EROSKI and the Asociación de Empresas de Inserción de Navarra (EINA), the Navarre association of work-integration social enterprises, have signed a framework collaboration agreement to improve the employability and the social and employment inclusion of people who face particular difficulties in accessing the labour market in Navarre. The agreement covers employment, training and social measures to promote quality employment as a tool for social inclusion.

The collaboration is for long-term unemployed people, people over 45, people who are in or at risk of social exclusion, migrants and those taking part in work-integration programmes, with particular attention to women.

Eder Mena, Head of Institutional Relations at EROSKI, said: “With this agreement we want to help people who face more barriers to finding work to have the right preparation and support. Working with EINA will allow us to bring them closer to the job opportunities in our stores, with particular attention to people in Navarre.”

Inés García Pérez, Chair of EINA, said: “This agreement allows us to work together to prepare people who are in the final stage of their integration pathways. Adapting training to the jobs and coordinating support are important steps in helping them move into mainstream employment.”

Training and support to make work integration easier

EROSKI and EINA will work together on personalised integration and professional qualification pathways linked to the supermarket and hypermarket sector. Building on their knowledge of the processes run by EINA’s member enterprises, the two organisations will design training tailored to the jobs the cooperative may be able to offer and prepare participants to meet the requirements.

The agreement provides for coordination with the EINA technical teams responsible for support and job prospecting, to help people move into mainstream employment once their integration process has finished. They will focus this work on people in Navarre and on the job opportunities that may arise at EROSKI’s stores in the area.

The two organisations will also run awareness-raising activities among EROSKI’s members and employees to showcase the work of work-integration social enterprises in Navarre. They will explore opportunities to work with EINA’s member enterprises in commercial, service and product areas.

The EROSKI Group runs work-integration initiatives together with public employment services and social-sector organisations. In 2025, this work led to 154 people being hired across the Group.