- The call for subsidies of the new Empleaverde+ Program, co-financed by the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), has a budget of up to 30 million euros and the deadline for submitting projects is open until June 2nd.
- St was presented during the inauguration of the photographic exhibition “Seven years of projects to promote the sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture”, which gathers together the results of projects co-financed by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund during the 2014-2020 period, under the Pleamar Program.
The Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has presented today in Ceuta the new Empleaverde+ Program and its call for grants for the acquisition or improvement of skills for the ecological transition, co-financed by the European Social Fund Plus (ESF +). This call for proposals, with a budget of up to 30 million euros, will support capacity-building projects that respond to the challenges and opportunities associated with this transition, with a deadline of June 2.
Specifically, this call seeks to respond to the needs detected in the study. “Employment and ecological transition. Employment sources, labor transformation and training challenges in sectors related to climate change and biodiversity in Spain.”published in 2023 by the Biodiversity Foundation and the Spanish Climate Change Office, both part of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, which identifies 14 priority sectors with a high potential for transformation, reconversion and job creation. Among these sectors are some closely linked to the blue economy, such as the management of natural heritage and protected areas, ecological restoration, sustainable nature tourism, sustainable fishing and aquaculture, circular economy and renewable energy production, among others.
The presentation has been developed in the framework of the inauguration in the Paseo de la Marina of the autonomous city of the exhibition “Seven years of projects to promote the sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture”, a photographic tour showing the main results of the projects of the Pleamar Program for the period 2014-2020. The exhibition, which can be visited until the end of May, aims to bring the public closer to the important results and progress made in the preservation of marine ecosystems and the promotion of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, thanks to the co-financing of the European Funds.
The deputy director for Green Transition of Fundación Biodiversidad, Sonia Castañeda Rial, accompanied by Diego Martínez Arguello, director of the Functional Area of Development of the Government Delegation in Ceuta; Juan Antonio Hidalgo Reboredo, general director of Trade, Tourism and Employment of the Autonomous City of Ceuta; Fernando Rodríguez Correal, president of the Ceuta Sea Museum Foundation inaugurated the traveling exhibition, which is co-financed by the European Maritime Fund for Fisheries and Aquaculture (FEMPA), and which has four information panels and twenty images, which highlight the importance of the fishing and aquaculture sectors in the conservation of marine ecosystems and as engines of the blue economy.
In addition, the round table “Promoting and boosting training for the ecological transition in the blue economy: the Pleamar Program and the Empleaverde Program” was held, where the synergies between projects of both calls to promote training to boost the sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture in the field of sustainable blue economy have been analyzed.
