The CEOE Foundation opens its second centre to offer training and employment guidance to Ukrainians in Madrid

More than 700 companies are already collaborating in the 'Empresas por Ucrania' platform, with more than 2,200 job offers spread throughout the country and for all types of profiles. The CEOE Foundation's project is supported by Universia, Banco Santander's open platform for non-financial services, who designed its digital platform. In addition, the consultancy firm Oliver Wyman is participating by providing strategic advice and helping to coordinate the project.

The president of the CEOE Foundation, Fátima Báñez, visited this Monday, May 9, the in-person information desk set up by the CEOE Foundation in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) to offer guidance on training and employment to Ukrainians who have come to Spain, with the aim of helping them to integrate.

During the visit, she was accompanied by the Secretary of State for Migration, Jesús Javier Perea; the National Director of Adecco Staffing, Rubén Castro Rodríguez; the President of CEIM, Miguel Garrido; and the Director General of External Relations of MAPFRE, Eva Piera. The stand is part of the Reception, Attention and Referral Centre (CREADE) opened by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration for this target population.

Last week, the CEOE Foundation opened its first stand at the Fira de Barcelona and it will soon inaugurate another two information points: one in Malaga and one in Ciudad de la Luz (Alicante).

In all of them, Ukrainians seeking information and guidance will be assisted by staff from the Adecco Group.

The information stands of the CEOE Foundation will serve, among other things, to facilitate the access of Ukrainians to the platform www.empresasporucrania.org in which more than 700 companies already collaborate, offering more than 2,200 jobs across the country for all types of profiles. 

Specifically, the CEOE Foundation’s platform gathers job openings located across the country and in all sectors; free training in Spanish and other skills that favour employability; and a section of verified information of interest, in Spanish and Ukrainian.

During the visit, the president of the CEOE Foundation explained that the platform has already published more than 2,200 job offers for Ukrainian refugees. “Since we have been working on-site in Barcelona, the number of registrations in the employment hubs has increased by 30%”, highlighted Báñez, and she encouraged the Spanish business community to continue working: “More than 700 companies are publishing their offers on the platform”.

For the Adecco Group, “being able to be in the CREADEs helping Ukrainian refugees who arrive in our country is essential”, said the National Director of Adecco Staffing. “As employment experts, we can offer advice and personalised information so that they can find work through the ‘Companies for Ukraine’ platform where Adecco will also be offering positions. In this way, they can achieve a certain normality as soon as possible. Training and employment are essential to be able to start a normalised life in Spain”, he concluded.

“At MAPFRE we think that our business activities have to be performed hand-in-hand with a permanent social commitment, being close to people and contributing to the development of a more sustainable and supportive society. This purpose is what drives and gives meaning to what we do”, said MAPFRE’s General Manager of External Relations. That is why MAPFRE did not hesitate to join this public-private collaboration initiative coordinated by the CEOE Foundation to help Ukrainian refugees. “MAPFRE wanted to do its part by offering employment opportunities through this ‘Companies for Ukraine’ platform, because only in this way will they be able to rebuild a future with dignity and become fully integrated in our country,” he stressed.

MAPFRE is also specifically helping to promote the platform through information leaflets in their language, which are distributed in the four Reception, Attention and Referral Centres that the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration has set up in Spain, such as this one in Pozuelo de Alarcón.

Meanwhile, the president of CEIM, Miguel Garrido, has praised the opening of this orientation and employment desk promoted by the CEOE Foundation for Ukrainian refugees. “It is essential to show solidarity with all the people who have been forced to flee Ukraine because of an unjustified war and to offer them ways to reinvent themselves, giving them the possibility of training and finding a job in our country, adapted to the needs of companies”, he stressed. 

Companies for Ukraine
Universia, the open platform for non-financial services of Banco Santander, has helped in designing the platform used by the ‘Companies for Ukraine’ project promoted by the CEOE Foundation.  This platform enables companies and refugees to come together and assists users on the path to employability, providing guidance and with a special focus on lifelong learning.

In addition, the consultancy firm Oliver Wyman, a CEOE partner company, is participating by providing strategic advice and supporting the coordination of the project.

In turn, the Adecco Group will contribute personnel who will provide information about the platform at the reception hubs for people from Ukraine, based on leaflets prepared in collaboration with MAPFRE.

Partner companies of the ‘Business for Ukraine’ Project –          Laboratorios Rovi
–          Grupo Ibaizabal
–          Universia
–          Oliver Wyman
–          Grupo Adecco
–          MAPFRE
–          Randstad
–          Microsoft
–          Cisco Systems
–          Eurofirms 
–          Job&talent