Biodiversity Foundation XE-mente INNOVATION Project: The sprouts of diversity

XE-mente INNOVATION addresses a number of issues: the lack of training for people with diverse backgrounds; the scarcity of specialized training opportunities for this group (particularly in green jobs); the limited employment opportunities in key rural areas; the difficulties of social and labor integration for people with diverse backgrounds; and the limited number of inclusive training initiatives available, which are typically segregated for people with and without diverse backgrounds.

In turn, XE-mente INNOVATION addresses a number of needs: it offers innovative, inclusive, simple, and accessible professional training, which was previously nonexistent in the region; it trains people with and without diversity in an open and inclusive teaching-learning environment; it empowers the people with diversity involved as co-trainers, who will serve as an example to students that whatever they set their minds to is within their reach; it generates new, innovative green professional profiles in demand by companies, which will create inclusive green jobs; it helps preserve the richness of a self-sustaining ecosystem, promoting the valorization of native varieties, biodiversity, and resource optimization.

San Xerome, in its ongoing commitment to innovation and sustainability, through XE-mente INNOVATION will specialize participants in an innovative agroecology system extended in Central America with the support of funds from the Spanish Development Cooperation (AECID) and the Xunta de Galicia: the BIOINTENSIVE CULTIVATION method, becoming a reference center at the state level and an information point for anyone interested in training on this method.

The percentage of women participating in the project will be 50%, while the percentage of participation of other priority groups (the sum of all other groups except women) will be 50%.

At least 10% of the recipients will find employment.