Explorer.
Undertake.
Improve the world.
Validate your idea and connect with your future.
Next edition: 2025
We offer education to transform entrepreneurial ideas and projects into profitable businesses and innovative solutions. We support entrepreneurship in its early stages with a programme open to entrepreneurs from 12 countries, who have formed an international community that continues to grow and has become one of our most important assets. Banco Santander helps individuals and companies improve their future prospects.Through Santander X we support those who run their own business and small companies to create opportunities, consolidate and grow.
Registration 2025
26 May - 19 August
Program 2025
1 September - 23 November
Countries
Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, United States, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, United Kingdom, and Uruguay
Dedication
8-10 hours per week for 12 weeks
Free
Supported by Banco Santander.
Format
Blended or 100% online, depending on the institution
Join our global community of entrepreneurs
With Santander X Explorer, you will become an active part of change by launching innovative and sustainable projects.
Perks & benefits
Validate your idea
International community
Participation Certificate
Validate your idea
Verify the viability of your project: experiment, ask questions, resolve doubts, network… without risking anything! without risking anything! When you finish the programme, you will know if your idea can bring you the financial independence you are looking for.
International community
You’ll have access to an international community of entrepreneurs like you, which in each edition totals more than 3,000 participants. They’ll become part of your daily life, providing support and giving you the feedback you need to keep moving forward with your project.
Participation Certificate
Upon completing the program, you will receive a participation certificate that you can add to your LinkedIn profile. It will reflect all the skills you have acquired during your participation in Santander X Explorer.
Explorer Hub Community
Crowdfunding
TalkX
Explorer Hub Community
You will be able to access the learning community where Santander X Explorer coordinators, experts and alumni connect and share their experiences so that participants can improve their experience during the programme.
Crowdfunding
Thirty of the graduated Santander X Explorer projects in each edition will have access to a group training on crowdfunding. Twenty of them will be accompanied and monitored in a crowdfunding fundraising campaign.
TalkX
We want to show you that entrepreneurship has many perspectives: entrepreneurs with significant experience will share their insights in our TalkX, inspiring you to keep pushing forward. Check it out by taking a look at all the talks we’ve already held.
Santander X Explorer Fridays
Santander X Explorer Coach
Q&A
Santander X Explorer Fridays
Some Fridays (you can propose as many as you want), the Explorer community meets in person in several cities to share concerns, doubts, and good vibes. And while we’re at it, we have a drink; are you up for it?
Santander X Explorer Coach
Entrepreneurship is not easy and requires taking care of your project as much as your physical and mental health. For those tips, advice and experiences that no one else will tell you about, you have Explorer Coach, a podcast exclusively for participants in the programme.
Q&A
Do you have any questions about the tasks, the concepts you are learning, or how to put into practice what is covered in the training itinerary? In our Q&A sessions, our Experts will answer them.
Our Santander X Explorer alumni
Lexi - Marianella Sánchez
“Having the support of such experts and incredible people has helped us move forward”.
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Sialotest - Marcos Gómez
“Being an Explorer means being imaginative, being willing to have ideas, to change everything you had planned before”.
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Millietext - Enrique Torres
“Santander X Explorer means community. My idea of entrepreneurship has changed by being in the programme”.
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IMA - Sara, Cristiana, Mariana
“With the Explorer programme we realized that everyone can do it, you just have to have an idea”.
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Solar Collector - Dana Schwendtner
“Our mentors, Pro Connectors and peers gave us amazing feedback; it was the most valuable thing”.
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Create your entrepreneurship and make a positive impact in the world
Twelve weeks to transform your idea into a solution that contributes to achieving the 2030 SDGs.
Blog
The tips and news you need to start your entrepreneurial journey.
Crowdfunding
These projects are already receiving crowdfunding training. What are they proposing to improve the world?
Crowdfunding
Partners
A Banco Santander programme in collaboration with UCEIF.
