Noticias – Inglés

#RETOMadrID at the CEPA in San Martín de la Vega

by albertoluqueabril | Mar 25, 2026 | Sin categoría

At @cepasanmartindelavega, many people are already learning how to use a computer FROM SCRATCH with #RETOMadrID. A basic course, lasting about eight hours, which each person can follow at their own pace, featuring step-by-step videos and exercises in a very educational and simple way.

If you would like us to bring this course to your center, association, residence, etc., for anyone over 18 who wants to learn from scratch, register the center here and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible.

#RETOMadrID is a project by @comunidadmadrid together with @somosupm for municipalities with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants in the Community of Madrid, and it is funded by the #NextGeneration #planrecuperaciónEU Funds.

You can already begin training in Redueña’s Townhall

by srcoke98 | Mar 25, 2026 | Sin categoría

Redueña’s townhall has alredy begun providing training in basic digital skills to their residents in a simply, easy to follow tailored methodology, thanks to @comunidadmadrid with the support of Universidad Politécnica and funded by #nextgenerationeu.

💻 What does your centre need to join #RETOMadrID and acquire a Digital Inclusion Point for the residents?

Eagerness to be an innovative village. Write us to pay you a visit and begin this journey.

🎧Is something needed in your centre/municipality?

If you already have available computer, we will facilitate you with tablets, headphones and USBs with the required software installed. If there are no computers, we can bring you laptops and mice. Besides that, WiFi is required in order to keep tablets updated and in the last modules of the course participants will learn how to surf the web.

⌛How long does this course last?

Since this course needs to be completed on your own, each person can do it at their own pace, following centres’ organization/schedule. But the entirety of the course can be covered in just 7.5 hours.

🎯 Who can benefit from #RETOMadrID?

People above 18 years old may participate in these courses by @comunidadmadrid. The course is specifically designed for vulnerable groups, with a very simple language, slow and as much as they want, unlimited playbacks.

Ideal for old people without basic skills or with little but would like to strengthen what they know. Also, for people who are not proficient in Spanish and want to integrate in society.

📧 Do you want your centre to join in?

Enter here and fill in the form. We will get in touch ASAP. 😊

Prádena del Rincón join up to strengthen digital training of their residents

by srcoke98 | Mar 25, 2026 | Sin categoría

In Prádena del Rincón, at a retirement home, a course is up and running to learn how to use a computer from scratch and today, residents have started using the computer.

Thanks to Gema, who is always keeping an eye on them in this little community in Madrid. Soon, they would have made a big step to learn something bigger; age doesn’t matter to start using the computer!

If you would like to bring this project of @comunidadmadrid and @somosupm funded by #NextGenerationEU #PlanDeRecuperación to your centre sign up here and we will get in touch as soon as possible.

#digitalliteracy #digitalgap #elderly #accesibility #TechPeopleCare #techforall

RETOMadrID takes part in the 2024 Science and Innovation Week

by srcoke98 | Mar 25, 2026 | Sin categoría

Yesterday, the round-table “RETOMadrID: Innovation that connects and transforms rural lives” took place within the framework “Science and Innovation Week” by @comunidadmadrid at @etsimeupm.

The round table focused on explaining the digital literacy project in municipalities with fewer than 20,000 residents in the Community of Madrid and brought together important stakeholders for its development, including @comunidadmadrid team and @somosupm, responsible for the municipalities we are already working with as facilitators, as well as, needless to say, our course alumni.

It was an awesome meeting in which we heard participants’ voices expressing their interest in making dissappear the digital gap in the population, especially among vulnerable groups such as our older adults and immigrants with little or no access to technology. The closing ceremony featured the presence of @javi.carazo, General Director for Territorial Rebalance in the Community of Madrid.
Gracias a D. Juan Garbajosa, Director de Área para Mecenazgo y Relaciones con Empresas de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid y D. Francisco Javier Elorza, Director de Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Minas y Energía por acoger el evento y darnos la bienvenida.

Thanks to all the participants in the round table:

Ms. Eva Barrios Reyes (@eva.barrios.reyes), Head of the Strategic Coordination Division and coordinator of the RETOMadrID team at the Community of Madrid
Mr. Jesús Manuel Romero Martín, Mayor of Gascones
Ms. Yolanda Calles Martínez, Councillor for Culture, Employment, Health and Social Affairs, and First Deputy Mayor of @actualidadventurada
Ms. Susana Muñoz Hernández (@susanatedeco), Director of TEDECO and Principal Investigator of RETOMadrID
Mr. Sergio López Lorente, Local Coordinator of RETOMadrID
Mr. José Cercadillo, Librarian at @bibliotecavelilla in @aytovelilla
Ms. Julia Martín (@juliamartinjimenez), Manager at the Rural Open Centre in @horcajuelo_de_la_sierra
Ms. Irene Álvarez Martín, student who completed the RETOMadrID course in @horcajuelo_de_la_sierra

Moderated by: Ms. Clara Benac Earle (@cbenac_upm), Professor and researcher in RETOMadrID.

The full video of the event is available here:

#RETOMADRID IN MADARCOS

by srcoke98 | Mar 25, 2026 | Sin categoría

Starting today, Judith is welcoming residents of Madarcos at Espacio Cuídame, on the street called El Pozo, 7. Anyone who is interested in learning how to use a computer from scratch may join in. We cover most basic concepts, such as turning a PC on and off, using a mouse, understanding what a Desktop is, opening folders, creating files, navigating the system and even booking a doctor’s appointment.

Even though, it may seem like basic knowledge to us, for many circumstances it is not accessible to everyone. Through our project free and funded by #NextGenerationEU all this information is available at your fingertips in just 8 hours.

