The municipality of Tinajo, together with Gáldar in Gran Canaria and La Frontera in El Hierro, will be the first three rural municipalities on the islands to host a pioneering project by the Government of the Canary Islands that seeks to promote equitable development on the islands of the Canary Islands 2030 Agenda and, in particular, to bring the R&D&I generated on the islands closer to these areas.
Under the title Routes 2030, professionals and experts in the field of science and technology will participate in various activities in areas of high environmental and ethnographic value in each of these municipalities to learn about innovative projects and exchange ideas and proposals that result between them or with local actors.
The objective of this informal dynamic is to promote that the science and technology generated in companies and research and technological development centers on the islands is better known and is closer to the opportunities and challenges that exist beyond the large cities of the archipelago, according to the general director of Planning, Octavio Caraballo.
He emphasizes that the Canary Islands 2030 Agenda "needs all the territories of the archipelago to advance equitably in solving the current challenges of economic development."
Start-ups and technology companies
This activity also stimulates the possibility that young people from the municipalities where they are developed can connect to regional companies and knowledge agents, creating "a positive contagion that can inspire them personally and professionally," according to Caraballo.
With Routes 2030, the autonomous government promotes that rural municipalities also get involved in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focused on promoting science and technology as drivers of sustainability, so that they participate in their positive effects on the economy and employment.
This project will begin to walk in the midlands of Gáldar on February 3, thus supporting the transformation and modernization processes of this rural municipality and highlighting its entrepreneurial talent and natural human capital.
Routes 2030 will have the joint participation of the Ministry of Universities, Science and Innovation and Culture and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Sovereignty of the Government of the Canary Islands. The Canary Islands Association of Startups, Technology-Based Companies and Angel Investors (EMERGE), in collaboration with public universities and other scientific-technological centers of the islands, coordinates the involvement of the people who will attend these activities and the projects that will be presented.
After its premiere in the north of Gran Canaria, the second day of Routes 2030 will take place on April 6 in La Frontera and the third on May 18 in Tinajo. The intention of the Executive is to reproduce this activity in three other rural municipalities of the archipelago during the second quarter of the year, so that this pioneering initiative reaches all the islands and all the interested rural Canarian municipalities.
