CIFP Juníper Serra

What CIFP Juníper Serra does

CIFP Juníper Serra is a publicly funded Integrated Vocational Training Center (Centre Integrat de Formació Professional) located in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Founded in 1965 and celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2025, the institution is owned and operated by the Govern de les Illes Balears as a government state entity (CIF S0718090D). It delivers vocational training across four professional families: Administration and Management, Hospitality and Tourism, Image and Sound, and Transport and Vehicle Maintenance. The center has 26 employees and operates from a single campus that includes professional kitchens, a training restaurant (Aula Restaurant), automotive workshops, and audiovisual production studios.

The institution's educational portfolio spans Basic FP, Medium Degree (CFGM), Superior Degree (CFGS), Professional Certificates, and Specialization Courses, delivered through on-campus, virtual (FP Distància), and intensive dual training (FP Dual) modalities. Its technology stack includes the Moodle platform (via the regional aulavirtual.caib.es), the official FP Distància platform (fpadistancia.caib.es), virtual reality simulators for Tourism, Hospitality, Administration, and Audiovisual departments, and industry-standard software such as AVIRATO hotel management systems integrated through the Edubooking Excellence Centre project. The center holds a Centre d'Excel·lència designation for Tourism and operates an extensive Erasmus+ mobility network spanning at least 11 European countries, with over 100 outbound student placements.

The business model is public education funding: the institution delivers training free of charge to students and is co-financed by the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Spanish Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, and the European Union's Fons Social Europeu (FSE). Revenue is not publicly disclosed. Employer engagement occurs through work placements (FCT/FEMPO), a job bank (Borsa de Treball), and dual training partnerships with regional businesses in hospitality, automotive, and audiovisual sectors. The center does not generate commercial revenue and operates as a non-market public service entity.

Name

CIFP Juníper Serra

Legal name

CIFP Juníper Serra

Website

https://cifpjuniperserra.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1965

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CIFP Juníper Serra is a publicly funded Integrated Vocational Training Center in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, delivering free vocational education across Hospitality, Administration, Audiovisual, and Automotive disciplines to students and adult learners in the Balearic Islands.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Palma

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Education Funding: Publicly funded vocational training institution under the Balearic Islands Government (Govern de les Illes Balears) and Ministry of Education. Revenue comes from government educational budgets, European Union funds (FSE - Fons Social Europeu), and various educational grants.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

CIFP Juníper Serra is a public Integrated Vocational Training Center that delivers professional education across four families: Administration and Management, Hospitality and Tourism, Image and Sound, and Transport and Vehicle Maintenance. It offers Basic, Medium, and Superior degree programs, Professional Certificates, Specialization Courses, and competency validation, delivered via on-campus, dual (work-integrated), and distance-learning modalities. Training combines classroom instruction with hands-on practice in professional kitchens, an Aula Restaurant, automotive workshops, and audiovisual studios.

Product overview

CIFP Juníper Serra is an Integrated Vocational Training Center (Centro Integrado de Formación Profesional) in Palma, Mallorca offering comprehensive professional education across four main professional families: Administration and Management, Hospitality and Tourism, Image and Sound, and Transport and Vehicle Maintenance. The institution provides a multi-level educational portfolio spanning Basic FP, Medium Degree (CFGM), Superior Degree (CFGS), Professional Certificates, and Specialization Courses. Programs are delivered through various modalities including in-person, virtual/distance, intensive dual training, and competency validation. The center operates as a Center of Excellence in Tourism, offering advanced training initiatives including virtual reality workshops, AI in tourism projects, and Erasmus+ international mobility programs. Key facilities include an on-site training restaurant, workshops for automotive training, and audiovisual production studios. The institution also organizes annual events including the Showreel audiovisual showcase and participates extensively in Skills competitions at regional, national, and international levels.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Administració i Gestió (Administration and Management Programs)

