MADRID, 20 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Second Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, has been "very optimistic" this Friday and also "surprised" by the good progress of the social dialogue table in charge of reforming the professional training law for the employment in the workplace.

During the closing of the act of presentation of the new scholarships and professional certificates of Google, the vice president did not want to reveal what is being debated at the table "out of prudence", but she did show herself "very optimistic" with the development of this negotiation, which will give rise to "another of the great reforms that Spain will carry out".

"There is a vocation in the social agents to commit to the transformation of training, to eliminate the bad approaches of the normative design of Law 30/2015 and, above all, to understand that everything has changed, that training is now life cycle and that we must go to an agile, flexible undertaking, in which we can bring together supply and demand and complement the training that is essential for joining companies", he underlined.

Together with the general director of Google for Spain and Portugal, Fuencisla Clemares, Díaz attended the presentation of the 11,000 scholarships that Google will offer in collaboration with the Public State Employment Service (SEPE) and the Foundation for Training in Employment ( Fundae) within the framework of its Professional Certificates program.

This training collaboration model, which already began in 2021 with 5,000 digital training scholarships, now extends the aid to 11,000 scholarships and incorporates three new Professional Certificate courses in Spanish: data analysis, user experience design and management of project, "which are part of work areas that are in very high demand at the moment", according to Fuencisla Clemares.

The initiative, which also has the support of different NGOs, aims to contribute to greater knowledge and offer qualified training for the technological and digital transformation of the country.

These scholarships will be accessible through Fundae and the rest of the NGOs that collaborate with Google and the courses will contain 120 hours of training. Apart from the scholarships, they will be available to all interested people for a flat fee through the Coursera platform.

The new scholarships will be distributed from Fundae with the aim of reaching unemployed people and vulnerable groups as a priority.

The vice-president has highlighted the importance that the retraining of workers be "always inclusive and integrating", a task that, in her opinion, must unite companies and administrations alike, so that, through this public-private collaboration , promote access to training in digital tools that contributes to eradicating gaps and inequalities.

In this sense, the vice president praised the work of the Fundae through 'Digitalize', an initiative that has been praised in Europe as an example of collaboration between different entities that makes more than 1,100 training resources available to citizens.

Since its creation in 2019, 'Digitalízate', which has brought together the main technology companies and public state entities, has received more than four million visits, and has currently been expanded with 'Digitalízate Plus', which has financing from the Plan de Recovery.

Díaz has underlined that 51% of the applicants for these training proposals are women, almost 54% are unemployed, 44.4% have a university degree or higher qualification and a third are young people between 24 and 33 years old.

"The data speaks for itself of a shared will: that of a digitalization without gaps or inequalities, labor inclusive, diverse, that encourages our public policies, that involves companies and non-governmental organizations and that permeates collaborative efforts", he concluded. the minister.

For her part, the general director of Google for Spain and Portugal, Fuencisla Clemares, has highlighted the importance of digital transformation to have a "more sustainable and competitive" country and has warned that there is currently a lack of experts in key areas such as Big Data or cybersecurity, which has become "de facto" a "bottleneck" to make the transformation of Spain a reality.

"Technology is an unquestionable source of wealth creation, innovation and well-being", Clemares underlined, adding that thanks to private companies, public bodies and social agents "more and more people are showing interest in training in digital skills, in technology and digitization".

For Clemares, it is "absolutely key" to democratize access to digital training so that women, people of different ethnic and cultural origins and vulnerable groups are included in the workforce as a whole and have the same opportunities.

In this regard, he highlighted that since 2015, Google has helped more than 17 million people and businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa through different initiatives and free training programs to train in digital skills, of which more than 4 million have improved their professional situation, found a job, changed jobs or started their own business.

In Spain, Google has trained more than a million people in digital skills, of which 710,000 have gone through the 'Google Activate' program and 15% of them have found work or have grown in their professional career.