Canary Islands allocates 27 million to training for the unemployed

The subsidy prioritizes people with disabilities, the long-term unemployed, women victims of gender violence, young people under 30 years of age and people over 45 years of age

November 8 2024 (10:14 WET)
Updated in November 8 2024 (10:14 WET)
Part of a PFAE training course in Tías on dynamizing children's and youth activities
Part of a PFAE training course in Tías on dynamizing children's and youth activities

The Ministry of Tourism and Employment of the Government of the Canary Islands has opened the call for subsidies, in a non-competitive concurrence regime, for alternating training with employment (PFAE) projects with a total amount of 27.8 million euros.

The programs, in person, are aimed at improving the employability of people who are not employed and not integrated into education or training systems, who have greater difficulties in entering and who are registered as job seekers in the Canarian Employment Service (SCE).

The Minister of Tourism and Employment, Jéssica de León, stressed that “these programs are an instrument for improving employability because thanks to them the beneficiaries acquire basic skills and job training that allows them to obtain a professional certificate.” She also recalled that “participants receive remuneration from the first day of training, and are registered with Social Security.”

Public entities of the Canary Islands and organizations with legal personality and non-profit, which will be those that design the Alternating Training with Employment Programs (PFAE), may apply for this call. The projects will last eleven months and fifteen days and will enable the insertion of unemployed people into the labor market.

De León highlighted that her Department is focusing its government action on “coordinating employment plans with the needs and demands of the productive fabric”, and gave as an example the different projects linked to the areas of construction, among others.  

For her part, the director of the SCE, María Teresa Ortega, highlighted that “in this new call, the training plan for each project must include, as a minimum, the content necessary to obtain a professional certificate, to which orientation actions, advice for job search, prevention of occupational hazards and complementary information, such as environment, equality, European social fund and information society, must be added.”

In addition, she pointed out that “priority groups to access the programs are people with disabilities, the long-term unemployed, women victims of gender violence, young people under 30 years of age and people over 45 years of age.”

The application forms, called annex 1, are available on the electronic headquarters of the Government of the Canary Islands. The deadline is seven days, once the call is published in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC).

 

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