Benidorm City Council prepares the tender for the training project that allows widespread access to New Technologies
Benidorm ICT, underway
The digital literacy initiative, amounting to €139,939, has been co-financed 50% by European ERDF funds and the DUSI strategy
“Benidorm TIC is a project that seeks to address the digital gap between citizens with training actions in new technologies and the Internet. This year we have expanded our objectives and scope, focusing the training on the most disadvantaged groups from the point of view of access to these new technologies,” explained the Councillor for Innovation and European Funds Aída García Mayor. With this tender, computer classrooms will be supplied, the subjects, the project manager and the trainers will be chosen.
"It is evident that, after this pandemic, the use of the Internet and new technologies such as the use of electronic commerce, electronic banking or digital administration is a clear need for all groups," declared the Councillor Aida García. “Groups such as the elderly or people with functional diversity are at risk of exclusion by not mastering these new technologies. That is why the City Council resumes this training after these years of the pandemic.” With the help of EDUSI, the Council reaffirms its commitment to the integration of the most disadvantaged groups with this ambitious project.
"The objective of Benidorm TIC is to bring training to the city's neighbourhoods to facilitate attendance at the courses for all the people who consider it necessary to learn," declared the Councilor for Innovation and European Funds Aida García Mayor. “Thus we will have classrooms in José Llorca Linares and La Torreta social centres, Rincón de L’Oix Employment Center, the City Council Computer Room and any other location during the execution of this project that seems interesting to implement. The schedule of the courses will be adapted to the schedule of the centre where the training is given, they will last between 30 and 40 hours and will be free for all students.”
That is why the tender will include a classroom with computers and another with laptops, to provide versatility to the educational actions. The specifications request a minimum of 100 courses to be developed in 15 months and include courses on e-administration and use of the DNI-e, use of social networks or handling of smartphones.
With the help of European funding from the DUSI strategy, Benidorm City Council reaffirms its commitment to integration with the Benidorm TIC tender. With this digital literacy initiative, the council seeks to improve the social and labour integration of groups affected by the risk of exclusion. In this way, the City Council continues its campaign to promote the use of new technologies and digital literacy, with a focus on the less privileged.
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.
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.