The subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, today highlighted how the Government of Pedro Sánchez fulfills “point by point” its commitments to the areas affected by the fair transition processes in Galicia. It did so in Cerceda in the opening of the first of the training and job placement courses launched in Galicia by the Institute for the Just Transition (ITJ) and which are specifically aimed at unemployed people from the municipalities affected by the closure of the Meirama and Cerceda power plants.
María Rivas put this training as an example of how the Ministry for the Ecological Transition is materializing the commitments made by the Government of Spain with these areas. The subdelegate traveled today to the city of Cerceda, where she inaugurated this course together with its mayor, Juan Manuel Rodríguez. The inauguration was also attended by ITJ’s agent of Galicia’s Just Transition territory, Nuria Álvarez.
The subdelegate of the Government stressed that this training program is ‘an important step in the search for new employment opportunities’ and that it aims to train and insert 200 people in the fair transition areas of Spain into the labour market. The program is funded by the Government’s Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
The training is aimed at redundant workers over 52 years of age and, in order to promote equal opportunities without gender discrimination, it establishes that at least 30% of the people trained are women. “Women make up 52% of the population and, for the processes of modernization and fair transition to succeed, we cannot stay out, on the contrary, we must be protagonists,” said Rivas.
The courses offer specialized training in areas such as wind and solar energy, energy efficiency, environmental monitoring and waste management which, according to María Rivas, helps to ‘address the environmental and economic challenges ahead of us’ and to ‘ensure a sustainable future’.
In the case of Cerceda, the course takes place in the Viveiro Industrial de Empresas and has as its theme the “Waste Management and Operator of Maintenance Trucks”. About 20 students and students participate in it. The City of Cerceda collaborates with this initiative that is provided through the company LHH.
Support for city councils and business investment
María Rivas recalled that training and job placement is one of the commitments undertaken by the Government with the Just Transition Zones along with support for municipalities and business investment. In the case of the City of Cerceda, he recalled that these investments exceed the 16.7 million euros granted by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition to carry out different actions.
In particular, the subdelegate stressed that with the call for the PERTE of Renewable Energies, the Government supports with 15 million euros the development of the Green Hydrogen plant promoted by the company Naturgy in Meirama.
In the same vein, the subdelegate pointed out that the Government financed the reform of the old school, with 77.798 euros, to transform it into a building of basic administrative services and educational, cultural and recreational activities. To this aid are added two others with a value of 1.7 million euros destined for the photovoltaic installation in the Aquapark, and the expansion and regeneration of the environment of the river promenade of the Cabancos River in O Acevedo.