Through this project, we can pass down the value of restoring and giving jewelry a second life to future generations. This is key in our industry, where sustainability is at the heart of everything we do. Because we create pieces that are made to last and work to ensure they do through our restoration techniques.
Through a global professional training program, TOUS cooperates with leading international jewelry trade schools to contribute to training the hands of future artisans. Its high-quality academic program combines theory and practice with the extensive industry experience of TOUS. It also connects students with the job market, promoting practice in a renown professional environment and generating actual employment opportunities. Since 2018, it has impacted 270 students, taught circa 20,000 training hours and approximately 200 hours of practice.
We defend craftsmanship and, more specifically, jewelry, as a cultural asset. We want to publicize and share with society the knowledge of the technique and the excellence of TOUS.
We promote craftsmanship as a mode of professional training. We train the next generations of jewelers through excellence, recovering a historic trade and promoting savoir-faire.
We are committed to talent and promote it through professional development and innovation.
We have long-term agreements with the best national and international craft and jewelry schools. At the moment, they are distributed between Spain, Mexico and Portugal, and the intention is to grow until reaching all the countries in which TOUS is present.
Each school submits to TOUS the candidacy of two of its best students to enter the program. To participate, students have to be part of one of the collaborating schools.
A selection committee deliberates on the candidacies and selects the project participants in the different workshops based on their performance, academic excellence and affinity with the values of TOUS.
Once the participants have been chosen and, in accordance with the professional training, the training begins at the TOUS headquarters in Manresa or at its external centers and workshops.
Since the pandemic, the school digitized its resources to offer an online format of the same quality and, thus, open its doors to more students.
The agreement is based on Vocational Training in Work Environments, a learning modality within professional training that combines teaching in the educational center with learning in the company. Thus students acquire a solid professional experience that broadens and improves their specialization before entering the labor market. To certify the agreement, the students, the company and the training center have to sign a training and learning contract at the beginning of the course.
