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Evaluating for better decisions: cohousing and cooperative housing models
At Andaira we have been exploring for years how the ways of living condition our quality of life and accompanying the transformation of models. In a context of housing crisis, cohousing or collaborative housing emerges not only as a residential alternative, but also as a pilot of the Social and Solidarity Economy. Following the comparative impact assessment of senior cohousing communities in the framework of the Social and Solidarity Communities...More news
Andaira receives a grant co-financed by the European Union - ESF+ to promote the training contract for young people.
Andaira has been awarded a grant under the Programme for the Promotion of Recruitment in the Community of Madrid, modality “Promotion of the training contract to obtain the appropriate professional practice of young people”, managed by the Community of Madrid and co-financed by the European Union through the European Commission....
Aljibe: A Data Science Platform for the Social Economy
We are living in a context where data is key to decision-making. Aljibe was born from this need, an initiative of Simbiótica S.Coop that seeks to develop a digital data science platform specifically designed for Social Economy organisations. This tool aims to integrate, analyse and visualise information generated by organisations in the Social Economy....
Debate day on the study: “Situation of LGTBI+ people with disabilities in Spain”.”
The study “Situation of LGTBI+ people with disabilities in Spain” was presented on Monday 7 April at the Ministry of Equality in a day of debate in which the results were discussed in depth, as well as their implications for public policies and the third sector. The day began with the presentation of the...
Social Impact Assessment of the NEOTEC Programme
The «Evaluation of the Social Impact of the NEOTEC Programme» has been recognised with two important awards: the Prize for Innovation in Public Management, awarded by the Secretary of State for Public Administration, and the 5th International «Carlos Román» Prize, awarded by the Spanish Evaluation Society. These awards highlight both excellence and...
REFOCUS 2nd Multiplier Event: a space for sustainability and climate education
Last 10th March took place the “REFOCUS 2nd Multiplier Event”, an exchange day that marked the closing of this project in which, from Andaira, we have participated as part of the consortium and with very satisfactory results. REFOCUS Project Erasmus + is a European initiative with presence in four countries -Greece, the Netherlands, ...
How did we carry out the first study on the situation of LGTBI+ people in Spain?
At the end of January, we presented to the Ministry of Equality the first study carried out in Spain on the situation of LGTBI+ people with disabilities, a work that we carried out as part of the Tangente group. Doing this research was quite a challenge, not only because of the lack of precedents on the subject, but also because...
VIDAS Platform: innovative solutions centred on people and the community
The VIDAS Platform (Innovative Pathways for Deinstitutionalisation through Learning in Society) is an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, in which we have developed, as Tangente and together with Means Evaluation, a technical assistance, with the aim of transforming the model of long-term care in the...
Andaira receives a grant for integration into Maia, a second-degree cooperative.
At Andaira we are very pleased to share some great news: we have received a grant from the Madrid City Council, within the framework of the public call for the promotion and development of the social economy in 2024, to carry out the integration of five cooperatives in Maia, a second-degree cooperative. This project, aligned with...
Do you want to know how to improve your organisation's well-being at work?
Andaira offers to carry out a study to find out the perception of the working environment and well-being within any organisation. As important as knowing the formal aspects of the staff is to know their opinion and perception about the organisation, working conditions, interpersonal relationships or the involvement and emotions around the organisation....
Impact evaluation of the “Juntas Emprendemos” Programme”
Juntas Emprendemos is a comprehensive training and support programme for women's self-employment within the framework of the Social and Solidarity Economy, which is currently in its fifth edition. The Juntas Emprendemos programme accompanies women in situations of vulnerability and its differential commitment lies in the promotion of sisterhood and the...
From where do we look at social reality in a context of change?
At Andaira we have always structured our research processes on the basis of social reality. It is this changing nature that has always guided the method, how we look, how we measure and analyse. We choose the methodologies that best fit the technical possibilities of the new scenario. We are coupling the different methodologies,...
The ever-changing reality
At Andaira we are working to adapt our actions, workshops, training or campaigns that we normally carry out in person with groups or in direct care, to a format that is compatible with the health alert situation, so that these actions can be carried out from home. ALTERNATIVE ACTIVITIES FOR THESE MOMENTS It is clear to us...
