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00:00:27Santo, in
00:00:55increase for October 21st.
00:01:16Charities demand that the government update cooperation agreements
00:01:20by the end of the
00:01:21month.
00:01:25Presidents of the new Azorean houses created this year want to
00:01:28establish cultural points.
00:01:43called for a demonstration for October
00:01:49Welcome to Atlantic news. The charities of
00:01:52the Azores want the government to assume its responsibilities and
00:01:56update funding by the end of this month at the General Assembly that
00:02:00took place in Flores, Bento Barcelos warned that institutions are
00:02:04apparently fresh as a daisy when he struggling and having difficulties
00:02:06reports that are currently under the paying employees and suppliers.
00:02:1020 of the 23 charities of the Azores met on the island of Flores
00:02:13to discuss the financial difficulties
00:02:16learn while playing and affecting a social sector. At the end of the meeting, the president of
00:02:18the Charities, Bento Barcelos, made an appeal to the governments of the regional
00:02:21Republic: it is urgent to update the funding of
00:02:24institutions. Since last year there have been enormous difficulties
00:02:28in financing the... social sector as far as charities are
00:02:32concerned, since last year,
00:02:35compared to the funding verified on the continent,
00:02:39we only received 60%, and we continue to operate in all
00:02:43areas, with the same quality, with the same fulfillment of
00:02:46our mission. The official warns that several institutions are facing
00:02:50difficulties in meeting financial
00:02:52initiative of the municipality of Velas, on commitments, and concern increases with the approach of Christmas bonus
00:02:55payment, with parcels also expressing solidarity with
00:03:00in workers whose salaries, with the exception of those covered by the regional
00:03:03minimum wage, have not been updated, we are
00:03:06struggling, there are charities that are
00:03:09increased difficulty in fulfilling their responsibilities,
00:03:13not only with employees, but also with suppliers,
00:03:17we are on the verge of November, which is a month of
00:03:20great financial responsibility with the payment of the Christmas bonus, so
00:03:24we make a fervent appeal, our position
00:03:28taken by the 20...
00:03:30charities present here and certainly the
00:03:33crisis, the report advocates the three who could not, for justifiable reasons, be with us, that the government
00:03:35by the end of this month
00:03:39in one of them a pavement of assume its responsibilities in articulation
00:03:41with the two governments, negotiate with Urma so that we can
00:03:45have the cooperation agreements updated and the funding
00:03:50called a demonstration for October enter our institutions. The charities are now demanding a response
00:03:53by the end of the month with the updating of cooperation agreements and
00:03:56the guarantee of funding to ensure operations. that's what they
00:04:00dictate, the agenda, the
00:04:02and only two plays to 700 beds in the mental health homes of the Azores are
00:04:05insufficient for the daily admissions that reach
00:04:09the institutions. on World Mental Health Day, integrated into the open
00:04:13week, the institute of the Sisters Hospitallers promoted in
00:04:16Angra a conference focused on
00:04:18prevention.
00:04:21are the face of mental illness on display in the streets of
00:04:25Angra to combat stigma. Especially because it is in the
00:04:28Azores that the problem worsens, associated with
00:04:32social condition, the problem of the poor is poverty, we are a poor region of
00:04:35Europe, we have health problems,
00:04:38won her 14th career those who have money can access health, accessibility is very important, so
00:04:41a population that has
00:04:44little, the sufficient income to be able to live, has the hope of tomorrow
00:04:46to be able to live better, so it is the social issue that is
00:04:50most important to resolve. The sign that precedes mental disorder
00:04:54begins with anxiety, with conditions that
00:04:57can reach dementia and whose diagnosis
00:05:01in the region reaches 5,500
00:05:04cases for an inpatient response that is already scarce. while hospitals have
00:05:08about 30 psychiatry beds, so the
00:05:11hospital institutes in the
00:05:14region, eh, are almost 700 beds daily that
00:05:18care for people in the area of mental health, therefore, as is obvious, the
00:05:22hospital institutes, namely the Hospitaller Sisters of Angra and Heroísmo, eh,
00:05:25are requested daily eh with cases that reach
00:05:29eh us needing an immediate response. Despite the last update a year ago, of the
00:05:32program contracts signed between the health houses and the regional
00:05:36executive, the daily rate per user remains below
00:05:4067 spaces with the continent. we are still
00:05:42with a large differential in terms of values practiced at the national
00:05:46level, at the level of inflation in the Azores
00:05:49also happens with quite high values and of course we are still
00:05:53behind what is currently practiced at the national level. what is that differential
00:05:56currently? at this moment we are talking about a differential of almost
00:06:0040 euros. Miguel Gomes, a mental health
00:06:03specialist, at the closing of the open week of the Hospitaller
00:06:06Sisters, advocated more teams
00:06:09working on prevention on we transformed the
00:06:13hospitals on two islands, that is, we need mental health to spread to
00:06:16all eh with extended health teams, with doctors,
00:06:19nurses, eh, occupational therapists, a whole set of health professionals who
00:06:23can satisfy the needs of the population. Waiting for the green
00:06:26light for funding, there are projects to be developed by the
00:06:30Hospitaller Sisters, one to detect early
00:06:34disorders in nursing homes and day
00:06:37centers, the other for home care, for cases
00:06:41already diagnosed.
