Opciónate is a Spanish non-governmental organization based in Gran Canaria formed by a multifaceted team of professionals specializing in gender with over 20-years’ experience working in projects at a regional, national and international level.
WHAT DO WE DO?
We contribute to personal, social and organizational development applying gender equity, emotional intelligence and Gestalt principles. Our services include:
The scope of our services range from projects for institutions and businesses focused on promoting external social change or their internal organizational growth, socially engaged projects designed and managed either independently or in collaboration with other organizations, to personal development projects for individuals and small groups.
Instituciones y empresas
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Proyectos sociales
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Desarrollo personal
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We provide tailor-made solutions that meet the specific needs of every organization and project, whether in-person or online, both in English and Spanish, integrating participatory and experiential methodologies. Download the informative dossier on Opciónate here.
LINES OF ACTION
PROJECTS
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The Insular Service for Gender-based Cyber-violence
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DIGITAL ETHICS AND PARTICIPATORY E-CITIZENSHIP
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Cyberequality in Valsequillo
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Cyberpassport Campaign for Equality in Guía
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Budgets from a gender perspective – Council of Las Palmas GC
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Cyberpassport Citizenship for Equality in Las Palmas de GC
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Gender Equality Consultancy for Global
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La Aldea EMPLEA
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Athena project
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Canary Islands Government Guide to Cyber-equality
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The Insular Service for Gender-based Cyber-violence
The Insular Service for Gender-based Cyber-violence was created with the aim of providing a specialised response to gender-based violence that takes place in the online space and affects adolescents, adult women and minors in their care, residents of Gran Canaria.
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DIGITAL ETHICS AND PARTICIPATORY E-CITIZENSHIP
The project ‘Digital ethics and participatory cybercitizenship’ is funded by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, specifically the Citizen Participation Unit of the Cabildo’s Department of the Presidency through the call for subsidies for the promotion of citizen participation and the strengthening of associations aimed at foundations, associations, federations, confederations and non-profit organisations.
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Cyberequality in Valsequillo
Opciónate implements the training service of the “Desconectando” Project, directed and coordinated by the Department of Equality of the Town Council of Valsequillo de Gran Canaria.
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Cyberpassport Campaign for Equality in Guía
The project “Cyberpassport Campaign for Equality in Guía” is funded by the City Council of Guía and is part of the “Project for the development of the State Pact against Gender Violence” of the Department of Equality Policies.
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Budgets from a gender perspective – Council of Las Palmas GC
Las Palmas budgeting Opciónate will give a theoretical and practical training course on gender budgeting in June 2022. The course is aimed at technical staff responsible for the economic or budgetary area and technical staff responsible for drawing up projects in the... read more -
Cyberpassport Citizenship for Equality in Las Palmas de GC
The project “Cyberpassport Citizenship for Equality” is funded by the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and is aimed at more than 200 students and teachers from a total of 10 schools in the municipality.
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Gender Equality Consultancy for Global
Global project The company Global, an entity committed from its origins to the philosophy of Ethical Management and Corporate Social Responsibility and, therefore, aware and convinced that Equal Opportunities between Women and Men is a basic and central principle of... read more -
La Aldea EMPLEA
La Aldea EMPLEA The project “La Aldea Emplea” is promoted by the Town Council of La Aldea de San Nicolas and financed by the Department of Equality of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria. This project is part of the “Marco Estratégico por la Igualdad Gran... read more -
Athena project
Opciónate, has been hired by the Canarian Agency for Research, Innovation and Information Society (ACIISI) as a consultant on gender equality in the framework of the European project Athena.
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Canary Islands Government Guide to Cyber-equality
The project “Ciberigualdad. A tool to combat male chauvinist cyber-violence in TRICS and video games” has been promoted and edited by the Equality Programme and EAS Educational Innovation Service of the Directorate General for Planning, Innovation and Quality (Department of Education of the Canary Islands Government).
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OUR TEAM
Ana Lydia Fernández-Layos
Emotional Intelligence and Gender Expert / Master in International Cooperation
Rocío López López
Psychologist specialised on gender and development
Rocío Felipe Junquera
Pedagogue specialized in social networks with a gender approach
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Creator of E-learning content and experience with women in vulnerable situations through the creation of socio-educational workshops.
Gregorio Cabrera Reyes
Graduate in Communication and Master in Organisational Communication
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More than 25 years of experience in newspapers and magazines.
Specialised in social, cultural and environmental issues.
