Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) .
In this first edition, the direct beneficiaries will be about 40 members of the Association of Cape Verde Filmmakers and more than a hundred teachers and students from the Praia Professional School of Technology and Arts (Eptartes) and the University of Cape Verde. , and will have the participation of eight Canarian teachers from the CIFP Las Indias as well as businessmen from the Audiovisual Cluster of the Canary Islands.
The program will last about two weeks, from April to July, with the aim of promoting training and work and employability.
As the director of the Integrated Vocational Training Center (CIFP), Gregorio Hernández, has expressed, this project “seeks to provide training in sectors that are currently in demand in Cape Verde and that we, and in those that in the Canary Islands due to our economic development , we have a lot of experience”, such as the audiovisual sector and the sector of cinematographic characterization and show costumes.
In a second phase, professionals from the Canary Islands Audiovisual Cluster will travel to Cape Verde for camera training, cinema, productions, how to organize a business based on film production, among other aspects.
In this line of projects, “we all win”, highlighted Hernández, since “we provide this training to improve the employability of Cape Verdeans and their professionals and this means taking advantage of our companies that are going to train, work, and create business” At the same time, professionals from the Canary Islands “will be able to learn from a reality of this country that is our neighbor.”
This is the first time that a project of this type has been carried out through the Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias after the success of the Erasmus+ programs that have been very well received and have resulted in two businesses already set up and running.
“It is our grain of sand”, said the director of the CIFP, “we are a small professional training center in Tenerife with barely 500 students and 52 teachers” with “a vocation for the project”.
For her part, the General Director of Economic Affairs with Africa of the Government of the Canary Islands, Nasara Cabrera, highlighted that the ‘Training of Trainers’ program that has been running since 2020 for other professional sectors, has already benefited “more than 500 people from eight countries of the African continent within the new Canary Islands Africa Strategy” with the aim of “deepening the collaboration of the two territories from multiple areas for joint growth”.
The objective, he said, is “to consolidate and promote the Canary Islands as a node of international knowledge in which Canarian experts come together with trainers from developing countries.”
For Cabrera, the inclusion of the audiovisual sector and training in the textile, fashion, clothing, aesthetics and hairdressing sector is due to the fact that “there are no regulated training courses in these countries” so the program “contributes to professionalization in sectors very interesting and that can contribute to the self-employment of many people”.
It has valued the “link with entrepreneurship in markets with a high level of informality such as Africa”, in “market niches that are there, that are not professionalized and that can also be attractive for entrepreneurship”.
In this way, and from the Canary Islands, it is expected to “strengthen professional training, transfer the capacity that already exists in the islands to provide more specialized skills and position the archipelago as an international node of knowledge”, he said. EFE
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