For another year, KUNA-CO Proiektuak continues to fund social innovation projects that respond to the different challenges presented in the call and are geared towards achieving the SDGs.
The challenges we have set ourselves in 2024 are as follows:
MIGRATION AND TALENT: EMPLEOS DIGITAL JOBS
THE BRIDGE AND NOVIA SALCEDO FOUNDATION
The main objective of this project is to facilitate the connection of migrants with their academic and, if possible, work-related ecosystem, promoting their employability in the medium to long term, by combining training for the development of a technological job and accompanying in the design of roadmaps that facilitate their connection with the academic ecosystem and their labour activation, contributing to their personal, professional and economic development.
Background and Rationale:
Migrants often face significant barriers to access quality jobs, including both extrinsic aspects such as lack of recognition of their qualifications or discrimination, and intrinsic factors such as low motivation, self-esteem or difficulties in the knowledge of the local language. However, the technology and programming sector offers increasing job opportunities which can be accessed with appropriate training. This project aims to address these barriers by providing specific training in programming, a field with high demand for professionals and ample training opportunities for employment, together with intervention in the area of personal and relational growth, necessary to cope with a dynamic work environment.
EDUCATION AND INEQUALITY: EXTRACURRICULAR
FUNDACIÓN BILBAO BASKET, KUNINA SPORT ZAIN, PAULDARRAK EFKT, CLUB BALONCESTO PAULES, CLUB DE LUCHA DE MUNOA.
The project aims to address inequality in the access to extracurricular activities for children living in poverty and/or exclusion. In collaboration with Bilbao Basket, Pauldarrak EFKT, Club Baloncesto Paules, Club de Lucha Munoa we propose the possibility of enjoying the gameplay and learning as a team, using sport as a vehicle for learning beyond sports practice. Using methodologies suited to the people targeted by this project, we want to promote free access to a sporting activity and learning values, development of the welfare of the minor and acquisition of tools for protection against violence to which they may be exposed. The main aim of this programme is to ensure a stable and healthy, positive out-of-school activity for children and adolescents who have socio-economic difficulties in accessing this type of activity. We consider the space of extracurricular activities as a field of opportunity for the integral development of a collective that is being left out of them. Mention that 2 educational centres in Bizkaia with a low ISEC will be the chosen spaces for the activities.
This project seeks not only to provide opportunity and access to sports activities, but also to strengthen the minors’ self-esteem, social skills and future opportunities. But above all it seeks to ensure that the programme remains stable and that it is maintained at the centres.