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Industrial engineers make proposals to the Administration regarding "the loss of weight of Spanish industry" (especially manufacturing) and that "the current educational model does not encourage technical-scientific vocations, nor does it adapt to the needs of the sector".

These conclusions are included in the III Industrial Barometer of the COGITI-COGITI International Chair of Engineering and Industrial Policy of the UCAM and the report An economic perspective of the situation of the industry in Spain of the CGE, which has surveyed more than 3,000 industrial technical engineers and graduates in industrial branch engineering.

The barometer notes that the Spanish industry loses weight: the total industry in the Spanish GDP in 2000 was 18.7% and in 2018 16%;

data that are accentuated in the case of the manufacturing industry, which has gone from 16.2% to 12.6% in the same period and its Gross Value Added (VAB) fell from 17.8% in the year 2000 to 14% in 2018. It is also noted that for 82% of respondents, the current educational model does not encourage technical-scientific vocations nor does it adapt to the needs of the sector and it is added that there is a certain discontent regarding the measures taken by the Administration to develop and promote the industrial sector.

The presentation of the Barometer, which in this edition has had the collaboration of the General Council of Economists of Spain (CGE), whose Research Department has prepared the report, was presented today at the headquarters of the General Council of Industrial Technical Engineering of Spain (COGITI), in which COGITI, its president, José Antonio Galdón, and the Barometer coordinator, Mónica Ramírez, have participated;

and on the part of the CGE, its president, Valentín Pich, and the director of the CGE Accounting Economists Chair, Salvador Marín;

accompanied by José Oriol Sala Arlandis, president of the Caja de Ingenieros Foundation;

and César Nicolás Martínez, secretary of the COGITI International Chair of Engineering and Industrial Policy of the Catholic University San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM).

As explained by the president of COGITI, José Antonio Galdón, the Industrial Barometer of COGITI is a sociological study in which, through the answers offered by more than 3,000 Industrial Technical Engineers and Graduates in Engineering of the industrial branch of all fields productive and throughout the Spanish geography, the current situation of the sector in Spain is valued.

Proposals

The report, once the situation is diagnosed, offers a series of measures that the authors understand would contribute positively to the momentum of the sector.

In the opinion of the highest representatives of COGITI and CGE, José Antonio Galdón, and Valentín Pich, respectively, these reforms should focus on "technological specialization, the clear and determined commitment by industry 4.0, to promote an increasingly necessary fiscal union at EU level and that this be in perfect coordination with an industrial policy strategy. "

This strategy, said the president of economists, Valentín Pich, should have "long-term structural decisions, thinking more about tomorrow than today, and in three very decisive areas that we have not resolved for years, such as the scope energy, logistics and infrastructure, fundamental pillars and which are marked as key factors in the analysis of all successful industrial areas. "

The closing of the act was carried out by the president of COGITI, José Antonio Galdón.

"We are doing everything we can and we also think that Spain has all the ingredients to be an industrial power, but we also consider that much more is needed, and all this goes through a great State Pact that allows implementing a series of structural measures and long haul.

Among them, Galdón has highlighted the need for "a stable energy policy that builds trust in investors, and cheap energy that is not a drag on the competitiveness of our products. To this we must add access to credit for technological improvement of our industries (implementation 4.0) and product innovation, and to undertake new industrial projects, especially for industrial SMEs. "

Source: UCAM