Fundació Intermedia launches a new project in collaboration with the Social Business City Barcelona (SBC) association, Connect your talent with the SSE, aimed at bringing the university world and Social Economy entities and companies closer together. The aim is to promote socio-economic innovation in the social economy by offering young people the possibility of accessing a first job and, in social enterprises, innovative solutions to the challenges they face.

The intermediajob.com platform is the meeting point that will act as a link between social enterprises, which will be able to publish university internship offers free of charge, and students, who can register for the offers that interest them to expand their knowledge and experience in their area of training.

Within the IntermediaJOB platform, university internship offers will be clearly identified so that they are not confused with job offers themselves.

The initiative will promote a better identification and knowledge of the fabric of entities in the social world and the challenges they face, generating a relationship between the university – social enterprise/social economy/third sector, as a facilitator of new initiatives.

Connect your talent with the SSE will have a direct impact on the group of young people, a group that often has difficulty finding a job opportunity at the end of their degree (entering unemployment or job insecurity) and that, on the other hand, in general, does not know enough about the social economy sector and social enterprise and therefore does not consider it as a professional opportunity.

In addition, the project aims to impact the social economy, social enterprise and third sector sectors, sectors that lack human resources specialized in business, finance or marketing and that is highly interested in attracting these profiles.

Encarna Serrano, director of IntermediaJOB and Director of Operations at Fundació Intermedia, talks about the impact and explains: “With this project we hope to reach about 30 entities and companies offering and more than 50 student candidates who want to apply for these offers in this first year”.

“We hope that the university internship project Connect your Talent with the SSE will stimulate the hiring of young people in social economy companies, which will promote socio-economic innovation and the social and solidarity economy by bringing new talent and new ideas to this sector. These are highly complementary needs, strategically speaking. Not only will it offer young people the possibility of accessing a first job, but it will also allow entities to receive innovative solutions to the challenges that are presented to them”, argues Encarna Serrano.