The Government of the Canary Islands has announced a call for subsidies worth 6,930,261 euros for companies, business groups and non-profit entities with the aim of training, qualifying and requalifying 12,500 employees in strategic sectors and ecological transition.
The counselor, Elena Máñez, highlighted as the main novelty of this call that "it will be the companies or non-profit entities themselves who decide what training their staff needs, design it and implement it as they deem appropriate, with the financing of the Canarian Employment Service and provided that it is aimed at improving the competitiveness of their work in the strategic sectors set in the call".
With an execution period until the end of 2022, public aid has a maximum of 200,000 euros for companies (up to 33% of the total amount of the available budget) and non-profit entities (up to another 33%) or 400,000 euros for business groups (up to the remaining 33%) for the development of training actions.
It should be noted that this training will comprise from 30 to 60 hours in face-to-face or mixed mode, and will have workers or unemployed people, with preference for women, people under 30 years of age, people over 45 years of age, citizens with low or no qualifications, with disabilities and groups with difficult insertion or vulnerable people such as the long-term unemployed.
In addition, it establishes a period of 20 days for the three groups of interested entities to submit applications at the electronic headquarters of the regional administration with training projects for the updating and acquisition of professional skills or the accreditation of skills obtained through work experience.
With priority to the emerging sectors of the Vocational Training Modernization Plan (hospitality and tourism, information technologies, mechanical manufacturing and robotics, aeronautical equipment, vehicles with new energies, agricultural machinery, new materials, biopharmacy and medical products, personal care services, or consumer chain), the next training may also correspond to other cross-cutting areas such as applied digitization or environmental sustainability.
The SCE focuses both on the strategic activities for the Canarian economy of hospitality and commerce, as well as on green employment to contribute to productive diversification and the progressive achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda.
Specifically, the new call is part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, the main strategy of the Government of Spain to channel the funds allocated by the European Union (EU) to repair the damage caused by the coronavirus crisis through the Next Generation EU instrument.