Madrid President Isabel Díaz Ayuso left Seoul yesterday amid heavy snow, after a five-day official visit that ended with open lines of communication to “work on technology, housing, health and “education”, declared the head of the Madrid executive. A “very intense” trip during which Ayuso and three of his advisors – those from the Presidency, Education and Digitization – developed parallel agendas trying to attract investors and business opportunities to Madrid , in addition to formulas to improve public services.
Throughout the week, the president and her team held ten meetings and meetings with groups of investors and leaders from sectors such as culture, music and entertainment, startups – including some Spanish – from this country Asian, and contacts with other companies which “we want to come to Madrid to provide solutions in terms of transport or construction of new housing”, explained the head of the Regional Executive.
They placed particular emphasis on technological solutions that can be applied “to facilitate the lives of citizens in the Administration, education, health, Madrid businesses, to help them, for example, to modernize, to make giant leaps in technology. and be more competitive,” insisted Ayuso.
Yesterday, Madrid politicians said they admired “the never before seen levels of demand” they found there, “both in education and in business, a style of demand that we also want for Madrid.”
During the rest of the trip, the regional president presents progress and contacts “both between policies and between institutions” in areas such as “transport, new ideas for new housing or the digitalization of the health system” .
Digitalization was one of the highlights of the meetings held in South Korea, and experiences were particularly well-known in “tracking students through digitalization.” Always, he clarified, when a sufficient degree of maturity is reached: “We defend traditional schooling for the first stages of life, particularly outside of social networks.”
In terms of tourism, Korean Air has already launched a fourth weekly flight between Seoul and Madrid, and “even the fifth is being studied for next year,” said Díaz Ayuso. The president invites them to know the region and also the rest of Spain, and that is why she emphasized to investors and businessmen that any city on the Iberian Peninsula is a maximum of one hour away by plane of the capital.
