The Provincial Council of León reiterated yesterday its support for the Erasmus + Grown Ups-Work program: Innovation, dynamisation and entrepreneurship in the training of rural adult women ‘in a multiplying event of this project that took place yesterday at the Municipal Library of Astorga to give it to get to know women in rural areas
The objectives of this project are: to know, support, guide and promote employment, the business and professional activity of rural adult women, contributing to a positive vision of the performance of a work activity and fighting against unemployment; improve the learning of adult women through the development of a dual education system and the management of new technologies; overcoming the gender gap in employment and entrepreneurship in rural areas; and innovate a learning method that combines learning processes and service to the community where participants learn to work on the real needs of the environment with the aim of improving it.
This project, led by the Diputación de Valladolid and with the collaboration of the provincial institution of León, is part of the Erasmus + program because it brings together these two collaborators in its development CoraNe (Portugal), Infocenter (Bulgaria) and For.es (Italy); so the different training courses offered through an online platform can be done in five languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese, Bulgarian and Italian.
‘Grown Ups-Work’ is especially aimed at unskilled adult women living in rural areas, unemployed, disabled with problems of access to the labor market or migrants at risk of social and economic exclusion.
At the ceremony held yesterday at the Municipal Library of Astorga, was present the deputy of Social Services, José Miguel Nieto, who explained that “the aim is that the most vulnerable rural women can be trained through this project so that they can look for work and for entrepreneurship ». In this regard, he added that “until the woman takes over the reins of the rural world it will be impossible to reduce the depopulation of the people.”
On the other hand, Carmen Arribas, manager of the European project office of the Provincial Council of León, pointed out that “in Europe the depopulation of the rural world is a widespread problem and it is proven that if women take root, they have a job and they can look for life in a village, it will be easier for her family to accompany her to develop her life there. “
In addition, Arribas indicated that any woman interested in this project can be trained in one of the training courses through the website www.grownupswork.com.