Benidorm approves 'Benidorm TIC', the training project in new technologies

The Benidorm Local Government Board has today approved the award of the Benidorm TIC contract. It is a digital literacy training program, framed in the Sustainable and Integrated Urban Development Strategy (EDUSI) of Benidorm, which seeks to reduce the digital divide of the residents of Benidorm with free courses of up to 40 hours in new technologies. As explained by the mayor Toni Pérez, "with Benidorm TIC, we bring free and quality training in new technologies to the city's neighbourhoods."

This training plan includes more than 100 different courses such as digital administration, use of the electronic DNI, use of social networks or handling of smartphones. "It is an initiative with which we seek to improve the insertion, both in the workplace and in society, of the most disadvantaged groups," added Pérez, who underlines that "for this reason, we will set up classrooms in the José Llorca Linares, La Torreta and the Training Center for Employment 'Pepita Puchades', among other locations.”

Benidorm TIC is an initiative that, in the words of the mayor, "will allow us to reduce the digital divide of our most vulnerable population". The training program also includes courses to learn how to use banking or electronic commerce, aimed at groups such as the elderly or people with functional diversity who "are at risk of exclusion for not mastering these new technologies."

The investment in Benidorm TIC not only includes educational actions but also a classroom with fixed computers and another with portable equipment will be enabled to develop the training courses. The schedule of the courses will be adapted to the centre where the training is given, but all will be free and last between 30 and 40 hours.

With this initiative, Benidorm consolidates its commitment to quality training as an integration tool to fight against social exclusion. The training program in ICT and new technologies, which has almost 70,000 euros of European investment and another 70,000 from the Benidorm City Council, responds to the second thematic objective of the EDUSI Benidorm that seeks to "improve the use and quality of information technologies and communication” and the ninth on “social inclusion and fight against poverty”.

ABOUT THE EDUSI OF BENIDORM:

The Pluriregional Operational Program of Spain 2014-2020, and the Operational Program for Sustainable Growth (POCS) promote the DUSI strategy, for Sustainable and Integrated Urban Development, of which Benidorm, as established in the Resolution of May 4, 2018, published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) of the Order of the Third Call HFP/888/2017, has managed to opt for and obtain financing from the FEDER aid of 10 Million Euros, through its EDUSI BENIDORM strategy.

The EDUSI BENIDORM is made up of a series of thematic, specific, strategic and operational objectives, encompassed through 13 Lines of Action, whose social, environmental, economic and urban impact on the city aims to transform a delimited urban area of the city into the to intervene and regenerate comprehensively, for the sake of producing an impact and global improvement in the city.