Director and scriptwriter of television programmes and radio collaborator
Communication advisor for public institutions, companies and social entities.
Daniela Moreno Alarcón
PhD in Feminism as Critical Theory
Mayte Cabrera Díaz
UX/UI graphic designer
Sonia Håkansson
Audiovisual creator and photographer focused on social accompaniment and the use of the camera as a tool for awareness and transformation.
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Graduate in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and complementary studies in Communication and Digital Media at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey- Querétaro, Mexico.
NEWS
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The Cabildo launches two new services aimed at reinforcing the fight against gender-based violence
The Cabildo de Gran Canaria is launching two new services to strengthen the island’s Gender Violence Network: the Island Service for Gender Violence and the Island Service for the Prevention of Gender Violence, promoted by the Department of Equality, Diversity and Transparency, under the supervision of Sara Ramírez.
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The Cabildo launches a project to promote digital ethics and participation among the youth of Gran Canaria
The Cabildo de Gran Canaria is funding a diagnosis to identify the resources and challenges for the development of citizen participation in the digital sphere, whose ultimate goal is to promote active cybercitizenship and digital ethics among the island’s youth population, thanks to the contributions of at least sixty professionals and representatives of the associative and educational spheres.
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III Training Days for the International Human Rights Day: “Breaking down borders, adding Equality in sport”
The Vice-Ministry for Equality and Diversity of the Government of the Canary Islands, within the framework of the Canarian Strategy for Equal Transition, has promoted the III Training Days for the International Human Rights Day in the Canary Islands: ‘Breaking down borders, adding Equality in sport’. Opciónate was in charge of the technical coordination of the event at the request of the Vice-Ministry.
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La Aldea de San Nicolás hosts a conference on care, co-responsibility and work-life balance
Friday, 9 December 2022. The Town Hall of La Aldea de San Nicolás will host next Wednesday 14th December a conference on “Care, Co-responsibility and Conciliation”.
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Thirty pupils from Guía create a video against bad practices on the Internet as part of a campaign promoted by the Department of Equality.
Thirty students from IES Guía, IES Santa María de Guía and CEO Luján Pérez have starred and participated in the scripting of a video that denounces the practice of ‘body shaming’, which consists of criticising and shaming someone’s body on social networks and focusing on making comments about their appearance.
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Teachers from five schools in La Aldea take part in training on care, work-life balance and equality
The telematic training took place on 17 October over two hours and was attended by teachers from IES La Aldea, the Virgen del Campo, Tasarte and La Cardonera nursery and primary schools and the Authorised Adult Education Centre of Radio ECCA.
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Valsequillo tackles male chauvinist cyber-violence in the classroom with training sessions for pupils, teachers and families
The Valsequillo Town Council is tackling male chauvinist cyber-violence in the educational environment with a project that began today at CEIP Los Llanetes.
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La Aldea creates an online questionnaire for local people to give their views on access to the labour market and work-life balance in the municipality
The Department of Social Welfare, Solidarity and Equality of the Town Council of La Aldea de San Nicolás has launched an online questionnaire for women and men of this Gran Canarian municipality to provide their first-hand view on the current situation to access and maintain employment, as well as to reconcile professional life with personal and family life.
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Santa María de Guía de Gran Canaria promotes female leadership, work-life balance and joint responsibility in workshops for women from all over Gran Canaria
The Department of Equality of the Town Council of Santa María de Guía de Gran Canaria, led by Isabel Rodríguez, has organised a dozen training and participatory meetings aimed at carers, mainly women from all over Gran Canaria, divided into three modules.
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200 students from the capital city contribute their creativity against gender-based cyber-violence with a short film and informative material
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Tuesday, August 2, 2022 – Nearly 200 students from nine primary schools and one secondary school in the capital have created about twenty materials for dissemination, awareness and denunciation in the framework of the campaign ‘Cyberpassport Citizenship for Equality’ against male violence, promoted and financed by the Department of Equality and Diversity of the Consistory of the capital.
