Aproximar (APX) is a NGO acting as social innovation hub aiming to enhance people, communities and organisations’ human and social capital as a strategy to strengthen their capacity to deal with existing and emerging challenges and opportunities. The mission is accomplished daily by co-designing and developing tailor-made social innovation, good practices exchange, and transference driven projects, besides delivering its own pack of empowering and capacity building services: training, consultancy, and social intervention.

APX develops, implements, and provides services in 4 main sectors: 1) Education and Community Empowerment (2007); 2) Economy, Employability and Entrepreneurship (2009); 3) Criminal Justice System (2012); and 4) Active Ageing and Dependent Care (2016). Our offer (programmes) always combines social science (knowledge), active methods (people) and suitable tools (technology).

APX is certified by the General Direction of Employment and Labour Relations (DGERT) since 2015 to provide training programs on management, social inclusion services and self-development and an entity accredited by Authority of Administration of COMPETE 2020 in innovation, quality, entrepreneurship and internationalisation.