00:06:44The country was awarded 35.1 million
00:06:48euros in the European Union's budget proposal, but wants another 900
00:06:51million for the Azores and Madeira. In the proposal for
00:06:542028-2034,
00:06:56Portugal demands the maintenance or updating of the amount.
00:07:00Europe enters a new phase of budget discussion, after the
00:07:04rotating presidency of the council occupied by Ireland proposed
00:07:07on Saturday cuts of 8%
00:07:11in the European Commission's multiannual
00:07:14budget proposal. The proposed cut is
00:07:161.62 billion euros for economic,
00:07:19social and territorial cohesion, agriculture,
00:07:22fisheries and rural communities suffer smaller cuts. The
00:07:26largest cuts fall under the heading Global Europe,
00:07:29competitiveness, prosperity and security, followed by
00:07:33administration.
00:07:39A study carried out by the Order of Architects concluded that... the Azores are facing a
00:07:43serious housing crisis. The document was submitted to the government and advocates the creation
00:07:47of a regional housing
00:07:48plan.
00:07:52It is a bleak scenario for many families. Finding
00:07:55a home is increasingly difficult according to a report
00:07:59by the Order of Architects, researchers and specialists,
00:08:03it constitutes a true state of emergency. All
00:08:06of us are aware of the prices that are being practiced in the market and that not every
00:08:10family, every citizen
00:08:13can acquire a home today and it becomes concerning when more and more
00:08:17eh society is dependent on financial
00:08:21support, there is little public housing available that
00:08:24is capable of responding to the needs
00:08:28of a region that is one of the poorest regions in the country. The
00:08:32other problem has to do with the dynamics of the rental market and the
00:08:36buying and selling market that is
00:08:39being conditioned by internal and
00:08:42external dynamics in the face of the serious
00:08:46creation of a regional housing plan, it should be understood as a
00:08:50strategic movement eh and that should adopt concrete,
00:08:53specific measures with predictability, so
00:08:55associated with this plan there must also be a budget, there must be
00:08:59financing so that there can be implementation, to
00:09:02accompany this plan what we recommend is the establishment of the regional
00:09:05housing council there yes eh civil
00:09:09society so that it can eh effectively be obtained.
00:09:13Lack of housing affects various social strata and demands
00:09:17urgent responses, the
00:09:19recommendations are given to encourage the establishment
00:09:23of housing cooperatives, another measure that may be
00:09:26implemented is the regulation of local accommodation which
00:09:29greatly incentivizes real estate speculation, on the other hand, environmental issues
00:09:33are also fundamental, qualifying the public space, the built heritage
00:09:37is also fundamental. The challenge now is to transform the diagnosis.
00:09:40The report with proposals addressed to
00:09:43the government and to
00:09:45the municipalities advocates that
00:09:48housing should be assumed as a strategic
00:09:51development
00:09:53priority.
00:09:56The new university residences in Ponta Delgada, Horta and Angra
00:10:00are already in operation. The director of the social action services
00:10:03of the University says that at this moment there are no waiting
00:10:07lists and that all requests have been met. In São Miguel,
00:10:11students say that there is a general improvement in the conditions of the new
00:10:14space.
00:10:17Carlota Reis comes from Machico on the island of Madeira and is in her third
00:10:21year of her degree in medicine at the University of the Azores.
00:10:26in São Miguel, a very beautiful island, then I also made many friends here with people from other
00:10:30courses and that's it, that memory will always remain. After
00:10:33two years in the old Laranjeiras residence, Carlota applied for the
00:10:37new student accommodation and moved in on September 7th,
00:10:41the differences are notorious. We have a double
00:10:45room, that is, a shared room, we have
00:10:48more privacy, since we have two
00:10:52rooms within that room, ah.