Digital tools for online participation
At the Andaira cooperative we want to provide our clients, organisations and people with whom we collaborate with a practical and functional directory of digital tools for different work objectives. With this and other measures that we are adopting as a company, we are committed to promoting a greater capacity for resilience in the face of such complex circumstances,...
Regulations to transform cities
What room for manoeuvre do citizens have to intervene in the management and direction of our city's public policies? The formal guarantees for citizen involvement in the management of public affairs include, among other things, the drawing up of regulations for citizen participation. These regulations are the documents that guarantee the ways,...
Listening that builds reality
Fernando Sabín's approach to the call Madrid Escucha A few weeks ago we visited Nou Barris, a popular district on the outskirts of Barcelona, to present the Mares de Madrid project. Far from the incessant flow of tourism that is imposed on Barcelona, it is home to one of the greatest exponents of the self-organised reality of the...
Andaira's Social Balance
The Social Balance of the Madrid Social Market consists of a questionnaire that we fill in every two years with the aim of evaluating our progress in our commitment to improve in different areas: labour policy, social commitment, democracy, environmental sustainability, inter-cooperation and non-profit. The aim of this evaluation is to...
We were at the Global Social Economy Forum in Montreal
The Global Forum of the Social Economy, held in Montreal on 9 September, ended with 1,300 participants from 62 countries and 330 cities. The central theme of this third edition was: collaboration between local governments and the Social and Solidarity Economy for the development of cities. A delegation from Madrid attended....
Pathways to Equality: A short film on 8 March by the Pantueña Community of Municipalities
Short film made in the Mancomunidad de Pantueña to vindicate the achievements and struggles around the 8th of March. There are many paths to equality. Loving oneself, taking care of oneself and betting on one's own dreams is a silent revolution, but probably the most powerful one. This March 8th, women from Torres de la Alameda, Nuevo Baztán, Valverde...
Technical Assistance for the Great Leap Ahead Diagonal
Through Tangente, we accompany the Diagonal collective to achieve its objectives of transforming its project in all its dimensions. During the more than six months that the work process will last, the major corporate challenges faced by Diagonal will be addressed: Business model, corporate formula and the...
Study on attitudes and beliefs about gender relations, sexism and gender violence in the SIES La Poveda de Campo Real.
We have carried out a Study on Attitudes and Beliefs about Relationships between Sexes, Sexism and Gender Violence in the SIES La Poveda de Campo Real for the Mancomunidad de Servicios Sociales MISSEM. In this study we have asked the students about different topics such as relationships, sexism and gender...
Crisis and transformation of intergenerational solidarity
We have carried out fieldwork for the Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos (CSIC) to conduct 6 focus groups on «Crisis and transformation of intergenerational solidarity«. This project, financed by the CSIC Foundation, aims to analyse the attitudes of citizens to the challenges that are facing the European Union....
From the invisible city to the open city: Innovation Lab in Tourism
How can we renew tourism practices? What experiences do we know about alternative tourism? How can we make Madrid a more accessible city? These were some of the questions that haunted last summer's Tourism Innovation Lab, an experimental space that we set up at Medialab Prado. Two participatory workshops with travellers, visitors, visitors,...
A plan to make equal opportunities effective
To ensure the real practice of equality, integrating this principle into the mission and values of the co-operative. This is the objective of the implementation of an Equality Plan, a process that concludes with the implementation of a series of measures to promote equality between women and men in the cooperative.
A study to find out how trade unions are valued in society
What is the current social perception of trade unionism? This is the question that has guided the study in which we have participated together with the Andalusian cooperative Taraceas for UGT. By means of a telephone survey of 1,000 people, we sought to find out how trade unions are valued in society in a number of relevant and topical areas. On this occasion,...
We present our Social Balance Sheet
To assess how far we have progressed in our commitment to the principles and criteria of the Madrid Social Market. This is the main objective of the Social Balance, an audit carried out by the member companies of the Social Market every two years in different areas: labour policy, social commitment, democracy, environmental sustainability, inter-cooperation and non-profit. In addition to...
A service to support Madrid's associative network
Andaira is once again offering a comprehensive consultancy service for associations, a consultancy service provided by the Directorate General for Citizen Participation of the Madrid City Council. Since 2011, Andaira has been providing legal, tax, accounting and labour information to Madrid associations, as well as to people interested in setting up one. The service is...
