The King and Queen of Spain were among the dignitaries attending the inauguration of Iberdrola’s Innovation and Training Campus in San Agustin del Guadalix in Madrid.
Other attendees were the country’s Minister of Education and Vocational Training Isabel Celaa and the Iberdrola chairman Ignacio Galan.
The state-of-the-art facilities will serve as Iberdrola’s global centre for knowledge, innovation and job creation.
Galan said: “The Campus is born from the conviction that the future does not belong to those who only theorise, but to those who deliver.
“The longest standstill in two generations can be a catalyst for a truly sustainable recovery that leaves no one behind.”
Iberdrola said many of the 53 hours of training that each of its employees receives per year are delivered in the classrooms and workshops of the campus.
The company said it also carries out skills training activities in collaboration with universities.
These include: Pontificia de Comillas and Deusto in the Basque Country; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US; the University of Strathclyde in the UK; the Technologic Institute of Monterrey in Mexico; and Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar.