🇪🇸 Erasmus+ Online E Learning by Spain 🤝 Women's Cooperatives and the Social Economy 💼

Description

Free self-paced online course (English, 10 modules, certificate) for youth workers, trainers and young adults 18+ who want to work in social business: cooperatives, social & solidarity economy, leadership, gender equality. Erasmus+ Stronger Together.

Want to work in the social business field? Stronger Together is a free, self-paced online course for youth workers, trainers, social entrepreneurs, women’s cooperatives and young adults aged 18+ who want to understand how cooperatives and social enterprises really work.

The course was created by ABARKA ONGD (Basque Country, Spain) and the Zembul Women’s Cooperative (Tunceli/Dersim, Türkiye) within the Erasmus+ small-scale partnership Stronger Together (2024-1-ES01-KA210-ADU-000246731). It was funded under adult education, but its content is just as useful for young people and the youth workers who support them in building social and cooperative projects.

Objectives – by the end of the course, participants will be able to: explain what Erasmus+ is and how it can support their projects; handle the core administrative and financial tasks of a small cooperative or community initiative; plan the digital visibility of a social or cooperative project; recognise the impact of gender equality on business and entrepreneurship; understand leadership in a cooperative as care, vision and shared responsibility; describe the social and solidarity economy in practical terms, including social cooperativism and solidarity-based municipalism; use essential English for EU projects, budgets, meetings and travel.

Programme – 10 modules (each with a short video, a downloadable booklet and a 10-question self-check): Erasmus+ Project Basics Administrative and Financial Capacity Digital Visibility and Digital Marketing Gender Equality and Entrepreneurship Leadership in Cooperatives Social and Solidarity Economy Practices Essential English for Project Management and Travel around the EU Dersim Culture and Social Structure Social Cooperativism Solidarity-Based Municipalism

About 4–5 hours of learning in total. Non-formal, self-directed methodology with real examples from women’s cooperatives. No prior knowledge needed. A certificate of completion is issued on the platform.

Start here: https://curso.abarka.org/cursos/stronger-together-skills-for-womens-cooperatives-the-social-economy/

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Spanish Service for the Internationalisation of Education (SEPIE). Neither the European Union nor SEPIE can be held responsible for them.

Activity details

Activity type

E-learning

Activity dates

15 December 2026 - 15 January 2027

Location

Online – curso.abarka.org, Spain

Application deadline

30 November 2026

Selection date

1 December 2026

Participants

100

Recommended for

Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Young adults (18+) who want to work in social business, social entrepreneurs, members of women’s cooperatives and grassroots groups

Working language

English

Organiser

Costs

Participation fee

Free of charge.

Accommodation and food

Not applicable – fully online, self-paced course.

Travel reimbursement

Not applicable – no travel needed.

Looking for participants from

71 countries can apply. The activity takes place in Online – curso.abarka.org, Spain.