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02/03/202301/10/2025

Fundación Magtel, present at the inauguration of the physical headquarters of the ‘Orange Digital Center’ in Madrid

Magtel’s FTTH technician, Francisco Javier Mateo, was at one of the stands of the facilities with one of the students of the fibre optic course given in collaboration with Fundación Orange

He gave a demonstration of FTTH installation to H.M. the King, who inaugurated this centre coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the Fundación Orange

Fundación Magtel was present at the inauguration ceremony of the physical headquarters of the “Orange Digital Center carried out by Felipe VI. This is a free and open access technology centre specialising in digital skills for all citizens. These facilities have specialised training for vulnerable groups such as young people and women at risk of exclusion, or people with autistic spectrum disorders.

In addition to H.M. the King, the inauguration ceremony was presided over by the President of Orange Spain and President of the Fundación Orange in Spain, Gervais Pellissier and the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá together with other authorities and representatives of Fundación Orange beneficiary entities. Francisco Javier Mateo, fibre optic teacher at the Fundación Magtel, gave a demonstration of a FTTH installation to the delegation when they toured the facilities.

Fundación Magtel contributes to the generation of job opportunities among vulnerable groups or those at risk of social exclusion through training and internship programmes. Every year, the organisation runs free courses related to the telecommunications and renewable energy sectors, which currently have a high degree of employability. Over the last ten years, the institution has trained more than more than 890 people and at least four more programmes are planned for this year.

Together with Fundación Orange, training courses have been given on the installation of fibre optics to the home (FTTH), such as the one carried out at the Centro de Formación de Oficios de Usera, in Madrid as well as those carried out in Linares, Almeria and Seville in previous editions.

Physical space for this project

Madrid is the first Spanish city to have a physical space to develop the educational project “Orange Digital Center”. It will be a meeting point for citizens who want to develop their digital skills, as well as for entrepreneurs and startups.

“Orange Digital Center” is an educational platform that seeks to make digital innovation accessible to groups such as young people, women, people with autism and entrepreneurs. It is oriented towards education and digital inclusion it aims to be a place to train the most vulnerable social groups in digital skills, as well as a meeting point for entrepreneurs, families and members of the educational community. The contents are articulated around four training itineraries (Responsible use of ICT, Digital Inclusion, Climate Change and Entrepreneurship).

22/02/202301/10/2025

AFA tackles the future of the Andalusian foundation sector at a new meeting in Malaga

The president of Fundación Magtel and secretary of the Board of Directors of the Andalusian Associations and Foundations, Auxiliadora López Magdaleno, took part in the meeting

The headquarters of the Fundación Palacio de Villalón in Malaga has hosted a new meeting of the Asociaciones y Fundaciones Andaluzas (AFA)the event included a breakfast conference entitled “10 reasons to prioritise fundraising”.

The president of the Spanish Fundraising Association, Gloria Oliver presented a decalogue of reasons to invest in fundraising for organisations.

The meeting also served to establish the actions to be carried out to commemorate 20 years of AFA as well as the approval of the new corporate image of the association.

The event began with a presentation by the director of the Palacio Villalón Museo Carmen Thyssen Foundation, Javier Ferrer and the director of AFA, Juan Luis Muñoz Escassi an closed with a speech by the president of AFA, Antonio Pulido. It was attended on behalf of the Fundación Magtel by its president and secretary of the Board of Directors of Asociaciones y Fundaciones Andaluzas, Auxiliadora López Magdaleno.

Finally, a networking breakfast between the foundations and associations from Malaga was held, allowing new relationships to be forged. The AFA encourages this type of meeting because they believe that collaboration is another way for organisations to obtain resources.

16/02/202301/10/2025

Fundación Magtel launches three training programmes on photovoltaics in Cordoba and Seville

Through these courses, the organisation promotes the employability of vulnerable groups in the highly relevant renewable energy sector

Fundación Magtel, in collaboration with Fundación Generation Spain has started two training programmes on the installation of solar panels in Seville – Magtel’s headquarters in Aerópolis – and in Cordoba. The initiative makes training and access to the labour market possible for various vulnerable groups.

This new call for applications has been very well received. In this sense, the percentage of labour market insertion of the first two courses was 100%while the following four training paths- still to be finalised – are registering an insertion rate of 70%so far.

For the 40 vacancies in Seville -morning and afternoon shifts-, a total of 116 attendees were registered in the pre-selection interviews, which means an attendance rate of 83% of the total number of applicants. In Cordoba, more than 100 candidates were interviewed to fill the 20 vacancies.

Specifically, this programme has a total of 430 hours divided into several blocks: 270 hours of theoretical content and 100 hours of non-labour work experience in companies in the sector. In addition, candidates will obtain other knowledge related to Occupational Health and Safety at Work as well as transversal workshops linked to the “green sector”.

The theoretical block is made up of the layout and actions prior to the photovoltaic installation; mechanical assembly in photovoltaic solar installations; electrical and electronic assembly; maintenance of photovoltaic solar installations; self-consumption electricity installations; introduction to the self-consumption of electricity; diagrams and technical specifications; Occupational Health and Safety at Work in electricity: assembly and maintenance of high voltage and low voltage installations; and work at heights.

31/01/202308/08/2023

The call for applications is now open for grants for professional internships promoted by Fundación Magtel through its Introduction to the Professional Field Programme

The institution offers a unique opportunity for training, especially for young people without experience

Once again, the new call for applications for grants for Fundacion Magtel professional internships has been opened with the aim of contributing to the labour insertion of recent graduates, especially young people without experience. The entity offers a unique opportunity through its Introduction to the Professional Field Programme.

To be eligible for one of the scholarships, participants must have obtained a bachelor’s or master’s degree from an accredited institution after 31 December 2019. Students of technical engineering or higher who have passed all the subjects required to obtain the corresponding degree, with the exception of the final degree project, and students of intermediate and/or higher vocational training cycles who have passed all the theoretical subjects prior to their incorporation and have completed their internships in the company, may also apply for this programme.

The profiles must be in line with the characteristics required for the placements offered by the collaborating organisations, with which collaboration agreements will be signed beforehand.

Once selected, the participants will be placed during 2023 in different companies and institutions in order to apply the knowledge acquired during their training and learn how to function in the reality of a professional context.

Interested parties will be able to submit their applications throughout 2023.

30/01/202301/10/2025

The second phase of the ‘Red Social Innovación’ initiative in which Fundación Magtel collaborates with Fundación Tecsos begins

The aim is to increase the reach of the web platform to generate greater impact in the field of social innovation

The Training Area of Fundación Magtel in direct collaboration with Fundación Tecnologías Sociales-Tecsos, is addressing the second phase of the project “Red Social Innovación” whose objective is to increase the visibility and impact of the of the website, which began to be developed last year.

In particular, work is underway to search for new external partners and the initiatives of the Cruz Roja Española. In addition, in the short term, we want to develop an Instagram profile in order to be able to disseminate all the initiatives that are uploaded to the platform.

“Red Social Innovación” encompasses three main blocks. Firstly, “Identification and selection of innovative initiatives at international level” secondly, “Searching for new ways of financial sustainability to boost the project”; and finally, “Increasing outreach in relation to new virtual spaces of national and international participation in which to actively take part”.

The initiative was launched in 2021 with the aim of testing, scaling and promoting the social innovations created and developed within Cruz Roja y Medialuna Roja movements as well as those produced by public and private actors in the innovation sector. Today, our aim is to generate sustainability in terms of technical and economic stabilisation of the project.

Since the creation of Fundación Magtel, networking between social entities has been promoted with the aim of achieving social and technological improvements. The entity collaborates by fostering the opportunities to reach new representative European actors in the field of employability and social innovation.

The project is part of the “Forma y Contrata 2022” call for proposals promoted by the Instituto Municipal de Desarrollo Económico y Empleo de Córdoba (Imdeec)

25/01/202301/10/2025

Fundación Magtel brings digitalisation and the functioning of new technologies closer to vulnerable groups in the Canary Islands

The training sessions will be held at the Centro Internacional Politécnico and will run until next March

The new training programme “Specialised training for people with disabilities in the field of new technologies” promoted by the Fundación Magtel, has started at the facilities of the Centro Internacional Politécnico of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

One of the new features compared to previous courses on digital literacy is the donation of three projectors by Fundación Magtel, enabling three organisations with people with functional diversity to follow part of the programme.

This type of training promotes access to and use of new technologies for certain groups with functional diversity, whose limitations in relation to digitalisation are considerable. For this reason, both entities have forged closer ties that will allow them to implement training itineraries with the aim of reducing the existing digital divide.

At the moment, a total of 15 students have started the free course which will run until next March. It is made up of a 32-hour face-to-face part and a 48-hour online part, divided into three thematic blocks.

The first refers to the basic operation of the computer and its equipment, the use of email and videoconferencing the second block contains topics related to the the use of the DNI 3.0 and the digital certificate, the introduction to the Internet of Things (IoT), as well as the use of work tools such as PowerPoint and virtual assistants, among other subjects among other subjects.

Finally, basic content will be provided on cybersecurity and the use of smartphones.

16/12/202201/10/2025

Ankara brings together members of the InovHumRe project to present the main advances of the initiative

The head of International Cooperation projects at Fundación Magtel, Rocío Ciero, has addressed the flow of migration and responses to it in Spain

The members of the Erasmus+ project “KA2 – Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practice”, also called “InovHumRe have held a new meeting in Ankara, Turkey. In addition to the head of International Cooperation projects at Fundación Magtel, Rocío Ciero representatives of the teams from Brazil, Colombia, Italy, Ireland, Mexico, Portugal and Turkey also attended.

The flow of migrants to Spain, the response by NGOs, and their experience with the group, as well as the application of digital tools in these intervention processes, were the main topics that the Magtel Foundation team discussed in its presentation.

In particular, they detailed the differences between organisations that operate in Spain and have an international and/or national scope of action, as opposed to those that, due to their capacity, work on a smaller scale. “The specialisation and diversification of tasks is markedly different,” he stated.

During the different interventions, the limits and potential of participation in the evaluation of emergency humanitarian action (EHA), the design and implementation of digital strategies and tools, and the integration of a new participatory evaluation methodology in the intervention of such assistance processes have been discussed.

The different presentations provided an opportunity for in-depth discussion and debate on the main experiences of emergency humanitarian aid and care for refugees, as well as digitalisation in the NGOs of the countries participating in the project, and the analysis of some tools such as the photo-reporting, co-design and digital resources.

This project aims to increase the quality and effectiveness of humanitarian action by improving the training of students and professionals in this field. To this end, a study manual on participatory evaluation in emergency humanitarian aid and/or care for refugees is being developed, together with a list of digital tools for its application.

23/11/202201/10/2025

The Royal Academy of Cordoba awards the Fundación Magtel a prize in the Exact, Physical, Chemical and Natural Sciences section

The president of the entity, Auxiliadora López Magdaleno, praised Magtel’s work in technological innovation and its commitment to sustainable development

The president of the Fundación Magtel, Auxiliadora López Magdaleno received an award from the Royal Academy of Cordoba in the category of Exact, Physical, Chemical and Natural Sciences for its continuous support in the field of technological innovation, always with sustainable development and environmental protection as a basic operating premise.

Magtel’s president of the entity expressed her gratitude for this recognition by an institution with such prestige and relevance in Cordoba, which is “a privilege for our Foundation“.

This is the first time that five prizes have been awarded, one for each of the sections of which this corporation is made up, as this is the first centenary of the creation of the Boletín de la Real Academia de Ciencias, Bellas Letras y Nobles Artes de Córdoba (Bulletin of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Fine Arts and Noble Arts of Cordoba).

The other prizes went to the Cathedral Chapter of Cordoba in the section of Moral and Political Sciences in the section of Historical Sciences, for the Provincial Association of Official Chroniclers of the province of Cordoba in the section of Fine Arts for the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and, in the section of Noble Arts for the Contemporary Cordoba Artistic Movement.

The gala was attended by the president of the Royal Academy of Cordoba, José Casino and the acting secretary, Diego Medina.

11/11/202201/10/2025

Fundación Magtel facilitates the preparation and distribution of food collected in the ‘Andaluces Compartiendo’ (Andalusians Sharing) campaign

The initiative promoted by Landaluz, Fundación Cajasol and Fundación La Caixa has collected a total of 225,000 kilos of food products

Once again this year, the Fundación Magtel provided the necessary logistical support for the distribution and delivery of the food collected in the campaign “Andaluces Compartiendo” (Andalusians Sharing) campaign, part of the Corporate Social Responsibility programme promoted by the Landaluz, Fundación Cajasol and Fundación La Caixa.

The initiative has brought together more than 20 companies to provide families with a range of basic necessities such as oil, milk, canned fish, canned vegetables, pulses, etc. The total amount of food collected in this campaign amounts to 225.000 kilos and will be delivered to more than 210 social organisations in the provinces of Cordoba, Cadiz, Huelva and Seville.

In this sense, Fundación Magtel has provided its facilities in the industrial estate of Las Quemadas storage of the products. From this location, the pallets of food received have been distributed to the different local entities that will benefit from this campaign.

Non-profit associations in charge of local food distribution include: Obra Social “Hermano Bonifacio” Hospital San Juan de Dios de Córdoba; Córdoba Acoge; Fundación Prolibertas-Comedor Social Trinitarios; Mujeres en Zona de Conflicto; Centro de Servicio Caritativo “Buenas Noticias”; Fundación Cruz Blanca; Comunidad Adoratrices de Córdoba; Asociación Iemakaie; Cáritas Parroquial San Lorenzo Mártir de Córdoba and Cáritas Parroquial Trinitarios.

Alleviating the current social ramifications

Andaluces Compartiendo is a solidarity programme organised by the Landaluz Association which, since its beginnings in 2013 to date, has become a global brand of Corporate Social Responsibility for different Andalusian companies, where the organisations that make up the association are committed to values such as commitment and unity.

This action is part of the Andaluces Compartiendo donation campaign at regional level, which allows food to be delivered through business organisations in Andalusia, with the aim of reducing the current social and economic ramifications of the food crisis.

Author: Nacho