SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 25 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the Autonomous Museums Organism, incorporates 18 young people who were unemployed into its workforce, through the ‘Tenerife Advances with NOE’ project that seeks to favor and improve the employment prospects of a significant part of the unemployed population.
Among the different types of professionals who join the museum centers are five biologists, a geologist, two curators of cultural property, an administrative, two designers, an audiovisual technician, a library assistant, a draughtsman, a carpenter, two electricians and a gardener.
The proportion of women represents 60% of the total project team, the Cabildo details in a note.
The Island Councilor for Museums, Concepción Rivero, highlights that “through the ‘NOE’ project, a job opportunity is given to young jobseekers with training and no experience who will work with the cultural heritage of the island.”
In addition, Rivero points out that “this initiative will allow museums, through their collections and through the conjunction of different scientific and technical disciplines, to provide a rigorous, didactic, aesthetic and entertaining vision of the natural and social reality of the island of Tenerife and its relations with universal culture”.
In his opinion, “the work that the young people will carry out will make it possible to delve into the study, cataloguing, protection and conservation of the island’s cultural heritage and, by extension, of the Macaronesian area and other geographical areas of interest, as well as the dissemination and promotion of culture, science and education”.
The new staff will join the work of the project to refurbish the spaces, both museums and collection warehouses, with the aim of exhibiting them to the public.
Likewise, a boost will be given to the conservation, restoration, production, maintenance and revitalization of the collections and buildings managed by the Museums of Tenerife.
The programme, co-financed by the European Social Fund and the Canary Islands Employment Service, makes it easier for unemployed people, most of whom have higher education degrees and vocational training (FP), to obtain a job opportunity.
