Last weekend, the face-to-face training sessions of the Transnationality and Social Innovation Program for Green and Blue Entrepreneurship were held.

Last weekend, the face-to-face training sessions of the Transnationality and Social Innovation Programme for Green and Blue Entrepreneurship were held, organised by the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for Ecological Transition, within the framework of the Empleaverde Programme. Over the weekend, 40 entrepreneurs with projects in the maturation phase have received specialized training to promote the creation of green companies.

The director of the Biodiversity Foundation, Sonia Castañeda, in her welcoming remarks encouraged the participants to “undertake from sustainability and care for the environment and in line with the social economy, since another way of doing things is possible, and for this the effort of entrepreneurs like you who have a project whose ultimate goal is to improve the world is essential”.

The programme, co-financed by the European Social Fund, stands out for its training methodology: the SIRCLe methodology. An innovative method that has been designed and tested internationally by various entities that come from both the alternative movement of the Economy (Global Network of Ecovillages) and the social and solidarity economy (cooperatives such as the TANGENT group). The methodology focuses on the effective improvement of entrepreneurs’ skills through the facilitation of a process of personal change through practical workshops and on a vision of sustainability that goes beyond the ecological, also encompassing the social and cultural.

Within the framework of the Transnationality and Social Innovation Program for Green and Blue Entrepreneurship, participants will have the opportunity to connect with other international entrepreneurs at GreenFest, the largest sustainability event in Portugal that will take place from October 11 to 14 in Estoril, which will be attended by 4 or 5 selected projects.

Other planned activities are inspiring visits to the Acacias Laboratory, the Germinando store and the San Fernando market and support activities in the Mares Madrid Project, an urban transformation project through the social and solidarity economy, which seeks to promote productive initiatives and change the city of Madrid by focusing on five sectors: mobility, food, recycling, energy and care.