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Registration is open until January 3 for the special 2025 edition of Ceibal's Jóvenes a Programar program, aimed at people between 18 and 30 years old, residing in the interior of the country. Programming courses, testing, training in applied technical English, and socio-emotional and socio-labor skills are offered. The training is free and will be held from March to December in virtual mode.
The new edition of the Jóvenes a Programar (JaP) program, from Ceibal, together with the Universidad Tecnológica del Uruguay (UTEC), provides more opportunities for young people to access the qualified labor market.
Its objective is to train people between 18 and 30 years old in areas of information technology. In 2025, the special edition of the program will focus exclusively on people who live in the interior of the country, informed the Communication Coordinator of JaP, Sol Castro, this Thursday 26, in dialogue with Presidential Communication.
The initiative, which has the support of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology (CUTI), the innovation and entrepreneurship laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB-Lab) and companies in the sector, offers courses in programming, testing and other technologies, as well as training in applied technical English and socio-emotional and socio-labor skills.
Registration is open until Friday, January 3, and the training will be held from March to December, in virtual mode, Castro said. “Anyone between 18 and 30 years old who wants to participate will be able to do so, from anywhere in the country, except Montevideo,” he added.
She also recalled that the JaP program carried out other special events to promote the registration of some populations. In this regard, she explained that in 2019 and 2024, the strengthening of female participation in the sector was promoted. “For the 2025 edition, it was decided to do it in the interior of the country, in order to democratize access and training in technologies for populations that do not often have these opportunities,” she said.
He also pointed out that, once participants graduate from the first year, they can access the job placement service, which connects companies in the sector and enables alliances to make calls focused on the profiles of young people. “We have the potential and the specific training needed to be able to generate youth employment, which is what the country so badly needs,” said Castro.
He also reported that since the start of the Ceibal program in 2016, which is offered free of charge, some 5,800 students have graduated, of which 1,600 have a job in the field of information technology.
