In March 2016 begins ÁNIMA, a new Educational Institution with an innovative proposal that articulates with companies that seek to contribute to the education of young Uruguayans, through the contribution of their knowledge and resources for the development of the skills required by the labor market.
ÁNIMA offers young people a technical training in two orientations: Administration and Information and Communication Technology (ICT), in the high school cycle (4th, 5th and 6th grade), combining theoretical and practical learning, in different spaces: the classroom, companies, and digital laboratory.
El perfil de egreso de ambas orientaciones fue construido en conjunto con las empresas de Sector a partir de un estudio de demanda que identifica las competencias laborales que requieren tener desarrolladas los jóvenes para tener un buen desempeño en el mercado. “Nuestro plan de formación requiere de una participación activa de las empresas, quienes recibirán a los jóvenes en sus instalaciones determinados días a la semana para realizar funciones laborales previamente acordadas, que aporten al negocio de la empresa y al proceso de formación de los alumnos”, expresa Ximena Sommer, Directora Ejecutiva de ÁNIMA.
This is a full-time proposal and free access for young people living in a situation of social vulnerability. Its aim is that young people acquire the necessary skills (both technical and transversal) for an immediate insertion in the formal labour market and their educational continuity. ÁNIMA uses companies as a complementary training environment to the educational centre, giving a didactic value to the work in the classroom and a great training opportunity for young people.
ICT graduate profile
ÁNIMA understands technology as a tool capable of empowering the development of young people from the acquisition of skills that broaden their vision of the future based on change, the development of components, applications and tools that enable them to improve their quality of life.
Concepts that revolve around technology, such as performance, speed, improvement, development, efficiency, agility and permanent evolution, ÁNIMA translates them into skills, ways of seeing the world, ways of working, competences that determine people's actions. When we talk about technology in ÁNIMA we do not talk about products in particular, we talk about the use of them, we talk about being able to transform things through the use of knowledge and skills acquired through the technological tools that we have or that we develop.
Why?
In recent years, technological progress has sustained a particularly accentuated tonic; the approach of technology in our daily lives and therefore the incorporation of the latest technology in devices for mass use. Regardless of the range of technology that we handle, currently in our daily work we handle the same or several times more processing power than with which humanity reached the space or the moon. All this in a transparent way; it is not necessary to have an engineering background to operate such processing capacity and this premise has generated an endless number of devices and open, modifiable, customizable and easy to use software. With this scenario it is pertinent to incorporate as quickly as possible the knowledge that allows a better use of all these tools, which have the characteristic of multiplying knowledge and development exponentially.
Where are we going?
The graduation profile of ÁNIMA students seeks to provide young people with the necessary tools to enter the formal labor market and continue their academic studies. The ICT orientation is focused on the development of the profile of "Web Developer", seeking to open the range of possibilities for young people. For this we start from a fundamental premise: "everyone can program". In ÁNIMA we believe that programming is a discipline that should be extended to all people who want to acquire it. Programming languages have been evolving with technology under the unavoidable premise of approaching, including, making technology less hard and therefore more accessible. In recent years web development has incorporated a myriad of tools that facilitate the task of the developer, the open source community has spread and has been incorporated by large companies that have released their source code; the growing variety of platforms and devices makes necessary and quasi-essential flexibility and agility of development mechanisms. This situation represents an opportunity for our young people and in ÁNIMA we understand that it is our duty, to provide them with the tools, knowledge, skills and therefore competences to make use of this technological world for the improvement of their vision of the future, the creation of tools, the acquisition of skills that open doors to their development as individuals from work. We dream of a generation of young people capable of working, empowering their future, improving their context and spreading their vision to others from their own abilities.
Young people need new learning spaces for their professional training. Companies need committed and qualified human resources. ÁNIMA seeks to build a bridge between both needs, through partnerships with companies that provide opportunities for young people, who will be their potential human resources.
Join the poll of training companies!
For ÁNIMA to be possible, it requires the effort and commitment of everyone. We invite companies that want to contribute to the education of young Uruguayans to join our proposal by supporting us with the financing of the education of one young person, two or as many as they can. We have a scholarship scheme, with the benefit of the Law of Special Donations and various means of payment to receive your donations. You can obtain more information at http://anima.edu.uy/como-colaborar/
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