SEPE promotes digital training for more than 260 workers in the rural world of Ávila

• The subdelegate of the Government in Ávila, Fernando Galeano, participates in the training day in Candeleda, which seeks to provide new capacities and digital skills to the rural female population • The program, which has allowed the implementation of 32 courses since its implementation in 2023, seeks to reduce the territorial gap of rural areas and the digital gender gap

April 10, 2024. The subdelegate of the Government in Ávila, Fernando Galeano, participated this Wednesday in the digital training day for women framed within the Agricultural Employment Promotion Program (PFEA) that has been held in the municipality of Candeleda.

The digital literacy training day, which was attended by the provincial director of the Public Employment Service (SEPE), Isabel Pellón, and the mayor of Candeleda, Carlos Montesinos, aims to train women workers and former workers of the PFEA in digital skills, as well as fight against the digital gender gap and the territorial gap of rural areas.

The content of the courses is about the acquisition of basic digital skills, ranging from the management of a computer or a mobile phone to the completion of online administrative procedures, as well as digital skills for employment.

During the visit, Galeano recalled the importance of digital training to access a labor market that has been transformed with the incorporation of new technologies. A digitalization that, in any case, becomes a great ally for the rural mute of Ávila, not only because of the upward trend in the modality of teleworking but also because of the opportunities opened up by technological infrastructures in ecosystems such as agriculture and livestock farming.

These are free training courses that are part of an investment project promoted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Economy, which are funded by the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and are part of the training itinerary launched by the Public Employment Service (SEPE).

Ávila is the province of Castilla y León where this training is having the most success, which has benefited a total of 267 women to date. Specifically, during 2023, a total of 28 courses were taught, which were attended by 241 women. So far this year, four courses have been developed that have been attended by 26 people.

To date, courses have been developed in the towns of Nava de Arévalo, Tiñosillo, Candelada, Horcajo de las Torres, Bercial de Zapardiel, San Vicente de Arévalo, Barromán, Langa and Madrigal de las Altas Torres, “where the involvement of their mayors with the provision of the spaces in which the formations are taught has been key.”

CORRECT TERRITORIAL IMBALANCES

Galeano recalled that under the Agrarian Development Program 2023, 377 unemployed workers have been hired in the province, preferably temporary agricultural workers and mostly women, on a full-time basis for a period of three months.

In March, the workers completed the three-month period of full-time recruitment of the PFEA, during which they carried out tasks that they have reversed in their municipalities, now having the opportunity to participate in the digital training courses. A programme that has been developed in a total of 44 municipalities and has been endowed with a budget of 1.6 million euros.

Thus, said Galeano, Ávila is located as the province most benefited from Castilla y León through a program that represents an “important boost to rural employment and a lever to correct territorial imbalances.”

A plan that has the collaboration of social agents, as well as institutions such as Diputación and Junta de Castilla y León and with the involvement of mayors of different municipalities,