Catalonia will receive 449.8 million euros to finance its employment, job placement and qualification programs, out of the 2,794 million distributed by the Government in the sectoral conferences held this week.

The Generalitat will receive 16.1% of the funds allocated between the Ministries of Labor and Education for active employment and training policies; an investment that reverses the cuts of more than 80 million euros experienced the previous year and that returns to 2019 levels; as they have made public from the Department of Treball in a statement.

In the meeting held during the morning of this Wednesday, and which lasted approximately four hours, the Ministry of Labor has decided to allocate the 2,111 million euros reserved for employment policies.

An amount that can be added to the 683 million euros approved in the Council of Ministers this past Tuesday and distributed by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training. From the first game, Catalonia will have 345 million euros and from the second another 103 million .

These funds are used to pay for the programs designed by the SOC , and deployed by the same or in collaboration with private organizations, and intended for the more than half a million people who are currently unemployed in Catalonia to find one. Also so that active professionals can access training or retraining courses offered from public employment offices.

Between Work and Education they have put on the table a total of 2,794 million euros, which represents an increase of 6.6% compared to the allocations distributed among the communities in the last year prior to the covid.

The increase, however, is not proportional to the rise in unemployment experienced since the first state of alarm was declared. Well, the number of unemployed has grown between March 2020 and March 2021 by 11.3% ; up to 3.9 million unemployed. In other words, unemployment has grown almost twice as much as the funds to combat it directly.

Pending another 1,100 million
The substantial increase in this exercise compared to the previous ones will not be put by the Government (not at least directly), but by the European Union. Work is at the expense of distributing between the communities another 1,100 million euros that have to come from European funds.

Sources consulted from the Department of Labor explain that Trabajo has not explained the criteria by which it will decide the distribution of said funds. If they reproduced the same criteria as those of the first quota, Catalonia would have about 175 million euros.

The new Employment Law, very close
In addition to the allocation of funds discussed this Wednesday between the Ministry of Labor and the autonomous communities, the third vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has reiterated that the approval of the new Employment Law is “imminent.”

An imminence, however, that has been reiterating in recent weeks. Several of the novelties that this regulation will introduce is the creation of a charter of rights to which all citizens in all autonomous regions will have access. These include profiles of job seekers, to improve their connectivity with offers; as well as individualized and sustained attention over time.

The vice president also reiterated during the press conference after the Employment Sector Conference that Airef will audit the spending of active employment policies and the degree of efficiency of the same. Sources of Work have detailed that the independent entity will begin to examine the public accounts from this year.

The Biziondo health group, a specialist in spinal treatments, announced last Friday, April 23, that it will be accepting bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies as a payment method within its clinics.

According to a statement published in Forbes, this would be the first health group in Spain to accept digital assets as a form of payment.

So far through the statement, it is known that the Biziondo group will be accepting bitcoins , and although it was said that other cryptocurrencies also, so far it has not been specified what they will be.

Payment with cryptocurrencies will be available from June 1 of this year, in the clinics that the Bizondo Group has in the Spanish cities of Bilbao, Madrid, San Sebastián, Lorca and Malaga.

The decision to accept cryptocurrencies as a form of payment in the clinics comes from the Manager of the Bizondo Group , David Izquierdo, who, after studying the technology for hundreds of hours, has decided to bet on Bitcoin in order that «… citizens do not depend so much on banks and intermediaries for goods and services ”.

According to Izquierdo’s vision, both the health group and its clients will benefit from payment with cryptocurrencies, since, since there is no bank intermediation, payments and collections between people are facilitated, while guaranteeing the security and transparency of each of the transactions.

With the elimination of ‘money b’ in the field of private medicine, a new philosophy is promoted in which citizens have the power to regulate ourselves autonomously. After studying this technology for hundreds of hours I have personally decided to add the company to Blockchain technology and digital currencies.

David Izquierdo, manager of Grupo Bizondo.
The Bizondo group specializes in all kinds of treatments for the spine, ranging from advanced physiotherapy to the most complex surgeries. Among its professionals, many of them come from France, all treatment techniques are mastered, thus offering their patients modern and safe solutions.

This group also attends, provides solutions, and reinterventions patients who have undergone surgery and have not obtained the expected results.

Spain every day has more participation in the adoption of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. In the health sector, as reported by CriptoNoticias, the country tested for a health certificate based on Ethereum , in order to return to a normal life, after the pandemic.

