SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands has presented three applications for vocational training centers for the 2023 call for aid from the state network of centers of excellence, which aims to promote, from the educational field, research and constant improvement of the programs and methodology of spaces and equipment.
These are the Integrated Vocational Training Centers (CIFP) César Manrique and Virgen de Candelaria in Santa Cruz Tenerife, and Felo Monzón Grau Bassas in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Within the productive sectors in which this year’s call is framed, the CIFP César Manrique participates in the Audiovisual field, the Virgen de Candelaria in the Tourism field, while the Felo Monzón Grau Bassas participates in the Construction and Energy Sustainability.
Their selection to join the state network of centers of excellence would allow them to become drivers of innovation, applied research and entrepreneurship, both in the Canary Islands and in the rest of the national territory.
These proposals are submitted to the call for national aid within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, and are financed with Next Generation EU European funds. The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training will allocate a budget of 24 million euros to the plans developed within the framework of these aid, of which each selected project and center will receive a maximum of one million euros for the first phase of this initiative.
As articulated in the call, the objective is to finance the methodological and digital transformation of the center’s spaces and equipment, the incorporation of applied disruptive technology, the training of teachers at the state level, the development of innovation and applied research projects or the networking, among others.
The members of this ecosystem will act as creators of innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship environments in the field of Vocational Training; They will collaborate in detecting the needs of the professional profiles of the productive sectors, as well as in the curricular reviews of the related training offers and will maintain close collaboration with the companies in their environment, business and union associations, training centers and entities of the third sector to become drivers of innovation throughout the territory and promote internationalization.
This national call can contribute to promoting Vocational Training in the Archipelago, which, as Minister Poli Suárez has stated, is one of the priority objectives for the current legislature as an element of economic development and social cohesion, approaching the demands and needs of the main productive sectors of each of the eight islands, both within the framework of the Canary Islands Vocational Training Plan and the Canary Islands Dual Training Strategy 2022-2026.
In this sense, to give these teachings the importance they require, a specific Vice-Ministry for these teachings has been created, directed by Francisco Rodríguez Machado, which in turn has the general directorates of Vocational Training and Special Regime Education and Professional Qualifications. , coordinated by Ainhoa Molina and Alfredo David Espinosa, respectively.