00:10:55Then also the proximity to the
00:10:58university is quite good, we are 5 minutes
00:11:02walk away, while from the other one we were more or less 20, the study
00:11:05room has much more conditions in terms of lighting, it has air
00:11:09conditioning, it offers a little more comfort for us to
00:11:13study there, I think that's also a plus. André Palma is
00:11:17another student who chose São Miguel to study, he comes from
00:11:20Sintra and is in his first year of his management degree. The
00:11:24conditions. spectacular, I have nothing to complain about, the reception, I was
00:11:28received by the security guard, he also
00:11:31received me with open arms, I have nothing to complain about, I think it's very
00:11:35welcoming, especially this space, even the kitchen
00:11:39during the night or during lunch, ah it's always
00:11:42possible to socialize a little, meet new people, just yesterday I met
00:11:46new colleagues, for both of them entering the
00:11:49university residence was the right choice, before coming to this
00:11:52residence you looked for rooms eh... you're aware
00:11:55of what the housing situation was like here in the region, what did you
00:11:58find? No, I didn't look, I applied here, it was
00:12:01my first option and I was accepted. Being in a residence
00:12:05is much easier and I have
00:12:08colleagues of mine who, when they came here, also felt a lot of difficulty in
00:12:12finding a room and well, only at the end of the second or third
00:12:15year, now they found a room more or less and near the university.
00:12:19The new academic year was marked by the entry into operation of
00:12:23three new university residences in the poles of
00:12:26Ponta Delgada, Horta and Angra do Heroísmo, I can say that in Ponta
00:12:30Delgada, this one from Mãe de Deus, we have here 120 beds available for
00:12:34students, researchers, teachers, eh, in
00:12:37Horta we have a capacity for 50 beds and
00:12:41also in Angra, in Pico da Urse there are 100 beds, well, generally they are
00:12:44double rooms, but with a typology that you can see
00:12:48they will find that the rooms are individualized, well, they
00:12:51only share a bathroom and a kitchenette, at this moment I can tell
00:12:55you that as of today we do not have students on the waiting list, all
00:12:58requests that were made we answered, according to the director of the
00:13:02school social action services, the University of the
00:13:05Azores received more than 200 applications, a large part
00:13:08from students from the mainland and autonomous regions. All
00:13:12residences are currently at an occupancy of
00:13:1585%, but with the possibility of accommodating more
00:13:19students.
00:13:227 years later, tuition fees will go up again. It was
00:13:25frozen, but from now on it will have to follow
00:13:28inflation. In response, student associations have already
00:13:31called a demonstration.
00:13:35Studying is increasingly expensive. Accommodation,
00:13:39food, transport, now joins the increase in tuition fees.
00:13:42After 7 years frozen, the value will
00:13:45increase and follow inflation. It is a
00:13:49path of dismantling higher education, eh, also its
00:13:52elitism. This is dangerous. It should not be families
00:13:56that should over-indebt and finance higher
00:13:59education, this should indeed be an investment for the country, a structural
00:14:03investment and in society so that they can have better
00:14:06qualifications and we can give more value and produce
00:14:10more for our country. Student associations in Lisbon have already
00:14:1521st, there are hundreds of students mobilized in a fight that
00:14:19goes beyond this increase. They know what vision we have for
00:14:23higher education in that regard.
00:14:25"What we want is to fight these successes and seek to advance,
00:14:29seek to advance towards the end of tuition fees, seek to advance
00:14:32towards free higher education. The government made the same
00:14:35proposal in the state budget for 2026, but the intention was
00:14:39stopped by the opposition. If it is approved this time,
00:14:42the update of tuition fees will apply to undergraduate degrees,
00:14:46to professional higher technical courses, the stesp
00:14:49to some master's degrees, such as for example teachers. The total
00:14:53expenditure on higher education, science and innovation should be around
00:14:573.9 billion euros, minus
00:15:007.6% than was expected last year. The cut is mainly due
00:15:03to the end of the PRR funds. 125
00:15:07million euros, the document points out, should be dedicated to social
00:15:11action, housing, success
00:15:13and well-being.
00:15:16Students from Canada are in São Miguel to study and present proposals
00:15:20for the old Sinaga factories. RTP followed one of the study
00:15:24visits, it was
00:15:29to dignify the past, debate the present and build
00:15:33the future, these are first-year master's students in architecture from...