On the other hand, the Iberian country has more and more ATM facilities to exchange cryptocurrencies , and recently the possibility of tokenizing a property for its subsequent sale arose in it .

The Port approves its railway action plan. The objective is to ensure the increase in traffic by train.

The Board of Directors of the Port of Barcelona has approved the strategic action plan to increase the rail capacity of the infrastructure until the new rail accesses come into operation. In a statement this Wednesday, the Port explains that it is an action plan in stages “that has to ensure the increase” of this traffic with the current infrastructures to continue advancing in intermodality.

The first stage of the plan is the design of a new General Circulation Consignment, a document that defines how to circulate in the Port’s service area to optimize it and guarantee the safety of its facilities.

The second stage will allow the creation of a Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) that will allow the current management model of trains to be changed and to extend the timetable for the provision of rail services.

In addition, it will facilitate technological changes in the remote control of circulation and the construction of new railway infrastructures in the Port. The third and final stage involves the implementation of a Railway Command Center (CMF), which will allow the new accesses to be managed jointly when they are operational and the current tracks, as well as allowing future extensions.

On the other hand, it has approved to start the tender for the maintenance works of the port area for a value of 9.5 million euros. These works have a term of two years, with the possibility of an extension of two more years and an additional period of another year.

The Japanese multinational video game development and distribution company, SEGA, announced on Tuesday, April 27, the launch of several NFTs (non-fungible tokens) where the protagonists will be the characters of its classic video games and their future titles.

According to the statement published on the official SEGA website, the NFTs of different video games such as Total War, Yakuza, Bayonetta, Shenmue and the popular blue hedgehog Sonic , will be available from this summer.

The NFTs of both classic and future SEGA video games will consist of visual art, video game sequences and arts with their soundtrack, which will recreate the history of the company since the 80s. About this launch, the Japanese company expressed what:

Through this initiative, we will accumulate knowledge in blockchain and promote aggressive business development beyond NFTs, using blockchain technology, while enhancing the potential of games and creating new emotional experiences for users around the world.

SEGA official statement.
SEGA, through a tweet , communicated that for the launch of their NFTs they will be working with Double jump.tokyo. It is a video game company that owns games on blockchain and several NFTs, among which are the trading card games My Crypto Heroes and My Crypto Saga .

Although SEGA has not said on which NFT platform it will launch its tokens, the most likely is that it is Flow , since according to Decrypt , Double jump.tokyo is moving all its Ethereum games to this platform created by Dapper Labs, due to scalability issues with Ethereum.

Thus, SEGA joins with Square Enix as a video game developer, to the new NFT technology. Well, the company that owns the Final Fantasy video game announced in March, through an official statement, an NFT for its game Million Arthur, also together with Double jump.tokyo.

Sonic fans speak out on SEGA’s launch of NFT
One of SEGA’s most iconic characters is Sonic , a blue hedgehog who owns a video game with the same name. Among the topics covered in this video game are the dangers that technology can generate, and the protection of the environment.

This is why many fans of the game and the character have spoken out against SEGA’s decision to launch an NFT, since according to the specialized video game website, Vandal , the creation of this uses a lot of energy and electricity, generating a Carbon footprint similar to that left by a car when traveling 800 meters , this being harmful to the environment.

The fans of the blue hedgehog have spoken in the announcement that SEGA gave on Twitter about the NFTs, with tweets like that of the user identified as @ fraciscoluis04 :

This is the same company that made a specific game about preventing a mechanized and toxic earth.
This is disgusting…
Especially for a Sonic fan like me.

@ franciscoluis04.
On March 22, World Planet Day, Sonic’s official account posted a tweet with ideas to take care of him, so it’s not uncommon for SEGA’s decision to upset them so much.

Another user identified as @HP_Zone responded to SEGA’s statement on Twitter with the following tweet :

Hey When I was a child, your flagship character taught me to care about the environment.
It is more than a little jarring to see that same face contributing to the destruction of the planet at a time like this.

@HP_Zone.
Despite fan reaction, SEGA has not said anything about backing down or reconsidering its decision to launch NFT.

The reaction of Sonic fans is reminiscent of the reaction of fans of the alternative music group Gorillaz , reviewed by CriptoNoticias, who also expressed their opinions about how harmful NFTs are for the environment when the band announced the launch of its token no. expendable, for his twentieth birthday.

One of the Gorillaz fans even went so far as to open a petition on charge.org for interested parties to sign, in order to get in touch with the band and their team to slow down the process of launching the NFT.