Algarve Situation Report Wednesday 2^nd March 2022

First Ukrainian Refugees Travel to Algarve in coming days

The first Ukrainian refugees should arrive in the Algarve in the coming days on a bus that will leave for Poland “within a day or two», with the aim of «collecting refugees who really want to come here to the Algarve”, Igor told Sul Info. Korbeliak, president of the Association of Ukrainians in the Algarve.

The association representing Ukrainians living in the Algarve region has been “working with city councils and the High Commissioner for Migration in order to arrange documentation”.

“Europe and Poland are making it very easy and allowing people to cross the border, even without the necessary documentation in normal times”, revealed Igor Korbeliak.

“For now, most of the people who will come have family members here or know someone here. Portugal is quite far from Ukraine and people try to find a place in the closest countries”, she added.

In other words, what will work is the family network and close relationships, which means that many of these people will have a place to stay.

Even so, the association is “studying and working on housing issues. We are making a list of people and it depends a lot on how many people come per family, if there are children… we are going to work in this direction”.

“Right now, as far as I know, there are still only cases in which it is the family network that is responding or that is going to Poland or Romania to bring the family”, revealed, for his part, Armindo Vicente, president of the Secretariat of the Misericórdias do Algarve.

The União das Misericórdias Portuguesas (UMP) has already started to survey the response capacity of its members, a work that began “even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine”, after a challenge launched by the minister Ana Mendes Godinho. “União de Misericórdias manages refugee centers and has equipment that can receive people. In the case of refugee centres, they are prepared to receive people for a longer period of time.

The Algarve Hotel and Tourism School, in Faro, organizes the seventh edition of the Tourism Trade Show, on March 3rd.

The Algarve Hotel and Tourism School, in Faro, organizes the seventh edition of the Tourism Trade Show, on the 3rd of March, an event that brings together the main hotel and restaurant companies in the region with the aim of making known the opportunities of the sector to the 107 finalist students, and which has the presence of the Secretary of State for Tourism, Rita Marques, in the opening session.

This year the Tourism Trade Show has 40 companies that will be present in a new format: physical and virtual. In addition to the exhibitors, workshops and activities related to the most relevant skills for the current tourism professional take place in parallel, such as Customer Service, Leadership, Motivation, Talent and Self-knowledge. Highlight for the activity “Theatre of the Oppressed” in which students, through a dramatization, will find solutions to uncomfortable situations in the day-to-day of a professional in the hotel and restaurant industry.

The Tourism Trade Show Algarve came about through the hands of our Tourism Management final year students who, within the scope of the Event Organization discipline, proposed the realization of this initiative that promotes the approximation between companies, the tourism sector and our students. There was a need to bring entrepreneurs and agents from the region to the school to get to know the environment and the surroundings of our school and students», says Paula Vicente, director of EHTA.

Minister of Territorial Cohesion present at the signing of the cross-border cooperation protocol of the “Alentejo-Algarve-Andalusia Euroregion”

The Regional Coordination and Development Commissions (CCDR) of the Algarve and Alentejo regions and the Junta de Andalusia sign this Wednesday, March 2, the Cross-Border Cooperation Protocol of the Working Community “Euroregion Alentejo-Algarve-Andalusia» ( EuroAAA), in the presence of the Minister of Territorial Cohesion, Ana Abrunhosa, at CCDR – Algarve in Faro.

The terms of the new Cross-Border Cooperation Protocol, which will replace the now extinct Algarve-Andalusia and Alentejo-Andalusia Cross-Border Cooperation agreements, were approved by the Secretary of State for Territorial Enhancement on 28 January.

The following day, March 3, at 9:20 am, the presidents of the CCDR Algarve and Alentejo and the Junta de Andalusia visit the Regional Centre for Emergency and Civil Protection of the Algarve and the Permanent Service Helicopter Base of Loulé, in the context of the CILIFO project. – Iberian Centre for Research and Fight against Forest Fires, a project developed in the territory of EuroAAA and co-financed under the INTERREG ESPAÑA PORTUGAL Cross-border Cooperation Program (POCTEP 2014 – 2020).

Monchique marks this year’s sausage fair exclusively on-line

This year the Enchidos Fair will be held exclusively online.

Although the pandemic situation is controllable and the trend is for a return to normality, the municipal executive understood that the fair would not yet take place physically due to the need for its prior preparation.

However, not to forget to mark the date, the event will be celebrated during the next March 5th, from 10:00 am, online and exclusively on social networks (facebook, youtube and instagram) of the municipality and parishes of the municipality, with live broadcasts at 10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm and 6:00 pm.

In addition to sausages, gastronomy, handicrafts, sweets, arbutus, bread and honey, other products will have a prominent place, in an initiative that praises the producers and the entire economic, social and cultural fabric of the county, highlights the Municipality in a press release.