If you would like to bring this project by @comunidadmadrid and @somosupm funded by, #NextGenerationEU #PlanDeRecuperación, to your centre, sign up here and we will get in touch as soon as possible.

@sierradelrinconturismo @sierranortedemadrid
#digitalliteracy #digitalgap #elderly #accesibility #TechPeopleCare #techforall

Which centres can take in RETOMadrID’s project?

by srcoke98 | Mar 24, 2026 | Sin categoría

Inside of our network, public or private centres, NGOs, associations, etc. are welcome. Every centre that a Digital Inclusion Point could be installed and could aim our target group (those people who are willing to learn the computer from scratch and the basics needs to surf the web) may participate in this programme.

Which requirements are needed to carry out this project in your centre?

We are flexible in different situations and places, but the only thing we ask for is a place to keep the required hardware for the training and a person of the project in charge of the participants to help with the sign-up process, the management of the documentation and the communication with our cooperation team. Morever, even if, there is already a centre participating at one municipality of fewer than 20,000 inhabitants, our local facilitator who sets up Digital Inclusion Points, can facilate this project at another centre of the same municipality, to extend our reach to people willing to participate.

Join in this project of @comunidadmadrid and @somosupm funded by #NextGenerationEU #PlanDeRecuperación. Contact us filling this form.

Training available at the Valdepiélagos Reading Center

by srcoke98 | Mar 24, 2026 | Sin categoría

At the Reading Center of ayuntamiento_valdepielagos, a digital literacy course is up and running brought by #RETOMadrID. Any person interested can pop in and ask for Rodrigo, their manager, who will help you sign up and start out as soon as possible.

Learn to use a computer for free, easily and at your own pace from anywhere and whenever it suits you following TechPeopleCare methodology developed by TEDECO (Technology for Development and Cooperation), a cooperation group from somosupm made up of teachers, students from Escuela Superior de Ingenieros Informáticos @etsiinf, and external collaborators. This methodology has already been implemented in different countries and communities at risk of vulnerability and social exclusion due to a lack of basic digital skills.

If you would like to bring this project of @comunidadmadrid and @somosupm funded by #NextGenerationEU #PlanDeRecuperación to your centre sign up here and we will get in touch as soon as possible.

All public and/or private centers located in areas with a population of fewer than 20,000 inhabitants may participate.

This holidays, gift access to RETOMadrID methodology!

by srcoke98 | Mar 23, 2026 | Sin categoría

During these weeks RETOMadrID’s course will be free and available also for those people interested in learning how to use a computer, organize data or make online appointments such as calling the doctor 🏥✨

🎯 Who we aim at?

All those persons who want to take their first steps in the digital world.
No prior knowledge needed! In just 8 hours, at your own pace following a tailored methodology you will learn how to handle a computer from SCRATCH.

🏫Where can you find RETOMadrID?

We are in more than 80 municipalities in the Community of Madrid. You can find the centres that have participated in our website.
If you would like to bring this project of @comunidadmadrid and @somosupm funded by #NextGenerationEU #PlanDeRecuperación to your centre contact us or fill in our form in our website.

🚀 Step up to become part of the digital transformation! Technology at everyone’s fingertips! 🙌

Daily Report “RETOMadrID: Innovation that connects and transforms lives”

by srcoke98 | Mar 23, 2026 | Sin categoría

Last November we had the privilege of bringing together many protagonists in our project around a table during the motive of the Week of the Innovation and Science, and here we present a summary of everything we heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ3hTKRiMmY

Full event in our YouTube channel.

Thanks to Mr. Juan Garbajosa, Director of Area for sponsorship and connection with companies from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Mr. Francisco Javier Elorza, Director of the Higher Technical School of Mining and Energy Engineering, for hosting this event and welcome us.

Thanks to all the participants in the round table:
-Ms. Eva Barrios Reyes @eva.barrios.reyes, Head of the Strategic Coordination Division and coordinator of the RETOMadrID team at the Community of Madrid.
– Mr. Jesús Manuel Romero Martín, Gascones’s mayor.
– Ms. Yolanda Calles Martínez, Councillor for Culture, Employment, Health and Social Affairs, and First Deputy Mayor of @actualidadventurada.
– Ms. Susana Muñoz Hernández @susanatedeco Head of TEDECO and Principal Research at RETOMadrID
– Mr. Sergio López Lorente – Local Coordinator at RETOMadrID.
– Mr. José Cercadillo – Librarian of @bibliotecavelilla at @aytovelilla
– Ms. Julia Martín, @juliamartinjimenez Coordinator at the Rural Open Centre in @horcajuelo_de_la_sierra
– Ms. Irene Álvarez Martín, Student that has finalized RETOMadrID course at @horcajuelo_de_la_sierra.
The session was moderated by Ms. Clara Benac Earle (@cbenac_upm), Professor and researcher for RETOMadrID.

In this 2025, if you would like this project of @comunidadmadrid and @somosupm funded by #nexgenerationEU #planderecuperacion @miteco.gob take place in your centre contact us or sign up in our website. We will get in touch as soon as possible.

#digitalliteracy #digitalgap #elderly #accessibilty #TechPeopleCare #techforall

RETOMadrID ready at Villalbilla

by srcoke98 | Mar 23, 2026 | Sin categoría

At @villalbillatownhall, Digital Inclusion Points are already available to people who may be interested in learning how to use a computer in approximately 8 hours, at their own pace and using #techpeoplecare methodology.

At Hogar Raíces, three retirement homes have been set up with required hardware so they can begin the #RETOMadrID course and gain basic knowledge of how to use a computer.

If you would like this @comunidadmadrid and @somosupm project funded by #nexgenerationEU #planderecuperacion @miteco.gob, to happen to be in your centre, please write us or sign up in our web and we will get in contact with you as soon as possible. Public or private centres in municipalities with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants can participate.