The Economic Promotion Area of the Arona City Council, with the collaboration of the Foundation of the University of La Laguna, launches a pilot program of job placement training scholarships with companies in the municipality, within the ARN Innova-Arona Emprende program. Priority will be given to those who have been or are being advised by the Arona Emprende team at the Las Galletas Business Center.
Arona contributes like this three scholarships for recent university graduates, which will be paid for by the consistory through ARN Innova. The validity of these labor insertion scholarships will be nine weeks for part-time jobs, and they will not be incompatible with other scholarship programs, according to the local government.
The City Council calls on all companies that want to participate in the project to proceed to register within the established period, which begins today and ends on September 26 (both inclusive). They can do so at https://sede.fg.ull.es/.
After the selection of the beneficiary companies by the General Foundation of the University of La Laguna, The scholarship offer will be published on the Fgull website. The chosen companies will carry out the final selection among the candidates, for a minimum period of seven calendar days. In addition, the Foundation will manage the hiring and will monitor the people hired, exposes the Consistory.
a new vision
Raquel García, Councilor for Economic Promotion and Employment, points out that “this initiative is intended to promote the practical training of interns in the work environment, integrating them into the human teams of the selected companies, in addition to enriching academic training”. García states that “we seek to consolidate the commitment of the Arona companies in the practical training programs for students and graduates, in addition to showing these companies the range of competencies of public training centers, as well as the abilities of students to improve and provide a new vision within the company».
The link between the Arona City Council and the ULL is multiple. In business matters, it should be remembered that companies and entrepreneurs in the municipality benefit from a specialized advisory program thanks to an agreement between the Consistory and the General Foundation of the University of La Laguna. The service, intensified in the online format due to the pandemic, is provided through the Emprende.ull technical team. Emprende Arona has in the Business Center of Las Galletas the epicenter of the workshops, advice and support for entrepreneurs who were trying to improve their business positioning or create a new company.
