Caravaqueño Consistory asked the Ministry of Education the implementation of the Degree of Vocational Training Footwear and Fashion Accessories
The City of Caravaca de la Cruz has today launched a public employment program, which will work over the coming months in the preparation of the basement Employment Center Aparado as a training workshop for the footwear industry.
The project, drafted and promoted by the Department of Employment, is endowed with a budget of around 140,000 euros, of which 90,000 euros are provided by the Employment Services and Training for the wage costs of hiring and the rest is municipal contribution.
This use of masonry program has allowed the hiring of eight people unemployed.
The work to be performed during the next six months will be aimed to enable a municipal space for a workshop Aparado continuing education.
"This action will allow both active workers and persons unemployed have adequate space to receive specific knowledge of the production chain shoe, allowing certain tasks do not have to perform outside Caravaca inadequate qualifications" as he explained by the mayor, Jose Moreno.
Support for the Association of Footwear Industries
Moreover, the mayor has expressed support for the Association of Footwear Industries and Alpargatas Northwest Region of Murcia and has reported that municipal budgets collect an annual amount of 5,000 euros to collaborate with the association on internationalization and fairs sector.
In addition to this grant, the transfer by the City of space on Las Monjas, where the former Chamber of Commerce was located, which will host the association adds.
Intermediate Technical Footwear and Fashion Accessories
Moreover, the City of Caravaca de la Cruz requested in October last year to the Ministry of Education, through its Directorate General of Quality Education and Vocational Training, implantation in the caravaqueño Institute Gines Perez Chirinos Middle Grade Technical Footwear and Fashion ', vocational training is currently only offered in Elche and Elda, and has been in demand by caravaqueños entrepreneurs.
'Subsequently, this proposal has been raised as a motion to the Regional Assembly, at the initiative of the Socialist deputy Choni Ludeña, resulting approved ", as detailed José Moreno, who believes that it is essential to advance the qualification specialized workers this industry, thus contributing to economic and social development of the population.
Shoe-making has traditionally been one of the economic bases of the municipality, currently being in a process of consolidation, development and evolution as a modern and solvent industry.
This industry has in the Northwest Region with a total of 45 companies, of which 30 are direct manufacturers and 15 assistants in the Northwest.
Regional footwear production, 70% is done in the Northwest and in particular in Caravaca de la Cruz, which is the municipality that more companies have settled in their term.
The industry estimates that this year 2015 sell abroad a figure of over one hundred million euros, twice as five years ago.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz