December 5, 2023.- The Government, through the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, has approved the distribution of 2,134,557 euros to Castilla y León for the development of a Digital Skills Training Plan for the Tourism Sector for the year 2023, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, in its Component 19.
The agreement, which will have to be ratified at the Sectoral Conference on Tourism, involves the distribution of 54 million for all the autonomous communities and cities and responds to a distribution criterion in relation to the number of tourist employment in each autonomous community, proposing an indicator that measures the average of the three months of greater affiliation to social security of each autonomy.
The autonomous communities are the beneficiaries of these funding lines, although the final recipients of the program for the digital transformation of SMEs are SMEs and workers and young people in the tourism sector.
Each autonomous community will develop a Training Program in Digital Skills for Tourism and will be the coordinator of execution and justification.
Digital Skills Training Plan for the Tourism Sector
The overall objective of the Plan is to agree on the common elements that must be present in each Training Program designed and implemented by the CCAA; since, being funded by NextGeneration funds, it is necessary to consider some extremes in a coordinated way. Its specific objectives are:
- Design formative actions.
- Identify competency levels.
- Design correctly leveled training actions.
- Enhance the collaboration of the private sector.
- Orienting training actions to the needs of each company.
The content established for training actions is composed of 5 competential axes:
- Computerization and data literacy: search for data and information in digital environments, access and navigate through them, judge the relevance of the source and its content, store and organize information and content...
- Communication and collaboration: participating in society through the use of public and private digital services.
- Digital content creation: create and edit digital content and improve and integrate information and content into an existing body of knowledge, and understand how copyright and licensing should apply.
- Security: protecting devices, content, personal data and privacy in digital environments, as well as being aware of digital technologies in social welfare and social inclusion and their environmental impact.
- Problem solving: identifying needs and problems and solving conceptual problems and problematic situations in the digital environment. Use digital tools to innovate processes and products.
The recipients of the training actions, which will last 150 hours, will be SMEs and workers in the tourism sector. Globally, 19,350 people are expected to participate before the end of the second quarter of 2026