The document discusses management and leadership in social cooperatives, focusing on Grupo SSI, a cooperative group in the Basque Country, Spain. It provides an overview of Grupo SSI's history and growth since 1987, starting with 35 women workers and now employing over 440 people, 99% of whom are women. It details the services SSI provides to over 2,200 users across 17 municipalities. The document also outlines SSI's departments and initiatives around training, research and development, entrepreneurship, and support for ex-workers. It emphasizes the cooperative's values of women's empowerment, local employment, quality, and responsibility toward society.

1. MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
IN SOCIAL COOPERATIVES
Social Cooperatives International School 2017

2. Grupo SSI, since 1986 working to improve the quality of
life of people with social vulnerability and dependence

3.  SSI GROUP is a cooperative group, that integrates
non-profit organisations, formed mainly by
women.
 We give a comprehensive response to the social
needs of the elderly & people who are in a
situation of social vulnerability, and their
families, in the Basque Country.

4. We provide our services:
 to 17 municipalities
 with a workforce of 440
workers
 99% female
 to over 2.200 users

5. OUR DEPARTMENTS
TRAINING
R&D&I
ENTREPERNEUR
SOCIAL INTERVENTION

6. SOCIAL INTERVENTION
SOCIAL EXCLUSION
• Social emergencies
service
• Convalescence centre for
homeless people
• Tutored housing for
homeless people
ELDERLY
• Leisure centre
• Support to associations for the elderly
• Convalescence centre
• Day care centre
• Home care service
• Social accompaniment service
• Psychosocial support programme to
family caregivers

7. SSI was established in Bilbao in 1987 with two aims:
1) To give assistance
to elderly people
who couldn´t live
on their own
at home
2) To organise the care
activity of women who
worked in the black
market
OUR BEGINNING

8. MARIA LUISA MENDIZÁBAL brought
together 35 women workers, who
did not know each other, and
constituted S.S.I. S. Coop.
1987
OUR BEGINNING
440
WORKERS
99% Female
1987 1989 1992 2003 2017
35
WORKERS
225
WORKERS 500
WORKERS
250
WORKERS

9. 1. LESSONS OF COOPERATIVISM AND MANAGEMENT
1987

10. COOPERATIVISM
1987 – 2007
An adviser, Javier Sanz, accompanied
the different boards over 20 years

11. VALUES
we will make powerful companies if we have powerful people,
1987
2007,
1995
2005
,
Women Empowerment
Local employment
Quality
Warmth
Responsibility toward society

12. TRANNING
We will make powerful companies if
we have powerful people
D. José Mª Arizmediarrieta

13. INTERNAL PROMOTION
TRAVEL PROGRAM …....................................................
TEACHERS (INTERNAL TRAINING) ............................
E.P.O.V.A. .....................................................................
GEROCULTORAS .........................................................
COORDINATOR........................................................
Nº
H.C.W.
19
40
28
10
14

14. 2. ADVANCE MANAGEMENT
1997

15. STRATEGIC PLAN
1ST Strategic Plan, over 150 workers participated

16. STRATEGIC PLAN
2014, Last strategic Plan, over 200 workers participated

17. 3. INNOVATION & DEVELOPMENT & RESEARCH
2006

18. Basque Network of Science, Technology
and Innovation since 2012
HOME CARE LAB
R&D&i

19. I+D+i LIVING LAB

21. R&D&I STRATEGIC AREAS
Active ageing
Technological based
social and health
assistance
New occupational
roles in social and
health assistance
Advanced training
in social and health
assistance

22. MONITORIZACIÓN DE
HÁBITOS DE VIDA
NEW COMPETENCES FOR HOME CARE
WORKERS:
DIGITAL COMPETENCES
DIGITAL COMPETENCES IN CARE

23. CUIDADOR 3.0 – SAD 3.0
SAD 3.0 /CUIDADOR 3.0

24. 4. EMPLOYMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
2015

25. SOCEM HUB
SOCIAL CARE & EMPLOYMENT HUB

26. I+D+i

27. 5. EX – WORKERS´S ASSOCIATION
2017

29. Grazie
Thank you
PADRE LOJENDIO 1, 1º
48008 BILBAO
www.grupossi.es · info@grupossi.es
TW: @grupo_ssi · 94 479 51 70
SIMÓN BOLÍVAR, 28
48013 BILBAO