The Cabildo trains 51 unemployed people to work in renewable energy and electric mobility with the collaboration of Femete and the management of Fifede. The island councilor, Carmen Luz Baso, highlights: “This project promotes training in emerging sectors with a growing demand for qualified personnel to fill jobs that require specialized training.”
These job seekers are trained to work in the renewable energy sector and other emerging sectors linked to electric mobility, within the framework of the project Driving new employment niches, managed by the Cabildo, through the Insular Foundation for Training, Employment and Business Development (Fifede).
Baso visited the Femete facilities, where the courses are held, and assured: “This project enables unemployed people to specialize to fill jobs that require training.” The minister stressed that “in addition to facilitating the insertion of the unemployed, with this training offer we contribute to generating quality employment and consolidating new activities with which to diversify the island’s economy.”
The president of Femete, Alberto Villalobos, appreciates the support of the Cabildo “to these training projects that we successfully impart to students and job placement.” Among them, some so in need of qualified personnel such as naval repairs, maintenance of nautical vessels, hybrid, electric and two- and three-wheel vehicles, telecommunications with Telco certification, prevention of work at heights, confined and vertical spaces, metal constructions or renewable energies. , as well as the new blue economy.
The training actions that are taught at the Femete facilities are industrial mechanical maintenance of wind turbines (370 hours); photovoltaic self-consumption and vehicle recharging points in homes (505 hours); maintenance of motorcycles and electric vehicles (670 hours) and repair of electrical and electronic equipment (290).
