ARCHIVED - New Aguilas social centre will be made available to the Regional Ministry for catering degrees
The Centro de Dinamización Social de Águilas is exptected to open its doors in September
Águilas' highly-anticipated Social Dynamisation Centre under construction in Plaza Virgen de los Dolores is due to be completed in September, boasting a shared work space for entrepreneurs with flexible hours, Social Services units, classrooms and workshops, as well as a meeting place for socio-health associations.
And now Águilas Town Hall has announced that facilities will also be made available to the Regional Ministry as a venue for intermediate and advanced degrees in Cookery and Catering.
During a visit to the works on Thursday March 16. Águilas Mayor Mari Carmen Moreno explained that a new social centre will have a large kitchen with an adjoining dining room that will used for higher education purposes.
"The building will have a kitchen of more than 140 square metres and will meet all the necessary requirements to house the intermediate and higher degrees of Cookery and Catering," she said.
"We have been demanding for years that these programmes be implemented in Águilas, but in the past, the response from the Regional Ministry has always been the same: the lack of budget for the creation and provision of the necessary facilities," added the mayor.
In addition to the kitchen, workspaces and classrooms, the building has two floors below ground level for garage and storage use and a large outdoor garden area.
Importantly, "it will be an energy-efficient centre that will ensure the stability of resources, the use of sustainable materials and recycling", assures the town council.
The creation of this social and educational space, at 3.8 million euros, is part of Águilas' Sustainable and Integrated Urban Development Strategy, and is 80% co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through the multiregional operational programme for Spain 2014-2020.
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