The Huawei Spain Academy trains 10,000 people in digital skills by 2025, its first year in Spain

Huawei Spain AcademyHuawei Spain’s educational institution and the company’s first of its kind in Europe, has trained 10,000 people in digital skills in 2025, fulfilling the objective set for its first year in Spain and moving towards its goal of digitally training up to 50,000 people in five years.

As reported by the company in a statement, throughout this year, the institution has also reinforced a solid strategic alliance network who are contributing to the development and scope of the project.

The Huawei Spain Academy was born with the purpose of promoting digital talent, strengthening technological skills and improve employability in a context marked by the acceleration of digital transformation.

To this end, it has consolidated a collaboration model with different institutions, among which the agreements signed in 2025 with the Official College of Telecommunications Engineers (COIT) y the European multinational talent management company Eurofirms Groupthus expanding access to specialized technological training and official certifications in the ICT field.

The agreement with the COIT has made it possible to develop joint activities in areas of common interest and facilitate the entity’s accession to the academic platform of the Huawei Spain Academy. Thanks to this, its members can access training in various technological areas and benefit from additional benefits to obtain official company certifications.

For its part, the alliance with Eurofirms Group has made it possible to extend the reach of the academy to nearly 15,000 professionals in Spain by integrating its training content into the Eurofirms University by Huawei platform and reinforcing the direct connection between technological training and business environment.

COLLABORATION BETWEEN BUSINESS, CUSTOMERS AND PARTNERS

During 2025, the Huawei Spain Academy carried out different training sessions in new technologies and advanced solutions with the involvement of its different business units – Carrier, Enterprise, Digital Power and Cloud -, developing training programs in collaboration with various Spanish clients and partners to train its employees and support various projects.

These advances occur in a context marked by the deficit of ICT specialistsnoted Huawei, which has indicated that the European Union has set the goal of reaching 20 million digital professionals in 2030, when in 2024 the figure barely exceeded 10 million.

“This gap highlights the need to reinforce technological training, especially in strategic areas such as connectivity, cloud computing, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence“said the company.

The vice president of Huawei in Spain, Carmen González Gens, has stated that reaching 10,000 people trained in its first year “confirms that collaboration between companies, institutions and universities is essential for face the challenge of digital talent”.

“Cooperation with entities such as COIT and Eurofirms Group allows us to expand training in the professional environment, promoting upskilling and reskilling. Our commitment is to advance until train 50,000 people in five years and contribute to strengthening Spain’s digital competitiveness,” he stated.

Looking ahead to its second year of activity, the Huawei Spain Academy plans expand your network of collaborators y strengthen its offer in strategic technologies. Based on the results obtained in 2025, the initiative “will continue to consolidate itself as a reference platform in technological training, aligned with the European objectives of digitalization and competitiveness”, the company has assured.

THE FOUR PILLARS OF THE ACADEMY

In line with current training needs, the Huawei Spain Academy is structured around four pillars: Training Centers, Academic Platform, Huawei Campus and Social Action Programs.

The academy integrates more than 3,000 courses and programstaught by more than 300 international and 50 local experts, and has the support of more than 20 Spanish universities and higher education centers to its academic platform.

Through its Training Center of more than 400 square meters, located in San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid), the academy connects theoretical training with practice and offers real professional development opportunitiesthus reinforcing its orientation towards employability.