The figure of the “reference person”, or how to improve care for victims of gender violence
To guarantee better care for women who are victims of gender violence. This is the aim of the project that Andaira, together with CSE, is developing for the Institut Balear de la Dona. The project is based on the detection of a need: that of facilitating contact between women who suffer abuse and the institutions. As she explains...
The creation of co-operative enterprises, a firm commitment
«For almost ten years we have been promoting the creation of co-operative enterprises and training people to start up businesses within the social and solidarity economy». This is how Montse Matamala sums up Andaira's track record in promoting co-operativism. A trajectory which began in 2006 and which has been consolidated in 2015....
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Launching DEMOS, an election polling tool
Andaira, together with the cooperatives Taraceas and Qiteria, has launched DEMOS, a research service applied to electoral strategy. DEMOS is aimed at political groupings in cities that want to invest in knowledge about their local reality, providing them with survey tools: surveys to find out about the attitudes and opinions of citizens, focus groups to test electoral strategies. The...
EMPRENDER EN TIEMPOS REVUELTOS: Contributions of the Solidarity Economy for navigating uncertainty
We are facing a paradigm shift. The prevailing economic system is based on logics that look at reality from a reductionist and mechanistic point of view. A logic based on the ideas of control and order. But at the same time, we already know that contemporary reality exceeds these logics. There are already many thinkers who have already...
Training course on freedom of movement and residence of EU citizens and their family members
The aim of this course is to provide knowledge to the agents involved in the exercise of free movement and residence rights in order to eliminate obstacles and errors in their application. This training course is part of the project ‘Citizens Without Borders’ which is funded by the European Commission. The project aims to improve...
II San Fernando de Henares Entrepreneurship Campus
Social economy, entrepreneurship and cooperativism. The City Council of San Fernando de Henares promotes a free training, creation and support programme for new collective entrepreneurship initiatives, which favours the creation of jobs from the social economy and local, sustainable and socially responsible entrepreneurship. This project, with the collaboration of...
Strategies and policies for work-life balance in social economy enterprises, favouring equal employment opportunities for women and men.
[important]Social Economy Conciliation Guide[/important] This guide is the result of research funded by the Regional Employment Service of the Community of Madrid as part of the line of activities aimed at promoting the Social Economy. The cooperatives Pandora Mirabilia and Andaira consider it interesting to investigate how the companies of the so-called Social Economy...
On 25 September we presented the II Study of the Menara Project on migratory flows between Morocco and Spain.
On 25 September, Andaira and Corso presented, together with the Three Cultures Foundation, the main conclusions of the second phase of the research «Migratory flows between Morocco and Andalusia«. This second phase has focused on the identification and characterisation of the living habits of the immigrant population of Moroccan origin....
RivasPuntoCoop: Advice and Training
Social economy, entrepreneurship and cooperativism Rivas-Vaciamadrid Town Council is launching an advisory service on cooperative entrepreneurship, RivasPuntoCoop, and has programmed a modular course in training pills for the creation of worker cooperatives. On Friday 27 September at 10am, there will be a presentation of RivasPuntoCoop and of the cooperatives....
Course programme Entrepreneurship as a collective
14/01: Introduction: Entrepreneurship is learned 21/01: Social Economy and Cooperativism 28/01: Business idea and introduction to the Business Plan 04/02: Constitution of a cooperative, Business Plan 11/02: Legal specificities for foreigners 18/02 and 25/02: Economic management 04/03 and 11/03: Management of human resources and care 18/03: ICT and «make your own...
Guide to ecological consumption in Madrid
The Unión de Cooperativas de Consumidores y Usuarios de Madrid, UNCUMA, presents the Guía de Consumo Ecológico de Madrid, an online tool developed with the support of the Sociedad Cooperativa Madrileña Andaira with a grant from the Madrid City Council's Department of Economy, Employment and Citizen Participation. This guide...
Andaira participates in the comprehensive advice programme for associations in Madrid, one more way of promoting associationism
Through the Temporary Joint Venture between Altekio, Cimas and Andaira, we carried out this municipal service under the commission and supervision of the Directorate General for Citizen Participation of Madrid City Council. Below we reproduce the article published in the magazine Madrid Participa nº25. The service, which attends by appointment to around...
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