OMV Petrom and the non-governmental organization CivicNet launched, on Tuesday, the digital platform Meserii.ro, which presents the interactive map of vocational and technical education in Romania (IPT), according to a release.

The map shows, for the first time in Romania, the qualifications of the students of the IPT and the companies with object of activity related to these qualifications.

According to official data, in 2018 almost 60,000 vacancies were registered in Romania, the highest level in the last decade. Most of the jobs available were in the manufacturing industry, the branch of the economy that has the highest demand for graduates of technical and vocational education (IPT), according to Agerpres.

At present, there is no tool to provide an overview of the vocational and technical education in Romania and to allow the correlation between the professions in preparation (according to the distribution of students in IPT) and economy (through the companies whose main activity is in – one of the fields in the training field).