With the aim of creating a local ecosystem of participating companies, the Beterri Saretuz programme is about to complete its second course and its last session in Astigarraga will be held on Thursday. They have explained that it will be an important session, because in addition to closing the course, they want to identify the challenges for next year and, before them, they will decide how they will be organised.

Beterri Saretuz brings together community companies, educational agents and institutions in the region of Beterri-Buruntza and in February began the programme of this course with a comprehensive programme of six months duration by towns. Along the way, there have been sessions on meeting needs, empowerment and care, inter-cooperation and experiences in other regions. In addition, several meetings have been organised with the aim of strengthening ties between the companies and the actors involved.

Precisely, one of the main objectives of the programme to be held this Thursday in Astigarraga is to decide how the network will be organised from now on. The program started in November 2019 in Orona (Hernani) and, with the help of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and the City Council of Beterri-Buruntza, the creation of an ecosystem of participating companies began. The lines and paths to be followed will therefore be agreed from now on.

One of the most important works carried out by Beterri Saretuz in these two years has been the creation of a guide (pdf) for the participation and involvement of workers in companies, in addition to promoting mutual knowledge between community companies and social actors, working on training, putting people at the centre, promoting solidarity values, empowerment, the financial and fiscal dimension and recognition.

With this resource in hand, last year they looked at the situation of the social economy enterprises affected by the pandemic and concluded that these keys have been important in coping with the difficulties.