Subsidies for young and emerging research projects

The Barcelona City Council, through the Department of Science and Universities, promotes a subsidy scheme aimed at consolidating the city's emerging scientific and research community, creating opportunities, and facilitating scientific careers in Barcelona.

These subsidies aim to generate ideas, innovative responses, and scientific evidence that can have an impact on the city and address various challenges in the fields of health and well-being, climate action, and the city and society.

2024 Call for Proposals

Projects are based on tackling challenges that fall within one of these three thematic areas and address one of the twelve specific challenges:

Health and well-being in the city: health and quality of life; social well-being and improvement of public services; urban planning, housing, and public spaces; sustainable mobility of people and goods.
Climate action: climate emergency and the city; urban, terrestrial, and marine ecosystems; urban food and agriculture; water and sustainable urban energy.
City and society: green and blue economy in the city; new spaces and models of responsible production and consumption; digital and smart cities; democracy, community, participation, and human rights.

Subsidised projects in previous calls

2024 2022 2020

Subsidies for young and emerging research projects 2024

Status of the call for proposals

Call for applications closed

More about the call 2024

Projects subsidised in the 2024 call for proposals

BCN ACTIVE SHELTER

SALUD EMOCIONAL, CUIDADOS Y MENSTRUACIÓN

EMOTIONAL HEALTH, CARE AND MENSTRUATION

PLUVIPA-BCN

THE URBAN GREEN SPACES OF THE FUTURE

IMPACT ON MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH

BIOPAVRES

CLIMATE

REDIT4EDU

B-COOL@HOME

RECLAM

SENS4AD

MOBILEPRESSURE

NURSERY SCHOOLS NEIGHBOURHOODS

CLIMATE MOVEMENT

FEMMEM

RAMBLA

STUDY OF AN INVISIBILIZED POPULATION

FRAGILITY AND CARE

IMPACT OF FEMALE GENITAL SCHISTOSOMIASIS

MENTAL HEALTH IN ADOLESCENTS

PROSIA-B

UVIS SCREENING

BARCELONA BASES

Projects subsidised in the 2022 call for proposals

+AGIL BARCELONA

POWER UP AND CONNECT

POST-PENITENTIARY CARE

ATOC

BIOURBAN

CIMCOLL

PERSISTENT COVID

SCHOOL DESEGREGATION

EMBARCARB

LEONINE

LLOBMAR

CHILD POVETRY

REDUCING WASTE

TERRA

TRANSEQUI

UNCERTAIR

VALORISATION OF TEXTILE WASTE

WASTECARE

Projects subsidised in the 2020 call for proposals

In the wake of the covid-19 pandemic, in 2022 Barcelona City Council launched the Scientific Research Awards for Urban Challenges in the City of Barcelona, aimed at all members of the scientific community up to the age of 40 and from any field of knowledge. The main objectives were to stimulate and strengthen young Barcelona talent, and to support innovative projects that rethink the city model in a global way. The following are the projects funded through these grants, which eventually became the Grants for Young and Emerging Research Projects: