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  • Formación

    Two thousand SENA students will be trained by Amazon

    Bogotá
    Dos mil aprendices del SENA se formarán con Amazon

    ​It is a pilot project that offers training related to TIC (Information and Communication Technology), 12 learning routes on the development of skills with topics such as: blockchain, databases, development tools, the Internet of things (IoT), networks, robotics, security, identity and data storage, among others. 

    The Director of SENA, Carlos Mario Estrada, said that “SENA will help the private sector to achieve the Fourth Industrial Revolution through training to work in these industries. With these courses, we offer our students the necessary skills that will allow them to be competitive in a global labor market”. 

    The two thousand beneficiary students, who belong to the Regional Capital District, began studying before 2018 and have the time to take the virtual training modality, as part of the requirements for this process. 

    "With the Amazon Alliance, SENA is committed to the articulation of actions that motivate our students to stay with us until the end of the lessons and give them the opportunity to have a better vision of their future as workers”, said the director of Vocational Training, Farid Figueroa Torres. 

    The Amazon Web Services Alliance Educate with SENA strengthens the technical skills of students, enhances the opportunities for success in working life and contributes to the modernization, innovation and digital transformation of the country, which responds to the Colombian Government's strategy in the National Development Plan for entrepreneurship and productivity. 

    At the end of the virtual course, students will receive a certificate from Amazon Web Services Educate, the platform used around the world by more than 1,500 academic institutions, as the first step for professionals in Information Technology and Cloud. AWS also offers technology training to create and develop services.


    Laura Orozco/YP/GM.
  • Formación

    SENA launches psychosocial strengthening project for victims of the armed conflict

    Bogotá
    SENA launches psychosocial strengthening project for victims of the armed conflict

    ​In order to strengthen the capacities of the human talent that guides and attends to the victims of the armed conflict in Colombia, SENA and the Croatian Embassy started the project "Development of capacities for psychosocial support: strengthening of Colombian professionals of attention to provide basic psychosocial services".

    With this plan, 160 professionals from Medicine, Nursing, Psychology and Social Work from different regions of the country will be trained between February 13 and November 14, to provide comprehensive support to veterans, their families, civilians affected by traumas and other conditions and to promote the social reintegration of victims of the conflict. 

    "Through the course we will strengthen this type of strategy in the productive sector that is responsible for providing psychosocial service to survivors of violence," says Ruth Mireya Suárez Porras, manager of the SENA health network. 

    "Nine SENA teachers are part of the training process to later share knowledge with the health sector and our students," said the official.

    The program has the support of the Croatian Society for Psychological Assistance (SPA), the government of Croatia, the Group of Experts in Psicotrauma Arq of the Netherlands. SPA, main executor of the project and SENA, as the company in charge of delivering training modules, with the coordination of the Corporate Relations area of this institution. 

    The plan, with participants in cities such as Bogotá, Cali, Medellín and Barranquilla, is part of the actions of the European Fund for Peace in Colombia that aims to contribute to overcoming the negative effects of the internal conflict of more than 50 years that marked the country; it is based on attention to the special physical and/or mental health conditions of the reincorporated population and the victims of the conflict. 

    For the strengthening of interdisciplinary procedures and interventions, the SPA experience is the basis for its previous work in countries such as Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Albania, Georgia and Ukraine; furthermore, the experience of the Dutch group of experts Arq in sub-Saharan Africa, Greece, Chechnya, Armenia, Democratic Republic of the Congo and other countries.

    Yajaira Perea/GM.
  • Emprendimiento

    SENA entrepreneur demonstrates therapeutic use of apicultural products

    Pereira (Risaralda)
    Entrepreneurship SENA entrepreneur demonstrates therapeutic use of apicultural products

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    For 10 years Yamid Arango Arias has investigated the derivatives of the hive as its chemical composition and pharmacological capacity, which has allowed it to produce new drugs that are used as alternative treatments to autoimmune pathologies. 

    This experienced entrepreneur created his company Beepharma with which he received 83 million pesos from Fondo Emprender in February 2015, as a result of a regional call, with which he provides four direct jobs. 

    To carry out his research, he went to Tecnoparque node Pereira SENA since 2016, where he performed microscopy work on cells treated with apitoxin in the line of nanotechnology and biotechnology. This year will continue with more specific analyzes to give even more relevance to the research process. 

