SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, September 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of the Canary Islands is committed to the development of culture and its activities as a key tool to achieve greater social cohesion in the archipelago.
This is the commitment that the Vice-Minister of the Presidency, Alfonso Cabello, highlighted this Wednesday during his speech at a meeting between cultural actors and public administrations to make culture visible in the progress reports of the 2030 Agenda that has been developed at the headquarters. of the Presidency of the Government in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
“Culture is an important public service, with a first-order importance in our society,” said Alfonso Cabello, stating that “culture and its various manifestations make up a transversal tool, like few others exist, to grow better as a society and also to spread renewed values and knowledge among all areas of the Canary Islands”.
In this meeting between cultural actors and public administration, convened to make culture visible in the progress reports of the 2030 Agenda, the Vice Minister of the Presidency elaborated on the idea of an objective that they share “with the cultural sector, with its creators and its actors , to achieve the integration of culture in a new key dimension of human and sustainable development”.
Also, stated Alfonso Cabello, to make visible and make profitable multiple complementary connections with areas of economic, labor, social and cultural development.
“That is why we aspire to a sustainable development model that values the cultural ecosystem and is committed to a model of cultural development in the Canary Islands that is based on pillars of sustainability and resilience. Because only in this way, and working together, will we achieve that culture strengthen society in values of commitment and respect,” Cabello said.
During the meeting sponsored by the Government of the Canary Islands, the second of five that the Spanish Network for Sustainable Development and the Secretary of State for the 2030 Agenda of the Ministry of Social Rights REDS are carrying out in different autonomous communities with several specific objectives, It was analyzed how to act from the cultural sector so that public and private cultural entities and agents have knowledge about who should report, what they should report and in what way and that the university sector contributes its research and knowledge in this regard, includes a note from the Executive.
CULTURAL ACTORS
In this area, the vice-counselor of the Presidency of the Canary Islands stressed the importance of adding the opinions of all cultural actors, together with local and regional representatives of public administrations and university professors in the cultural space of the Canary Islands to analyze how to develop reporting methods. so that the cultural sector can enter the reports that analyze the progress of the islands in the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.
Alfonso Cabello also highlighted the fact that the Canarian Agenda 2030 is a pioneering action in the State because the Canary Islands are the only autonomous community that has integrated the cultural dimension into its Sustainable Development Agenda (SDG) through the development of goals and indicators. specific cultures related to the archipelago.
“And if the Canarian Agenda 2030 is already a pioneering experience throughout the State,” encouraged the Vice-Minister of the Presidency, “based on this important achievement, it is now necessary to make this series of objectives visible to contribute to placing the crucial role of culture and its transformative potential within the 2030 Agenda”.
