cycle engineers, and thus avoids discrimination against an entire group that has been claiming its rights under the Law of the Status of the Basic Statute of the Public Employee.
The Institute of Graduates in Engineering and Technical Engineers of Spain (INGITE) and the Board of Technical Engineering and Graduates in Engineering of Catalonia (METGEC), which bring together more than 350,000 engineering professionals, met this month last June with Barcelona City Council to address the controversy over the call for senior technical positions in engineering of Barcelona City Council, an opposition competition published on March 10 that was initially open to all engineering graduates and that it was provisionally suspended due to allegations filed by professional colleges of graduate engineers.
At this meeting they asked the Barcelona City Council to reopen the competition as soon as possible as it was not at all justified that in the places offered by the City Council in the category of Group A1, discriminate graduate engineers because, by training and skills, they are perfectly qualified to carry out the tasks of these jobs.
The controversy over discrimination against undergraduate engineers began with the implementation of the Bologna Plan in engineering studies, which created confusion in university degrees; in Spain there are two professional levels of engineering unlike what happens in the rest of European countries.
The president of INGITE, José Antonio Galdón, values very positively the criterion adopted by the Barcelona City Council "which not only obeys compliance with the Law, but also the necessary competitiveness of the administrations and the evolution that has arisen in Bologna, It's a big step. ” For his part, Miquel Darnés, President of METGEC, hopes that "this decision by Barcelona City Council will be an example for many other councils and administrations that still discriminate against graduate engineers for certain jobs." In 2018 METGEC has already met with the Generalitat de Catalunya to ask the Catalan government that the bases of the calls for the selection processes of the different administrations respect the civil service law to avoid unduly excluding the qualified engineers they represent.
INGITE
The Institute of Graduates in Engineering and Technical Engineers of Spain (INGITE) integrates 11 Spanish associations that represent the different branches of technical engineering: aeronautics, agriculture, forestry, industrial, computer science, mining, naval, public works, telecommunications and surveyors. It currently brings together more than 350,000 professionals.
METGEC
The Bureau of Technical Engineering and Engineering Graduates of Catalonia (METGEC) was founded in 2018 to highlight the qualifications of technical and undergraduate engineers and to defend the common interests of the professions. The METGEC is made up of thirteen members from schools and delegations in the Catalan territory that bring together more than fourteen thousand members in the specialties of Aeronautics, Agriculture, Forestry, Industrial, Computers, Mines, Public Works, Telecommunications and Surveyors.