00:16:30to help the community and help them learn the importance that this factory
00:16:34had in their history. Since early September, students
00:16:37have been studying the reports and guiding proposals for
00:16:41intervention in the Sinaga factories, as well as learning
00:16:44their history through archival documents and digital
00:16:48surveys done by Professor Lui Pierre
00:16:51Belleque. I, as a professor, am very
00:16:54proud of the attention they are
00:16:57paying to the details of what they are finding, whether it's in
00:17:01culture, whether it's in people, whether it's in vernacular
00:17:05architecture, in popular architecture. They are very
00:17:08attentive and want to do this work with
00:17:12great respect, in a collaboration with the University of Coimbra
00:17:15which is also carrying out a study on this heritage, the objective of this
00:17:19project is to share the data acquired with the Azorean
00:17:22Academy, Regional Government, Regional Section of the
00:17:25Azores of the Order of Architects and with the municipalities of Lagoa and Ponta
00:17:29Delgada. I hope that above all contemporary, avant-garde,
00:17:32innovative ideas emerge, and that they can
00:17:35also contribute and complement the work that the regional section developed
00:17:39during the participatory process and the preparation of the
00:17:44responsibility of the regional government, on the other hand also reinforce the need
00:17:47to requalify, to protect these spaces
00:17:51eventually also reinforce the need to trigger the classification
00:17:54process, in the specific case here of the sugar factory so that this
00:17:58heritage is properly protected. The final
00:18:02works of this project should be presented in December, the
00:18:05students' expectation is to make a...
00:18:10The four new Azorean houses created this year were presented
00:18:14in Uruguay within the scope of the General Assembly of the World Council. The
00:18:18presidents want to create cultural links with the region and with the
00:18:21other houses scattered throughout the world.
00:18:24Hello, my name is Carlos Boate de Almeida, I am the founding
00:18:28president of the Casa dos Açores in Alberta, Canada.
00:18:31Hello, I am José Maria Pereira, I am the
00:18:34president of the Casa dos Açores in Alentejo, conceded.
00:18:38Hello, my name is Hélia Abaá, I am the president of the
00:18:41Casa dos Açores of Ceará in Brazil. Hello, I am Jefferson
00:18:45de Santos Mendes, I am the president of the Casa dos Açores of Amapá. They are the
00:18:49four new sisters of this Azorean network of fraternities.
00:18:53In Brazil, there are now two more Houses of the Azores, in
00:18:56the states of Ceará and Amapá.
00:18:59First House of the Azores in the north of Brazil. First House of
00:19:03the Azores in the middle of colonial Amazon, right? the Amazon in a
00:19:06general way and it is where we are going to consolidate
00:19:10a little all this knowledge of the Azoreans, the
00:19:13arrival of the Azoreans is the first place where we will
00:19:17receive the Azoreans before the south of Brazil already in the 17th
00:19:21century, 1618 already there is a group of Azoreans sent to
00:19:24the region of Grão Pará and to Maranhão and we are working on
00:19:28the rescue of the memory, of the memory of the Azoreans
00:19:32who migrated to Ceará, because this migration is very old.
00:19:36We have the first Azorean in Ceará in 1603
00:19:39who eh he is the
00:19:43commander of the first Portuguese expedition to the
00:19:47territory that is today Ceará, we have a Portuguese community, but
00:19:51of Azoreans not currently these
00:19:54descendants we want to rescue them show them who their
00:19:58ancestors were. The Casa dos Açores of the province of
00:20:02Alberta in Canada, intends to invest in the revitalization of
00:20:06community life. There is already a very
00:20:10intense community life, however, the objective is to
00:20:13strengthen the initiatives of the Azorean community
00:20:17and create a bridge with the other Azorean houses scattered throughout
00:20:21the world, we are quite optimistic eh with
00:20:24what the government can offer us, but above all what our
00:20:28community also has to offer in this rich
00:20:31exchange between the government, the local
00:20:34community and ... the local Casa dos
00:20:37Açores. At the national level, new doors are also
00:20:41opening. In the Alentejo region, according to available
00:20:44data, there are about 80,000 Azorean
00:20:47descendants.
00:20:54My relationship with the Azores, especially with São Miguel, is
00:20:57long, it's been more than 30 years, so a great
00:21:01responsibility. What kind of projects do you have in mind to develop? For
00:21:04now we have started, it's recent, very recent, we've just started,
00:21:08but they are mainly cultural exchange projects at this moment
00:21:11between singing groups, singers going to the
00:21:15Azores, singing groups coming to the mainland, to
00:21:18the Casa dos Açores. Tejo, cultural exchanges, theater
00:21:22too. The presentation of the four new Casas dos Açores was one of the
00:21:26highlights of the 28th General Assembly
00:21:30of the World Council of Casas dos Açores, which ends this
00:21:33Sunday here in São Carlos. João Simas and Rui
00:21:37Machado, RTP Açores in
00:21:39Uruguay.
