• During the presentation of the results of the seven projects that CEPES and its partners COCETA, LABORPAR, FAEDEI and REAS have developed last year within the framework of the Plan to Promote vocational training for Social Economy and Social Economy last year.
• Gerardo Gutiérrez pointed out that we are at a fundamental moment for the Social Economy, since it is included in the roadmap of the Spanish Strategy for Active Employment Policies 2021-2014, the Youth Guarantee Plus Action Plan and the Recovery Plan , Transformation and Resilience.
• The General Director of Self-Employment, Social Economy and Corporate Social Responsibility, Maravillas Espín, assured that “training will be one of the backbones of the next Social Economy Strategy”.
• The director of FUNDAE, Antonio de Luis "valued the quality of the studies carried out by the Social Economy, which are the basis for the reflection that is necessary in the face of the new production model."
• The president of CEPES, Juan Antonio Pedreño, stressed that “companies, large and small, will need qualified workers to innovate and grow. Only by joining the forces of all the partners that are involved in the formation of the Social Economy will we be able to tackle this challenge ”.
Madrid, June 2, 2021.- The draft modification of the Employment Law , as well as other Strategies in which the team of the third vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, is working will have a very present the Social Economy.
This has been stated by Gerardo Gutiérrez, director of SEPE, during the act of presentation of results - held this Tuesday virtually - of the seven projects that the Spanish Business Confederation of the Social Economy (CEPES) and its partners COCETA, LABORPAR, FAEDEI and REAS have developed in 2020 with funding from FUNDAE, SEPE and the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy , within the framework of the Plan to Promote vocational training for the Social Economy and the Self-Employed, which was presented on 18 November by Minister Díaz.
Gutiérrez highlighted the Government's commitment to the Social Economy, being incorporated and “ being a protagonist in the roadmap of the three employment policy development documents that we have in place from the Executive: the Spanish Strategy for Active Support for Employment 2021-2014 , which will be definitively approved in the coming months; the Youth Guarantee Plus Action Plan , which contains 65 measures to be developed between 2021 and 2027, many of them aligned with the Social Economy; and the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, which highlights the transfers to be made to the Autonomous Communities, through which they will be able to enhance the Social Economy in an important way ”.
The event also featured the intervention of the general director of Autonomous Work, Social Economy and Social Responsibility of Companies, Maravillas Espín, who assured that " training will be one of the backbones in the next Social Economy Strategy " and He pointed out that the projects carried out as part of this promotion plan have made it possible to identify some needs in order to move forward.
Thus, Espín pointed out among these needs digitization as a capacity to develop and as a source of employment; the intergenerational pact , which includes sensitivity and connection with younger people; the women ; and care and training in the different stages of the life cycle of companies .
For his part, the managing director of FUNDAE, Antonio de Luis, valued the quality of the Social Economy studies and also insisted on this idea: “ these works give us a basis to reflect on the 2020-2021 funds on the needs of training that companies have ”.
The president of CEPES, Juan Antonio Pedreño , stressed that “ companies, large and small, will need qualified workers to innovate and grow. However, skills mismatches and gaps are increasing, while large numbers of people are at risk of losing their jobs. Only by joining the forces of all the partners that are involved in the formation of the Social Economy will we be able to tackle this challenge ”.
Likewise, Pedreño thanked the implementation of the Plan to Promote Vocational Training for the Social Economy and the Self-Employed and assured that “ the projects carried out are representing an important change in the process of design and improvement of the model of vocational training for employment applicable to the partners and workers of the Social Economy l ”. Likewise, "he stressed the importance that the training of workers who participate in the Business Transformation processes of mercantile companies according to Social Economy formulas , especially cooperatives and labor companies, is going to take on."
SEVEN PROJECTS FOR THE PROMOTION OF TRAINING IN SOCIAL ECONOMY: ACCESS TO EMERGING SECTORS AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
The Plan to Promote Vocational Training for the Social Economy and Self- Employed, endowed with 3.4 million euros, has made it possible to consolidate and articulate the incorporation of the representative entities of the Social Economy into the Vocational Training for employment system, a business model that in Spain it has more than 43,000 companies, more than 2.3 million jobs, more than 20 million associated people and 10% of GDP, and that, in Europe, mobilizes 2.8 million companies that employ 13.6 million people and represents 8% of the European GDP.
As Pedreño pointed out during the presentation of the results of the seven Social Economy projects, one of the challenges of this "ambitious" plan was to anticipate the training needs of the Social Economy workers and establish the foundations of a global transformation, starring modernization, digitization, driven in turn by advances in artificial intelligence and robotics. "All this entails the emergence of new professional profiles and adapting existing ones, a great opportunity that should not leave anyone behind to build inclusive and sustainable growth," he said.
One of the projects developed by CEPES offers a complete analysis of the trends in the digital transformation of training, the changes that it entails in methodologies, tools and training content, necessary for the qualification or requalification of workers. The other study developed by CEPES is an analysis of the socio-labor situation of young people in the labor market from the perspective of companies and Social Economy entities as a solution to the problem of youth unemployment in our country, always taking into account the gender approach and groups with special employability difficulties.
The project carried out by FAEDEI analyzes the needs, challengesand training difficulties in Insertion Companies in the face of the impact that Covid-19 has had on groups at risk of social exclusion, so that Social Economy entities can reconvert and adapt to new training needs in the coming years .
The study carried out by REAS aims to know the competence profile of women who start, work, collaborate or lead companies in the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in the Spanish state. The project identifies those competencies in which women have greater margins for learning and improvement and those that require visibility, promotion and drive to achieve their own leadership style.
The study carried out by LABORPAR collects good practices carried out by different companies in the field of mediation and concertation in the planning of training for employment that contribute to eliminating possible discrepancies and obstacles that may exist between the company and workers in the training planning process, as well as facilitating training itineraries that meet the expectations of the company and the professional careers of the workers.
The other two studies have been carried out by COCETA. One of them aims to cover the training gap that exists in relation to the professional profile of the entrepreneur in Social Economy through the definition of a series of competencies common to people who undertake in the Social Economy and its variables. The other study focuses on knowing the degree of participation of priority groups in the different activities of Vocational Training for Employment in Social Economy companies and analyzes proposals for improvement to facilitate their accessibility to such training.
At the end of the day, the company Taller Cefora explained the work carried out by the UTE formed by Taller Cefora and Consulting Business Siglo XXI , completed in March of this year, in which the updated training needs of the partners and workers of the Social Economy companies.