Quantifiable outcome

• Students regularly achieve top positions in SpainSkills and BalearSkills competitions
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Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature2 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• AVIRATOcoreTechnology or IntegrationTechnology partner providing hotel management software (PMS) integrated into educational curricula. Enables students to train on real industry-standard management systems as part of the Edubooking project within the Excellence Centre for Tourism.
• Šolski center Srečka Kosovela (Sežana, Slovenia)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerErasmus+ partner school with active student and teacher mobility exchanges. Students complete work placements and teachers participate in job shadowing programs. Coordinated by Maja Prešeren, managing over 100 outbound students annually.
• Escola EsmentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on the 'Esdeveniment Gastronòmic Juníper Esment' project, combining students from CIFP Juníper Serra culinary programs with Esment's dual adapted vocational training program for a collaborative gastronomic event.
• CIFP Nº1 de CuencacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLead partner in the Edubooking project initiative. CIFP Juníper Serra serves as collaborative partner in this Excellence Centre for Tourism network, contributing to premium educational licenses and specialized training modules.
• EMA Velluters (EMAV, Barcelona)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFilm school collaboration for the 'Vacasiones a Mallorca' microtheatre project, where students collaborated with EMAV on a production first staged in Barcelona before coming to Mallorca.
• Produccions de FerrominorOthersLocal audiovisual production company that hosted students from the first promotion of the double degree in Audiovisual Production for their 400-hour work placement.
• IB3 RàdiominorOthersBalearic Islands public radio and television that hosted students from the first promotion of Audiovisual Production for their practical training placements.
• Sa Pobla RàdiominorOthersLocal radio station that hosted students from the first promotion of the double degree in Audiovisual Production for practical work experience.
• Singular AudiovisualsminorOthersAudiovisual production company that supported the first promotion of the double degree program by providing work placement opportunities for students.
• Inyecar MallorcaminorOthersLeading workshop specializing in injection and turbocharger systems that hosted Transport and Maintenance students for technical training visits, demonstrating advanced diagnostic equipment.
• Hidrogenera de LlosetaminorOthersGreen hydrogen production facility that provided educational visits for students studying hybrid and electric vehicle maintenance, showing hydrogen fuel cell technology.
• Palma PicturesminorOthersMajor audiovisual production company in Mallorca that hosted student visits to learn about film production industry and sustainable filming practices.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• CESUR (Centro Superior de Formación): Large Spanish private VET operator with multiple campuses offering FP cycles including hospitality and administration—a broader incumbent competing in the same vocational training market across Spain.

Others

• CaixaBank Dualiza: Foundation promoting dual vocational training in Spain; ecosystem participant coordinating employer partnerships and FP Dual programmes of the kind CIFP Juníper Serra operates through FCT placements.

Direct peers

• Escola d'Hoteleria i Turisme de Barcelona: Standalone hospitality and tourism training school in Barcelona, comparable to Juníper Serra's Hoteleria i Turisme department—offers similar cooking, restaurant service and tourism cycles for Spanish students.
• CIFP Nº1 de Cuenca: Lead partner of CIFP Juníper Serra in the Edubooking/Excellence Centre network. A Spanish public Integrated Vocational Training Center offering comparable cycles across multiple professional families, sharing the same administrative model under Spain's national FP framework.
• EMAV – Escola de Mitjans Audiovisuals (Barcelona): Barcelona-based audiovisual training school and project collaborator on the 'Vacaciones a Mallorca' microtheatre production. Direct peer for the Imatge i So professional family with overlapping curriculum in film/sound production.
• CIFP César Manrique (Tenerife): Integrated Vocational Training Center in the Canary Islands with a similar multi-family FP portfolio and Excellence Centre activities—directly comparable as an island-region public CIFP.
• IES Mare Nostrum (Alicante): Alicante public secondary centre offering vocational training cycles including hospitality and administration—structurally comparable as a Spanish public institute delivering FP programmes across multiple families.

Regional players

• Escola Esment (Mallorca): Mallorca-based dual adapted vocational training organisation that partnered with CIFP Juníper Serra on the gastronomic 'Juníper Esment' event. Adjacent regional peer serving overlapping local employer pipelines in hospitality.
• Šolski center Srečka Kosovela (Sežana, Slovenia): Slovenian vocational secondary school and active Erasmus+ partner coordinating mobility exchanges with CIFP Juníper Serra. Comparable as a European secondary VET provider with hospitality and tourism offerings.

Emerging players

• ILERNA (online VET provider): Spanish private VET group delivering online vocational training including hospitality, healthcare and administration cycles—an emerging digital-native competitor that overlaps with Juníper Serra's FP Distància modality.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cifpjuniper
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCDinahKz0TnUsQqaLZBpZ6Q
• Facebookfacebook.com/CIFP-Jun%C3%ADper-Serra-867125320315518
• Instagraminstagram.com/cifpjuniperserra_
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cifpjuniperserra

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