00:21:41The lack of water quality in Graciosa was once again discussed in the
00:21:45Municipal Assembly. The Municipality of Santa Cruz obtained the worst result in the
00:21:48region in 2020. in the safe water
00:21:51indicator.
00:21:54The alerts from the residents led the socialist party to question
00:21:57the mayor in the municipal assembly. Almost no one can
00:22:01drink the water that comes out of the tap, eh, due to its
00:22:04salinity and also the treatments with
00:22:07heat that sometimes also reach the
00:22:10taps. The leader of the PS bench also read in the ERARA
00:22:14report that Graciosa has the worst result in the Azores and
00:22:17only 92% of the water is safe. According to the regulatory
00:22:21entity, the amount of sodium is high and the presence of
00:22:24chlorides is the main problem identified. In
00:22:272025, 48 analyses were outside the legal
00:22:31parameters. In control one, which is the simplest
00:22:34control, 48 analyses were
00:22:37gave, gave negative
00:22:41results. Ah, in control two
00:22:44there, only 25, only
00:22:4775% of the analyses were. good, the other 25
00:22:51were worse, the mayor recognizes the problem that he himself raised when
00:22:55he was in opposition and says that the executive treats this matter with
00:22:59total transparency, we must not forget that our
00:23:01analyses eh are periodic and are public, everyone
00:23:05has access to our analyses and when I say everyone I mean
00:23:08namely the regulatory
00:23:10entity, eh I mean the health
00:23:14authority, so everyone has access to our analyses,
00:23:17our water is known for... having great
00:23:21saline intrusion, of course it is inadvisable for those who may have
00:23:24some problems with blood pressure and
00:23:27other associated pathologies. The municipality will apply for community
00:23:31funds this year for more network renovation projects, to
00:23:35avoid waste and relieve pressure on the abstraction boreholes.
00:23:38A working group was also created for a medium-term action plan. I can tell
00:23:42you that we met with the university entity very
00:23:45recently, to be able to also bring science
00:23:48to this working group, the opposition believes
00:23:52that regional government investment should also be included in this plan, taking
00:23:56into account the high consumption of agricultural explorations, other
00:23:59sources of water supply, namely
00:24:02rainwater, and to improve springs, improve
00:24:06abstractions, even in agricultural explorations, it is also a
00:24:08responsibility of IROA to reduce
00:24:11pressure on the basal layer, it is important that this starts
00:24:15to be done with some urgency so that we do not run the
00:24:18risk of this salinization process that is occurring in the
00:24:22basal layer becoming almost irreversible in the future. Graciosa has
00:24:26few springs at the moment, seven underground abstraction boreholes are in
00:28:29greater susceptibility to known divergent movements and for..." we can clearly see
00:28:33there the council of the population as being one of the areas with greater
00:28:36susceptibility of our
00:28:37archipelago,
00:28:43but this was not a night only dedicated to
00:28:47children, there was also a lecture for the older
00:28:50ones with space for questions
00:28:53and answers.
00:29:05The western group is under yellow alert until 8 pm today, due to
00:29:08sometimes heavy precipitation, which may be accompanied by
00:29:12thunderstorms. The IPMA issued the same alert for the central group,
00:29:16but for the dawn and morning of this Monday, between midnight and
00:29:199 o'clock.
00:29:22Thus we come to the end of the Atlantic news from the Azores.
00:29:26Thank you for your company, stay
00:29:27well.
00:30:13dating violence is increasing in Madeira.
00:34:30increasingly more cases of dating violence among young people. The
00:34:33director of equality and citizenship services even speaks of a
00:34:36setback, when compared to the reality of 10 years ago. The
00:34:40alert was left at the first edition of the health
00:34:43fair.
00:34:46dating violence does not always leave visible marks, there are
00:34:50abusive behaviors such as jealousy, control or
00:34:54even attempts to limit the other's
00:34:56freedom, which are often confused with proofs of love,
00:35:00but which can hide an abusive relationship.
