SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the area of Employment, Socioeconomic Development and Foreign Action, will finance with 1.8 million euros the execution by 11 non-profit entities of activities to improve the employability of 540 unemployed people on the island .
The execution of these projects, submitted to the call for subsidies corresponding to 2022, will also allow the maintenance of 56 direct jobs.
The insular president, Pedro Martín, highlighted in a note the training and job prospecting work for unemployed people carried out by non-profit entities and explained that when granting this year’s subsidies, among other things, criteria, the innovative nature of the proposals presented and the way in which they contribute to the diversification of the productive fabric of the island and to the improvement of the environment.
“These are projects that are going to be carried out in different areas of the island and in which the training that is going to be given is designed to adjust as much as possible to the professional profiles most in demand on the island and to the employment niches related to the consolidation of a model of sustainable development”, adds the president.
In this sense, the counselor of the Employment and Socioeconomic Development area, Carmen Luz Baso, explains that, in addition to training unemployed people, the selected projects include individual guidance for each of the participants as well as internships in companies, “in order to that they can apply the theoretical knowledge and have an initial experience that will help them to expand their possibilities of later labor insertion”.
Among the 11 projects financed in the 2022 call, there are three linked to the development of the green and blue economy that have been presented by the Coordinator of Canary Islands Agriculture and Livestock Organizations (COAG), the Ateretaco Canary Islands Foundation and the Domitila Association Hernández for Equal Opportunities.
The three add up to a total aid of 453,526 euros and 120 places available.
SUSTAINABILITY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Two other projects, promoted by the Provincial Federation of Metal and New Technologies Companies (Femete) and by the Don Bosco Salesianos Social Foundation, are linked to sustainability and energy efficiency and have a total aid of 522,853 euros and 160 places.
48% of the grants awarded, some 874,256 euros, are earmarked for projects related to the service sector and the orange economy, based on knowledge and culture.
Specifically, these are initiatives that add up to 260 places and that have been proposed by the Federation of Canary Islands Urban Areas (Fauca), and the Afedes associations, for the promotion of training, employment and development in the north; Hopscotch, for economic and social development; Actua, for labor insertion and promotion of the social economy; Atacayte for the fight for social welfare and + Family, for family, educational and psychosocial intervention and mediation.
The amount granted to each project varies depending on the level of unemployment in the area in which the activity will be carried out, the number of places available and how many of them are allocated to groups with greater difficulty in finding a job, such as people with disabilities. and the women.
