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  The Council of Tenerife's Summer Campaign offers educational leisure activities
  The Council of Tenerife announces this year's Summer Campaign, featuring a whole range of enjoyable educational and leisure activities aimed at children between the ages of 8 and 13. Applications will be accepted from the 9th of April until the 4th of May.


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  Tenerife acoge la primera urbanización de viviendas bioclimáticas del mundo
  Scientists, builders or any other group of persons interested in sustainable housing are invited to temporarily rent one of the 25 sustainable homes that have been built in the world's first sustainable residential complex. The building of the complex was commissioned by the Council of Tenerife as part of a scientific project to incorporate renewable energies into architecture. Thanks to this experiment it will be possible to establish specific design patterns for building purposes and thereby promote energy saving. The project will also help to diversify conventional energy resources and reduce the environmental impacts of construction.


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  Over 300 women victims of gender violence received help in 2009
  The Council of Tenerife, via the Institute for Social and Socio-sanitary Care (IASS), granted financial aid to 319 women victims of gender violence in 2009. The IASS and the Canary Islands Institute for Women (ICM) spent 110,000 euros on covering these women's basic needs and paying bills.


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  Tenerife Telecommunications Ring to deliver broadband to the entire island
  The Council of Tenerife has presented the first phase of the Island's High Speed Telecommunications Ring, consisting of the installation of basic telecommunications infrastructure for broadband internet connection on the island. The project is to be completed in November this year and will bring new services and opportunities to the island's internet users.


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  Tenerife to harness volcanic energy with geothermal plants
  The Council of Tenerife, via Tenerife's Institute for Renewable Energies (ITER) and the company Petratherm, is currently participating in research on underground resources. Based on the fact that Tenerife is still volcanically active and that the earth produces a substantial amount of heat, the Council of Tenerife hopes to capture this heat and produce geothermal energy with a view to attaining energy self-sufficiency for the island.

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  Turismo de Tenerife launches an online reservation platform for the tourism industry
  Turismo de Tenerife launches an online reservation system developed by the Spanish State Agency for the Management of Tourism Innovation and Technology. With this new application offered through Tenerife's web portal www.webtenerife.com, the island will be the first Spanish destination to offer visitors the possibility of purchasing a wider selection of goods and services online.


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  Special Plan for Industrial Activity to regulate industrial estates in Tenerife
  The main objectives of the Special Plan for the Regulation of Industrial Activity in Tenerife are to provide necessary guarantees and legal security for land in order to foster the development of industry throughout the whole island; and facilitate the setting up of companies and the diversification of the local economy within the framework established in the Insular Plan of Territorial Regulation (PIOT), whilst at the same time adhere to the island's environmental objectives. The drafting of the plan has been put out to tender by the Council of Tenerife.


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  Tenerife to invest in Research and Development with EU funding
  The Council of Tenerife's TF Innova program will set in motion two projects as part of the Interreg Mac Program for the promotion of Research and Development (R&D) in Tenerife, with an investment of just over €1.4 million.


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  The Council of Tenerife increases advisory and support services for entrepreneurs
  The high unemployment rate in Spain, and especially in the Canary Islands, has given rise to a marked increase in entrepreneurial activity in Tenerife. This year, applications to the Council of Tenerife's Office for Economic Development, Business and Employment for advisory services and subsidies have increased by 25 percent. In order to meet the increase in demand for these services, the Council has employed a greater number of local development officers to monitor and help develop viable business plans.

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