00:35:04unfortunately, nowadays young people tend to
00:35:07studies on this normalize acts
00:35:10of violence that are less visible, we have
00:35:14that... tendency to associate violence with something physical, a
00:35:18black eye or scratch or hair pulling or
00:35:21pushing, no, emotional violence,
00:35:24psychological blackmail sometimes
00:35:27causes much greater damage than physical
00:35:31violence itself. the director of equality
00:35:34and citizenship services speaks of a setback compared to the
00:35:38last decade. there are more cases of dating
00:35:42violence, there are more cases.
00:35:45of inequalities, boys are
00:35:48becoming very chauvinistic, there's that network, you
00:35:51must have heard about it, ladies who
00:35:54promote that they want
00:35:57to have a network, they just want to be good
00:36:01wives, good wives, but they forget that to have that network, to
00:36:04speak, to exercise their political right, women like
00:36:08me, like our grandmothers, had to fight, dating
00:36:11violence was one of the topics that marked the
00:36:15first edition of the health fair, an
00:36:18initiative that aims to strengthen health literacy
00:36:21and promote healthier lifestyles,
00:36:25this edition appears as an attempt
00:36:28to bring our knowledge as health
00:36:31professionals from various areas, both doctors, nurses,
00:36:34nutritionists, our colleagues from mental health, both
00:36:38psychologists and mental health nurses, to bring our
00:36:41knowledge outside the walls of the health center in a slightly more
00:36:44dynamic way, in the form of a fair
00:36:48that is something that especially the Madeiran
00:36:51population likes so much, but here
00:36:55fair into a more ... The
00:36:58health fair runs until Saturday in Câmara de Lobos with several lectures
00:37:02at the press museum activities in the square of
00:37:05autonomy next to the chamber.
00:37:08Seven years later, tuition fees will increase. The value was frozen
00:37:12at €697. Now the inflation
00:37:15rate is added. The student associations of Lisbon have already called
00:37:19for a demonstration against this
00:37:22The state budget proposal foresees less funding
00:37:26for higher education, science and
00:37:28innovation.
00:37:31Studying is increasingly expensive, to accommodation,
00:37:34food and transport is now added the increase in tuition fees.
00:37:38After 7 years frozen, the value will
00:37:41increase and follow inflation, it is a
00:37:44path of dismantling higher education, and also its
00:37:48elitization. This is dangerous, so it should not be families
00:37:51who should save and finance higher
00:37:55education. This should indeed be an investment. of the country, structural
00:37:58investment in society so that those
00:38:02qualifications and we can give more value and produce
00:38:05more for our country. The student associations of Lisbon have already
00:38:1121st, there are hundreds of students mobilized in a struggle that goes
00:38:15beyond this increase. Do you know what vision we have for higher
00:38:18education? In this perspective, what we want is to
00:38:22combat these setbacks and seek to move forward, seek to
00:38:25move forward to the end of tuition fees, seek. to move forward and for the
00:38:28gratuity of higher education. The government made the same proposal in the state
00:38:32budget for 2026, but the intention was blocked by the opposition.
00:38:36If it is approved this time, the updating of tuition fees will
00:38:39apply to undergraduate degrees, to higher technical courses,
00:38:43professional, the Stesp, and to some master's degrees, as is the case
00:38:47of teachers, for example. The total expenditure on higher education, science
00:38:51and innovation, should be around 3.9 billion
00:38:54euros, 7.6% less than expected.
00:38:57last year, the cut is mainly due to the end of PRR
00:39:00funds. 125 million euros, the document
00:39:04points out, should be dedicated to social
00:39:06action, housing, success
00:39:09and well-being. Porto Santo was at the fourth
00:39:13Atlantic Tourism Journeys, this year, dedicated to
00:39:16sustainability. The Journeys are an
00:39:20the island of São Jorge, in the Azores, of the municipality of Porto
00:39:23Santo, and of the municipality of Sal in Cape Verde.
00:39:29Artificial intelligence in tourism, sustainability and
00:39:33impact for local populations were the
00:39:35topics discussed this year.
