The Canary Islands continue to move forward in the search for collective agreements to face the demographic challenge with the maximum consensus. With this objective, the Government is organizing the 1st Congress on Demographic Challenge, focusing on the people, territories and future of the islands.
This meeting - which will take place on October 2nd and 3rd at the Guaires Cultural Center (Gáldar) - is being developed within the framework of the Canary Islands Strategy for Demographic Challenge, recently approved by the Conference of Presidents.
As a novelty, the congress will allow not only the presentation of communications by researchers, professionals or the student community and interested individuals, but proposals can also be presented in short film format, an innovative initiative that seeks to show, from an audiovisual point of view, stories, realities and proposals linked to the rural world of the Canary Islands and the challenges it faces.
The demographic challenge is one of the main challenges currently facing the archipelago, as it affects its social, economic and territorial development. This phenomenon manifests itself unevenly in the different islands and differently in each of them, since the population aspect has a special impact on a fragmented community such as the Canary Islands.
Thus, the population tends to concentrate in urban and tourist areas, generating intense pressure on infrastructure, while depopulation in rural areas, marked by aging and low birth rates, becomes more evident.
This complex scenario poses challenges with respect to social cohesion, but also in terms of sustainability. To provide a response adapted to each of these particularities and establish compensatory policies that allow a balanced development between all the islands, the Canary Islands has adopted the Canary Islands Strategy for Demographic Challenge.
Its main purpose is to guarantee a fair, sustainable, cohesive and balanced future for the different territories of the archipelago.
For two days, this congress will host professionals, institutions, students and citizens in general to address five major thematic areas around the debate on the demographic challenge.
These debate proposals include Demographic dynamics, such as population aging or the role of youth; territorial cohesion in the face of population changes; Environment and sustainability in the different spaces of the Canarian demography; The role of tourism in the Demographic Challenge Spaces or The importance of education, innovation and transparency in the design of solutions.
All information about the program, registration, deadlines and requirements to submit papers is available on the official website of the congress.
