The FPD’s Validia Vocational College is a vocational special education institution. The training centre provides those in need with specialist support in vocational basic education and further education in the fields of technology and transport, culture, natural sciences, and business and administration. 

Service dogs are trained to assist persons with physical disabilities. Their help is needed in many daily activities otherwise requiring human assistant or technical aids. The dog can open a heavy door, switch on and off lights and pull a wheelchair in snow or uphill. It can pick up, fetch and move things from one place to another.