Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Spain: Andalusia

Fundación MAPFRE is committed to the rural environment as a space for opportunities and is organizing this meeting in which representatives of public administrations, the private sector, rural Andalusia and its most vulnerable inhabitants will provide the keys to promoting the development of innovative solutions adapted to the environment based on two fundamental factors: employment and access to quality care that is person-centered and appropriate to their needs. The Malaga forum will focus on two specific aspects:

• Cooperativism as a key element for generating sustainable development opportunities.
• Groups suffering mental illness. Prevention and delay of cognitive impairment. Care needs and improvements.

The event will take place on April 25 at the Centro Cultural la Térmica (Av. de los Guindos, 48, Carretera de Cádiz, 29004 Malaga).

In collaboration with:

This event complements the +Rural grants that Fundación MAPFRE will provide as an Intermediate Body of the Social Inclusion, Child Guarantee and Fight against Poverty Program of the ESF+ for the 2021 – 2027 programming period.

PROGRAM

• 10:00 am – Accreditations

• 10:30 am – Welcome – Mr. José Carpio Castaño, Representative of Fundación MAPFRE in Andalusia.

• 10:40 am – Grants and subsidies to Third Sector organizations. +Rural Calls. Ms. Mª Dolores Moya Serrano Director of Social Funds at Fundación MAPFRE.

• 10:50 am – Round table: Employment in the rural world. New sources and opportunities.
  New sources of employment and cooperativism as a key element for generating employment, wealth and offering opportunities for sustainable development.

• • The public sector perspective. – Ms. Victoria Martín Lomeña, Secretary General of the Public Employment and Training Service. Employment, Enterprise and Self-Employment Department of the Andalusian Regional Government.
  • The private sector perspective. – Mr. Rafael Sánchez de Puerta Director General of DCOOP [1].
  • The perspective of representatives from the rural sphere. – Mr. José María Rodríguez Peralta, President of the Sierra de las Nieves and Serranía de Ronda Development Group.
• 11:40 am – Round table: Access to health services and long-term care.
  The problems of groups with mental illnesses, their needs and improvements in care. The prevention and delay of cognitive impairment in older people.

• • The public sector perspective. – Ms. Laura Valle Carmona. Provincial General Secretary of Equality, Social Policies and Conciliation for the Andalusian Regional Government.
  • The private sector perspective. – Gabriel Almagro Montes de Oca. President of the Andalusian Federation of Dependency.
  • The perspective of vulnerable groups. – Ms. Angela García Cañete, President of the Andalusian Confederation of Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
    
• 12:30 pm – Institutional closing ceremony – Ms. Antonia Jesús Ledesma Sánchez, Vice-president of Malaga Provincial Council.

• 12:45 pm – End of the event and Spanish wine tasting

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