Innovation Policy

Basque Country’s Vocational Educational Training Applied Innovation and Research Centre, Tknika, is a technical body responsible for research and applied innovation and transfer of results from R+D+i projects to the schools that provide vocational educational training in the Community of the Basque Country.
The purposes of the Basque Country’s Vocational Educational Training Applied Innovation and Research Centre, TKNIKA, are the following:

1. To research vocational educational training and applied innovation, encouraging the relationship with schools that provide vocational educational training and with companies, technological centers, and different university and non-university research departments.
2. Develop innovative projects and services to provide added value to VET schools and facilitate innovation and the ongoing improvement of the service they offer.
3. Build a body of innovative knowledge directly linked to VET activity in all professional families, both currently and in the future.
4. Transfer available knowledge to teachers at VET schools and, through them, to the different recipients of services offered (students, companies, active workers, the unemployed, society, etc.).
5. Train teachers at schools who provide vocational educational training on different technologies as they arise in different production sectors.
6. Make progress in new settings that improve different learning, management, and company relationship processes, driving internationalization of vocational educational training and developing ongoing improvement in vocational educational training.
7. Drive entrepreneurship with students.

In order to comply with its duties, TKNIKA shall have a team of directors consisting of an Executive Director and Department Directors, with people qualified to conduct each project and service, structured into the following areas of action:

1. Area of Applied Innovation in the field of Vocational Education and Training.

2. Area of Continuous Improvement.

3. Area of Research on Learning Methods and Processes.

4. Area of Entrepreneurship and Change of Management.

5. Area of Internationalisation in the field of Vocational Education and Training.

To facilitate achievement of its intended mission, TKNIKA has a comprehensive management system that includes processes and its interactions. As reference for its management system, it uses standards ISO 9001 on quality management, as well as UNE166002 on R+D+i Management, and commits to comply with the requirements set forth in these standards.
TKNIKA commits to the ongoing improvement of its R+D+i management system.