The State delegate in the Consortium, Fran González, and the general director of the Cameral Foundation, Javier Collado, preside over the ceremony of awarding diplomas to the 39 participants from the province of Cádiz who have received specialized training during the last two months
Both entities have collaborated in the launch of two free programs - one focused on the maritime sector and the other on the biotechnology sector - within the Employment Recovery and Business Creation Plan, which is co-financed by the European Social Fund
The objective of this complete training program is to promote self-employment and provide the Cádiz business community with highly qualified training to develop it in initiatives already launched such as the technological incubator of the Free Trade Zone, Incubazul.
During the closing ceremony, two participants presented their projects developed during the training weeks and which begin their journey to consolidate themselves as companies
Fran González has highlighted the level of the participants, "who are seeds that will germinate in the productive fabric of the province in sectors such as sustainability and innovation that are already fundamental for the economic growth of this country"
The Cádiz Free Trade Zone and the INCYDE Foundation of the Spanish Chambers of Commerce have closed today in the Assembly Hall of the Heracles building the entrepreneurship programs of the “Job Recovery and Business Creation Plan”, which they launched last October jointly and which have brought together 39 participants from the entire province of Cádiz.
Thus ends more than seven weeks in which all participants have received comprehensive training divided into two programs, one around the maritime sector and the Blue Economy; and the second, focused on the Biotechnology sector. Both training actions have been virtual and have been carried out with the aim of promoting self-employment in both fields and providing the Cádiz business community with tools and knowledge both to create companies with high innovative potential and to acquire knowledge in both subjects and be able to develop them in projects already started in the province in both fields, such as the Technological incubator around the Blue Economy "Incubazul", within the Cádiz Base Zone project.
The State delegate in the Cádiz Free Trade Zone, Fran González; the general director of INCYDE, Javier Collado; and the president of the Cádiz Chamber of Commerce, Ángel Juan Pascual, presided over the closing ceremony of both entrepreneurship programs, which included a large representation of the participants who were also presented with an accreditation diploma.
At the event, two participants, one from each training action, presented two projects that have been taking shape during this time. On the maritime course, Marien Huertas has participated, with her project We log sea, a social network for people who love the sea that will be useful to both sports nautical fans and professionals who provide their services to sailors and which has been taking shape within the framework of the maritime sector course; and on behalf of the biotechnology program, Miguel Carrasco, a 4th year Biology student with his project Ecomar Biotech, production and marketing of microalgae for the aquaculture sector. Spirulina: “the super food of the future”.
It should be noted that both programs, both the Blue Economy and the Biotechnology, delve into two sectors that have an increasing presence in the current business landscape and with prospects of maintaining a positive and progressive evolution in the medium and long term. In fact, both sectors are also very present and interrelated, since the transversal nature of biotechnology and the commitment to innovation mean that it is increasingly applied to more and more areas of business activity in our country.
In this sense, the State delegate in the Free Trade Zone, Fran González, who closed the event, thanked the INCYDE Foundation for its collaboration, giving special thanks to its general director for supporting the program and the work of the participants with his presence. González highlighted that "the choice of the topics of both courses has been very careful because it is essential to train and provide the best tools to the business community that is beginning its journey; and innovation and the Blue Economy are two key areas in the economic recovery plan of this province and this country and they directly touch on areas that affect and matter to all of us."
The delegate of the Cádiz Free Zone has praised the effort of the participants and the level of the ideas and projects that have begun to germinate and has encouraged them to continue betting on the path started in this training program because they are on the right path, in the one already started by the Cádiz Free Zone since "both the biotechnological field and that of the Blue Economy are directly linked to the new industrial model that the Consortium is implementing, more sustainable and that takes care of the environment and is committed to innovation and digitalization, in line with the 2030 Agenda of the Government of Spain and its recovery, transformation and resilience plan.”
Finally, Fran González wanted to highlight the close collaboration that the Fiscal Institution maintains with the Incyde Foundation, which has its greatest exponent in the development of the Technological incubator around the Blue Economy "Incubazul", within the Cádiz Base Zone project, which is being launched subsidized with European funds within the Framework of the FEDER Operational Program of Andalusia 2014-2020, "A way of making Europe" through INCYDE. “For the Free Trade Zone it is very important to go hand in hand with INCYDE in the development of our incubator “Incubazul” and to be part of its national network of High Technology incubators since it is a differentiating and guaranteeing element to advance in the transfer of R&D&i to companies.”
For his part, Javier Collado, general director of Incyde “has valued the methodology of training and individualized advice, focused on the entrepreneurial initiative of each project.
In this way, it is possible to accelerate the launch of business projects with high technological content, necessary for these initiatives to be competitive and reach new markets.
The entrepreneurial ecosystem of the INCYDE Foundation (training, support, incubation and networking) enables the connection of all projects, causing important synergies that can be realized in strategic alliances that allow exponential growth.
A clear example of this is the work being carried out with the Cádiz Free Trade Zone with the implementation of training programs and the launch of the High Technology Incubator”
Likewise, Ángel Juan Pascual has expressed that "we are very proud to help the INCYDE Foundation and the Free Trade Zone in this initiative that not only contributes to creating employment and consolidating innovative projects, but also represents a stimulus for the business fabric of the province. We are sure that this brave, valuable and advanced commitment to such cutting-edge training is the key tool to advance towards quality employment with great future projection."
For his part, the deputy director of the Base Zone project, Jose David Sánchez de Medina, who has also been part of the teaching team of the two programs, wanted to highlight at the beginning of the event that "after the Zona Franca has closed all the advice and mentoring of Incubazul a few weeks ago with Telefónica, the Consortium will soon open a new call to host new initiatives and the level of the 39 participants in these two programs makes us very optimistic that many of them can join the ecosystem of our incubator.”
Operational Program for Employment, Training and Education (POEFE)
The two training cycles that have been closed today in the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz have been integrated into the Operational Program for Employment, Training and Education (POEFE) and have been co-financed by INCYDE, through the European Social Fund, and the Cádiz Consortium itself.
Both programs have given priority to people who are currently unemployed who have been given training with a very similar structure, composed of several modules that have covered all the necessary syllabus for entrepreneurs to learn to identify when an idea can be a business idea, relying on a Business Plan to define the roadmap that they must follow in the implementation of their project and thus achieve the good development and growth of a company.
In this way, they have covered project management, marketing, commercialization and promotion, computer applications and finance, among other topics. In addition to the joint training sessions, they have had individualized support and consulting actions, mentoring and monitoring.
The good reception of the programs has put the finishing touch to this new collaboration of the Free Zone with the INCYDE Foundation that continues to provide more permeable tools to the productive fabric, with the aim of guiding entrepreneurs in their work, both to create and consolidate a company in the thriving marine and biotechnology sectors, as well as to identify business opportunities around both sectors and have the knowledge to develop it through a company or business plan, oriented towards a 4.0 concept and digital transformation.