Helena Gorroño

Helena Gorroño is Vice President for Europe of the ICA Youth Committee. She is Project Development Coordinator at the workers’ cooperative TAZEBAEZ, where she leads projects related to Social Economy and Youth, focusing on strategic innovation, complex project design and implementation, impact assessment and the internationalisation of business units.

She is also Coordinator at U-BAI, where she works on regional economic and territorial development in the Busturialdea-Urdaibai region of the Basque Country, promoting entrepreneurship in educational centres and supporting established business initiatives through the U-BAI Up! programme.

For the past decade, Helena has been committed to contributing to a fairer, safer and more equal society from a “glocal” perspective. Beyond her professional work, she considers activism a transversal part of her life and regularly engages in learning opportunities and open civic processes where citizen participation and decision-making play a key role.