ADIE (Association pour le Droit à l'Initiative Economique) is a non-profit organisation helping people excluded from the workplace and the regular banking system to start a business and get self-employed, thanks to microcredit.

The Spanish Microfinance Association is composed by all the relevant actors in the national microfinance sector including NGOs, Foundations, Saving Banks, Universities, Consultants, Migrant Associations, Women Associations, Disable Associations, Ethnic minorities associations and more.

The Fundació Privada per a la Promoció de l’Autoocupació de Catalunya is a private and independent not-for-profit organization. It was created in 1986, to promote self-employment in Catalonia.

BNP Paribas’ involvement in microfinance is based on the conviction that banking can have a significant and positive social impact. This involvement encompasses three key areas: support for microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Europe and developing countries; microfinance investment products; and voluntary provision of skills.

CEEI BURGOS (Centro Europeo de Empresas e Innovación) supports local development under the model, quality criteria and sponsorship of the European Commission, and promoted by regional and local organisations with a strong commitment to boost the social and economic development.

The MFI Créa-Sol is an association created by the Caisse d'Epargne Provence-Alpes-Corse (CE PAC). It supports and assists those excluded from the banking system in order to fight against social and economic exclusion.

Established in 2003, Nantik Lum is a pioneering and innovative not-for-profit organisation that works on projects to do with development and research in the microfinance sector. Microcredit is used as a tool to facilitate development

Gaztenpresa is a Foundation belonging to the Social Work of LABORAL Kutxa, a cooperative bank in the Basque Country. Its mission is to support the development of self-employment, mainly amongst young people, from a technical and financial perspective.

MicroBank was set up in 2007 as the social bank within La Caixa group. It has taken over the microcredit activity of the group.

MicroEurope, an innovative social investment company, promoted by eight professionals and three leading European investment companies, all with common roots and broad experiences in the microfinance sector.

MicroEurope's story begins with the willingness to be not only investors but also reliable partners.

The Social & Sustainable Finance Chair of the Montpellier Business School was created in October 2020 as an extension of the Microfinance in Developed Countries Chair, established two years before with Créa-Sol and the Caisse d’Epargne Languedoc Roussillon. The chairholders, Dr. Anastasia Cozarenco and Dr. Thi Hong Van Hoang, have the objective to promote social finance, in particular microfinance and social banking, and sustainable finance. To serve this objective, the activities of the chair are structured around three main types of activities: teaching, research, and events.

The main objective of Seed Capital Bizkaia Mikro is the creation and development of a business microfinance programme which is implemented through microloans.

Treball Solidari's objective is to help women found work. Since 2000, Treball Solidari has been working in South and Central America developping more than 100 projects in those countries.

Youth Business Spain (YBS) is the member in Spain of the Youth Business International global network. YBS is a private and independent foundation that was born as a result of the alliance between social entities as a result of the high rates of youth unemployment caused by the 2008 crisis.

Youth Business Spain currently brings together 12 social organizations that support youth self-employment, generating a space for the exchange of experiences and knowledge, promoting innovation and improving the quality of entrepreneurship support services.

Turning job seekers into job creators...

YBS members offer young people the necessary resources to launch their business ideas, combining personalized attention services with training, access to financing and mentoring.

As a result of the COVID pandemic in 2020, at Youth Business Spain we launched a social microcredit program to provide financial assistance to entrepreneurs with difficulties accessing traditional banking. It is a microfinancing program that also includes non- financial services such as advice, training and mentoring.

Since its launch, we have granted 178 microcredits for an amount of more than €700,000.