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Gustavo Trujillo, doctor in History from the ULPGC, highlights the importance of these instruments in the cultural heritage of the Canary Islands. Go to download A project led by the historian from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gustavo Trujillo, aims to rescue the historical bells of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura from oblivion. Trujillo points out that these are instruments whose history is unknown in most cases, since, except occasionally, they have not been of interest to historians. Now an inventory has begun of all the bells, clocks and rattles, detailing the elements of their construction and describing their melodies. This work is in the middle of completion and a preview of that inventory has already been presented. The internet of the time The importance of bells is not reduced to their musicality, but to the fact that, throughout history, they have served to communicate messages that the citizens of traditional societies could interpret much better than now. At that time, they were used to transmit messages over long distances, something like the Internet of the time. Trujillo points out that many of these instruments have been found in a state of abandonment or semi-abandonment and, in the best of cases, without manual touches, which have been replaced by automatic touches with electromallets and computers. This has made the figures of the bell ringer and the bell ringer disappear, who also kept the bell towers clean.
Emalsa is committed to the 2030 Agenda through an ambitious strategic plan SDGs of the 2030 Agenda | Photo: Emalsa SDGs of the 2030 Agenda | Photo: Emalsa Victoria Jiménez del Campo, deputy director of Quality and Sustainability of the company, details a program that covers gender equality, accident prevention and sustainability. Go to download The Emalsa company, which supplies water in the municipalities of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Brígida, has assumed the sustainable development objectives approved by the UN WhatsApp Number List general assembly. These are seventeen objectives that cover fields such as equality, sustainability, the fight against poverty, justice, avoiding wars, etc. Strategic plan 2017-2023 To implement them at the company level, Emalsa has developed a 2017-2023 strategic plan that is based on the analysis of the internal and external situation and in which a series of objectives are defined that are made known to all employees to guide their daily actions. . These are sixteen objectives, which include gender equality, developed through an anti-discrimination plan, aspects to improve internal communication, promotion of decent work and economic growth, reduction in the number of workplace accidents, in which achieved considerable achievements, as well as the implementation of different ISO standards.
Strategic plan for hydraulic infrastructure Added to this is the strategic hydraulic infrastructure plan launched with the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria City Council in which, with a budget of 660 million euros, contemplates nearly one hundred actions to expand and renew the current sanitation network and catering. The project, which will mean the creation of around 8,000 jobs in ten years, will provide the municipality with a 21st century hydraulic network. The Canary Islands advances in the competitiveness of SMEs in the blue economy Noelia Pericón, consultant at Naila Business Evolver, points out the strengths of the islands' companies in terms of sustainable internationalization. Go to download Small and medium-sized Canarian companies are progressing “very well” in their plans to guarantee competitiveness and the possibilities of internationalization within the framework of the blue economy, according to the diagnosis of Noelia Pericón, consultant at Naila Business Evolver, an entity specialized in internationalization and sustainability. . Giant steps" Pericón points out that in recent years “giant” steps have been taken, especially in obtaining the different certifications, which are already present in many Canarian companies and many others are in the processing period. In addition, many circular economy practices have been implemented, “which allows beaches and ports as clean as there are few in the world.” He believes that, at this rate, many more steps will be taken in the coming years. The project Consolidation of the Central Atlantic Alliance for SME competitiveness of the blue economy, SMARTBLUE_F is financed by the second call of the INTERREG VA MAC Territorial Cooperation Program (Madeira-Azores-Canary Islands) 2014-2020, co-financed at 85% by the FEDER Fund.