This article is translated from the original: Camargo se suma al proyecto europeo de competencia emprendedora ‘EntreComp4Transition’ a través de la UC

The municipality will soon have a ‘local innovation agent’

The Camargo City Council, through the University of Cantabria (UC), has joined the European project ‘EntreComp4Transition,’ which focuses on entrepreneurial skills and aims to support the dual ecological and digital transition.

This was announced this Monday in a press release by the mayor, Diego Movellá, who held a meeting with Daniel Pérez, head of the R&D+i Group: Application of ICT for Competitiveness and Innovation at the UC and responsible for this project, and the Councilor for Technological Innovation, Marian Rovira, in which they discussed the general lines of the project.

Topics such as the transition to a more sustainable and competitive economy, the development of entrepreneurial skills, and the use of digital tools were discussed.
Movellán indicated that the strategy underlying the project is promoted by the City Council through various training initiatives implemented by the Local Development Agency, the Business Center, the Digital Learning Center, and the Municipal Training Center.
Furthermore, he announced that Camargo will soon have the position of a “local innovation agent,” who will be responsible for developing sustainability, energy saving, and circular economy plans, as well as promoting projects that streamline the digitalization process of companies operating in the municipality by incorporating knowledge and technologies aimed at improving advanced products and services.

Furthermore, he emphasized that projects like this “fit perfectly” into the City Council’s “commitment” to “continue to open up to processes linked to entrepreneurship and digital culture,” a “course of action” that has led the municipality to join the Governing Council of the Network of Cities of Science and Innovation (Red Innpulso).

For his part, Pérez explained that the project has fifteen partners in five EU countries—Spain, Italy, Austria, Belgium, and Turkey—who are collaborating to “deliver results that serve society” and “support businesses and citizens in fostering a sustainable and digital economy.”

He also noted that within the framework of this European initiative, a “sustainable” tool based on Artificial Intelligence will also be created, which will help companies identify skills gaps and thus increase their competitiveness.

As the head of this project at the UC announced, “more than 30,000 stakeholders and entities across the EU,” including businesses, higher education institutions, public administrations, and students, will directly benefit from the conclusions drawn through ‘EntreComp4Transition.’