SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 17 May. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Council of Ministers has approved this Tuesday, at the proposal of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MEFP), the investment of 17.7 million euros in the Canary Islands to promote the Plan for the Modernization of Vocational Training, within the framework of the Plan of Recovery, Transformation and Resilience (PRTR), which allocates a total of 392.9 million euros to this line of investment.
In addition, the Government has approved the investment of nearly 49 million euros in the Canary Islands for the professional training of workers, employed and unemployed during 2022.
These funds, corresponding to the 2022 financial year, are part of the total investment of 2,075.4 million euros that the PRTR allocates to the modernization of the Vocational Training system until 2023. The investment approved at the national level represents a total of 92 million more than the amount earmarked in the previous year for these actions; and will serve to give continuity to those already started in 2020 for this purpose.
Among the most important actions, the promotion of the new model of evaluation and permanent accreditation of professional skills stands out, for which the Canary Islands will receive 4.8 million euros. The MEFP aims to reach 750,000 workers throughout Spain by 2022 and accredit the skills of three million people by 2023.
According to the EPA, more than ten million people, 46% of the active population, lack professional accreditation, despite carrying out their work activity on a daily basis, which hinders their access to better jobs and working conditions, as well as their incorporation to the formation. In ten years, only 300,000 people have been able to accredit their skills following the old procedure.
In addition, the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training allocates 5.7 million euros to the Canary Islands for the creation of new Vocational Training places for the 2022-2023 academic year, which will be added to those that the autonomous community generates with its own funds.
The Government has already financed nearly 130,000 Vocational Training places in the two previous years, with which everything indicates that it will exceed the objective, set in 2020, of creating 200,000 in four years. In addition, the investment collects funds destined for the conversion of cycles of intermediate degree, higher degree and specialization courses in bilinguals, of which the Canary Islands will receive more than 6 million.
Another of the lines of action of the Modernization Plan is the conversion of classrooms into applied technology spaces, for which the Canary Islands will receive 732,050 euros.
The MEFP also allocates 365,000 euros to the Canary Islands this year for the creation of entrepreneurship classrooms, thus promoting resources for students to promote their own business projects by providing them with the means and professional guidance that helps them achieve their goals.
The distribution among the Autonomous Communities is carried out through an Extraordinary Territorial Cooperation Program, according to various criteria related to the active population, geographical dispersion, the number of companies or the demographic profile, among others. These funds will be submitted for final approval at the next Education Sector Conference.
TRAINING OF WORKERS.
At the same time, the Government has approved this Tuesday, also at the proposal of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, the distribution of 48.8 million euros to the Canary Islands for Vocational Training aimed at workers, employed and unemployed.
This line of investment, endowed with 846,429,590 euros at the national level, amounts to 163 million euros more than that allocated during the same period of the previous year. The funds, coming from the annual budgets of the MEFP, will be directed to training in professional certificates linked to the National Catalog of Professional Qualifications and following the training needs of the labor market.
