🇪🇸 Who's Leading Disability Inclusion in Spain

This is one entry in InkludX's Inclusion Atlas — a country-by-country, segment-by-segment scan of the organizations across Europe genuinely recognized for their disability-inclusion employment work: an award won, a scaled program, or a policy fingerprint behind the claim, not just a mention of "inclusion" on a website. Spain is one of InkludX's 4 expansion markets.

Inclusive employers

• Inditex — Global fashion retailer (Zara, Massimo Dutti and others). Its “Incluye” project to promote hiring people with disabilities was one of the 2025 Zero Project Award winners. Source.
• CaixaBank — Spanish bank. Its Diversity Master Plan 2025–2027, which covers people with disabilities alongside other diversity dimensions, won “Best Strategic Plan” (large company) at the VIII Fundación Adecco Diversity & Inclusion Awards. Source.
• Mapfre — Multinational insurer. Won Fundación Diversidad's VII Diversity Management Award (Large Company category) in 2021; the jury highlighted, among other things, its corporate disability programme. Source.
• ILUNION — Company of Spain's ONCE social group. Ranked 12th in Forbes's 2024 list of the 100 best-rated companies to work for in Spain, where Forbes highlighted it as a benchmark in disability inclusion and diversity. Source.

Public agencies & welfare bodies

• SEPE — Spain's state public employment service. Its website has a dedicated section on employment for people with disabilities. Source.
• Lanbide (Servicio Vasco de Empleo) — Basque public employment service. Runs annual grants to promote the employment of people with disabilities in the ordinary labour market under Decree 152/2023, which also regulates the Basque register of special employment centres (CEE). Source.

NGOs & advocacy orgs

• Fundación ONCE — Disability foundation. Runs Inserta Empleo, its entity specialised in job intermediation, recruiting and developing talent with disabilities, and employment management. Source.
• CERMI — Spanish Committee of Representatives of Persons with Disabilities. Spain's umbrella organisation representing the interests of more than 4.74 million people with disabilities. Source.
• Plena Inclusión — Federation for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities. Runs “Empleo Público Accesible,” an app launched in 2018 and renewed in 2024, that tells people with intellectual disabilities about public-sector job competitions. Source.
• COCEMFE — Confederation for people with physical/organic disabilities. Organises the “Premios Sociedad Inclusiva,” which publicly recognise leading inclusion initiatives for people with physical and organic disabilities. Source.

Certification & standards bodies

• Bequal — Disability-inclusion certification seal, created in 2012 from the combined experience of CERMI, Fundación ONCE and FEACEM. Assesses companies through a model of 7 categories, 19 indicators and 69 sources of verification. Source.

Social enterprises & placement providers

• ILUNION — ONCE social group's network of Centros Especiales de Empleo (CEE). About 70% of the team in its CEE are people with disabilities. Source.
• Grupo SIFU — Social-initiative Centro Especial de Empleo providing facility services, 30 years in business. More than 7,000 workers and more than 3,000 public- and private-sector clients across Spain, France and Andorra. Source.
• FEACEM — National business federation of Centros Especiales de Empleo. Through 16 member associations it represents more than 800 social-initiative CEE with more than 50,000 workers with disabilities. Source.

Awards, media & recognition programs

• Fundación Adecco — Premios Diversidad e Inclusión — Awards promoted with the Club de Excelencia en Sostenibilidad. VIII edition (2025) winners include CaixaBank (Best Strategic Plan), alongside Femxa, Alsa, Saint-Gobain and KPMG. Source.
• Zero Project Award — International award recognizing innovative disability-inclusion solutions. Recognized Inditex's “Incluye” project in 2025. Source.

HR-tech & inclusive-hiring platforms

• DisJob — Job portal for people with disabilities. Lets employers post vacancies and jobseekers with disabilities register and apply. Source.
• Ayho — App developed by Fundación ONCE since 2022 with Samsung, within Samsung's “Tecnología con Propósito” programme. Lets people with disabilities in supported employment train for the tasks of specific jobs on a mobile device. Source.
• Por Talento — Employment and training portal for people with disabilities, linked to Inserta Empleo. Matches candidates with disabilities and employers. Source.
• Specialisterne (Spain) — Focused on including autistic people in technology workplaces; BBVA collaborates with it. Source.

Sourced and independently re-verified. Every entry above was gathered via web research and then checked against its cited source in a separate verification pass; entries that didn't hold up were corrected or removed. Sourcing can still go stale — award years, figures, and program status may change.

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