ENDESA S A : The Endesa Foundation and the Altius Foundation inaugurate the ENTI Training Centre for socio-labor insertion

• The two Foundations have joined forces to provide training in high demand trades to 7,000 people who are in vulnerable situations.
• The fundamental elements of the project are technical training, personal accompaniment and access to digital training for people with low income.

The Endesa Foundation and the Altius Foundation have established an alliance to give a new and strong boost to the training centre for employment that the latter has in Madrid. The space, now called the ENTI Employment Training Centre, has been the scene this morning of an event in which the classrooms that will host the face-to-face classes were presented, as well as the centroenti.org online training platform, which will provide free access to classes, seminars, and career counselling and tutoring activities.

In the opening ceremony for the centre's new activities and resources, Juan Sánchez-Calero, president of Endesa and the Endesa Foundation, stated that 'it is a great satisfaction for Endesa and its Foundation to join in this shared effort that allows us to contribute to the recovery of society and the well-being of its citizens, which we place at the centre of our attention in moments of particular need' and proof of this is that 'this first face-to-face facility of the Endesa Foundation dedicated to training for employment puts people at the centre, improving their employment opportunities with personalised attention, favouring training for employment, promoting access to the labour market for people who are particularly vulnerable'. The president also highlighted that 'training is a great ally to improve employability and guarantee equal opportunities'.

For his part, Pablo Aledo, director of the Altius Spain Foundation, an organisation specialising in training and accompaniment for the labour insertion of people with greater difficulty accessing employment, stated that 'in the current situation, we are faced with a complex challenge to keep working to help the many people who have lost their jobs in recent months. We need to restructure training means and methods, make them accessible and adapt our training to the demand that we have observed in the labour market, for logistics professionals, specialists in disinfection protocols or in the care of dependent people, all of them clearly conditioned by the social and business transformation that COVID-19 has brought about'.

Within the framework of this opening ceremony, a symposium was held on 'The Challenges of Training for Employment During COVID' with Fátima Báñez, CEOE Foundation director; Ana Muñoz de Dios, director of Fundación Integra; Daniel Sada, rector of the Francisco de Vitoria University; Luis Pérez, Director of Institutional Relations at Randstand Spain; and Tasio del Castaño, patron of the Altius Foundation and founding partner of MCH Investment.

The ENTI Employment Training Centre is based on a comprehensive training model that includes social skills, theoretical and practical training in trades closely related to the current employment context, personalised support for each student through tutorials, and a partnership between social organisations, companies and educational entities to promote initiatives that complement the training actions.

The Centre has six face-to-face training classrooms and a virtual platform on which at least half of its training courses will be undertaken, as well as the necessary equipment and technology for people who do not have IT tools.

About the Endesa Foundation

The main objective of the Endesa Foundation, chaired by Juan Sánchez-Calero, is to contribute to social development through educational projects, training for employment, and through environmental and cultural training.

The Foundation's educational projects seek to encourage innovation in education at all levels, promoting academic excellence at university level through grants, scholarships and lectureships.

Employment training projects focus on promoting the talent of people at risk of social exclusion, young entrepreneurs with limited resources and professionals over 50 years of age.

Its environmental projects primarily centre on promoting environmental education and energy efficiency.

As for its cultural projects, special mention should be made of those dedicated to the lighting of monuments, conserving and promoting the historical industrial heritage of the Spanish electricity sector and collaborating with top-level Spanish cultural entities.

The Endesa Foundation runs and funds programmes and activities to provide humanitarian, health, social, economic or material aid in extraordinary situations such as health crises, natural catastrophes and similar.

More information at www.fundacionendesa.org