He also added that the Outermost Regions must make Europe aware of the need to finance projects in the poorest continent in the world because an economic boost for Africa, "would prevent deaths at sea of those who decide to leave their countries to emigrate to European lands" and also benefit "Europe itself."
Adán Martín assured during his speech that the most isolated regions are the ones that should best take advantage of the development prospects opened up by the New Technologies and began to assess the importance of education in the advancement of a country and a region, so he stressed the need to pay special attention to universities, since according to him, "we must be prepared for the New European Higher Education Area".
Adán Martín believes that "if we have a highly trained and qualified population, if both companies and people have access to information technologies, if we increasingly adapt training plans to the reality of the labor market, we will be on the road to achieving the progress of our regions".
For her part, the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Inés Rojas de León, expressed her satisfaction with the fact that the objectives that sponsored these conferences have been met, demonstrating that education "is the only way to make the world a better place" and expressed her wish that the representatives of the outermost regions do not forget Lanzarote "not only for the beauty of the Island, but for the agreements reached in this forum".
The Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, Isaac Godoy Delgado, focused the importance of this meeting on the need to reach collaboration agreements with the rest of the outermost regions "through the complicity that we must have among all to propose a model to follow".
Isaac Godoy Delgado stressed the need for these European regions to be in solidarity with each other. "We do not want resources to be distributed but to be shared, only then will we achieve a better future for all and strengthen our identity as a people," he said. Godoy Delgado wanted to make it clear that the Outermost Regions "want to move forward with the rest of the European Union but also with the rest of the regions in our same condition".
Balance of the conferences
The aforementioned conferences, in which the different educational and training models of the outermost regions have been analyzed, the importance of Vocational Training, the new Information Technologies, the new European Higher Education Area or the cost of remoteness; have allowed to deepen in the common aspects that in matter of Education have the mentioned geographical spaces of the European Union and that have crystallized in a joint declaration signed by the representatives of Azores, Martinique, Madeira and Canary Islands in which, before the territorial and distance conditions that have been recognized as especially onerous for them in the framework of the EU Treaty, they commit to seek joint and solidarity solutions to the common problems of remoteness.
To this end, the representatives of the aforementioned regions have agreed to create a working forum and actions aimed at boosting actions and programs that can provide solutions to common problems; make a new effort to ensure equity among EU citizens that lead to a true equality of opportunities, recognizing, despite this, the progress and positive aspects of belonging to the EU.
Finally, the participants of the Conferences have agreed to extend to the regions of Guyana, Reunion and Guadeloupe their adherence to the declaration of reference.