00:39:38Everyone is concerned about the impact of tourists, the
00:39:42Azores emerge with sustainability, the
00:39:46nature that everyone wants, and Porto
00:39:49Santo presented itself with a digital work. Artificial
00:39:52intelligence, all the technology that we are implementing in Porto
00:39:56Santo is. It is an initial process, but it can
00:39:59really make a difference in terms of social networks, also institutional
00:40:03website management, which is what I do, we have sought to
00:40:06adapt content to the people who visit us, also seek to
00:40:10understand the visitor, make personalized
00:40:13campaigns, because I think that's what will make the difference in tourism,
00:40:17nowadays everything is so massified, so
00:40:20similar that artificial intelligence marks us here
00:40:23eh we have to seek to know eh how to identify the
00:40:26difference. and preserve our identity, we have to achieve
00:40:30a balance here between everything that has to do with
00:40:33digital and also personalize, taking into account
00:40:36customers, tourists. The municipality wants to overcome
00:40:40the sun, seasonality. We
00:40:42want to move from a logic of sun and beach to a logic
00:40:46of products, throughout the year. We are looking
00:40:50to develop Porto Santo in a sustainable
00:40:53way,
00:40:56taking into account. these are the three fundamental pillars of sustainability:
00:41:00to develop Porto Santo economically, to develop
00:41:04Porto Santo socially and to be able to conserve
00:41:08nature, environmental development as well. We
00:41:12want people to feel what Porto Santo is, its
00:41:15identity, its culture, its natural
00:41:18heritage, its landscapes and that
00:41:21they want to return, that they have reasons to choose Porto Santo and that they
00:41:25want to return. Identity, culture.
00:41:40and these characteristics cannot be found in these destinations,
00:41:44those that are what is the lived experience of
00:41:48our peoples, what brought us here, I remind you that in the case
00:41:52of the islands we were discovered, in the case of the island of Porto Santo, the first Portuguese
00:41:55island to be discovered from where the expansion to the
00:41:59world began. In 2027 the
00:42:01journeys go to Cape Verde and in 2028
00:42:05they travel to Porto
00:42:07Madeira.
00:42:09one. Today was the last day of the nature festival in Chão das
00:42:12Feiteiras, tourists and residents participated in several
00:42:15activities promoted by Madeira
00:42:18tourism.
00:42:21Since 2012, Madeira tourism has held the
00:42:24nature festival, ah incredible, yes, we've just
00:42:28been at the viewpoint at the end, looking at the
00:42:32mountains in the fog, oh so
00:42:34beautiful.
00:42:40exactly where to go, so he said why don't we go to Madeira and then we will join
00:42:44you, so we are the four of us, but my
00:42:46sister-in-law has
00:42:49visual
00:42:51problem, so she cannot do the hikes, so we decided to
00:42:55do hiking today, and we are doing route here on the
00:42:58plateau, and then we came out of the woods and we suddenly
00:43:01saw the the little festival here, no nature
00:43:04festival, Madeira promoted for 5 days the best
00:43:08places on the island, for tourists and for residents to
00:43:11visit these activities were in
00:43:15Chão das Feiteiras, we have
00:43:17workshops, we have a cutting table with
00:43:21restaurants and other regional brands, a market
00:43:24also with only regional brands, a natural
00:43:27soap workshop is happening here, activities for
00:43:30children, as it is normal for us to come here
00:43:33sometimes in the mountains, we took advantage of the fact that there was this event and it is very
00:43:37appealing not only to children. but also to us
00:43:41adults, we came to also be here eh nature and
00:43:45all that, we were told by some friends that the festival was
00:43:48incredible and we came to enjoy it, upon
00:43:51arrival the impact is phenomenal, we have tents, we have
00:43:55now puppets and all that and
00:43:58the children are delirious, a South African
00:44:01artist who has lived in Madeira for 3 years left an
00:44:05alert through an
00:44:07installation.
00:44:10for over the weekend we've been doing installation talking about
00:44:13wildfires and eucalyptus trees, so obviously for the
00:44:16nature fest we're talking about conservation and sustainability, so
00:44:20here we have taken a eucalyptus tree stump, we have
00:44:24ripped it from the ground, turned it upside
00:44:26down, um to kind
00:44:28of create a space for
00:44:32people to really think about what conservation can mean with
00:44:35wildfires. Madeira tourism investigates
00:44:38221. at the nature
00:44:41festival,
00:44:44there are traders from the Santo da Serra market who believe that the space should
00:44:48be improved even after the rehabilitation. On Sundays, hundreds
00:44:52of visitors come, looking for regional
00:44:55products.
00:44:57It is one of the most popular markets in Madeira on
00:45:00Sundays, it has
00:45:03agricultural products, from vegetables to fruit, from honey
00:45:07to poncha, from plants to regional crafts. The
00:45:10fruit, the vegetables, the drinks, the ponchas are
00:45:14very good, do you think it's different, it has another essence, yes,
00:45:18without a doubt, just the atmosphere already makes others, it already gives another flavor, better and
00:45:22better on my part, I don't know about the
00:45:26others and business is going well and it's selling,
00:45:29I've come a few times, once or twice, when you come here, why do
00:45:33you come, just to see the vegetables, the
00:45:36fruits, compare what's missing, what?