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The Cabildo launches two new services aimed at reinforcing the fight against gender-based violence
The Cabildo de Gran Canaria is launching two new services to strengthen the island’s Gender Violence Network: the Island Service for Gender Violence and the Island Service for the Prevention of Gender Violence, promoted by the Department of Equality, Diversity and Transparency, under the supervision of Sara Ramírez.
read more -
The Cabildo launches a project to promote digital ethics and participation among the youth of Gran Canaria
The Cabildo de Gran Canaria is funding a diagnosis to identify the resources and challenges for the development of citizen participation in the digital sphere, whose ultimate goal is to promote active cybercitizenship and digital ethics among the island’s youth population, thanks to the contributions of at least sixty professionals and representatives of the associative and educational spheres.
read more -
III Training Days for the International Human Rights Day: “Breaking down borders, adding Equality in sport”
The Vice-Ministry for Equality and Diversity of the Government of the Canary Islands, within the framework of the Canarian Strategy for Equal Transition, has promoted the III Training Days for the International Human Rights Day in the Canary Islands: ‘Breaking down borders, adding Equality in sport’. Opciónate was in charge of the technical coordination of the event at the request of the Vice-Ministry.
read more -
La Aldea de San Nicolás hosts a conference on care, co-responsibility and work-life balance
Friday, 9 December 2022. The Town Hall of La Aldea de San Nicolás will host next Wednesday 14th December a conference on “Care, Co-responsibility and Conciliation”.
read more -
Thirty pupils from Guía create a video against bad practices on the Internet as part of a campaign promoted by the Department of Equality.
Thirty students from IES Guía, IES Santa María de Guía and CEO Luján Pérez have starred and participated in the scripting of a video that denounces the practice of ‘body shaming’, which consists of criticising and shaming someone’s body on social networks and focusing on making comments about their appearance.
read more -
Teachers from five schools in La Aldea take part in training on care, work-life balance and equality
The telematic training took place on 17 October over two hours and was attended by teachers from IES La Aldea, the Virgen del Campo, Tasarte and La Cardonera nursery and primary schools and the Authorised Adult Education Centre of Radio ECCA.
read more -
Valsequillo tackles male chauvinist cyber-violence in the classroom with training sessions for pupils, teachers and families
The Valsequillo Town Council is tackling male chauvinist cyber-violence in the educational environment with a project that began today at CEIP Los Llanetes.
read more -
La Aldea creates an online questionnaire for local people to give their views on access to the labour market and work-life balance in the municipality
The Department of Social Welfare, Solidarity and Equality of the Town Council of La Aldea de San Nicolás has launched an online questionnaire for women and men of this Gran Canarian municipality to provide their first-hand view on the current situation to access and maintain employment, as well as to reconcile professional life with personal and family life.
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Santa María de Guía de Gran Canaria promotes female leadership, work-life balance and joint responsibility in workshops for women from all over Gran Canaria
The Department of Equality of the Town Council of Santa María de Guía de Gran Canaria, led by Isabel Rodríguez, has organised a dozen training and participatory meetings aimed at carers, mainly women from all over Gran Canaria, divided into three modules.
read more -
200 students from the capital city contribute their creativity against gender-based cyber-violence with a short film and informative material
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Tuesday, August 2, 2022 – Nearly 200 students from nine primary schools and one secondary school in the capital have created about twenty materials for dissemination, awareness and denunciation in the framework of the campaign ‘Cyberpassport Citizenship for Equality’ against male violence, promoted and financed by the Department of Equality and Diversity of the Consistory of the capital.
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COLLABORATIONS
INSTITUTIONS AND BUSINESSES
Ayto Lp
Ayto Telde
Ayto Sta Lucia
Ayto San Bart
Ayto Mogan
Ayto Moya
Ayto Firgas
Ayto Galdar
Ayto Agaete
Ayto Valsequillo
Cabildo - Participa
Tragsatec
ITC
Codexca
Lopesan
Likadi
Fundgrube
ICI
Ministerio Ig
Casa Africa
Europe
Pepe Damaso
Casa Colon
Iniciativas
Ayto Llanos - Igualdad
Aciisi
Global
Gobierno de Canarias
mteresa designer
Ayt Las Palmas
Pacto de estado
Guia
Ministerio
Cabildo igualdad
Ayt La Aldea
PARTNERSHIPS AND NETWORKS
Acuigranca
ACUP
Emprende Club
Equality in tourism
Femlegal
Intituto Mediterraneo de Estudios de Genero
Ires
Itaca
Mujer y Ciencia
Ludens
Salvajes a escena
Seal for Gender
Farapi
Alianza por la solidaridad
Mujeres solidaridad y cooperación
Get in touch. Give us a call, send us a message!
Calle Pérez Muñoz, 89
35009 Las Palmas de G.C.
Canary Islands. Spain.
(+34) 610 340 257