    As explained by Yamid Arango Arias, "We have used nanoparticles of bee venom, adhered to particles of cellular information, managing to activate a response of the immune system, against aggressions whether internal or external, of the body". 

    According to Arango, by understanding the mechanism of action of apitoxin (bee venom) it is possible to measure the myriad of uses in medicine, and fields in pharmacology, to solve problems such as liver damage caused by medicines, which, more 80% are metabolized in the liver. 

    In addition, the side effects caused by the constant consumption of drugs, which leave damages in the renal, cardiovascular and cardiovascular system, the apitoxin is directed to the immune system, in such a way that the drugs are not metabolized in the liver. 

    "This is a sample of what the Entity offers free to entrepreneurs from Tecnoparque. The invitation is to approach the headquarters, with its technology-based project, to support them "said the regional director of SENA, Andrés Aurelio Alarcón Tique. 

    Beepharma began the previous year negotiations with global companies such as Jhonson and Johnson and TEAM of Colombia, among other multinationals interested in this scientific development. "This allowed us to have a ticket to OPEN FINIT in Bello Horizonte, Brazil, in October 2017," said the entrepreneur. 

    This year, he was nominated for the Oiweek Open Innovetion to be held in Sao Paulo, from March 18 to 20. It was selected among 4,000 projects, to be among the 100 best startups in Latin America, and to be present in the week of innovation, thanks to its research project and development of biotechnology and nanotechnology with bee venom and cellular information particles, adhered to oats.


    Gerardo Calderón/GM.
  • Triunfos y Reconocimientos

    SENA, the most preferred entity in Barranquilla

    Barranquilla
    SENA, the most preferred entity in Barranquilla


    With a 96% positive perception, SENA ranked first among nine public and private entities in the city, which have a presence in Barranquilla. This is the result of the most important citizen perception survey of the Atlantic capital carried out in 2017, in the Institutions, Government and Citizenship category. 

    The survey that monitors the quality of urban life highlighted that the Entity has been, for the last two years, at the top of those that contribute most to the quality of the from Barranquilla, for the indiscriminate and free services of training, employment and entrepreneurship that SENA provides in the department. 

    The General Director of SENA, José Antonio Lizarazo, was satisfied with these results and pointed out that "It is the recognition that Barranquilla citizens make to the transparent work we do and this adds to the positive result achieved in the Cartagena survey, the past month, where SENA was also exalted as the best entity, in that city”. 

    The survey, which also presented results on topics such as economic situation and poverty, education, health, public services, security and citizen culture, perception of institutions, government and citizenship -where SENA was highlighted-, among others, was carried out to 1,246 people over 18 years of age from all locations in Barranquilla. 

    The confidence shown by the people from Barranquilla, is based on the work done to the Entity, supported by the National Government for the past 7 years, to provide quality training and relevance to Colombians. This is in addition to the construction of 19 new SENA offices in that department, through an agreement with the governor of the Atlantic, Eduardo Verano De la Rosa, and the Mayor of Barranquilla, Alejandro Char. 

    "These results are a reflection of the work and effort made by the entity to socially and economically transform the lives of the people from the Atlántico Department, by generating better opportunities and more projects such as expanding the coverage of training through new locations in the city”, said Jacqueline Rojas Solano, regional director of SENA. 

    In addition to SENA, the other entities to which the perception in knowledge, favorability and unfavorableness were measured were: Gases del Caribe and Triple A, these two occupied second and third place respectively; Barranquilla Zoo, National Police, Puerta de Oro, Caribbean Cultural Park, Traffic Police and Electricaribe. 

    The measurement showed that 84% of the population is satisfied with the education that young people receive in technical, technological or university education institutions. In this sense, SENA is a fundamental actor, since only the previous year it trained 72,128 people in the Atlantic in technical and technological programs, of which 55,034 were served in Barranquilla.

    "In this survey, which was conducted 10 years ago, we asked to the people from Barranquilla which entities are most significant to them. For those who win, this is like a prize, a recognition that is given to them for their contribution to improve the quality of life of citizens," said Rocío Mendoza, director of the Barranquilla Como Vamos program.

    Andrea Del Gallego Barrios/ JPR/GM.
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