00:45:40here to sell, look, there are watering cans, there are spoons, there are
00:45:43spinning tops, there are cutting boards for meat, there are
00:45:47eh now the height of the ladders for the nativity scene, there are the
00:45:51little ones, there is the box to put the wine, there is the
00:45:55little barrel for the ginja, what does he sell, all the little
00:45:58things, bread, lupins,
00:46:02eh, tourists, eh, potatoes, sweet potatoes,
00:46:06bananas, everything, it's had a lot of customers, eh, yes sir,
00:46:10that's how we sing what we sell, what do you like most about the Santa Serra
00:46:14market, what do you like, look at the people and to see and
00:46:17to buy, what did you buy,
00:46:19lupins
00:46:23always come here to the Santa market, sometimes I appear here, I'm
00:46:27from Santana, I don't always come but as soon as I can
00:46:30my love
00:46:33sweet potatoes ah things are a bit
00:46:36expensive but well we have to...
00:46:42The Santo da Serra market was reopened in May this
00:46:45year, after a rehabilitation project. The
00:46:49modernization brought new conditions, but in the opinion
00:46:52of some traders there are still improvements to be made, it's
00:46:56better, it's better, but it should be
00:46:59closed because it gets very cold, that part is still missing,
00:47:03that part is missing, otherwise it's better, you have girls to
00:47:07close and close, lower but the side
00:47:10awnings so that not so much wind comes in because these winter days here are
00:47:14cold, now it doesn't rain, a little
00:47:17cold, it was a bit high, but it's all good, today it's very
00:47:21fresh, it's very... Good, yes sir, does it still need some improvement?
00:47:25Of course, but it's also gradual, it doesn't have more time, what do
00:47:28you think is missing? Ah, yes, it still needs to close the sides because it's very
00:47:32cold, the president already knows that, she says she will
00:47:36deal with it and that's it, not much sun comes in, before it came in a lot
00:47:39and rain too, now it's good. Sunday is
00:47:43the day of greatest influx, especially in the morning,
00:47:46Madeirans and tourists look for regional products and
00:47:50a typical market atmosphere.
00:47:5471 tractors from Santana paraded at the Madeira
00:47:57Agricultural and Repentista Festival, a demonstration of the municipality's
00:48:00productive capacity.
00:48:1471 tractors from all over the municipality paraded through the streets
00:48:18of Santana. The pleasant thing is indeed the
00:48:21tractors. The useful thing is to show Madeira that Santana indeed has
00:48:24an agricultural propensity and arable land with these
00:48:28machines like no other municipality in Madeira has, we have the largest
00:48:31useful agricultural area in the autonomous region of Madeira. Yesterday
00:48:35a suspicious gentleman asked me if these tractors were all from the municipality of Santana
00:48:39and if they worked, yes, they are all from the municipality of Santana. Santana
00:48:43has more than 100 tractors and almost
00:48:46all are in use, others are
00:48:49only for collection. And it's the oldest one here at an event. from
00:48:521951, it's part of my
00:48:55collection, it's not a working tractor, it's an exhibition
00:48:58tractor and here it is, and your
00:49:01collection, how many tractors do you have? some, the engines
00:49:05have always fascinated me since childhood and that's why perhaps I collect
00:49:08tractors not only. Élvio brought to the parade the tractor that his father
00:49:12uses every day, it's a normal
00:49:15tractor, it's a 50 horsepower tractor, here
00:49:18within our lands, I think it's a sufficient
00:49:22tractor, bigger than... what is also no longer practical for so much
00:49:25cultivation, well, I think it meets the needs of the type of
00:49:29agriculture, which is mostly sweet potatoes, but it's for
00:49:32turning the soil, tilling, opening furrows, in the case of planting
00:49:36sweet potatoes it's within that, because tractors still don't pick
00:49:40beans,
00:49:43the parade is not limited to exhibiting these machines, but to
00:49:46creating business opportunities, not
00:49:49only a demonstration of agriculture that... can be
00:49:52attractive to younger people, this does not mean that younger people will all
00:49:56turn to agriculture tomorrow, but we are sowing
00:50:00in many of their hearts and minds the
00:50:03idea of technological agriculture, of profitable agriculture. The
00:50:07agricultural and improv festival runs until Sunday.
00:59:39from the Azores and Madeira here on RTP, until
00:59:42then.