Social and Collaborative Entrepreneurship

Course where the student body can learn collaborative economy through case studies and good practice examples, the steps an entrepreneur has to follow to create a social project with tools and elements of a collaborative platform. In the training we work from the generation of the idea to the skills and competences (leadership and creativity, among others) for the initial development of the project.

The course will be taught by Montse Lamata López, a psychologist and expert consultant in collective leadership and social economy, with more than fifteen years of experience and teaching career at the Federation of Work Cooperatives of Catalonia.

This activity is organized by the UAB Employment Service in collaboration with the Federació de Cooperatives de Treball de Catalunya.

2026 Edition

• Thursday, March 5, 2026, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.: Social entrepreneurship and cooperativism: how to undertake with purpose and discover cooperativism as a transformative model.
• Thursday, March 12, 2026, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.: Collective leadership: tools to foster collaboration, trust and shared management in teams.
• Thursday, March 19, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.: Creativity and social innovation: idea generation techniques and application of Design Thinking to real challenges.
• Thursday, March 26, 2026, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.: Entrepreneur's Corner: final space for meeting, exchange and guidance for projects.

Academic information

• Modality: Presential.
• Prize: 25 euros.
• Total hours: 25 hours (12 hours of teaching and 13 hours for the development of an essay based on an idea about collaborative economy that will be delivered at the end of the course at empren.info@uab.cat).
• ECTS credits: 1 ECTS credits in academic recognition activities (for Degrees).
• Certification: to pass the course it is mandatory to attend the 80% of the sessions. After the course has ended, you will recieve via e-mail a certificate that you will have to present at Academic Management of your corresponding Faculty or School in order to validate the ECTS credit.

Registration

1. Make the deposit of the 25 euros to the following account

Fiare Banca Ètica

IBAN: ES6715500001280001041722 BIC:

ETICES21XXX

2. Fill out this email and send it, with proof of payment as an attached document, to: formacio@cooperativestreball.coop

3. Complete the registration in the NEXUS application:

Registration at NEXUS

To resolve any queries, you can contact us at: empren.info@uab.cat

The Social and Collaborative Entrepreneurship Course is an initiative of the Entrepreneurship Unit of the UAB Employability Service, in collaboration with the Federation of Worker Cooperatives of Catalonia, and is designed to provide UAB students with transversal skills that improve their employability and make them more competitive in the professional world.