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Esade SUD’s origins can be traced back to our university’s early efforts in the development cooperation area. These began in the 1980s with faculty travelling to Central America to participate in local faculty training seminars and to teach in university master’s programmes.

Based on this tradition, we created Esade SUD in 2003 to make our community’s talent available to social enterprises, not-for-profits and institutions working for global justice in Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia and to further their work.

Modelo pedagógico de Esade

Modelo pedagógico de Esade

Competentes (utilitas)
La dimensión profesional: los valores de la profesionalidad.
Personas competentes para dirigir y gestionar organizaciones y para desarrollar la praxis jurídica, que puedan afrontar con solvencia (profesionalismo) la toma de decisiones dirigida a una sociedad más justa.
Conscientes (fides)
La dimensión interior de la persona: los valores propios de la interioridad abierta a la dimensión espiritual, religiosa o laica, de la persona.
“Mística de ojos abiertos”- consciente a la vez de mi vida interior y de la vida a mi alrededor.
Comprometidas (iustitia)
La dimensión ética, social, cívica y política: el valor de la justicia.
Personas comprometidas en crear espacios de colaboración y mejora colectiva… en unas sociedades marcadas por las diferencias de recursos y de poder que generan desigualdad.
Compasivas (humanitas)
La dimensión personal: el valor de la calidad humana.
Personas compasivas, empáticas con los sentimientos y los problemas de la gente que está a su alrededor.
Capaces de alegrarse con los que están alegres y entristecerse con los que están tristes.
Capaces de dejar su “ego” a un lado para poner a los demás en el centro de su atención.
 

 

2023 SUD Internship & Consulting Annual Report

Business projects carried out by BBA students

Legal internships carried out by GED and BGG & GBD students

Business projects carried out by MSc and MBA participants

Noteworthy projects

Business projects carried out by BBA students

Andahuaylillas - CCAIJO - Perú

Elaboration of a guide of accounting, marketing and digitization tools and delivery of workshops to the target population. Study on the evolution of sales of products marketed by the cooperative.

Asociación de Cacaocultores Juan Cruz de Guaranal - República Dominicana

Implementation of the strategic plan of the association in the lines of strengthening (i) governance through compliance with statutes and the establishment of procedures, (ii) commercial positioning through good agricultural practices and product processing, and (iii) financial structure of the association.

Legal internships carried out by GED and BGG & GBD students

Quetzaltenango - Defensoría de la Mujer Indígena - Guatemala

Support for the legal unit of the Office of the Ombudsman for Indigenous Women, whose function is to address situations of vulnerability, defencelessness and discrimination against indigenous women, promoting actions for the defence and full exercise of their rights.

Mitilene - Legal Center for Lesvos - Grecia

Assistance to clients in the follow-up of their cases before the Greek jurisdiction and legal investigation in the field of human rights and international protection in Europe.

Business projects carried out by MSc and MBA participants

Kisantu – UCOOPAL – Democratic Republic of the Congo
Consulting for social entrepreneurial projects to guarantee food safety for the local population by creating new products (sesame crackers) to provide aggregate value to local farmers (through the ensuing profits). The aim is to improve the lives of all those working in the agricultural industry.

Bogota – Peace StartUp – Colombia
Research on possible means of financing and available sources and the definition of a holistic plan for Peace StartUp, clearly defining its activities and the resources and skills needed to ensure the organisation’s success.

Previous annual reports

People

Inés Losada
coordinator

Inés Losada

Associate director & Coordinator for Central America & The Caribbean

Teresa Careta
coordinator

Teresa Careta

Campus Manager for Esade Business & Law Schools and Coordinator for South America

Maria Vila
coordinator

Maria Vila

SUD Service Learning Program Manager