NANOMA is a social-non profit cooperative founded in January 2024 in El Valle (Candamo, ASTURIAS), by professionals with extensive experience in innovation, strategic design, social entrepreneurship, and alternative financing. Focused on rural issues, Nanoma was created to address the urgent challenges faced by rural areas, particularly in Asturias, guided by cooperative principles such as self-management, democratic participation, equity, and solidarity seen as key drivers of social transformation.
Nanoma’s core mission is to offer specialized consultancy and strategic support to stakeholders designing and implementing innovative, creative, and sustainable projects and policies that tackle social challenges. Our hub, VANIAL, focuses on several strategic pillars:
Designing and developing transformative projects with real rural impact.
Promoting collaborative spaces that engage diverse local ecosystem actors.
Providing entrepreneurship support, from talent training to organizing programs and events.
Incubating initiatives through mentoring, funding access, and connecting with strategic partners.
It is within these lines of action that Nanoma integrates the 4 types of innovation required by the call. On one hand, technological innovation through the use of digital platforms and new technologies; also through the creation of a self-managed rural incubator that also providing housing for project promoters; social innovation, manifested both in working and participatory methods as well as in the active involvement of the environment and participants; and finally, financial innovation by promoting alternative finance –as crowdfunding and ethical funding models– combined with public subsidies and shared benefit schemes.
Our coop and hub shares principles —local participation, social inclusion, just transition, gender equality, and climate action— and believes joining this network will enhance its capacity to combat rural depopulation by creating diversified value, promoting innovative economic initiatives, and supporting sustainable development models.
NANOMA - VANIAL is actively participating in the community innovation ecosystem, benefiting from shared open-knowledge, and contributing its own expertise. It is committed to building strong networks and strategic alliances for knowledge and resource exchange, fostering scalable, replicable solutions adaptable across Europe. As coop we envision innovation that transcends borders, becomes a global transformation tool, and places rural areas at the heart of future policies to realize a tangible just transition.
