The professional opportunities fair Planéate, organized by the Department of Education of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, celebrates its tenth edition and is consolidated in the island's educational calendar in this 2024-25 academic year with new proposals, guided tours and a complete program of informative and advisory actions.
The Minister of Education, Ascensión Toledo, presented the student and teacher meeting, which she assured “constitutes a unique opportunity for knowledge and orientation for students facing a change of cycle and who, on occasions, are unaware of the multiple options that open up to them in the construction of their future.”
According to her, “in Lanzarote we have left behind the times when the future was written and today we have countless alternatives. And that is our mission: to remind students facing a change of stage that there are many options, among which the exit from the educational system should in no case be included.”
Also, as an important novelty, the Minister highlighted the special attention to adapted and inclusive education, “which is a fundamental pillar of equality and a necessary springboard for the normalization of the student body with disabilities of any kind” and which will have an informative session in the open afternoon for families.
In this regard, the representative of the third sector and spokesperson for Adislan, Elyzaida Saavedra, expressed the urgency of having training offer adapted to the needs and circumstances of people with disabilities “as the only possible way to access the labor market and the exercise of their rights.”
The Island Director of Education, Carmen Pellón, thanked the Cabildo de Lanzarote for organizing this activity and recalled that the Government of the Canary Islands acts as a bridge between companies and Vocational Training to detect the needs of companies and sectors with greater employability. For his part, the director of CIFP Zonzamas, Isaac Molina, expressed his satisfaction for hosting for the second year the Professional Opportunities Fair, which he described as “a remarkable contribution and guide from the Cabildo for advising families regarding the training decisions of their sons and daughters.”
Tenth edition
One more year, the Fair repeats its location at the Zonzamas Integrated Vocational Training Center in Arrecife, which will take place between April 1 and 3. During the three school days, the meeting will receive 3,000 students in the morning, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., in three daily shifts, to receive precise information about the different public and private education centers and the training offer inside and outside the island, through brief presentations and direct attention from the displaced teams.
Planéate returns with the commitment to guide and advise students in choosing from the various training itineraries that facilitate their labor insertion in the future. Since its first edition, the educational event has become one of the events of greatest interest for students in 4th year of ESO, 2nd year of Baccalaureate, Aula Enclave, Basic FP and Adapted FP.
For this, the program offers open days with visits from selected groups to the facilities of CIFP Zonzamas, the Pancho Lasso school, the Arrecife Maritime Fishing Institute and the IES Las Maretas. Mini-talk sessions have also been organized Project your future career, taught by the University Foundation of Las Palmas and others on the School of Actors of the Canary Islands.
In addition, as is already customary in the Planéate program, the afternoon of the second day, in this case, Wednesday, April 2, the doors will be opened to families and the communication of exemplary experiences, in a playful and close environment and with free access. Thus, between 4:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., the assembly hall of CIFP Zonzamas will host university and vocational training orientation talks given by the University of La Laguna, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the Professional Orientation Service of Lanzarote.
Adapted and inclusive education will have its space between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. with the activity “Future and diversity” by the Inserta Empleo program, of the ONCE Foundation and the ADISLAN and ADEPSIS associations.
Then will come the turn of the popular meeting Serendipia, which is moderated by Amalia Martínez Fajardo. In this edition, university students from different specialties and higher centers and Vocational Training and a person with university-qualified functional diversity will narrate their experiences. The activity will close with performances by members of the Picón urbano project.
The script of your life
The inaugural conference, which for the first time will extend its hours, with a morning session for students and an afternoon session for the general public, will be given by Miguel Ángel Tobías. Under the title The script of your life, the dream seeker, adventurer, aviator, producer and director of social films and documentaries, speaker and writer, will talk about the importance of change management, motivation, resilience, dignity and empowerment, based on his own experiences.
People interested in attending the conference, which will be held on Monday, March 31 at 8:00 p.m. in the island theater El Salinero, can obtain their invitations from tomorrow, March 21, at 9:00 a.m., through https://www.ecoentradas.com/.
