The regional director for Employment and Vocational Training received today, in Ponta Delgada, 32 young Europeans who are going to do in the Region a professional traineeship to the shelter of the program Eurydice.
In the reception to the group, Rui Bettencourt explained that the young people are going to learn, during a month, the Portuguese language and history and geography of the Region, following, then, to the traineeship, which ends in October, in the islands of S. Miguel, Terceira and Faial.
The regional director expressed the wish of which, after the formation, in so different areas like the audiovisual, history of the art, sea biology, political sciences or archaeology, some come to settle down in the Region, contributing with the surplus value of their knowledge and experience.
“Never as now there were so many young people to reach the Azores, such is the pressure whether of Europe for the Region, whether of the Azores for Europe”, he considered, indicating that, in the last meeting of the program it was established that the Azores were starting to have not 40, but 80 probationers in a year, from 2009.
Such a decision drifts from the results of an inquiry that found the wish of adhesion to the Eurydice of 82 Azorean young people who are going to end their courses the next year, he told.
According to Rui Bettencourt, anticipating a little what is going to be the need of next year, it was asked to the program to make available a quota for the Azores of 80 probationers.
The regional director said, also, that the program presents as another surplus value the placing of the Region in the stage of Europe for demonstration of the efficiency of the regional policies of job.
Directed since last year by the Azores, the Eurydice is a program of the Assembly of the Regions of Europe that, in September, is going to bring to the Region nearly 200 partners in order that they participate in the Forum of the European Regions.
The today received young trainees are originating from Murcia, Valencia, Catalonia (Spain), Picardie, Ile-de-France, Rhône, Alps, Poitou-Charentes (France), Akershus (Norway), Harghita (Romania), Valonia, Brussels (Belgium) and Varazdin (Croatia).