TRAINING FOR LEADERSHIP
Business as a social enterprise. Partners for a day
On 7 July 2004, the Rafael del Pino Foundation signed an agreement with the Junior Achievement Foundation to provide support for a variety of activities aimed at promoting attitudes of leadership among young people, to be held at primary and secondary schools. These activities seek to arouse in the students values such as tenacity, ongoing effort and teamwork.
The role of education in the promotion of free initiative is undeniable, and complementary actions undertaken in educational environments, directed at training in entrepreneurial values, are an additional instrument for the development of the leaders of the Spain of the future.
The agreement has been renewed annually. The activities for the 2007-2008 academic year, in which 27 students took part, consisted mainly of setting up, organising and managing a business.
The “Business as a social enterprise” programme ran for 2 hours a week for 15 weeks at the Corazón Inmaculado, Tajamar and IES Joaquín Rodrigo schools.
The business projects developed were:
| School | Name of Company | Product |
| Corazón Inmaculado | The New Generation | brooches |
| IES Joaquín Rodrigo | Flashbag | bags |
| Tajamar | Typos | newspaper |
The programme ended with the presentation of the projects at the Rafael del Pino Foundation on 29 May 2008. At the end of the event the students were given diplomas of their participation in the programme. The IES Joaquín Rodrigo secondary school reached the final stage of the 2nd Junior Achievement National Competition of Mini-Businesses.
The Foundation also participates in the Junior Achievement programme “Partners for a Day”, the aim of which is to enable young Spaniards to see the work of an executive at firsthand for a whole day, thereby providing them with information and experience of great interest to help them to shape their future professional career. Sandra Sebastián García, a pupil at the Villa de Vallecas secondary school, was the Partner for a day of the Rafael del Pino Foundation on 24 November 2008.
The aim of all of these activities is to awaken the spirit of enterprise in young people so as to enable them to take appropriate decisions to achieve their professional and personal goals in a framework of responsibility and freedom. In a recent opinion poll it was found that 77% of the students surveyed who had participated in this type of activity considered self-employment as a possible alternative in their professional career.