The Office of Local Development of the Consell de Formentera is pleased to report that 14 people have completed training and employment programmes for activity leaders and socio-health care attendants developed by the Balearic Islands Employment Service (SOIB) and Consell in the last year. Eight unemployed over-30s completed SOIB 30, a programme on socio-health care for dependents in social institutions, while six 16- to 29-year-olds completed SOIB Jove, a programme focused on leisure programmes and the Catalan language.

On a visit, Ana Juan, president and enterprise councillor of the Consell, praised students for successfully completing the training and wished them a productive future in employment.

The two programmes, which began 24 November 2022 and lasted six months, promote training and employment. Socio-health care students completed work practise at the Formentera Day Centre and seniors' residence, while those in the course for leisure activity leaders received on-site experience at the basketball and judo schools and Casal de Joves.

23 May 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

The Office of Youth of the Consell de Formentera is pleased to announce the activities organised at the Casal de Joves during the month of May. Tomorrow, 3 May, the youth drop-in centre programme begins with a film screening. In fact, on Sunday 24 May there will also be another evening of sofa, movies and popcorn with a theme chosen by Casal youth.

Vanessa Parellada, youth councillor, said that the young people at the Casal will make a mural with Formentera Film Festival on 16 May. "With this great activity, FFF will introduce young people to the world of audiovisuals and make them active participants", said Parellada.

From 6.30pm, Ricardo Cavolo, creator of the FFF 2023 illustration, will make a mural outside the Casal de Joves and a video of the creative process will be made too. Plus there will be music from Baby Milo - DJ Set and, from 9.00pm, the event will continue with a screening of the official youth session and selection of the winning short film.

Another standout feature of the programme is a bike ride and picnic on 27 May. Other proposals include an evening of art, a jump rope tournament, yoga, a sticker workshop, the "hand and foot" game, preparing strawberries and cream, a spin art game and acrobatics workshop.

2 May 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

This morning the second and final session of the 2022-2023 Participatory Council of Children and Youth (PCCY) was held. The meeting was chaired by Ana Juan and co-chaired by Vanessa Parellada, president and youth councillor, respectively, of the Consell de Formentera. Other participants included representatives of the three public schools on the island, CEIP el Pilar de la Mola, CEIP Sant Ferran and CEIP Mestre Lluís Andreu, as well as representatives of IES Marc Ferrer, which are part of the same body.

The president welcomed PCCY members to the assembly and thanked them for their participation throughout this legislature. For her part, Vanessa Parellada took stock of proposals realized and those that are pending.

As always, children and young people asked for improvements in sports and educational facilities and parks, which the officials committed to study, report to the appropriate administrations, namely the regional ministry of education, and implement them if feasible. They also asked about issues related to health, mobility and family welfare.

26 April 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

The Language Advisory Service of the Consell de Formentera is pleased to announce that, together with the Onomastics Society and in collaboration with the Onomastics Office of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, it has published a physical edition of La toponímia de Formentera, a work by philologists Vicent Ferrer i Mayans and Enric Ribes i Marí.

In nearly 900 pages, this work brings together the toponyms and microtoponyms of the island, which, until now, were collected in scattered or even unpublished publications. The work also presents a toponymic map allowing readers to explore nooks, points, caves, passes, hills and roads of the island's interior and coast, name by name.

"This work will help us visualise our linguistic and toponymic heritage and allow us to preserve it and pass it on", said Raquel Guasch, heritage and language policy councillor.

The work, which will go on sale today, will be presented on 1 May in the Consell de Formentera plenary hall as part of the 49th Onomastics Society Colloquium. Colloquium attendees will also enjoy various communications concerning local toponymy.

20 April 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera