 Coworking is growing in the Catalan Network of ICT Points. This new way of working has attracted the interest of some points of the Catalan network of telecentres and they are spreading the new model based on collaboration and synergies between workers.
One of them is an ICT point in the City of Girona “Emprèn Girona”. “Emprèn Girona” accompanies and advises entrepreneurs who have a business idea and want to implement it. They spawn on regular workshops and conferences related to team management, business presence on the Internet or legal issues. Within this cycle, a talk on coworking opportunities has been presented.
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 During the 2012 edition of the Catalan “Connecta’t” program, 900 citizens were trained. The program reached a very wide range of the population in 24 municipalities of Catalonia (Spain) and was aimed to promote the digital literacy of the unemployed in order to facilitate their search for a job.
 A total of 2145 hours of teaching were given, spread over 143 training modules (A: Digital Literacy, and B: Employment Guidance). All training took place at the facilities of 36 telecenters of the Catalan Network of ICT Points and at the venues of other partners such as libraries or youth information points.
A video report (subtitled in Spanish and Catalan) collects the impressions of various actors who participated in the project while evaluating the impact of the program on the territory.
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 For the MIREIA survey, launched on January 2nd, Spain has reached in no time about 50% of the their target, as more then 100 Spanish eInclusion actors have already filled the survey. Their secret? A good organizational network structure of local & regional telecentres and an intensive use of social media.
TE’s member organization Community Association of Telecentre Networks (CATN) acts as the national MIREIA branch in Spain. It is a network of regional telecentre networks and groups of around 8.000 national telecentres. With this organizational structure already in place, Spain was able to use a two layer structure to disseminate the MIREIA survey: at first, the message was broadcasted by the Technical Secretariat of CATN and after, regional partners conducted their own outreach campaign among their network of contacts.
They also made an intensive use of social media, especially of Twitter, sending out 2 or 3 tweets a day about MIREIA, all with a different text or message.
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 IdenTIC Consortium’s main goal is to foster ICT and the Information Society among the regional citizens and to promote the development of municipalities in the Spanish region of Extremadura. Since its Foundation, IdenTIC has always been very committed with public & private entities in training and disseminating the use of ICT and Free Sofware technologies.
Thanks to an agreement signed in 2010 with County Councils of Badajoz and Cáceres, Extremadura currently has a network of 246 telecentres belonging to these County Councils. IdenTIC Consortium is the managing entity responsible of giving support, connectivity, education, training and contents, in order to give citizens the opportunity to acquire and improve skills in the information Society. In the effort to create a strong and committed Network of Telecentres, IdenTIC Consortium has recently started new actions and training activities.
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 More than 150 telecentre managers & ICT professionals attended the annual network meeting of the Catalan Telecentre Network Xarxa Punt TIC that was organized at Barcelona’s Cibernarium last November 30th. Among the speakers were representatives of Telecentre-Europe, Telecentre.org Foundation and the Community Association of Spanish Telecentre Networks.
 The conference was organized by the Knowledge Society Agency of the Government of Catalonia (owner of the Punt TIC network) and showcased the spirit, people, projects and objectives of a network with more than 600 telecentres, that this year celebrates its 10th birthday.
It was an excellent opportunity to show the local & international community “what’s hot” today at the Catalan telecentres: new professional profiles, social innovation, mobile apps, robotics workshops, QR itineraries, etc.
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 On September 21-22, the Community Association of Telecentre Networks and Social Innovation Centres organized a workshop at Citilab Cornellà in Barcelona and agreed to create a Spanish Certification Model for Digital Competences that intends to lead to a European Certification Model of Digital Skills acquired in non-formal education.
As a starting point for the agreement, the Digital Skills Certificate Report of the Institute of Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) and the experiences from the regional governments of Catalonia, Basque Country and Andalusia were taken into account.
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 The Spanish Association of the Community of Telecentre Networks and Social Innovation Centers, is organizing the Workshop Certification Model for Digital Competences in Spain under the Digital Agenda of Europe that will take place in Barcelona on September 21-22.
The workshop will bring together the Association’s members, representatives from Telecentre-Europe and from other agency leaders, organizations & leading companies in the field. The aim of the workshop is to lead the process of certification and to give possible innovative & ICT-based solutions, thus strengthening the role of telecentres.
The meeting should also evolve towards a consolidated Spanish Certification Model that is in consensus with the notes from the Institute of Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) about a European System of Digital Competences, as noted in the Digital Agenda for Europe.
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