The Arona Business Center “It has become a reference for the South region. In recent years it has been growing and has been able to adapt to the needs of small and medium-sized companies and entrepreneurs to grow and diversify the business fabric of the municipality, in addition to promote training, especially among the youngest, in subjects such as science and technology”. The mayor of Aronero, José Julián Mena, endorses his reflection with the balance of the activity that takes place in the enclosure: more than 2,000 advice, more than 200 self-employed registrations and 63 viability plans.
Yesterday, this municipal public service celebrated its fourth anniversary with an act presided over by the mayor and the rector of the University of La LagunaRosa Maria Aguilar. The day focused on a conference by José Carlos Díez, professor at the University of Alcalá de Henares.
The Business Center opened in 2018 as a node of interaction between the municipality and the ULL, an institution that provides advice and a complete training program in science and technology, as well as in entrepreneurship and improvement of competitiveness.
It entered service in 2018 and has the collaboration of the University of La Laguna
In this period, the center completes its statistics with 63 single payments to self-employed entrepreneurs and with the organization of more than 140 training sessions aimed at entrepreneurs.
During the initial period of the pandemic, the Arona Business Center became an important Information point, support and processing of support measures for SMEs and the self-employed launched by the administrations. “An especially key job,” highlights the Aronero councilor.
The rector, Rosa Aguilar, explained that “working for employability and entrepreneurship in initiatives such as this Business Center is one of the best ways to collaborate with local development. Thanks to the work of our General Foundation and the fluid collaboration with the City Council of Arona we believe that the training and advice provided by this center can make a difference for people who come to its facilities”. The Lagunera rector stressed that it allows “increasing the presence of our institution in an area as strategic as the south of Tenerife, since our vocation is to collaborate, within our possibilities, with all possible municipalities and islands.”
