Work and business

Information on this page’s services may have been amended under the measures for adapting to the new normality in Barcelona and will be gradually updated.

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“Barcelona never stops”

Check out on the new municipal website the city’s measures for tackling the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, whose goal is to regenerate Barcelona’s economic and social fabric and accelerate its economy.

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Support for the self-employed

Barcelona Activa sets up a subsidy programme for the self-employed hit hardest by the Covid-19 crisis. Find out more!

Tax flexibility in response to the Covid-19 crisis

The City Council is launching a shock tax-measure plan to guarantee the solvency of families, freelancers and companies.

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Social and solidarity economy

The City Council is fostering and promoting the Social and Solidarity Economy with resources that include training, support, economic aid, responsible public procurement and the allocation of venues and materials. Find out all about it!

Barcelona Activa in the face of the COVID-19 effect

Online and telephone information, aid and resource service for freelance, companies, cooperatives, associations and workers to take on the economic hardships arising from the effects of the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus.

Support for women entrepreneurs

The School of Women Entrepreneurs is now called Lidera and is expanding its range of support programmes, activities and networking on offer.

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Barcelona Treball

Resources for job seeking and professional development.

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Guide for companies on LGBTI rights

Best practice guide for companies on managing sexual and gender diversity and protecting LGBTI rights.

InnoBA

Work for young people

If you’re young and looking for work, or you can’t find the work you’d like, check out Barcelona Activa’s advice, training, entrepreneurship and research services.

Collaborative economy

Barcelona Activa is launching a specialist and customised advice service to accompany and help people to get their social- and solidarity-economy projects off the ground.

Business Support Office

Information about the Business Support Office (OAE), which advises local and international companies. Find out how to participate in the business growth programmes and the training and networking activities they organise.

Business incubators

Barcelona Activa provides infrastructures and services for establishing newly created businesses, organisations and entrepreneurs.

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Responsible Consumption Space

A new space aimed at training centres, associations and companies, with resources and proposals for promoting consumption from a responsible and conscientious perspective.

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Làbora Programme

The Làbora Programme is run by the City Council in collaboration with Barcelona's social organisations and business network and promotes employment for people at risk of exclusion.

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Specialised training in the ICT sector

Barcelona Activa starts the IT Academy, a highly-specialised information and communication technologies (ICT) skills training programme to create the qualifications and profiles most in demand among companies in Barcelona.

Shock plan to combat unemployment

Barcelona Activa is to put a shock plan into operation to combat long-term unemployment via personalised training plans, courses and a consultant.

Business-Job

If you’re looking for work, register with Barcelona Activa’s Business-Job platform. You will receive work offers that meet your profile.

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30 plus

A programme especially aimed at people aged 30 to 45, to help them to find jobs through a professional-profile-establishing and mediation service, a training plan and incentives for companies.

Working in the districts

Activities and advice programme for job-hunting in the city's various neighbourhoods and districts, part of a local economic development strategy.

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Pathways to insertion and employment

Pathways for improving the possibilities of placing people with added difficulties finding work. The programme includes guidance, training, work experience and support in looking for work.

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Looking for a job?

Are you looking for work? Do you need to prepare for an interview? Fancy improving your CV? The Barcelona Activa team are at your disposal for clearing up your work related queries.

Look for and identify the employment opportunities that best suit your profile and access job offers from the main job listing sites, updated in real time. Find information on the current situation in the main professional fields and on personalised employment promotion programmes.

Identify the different phases in a selection process and use the tools and resources available from Barcelona Treball to prepare for it and succeed.

Look up information on administrative procedures to do with unemployment benefits and subsidies through the Catalan Employment Service (SOC), which has a network of offices and self-service points. Also find out how to make an appointment and about the resources for people who have labour integration difficulties.

Are you young and looking for a job? Do you want to start a business? Learn about the advisory services that provide you with free support and guidance. You can also find information on studying or working abroad.

Overview of the jobseekers' area at Barcelona Activa

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A young man beside a job board reading a job offer

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Do you want to start your own business?

Do you want to get your project going? Use the resources provided by Barcelona Activa and Catalunya Emprèn, which will allow you to learn about the programmes, activities and services available to enable you to make the leap from idea to company.

Ubica’t (find your place) enables users to conduct market research using data on economic activity and demographics. Based on the resulting report, you will be able to design a search that is tailor-made to your needs and obtain a customised document.

Ubica’t: the market research tool (CA)

The Barcelona Activa Mature Ideas Programme offers resources to entrepreneurs over the age of 45 for turning a business idea into an enterprise. It provides tools, among other things, for preparing an enterprise plan, as well as tutorials and advice for raising funds.

Mature idees. Barcelona Emprenedoria

Public, private and mixed initiatives to promote growth, feasibility and the consolidation of cooperative and social economic projects such as alternative and strategic business models.

InnoBA is a Barcelona Activa facility offering activities, specialist services, research, training, opportunities for experimentation and project incubation, all within the sphere of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) and socioeconomic innovation. The centre is aimed at individuals and organisations who want to start initiatives, as well as those wanting to develop existing projects.

innoBA - Socio-Economic Innovation Centre. Barcelona Activa

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Tables for business and entrepreneur assistance

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Exhibitors and visitors from a trade fair with social economic projects

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Lifelong training

Link up to this IT training and promotion programme whether you are a professional or a company. You will find Internet introductory activities and tools to develop your IT and professional skills.

Cibernàrium

Enter the Consortium website and find information about lifelong training activities in Catalonia. This will help you to adapt to the knowledge society, enable increase your professional skills and obtain training throughout your life.

Consortium for Lifelong Training (Gencat) (ES)

Training area dedicated to the Internet and digital learning

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Do you own a business?

Visit the Business Support Office to obtain all information of interest to your business, receive guidance, complete formalities and take part in training programmes. You will also find information on programmes of assistance for recruiting long-term unemployed workers over 40 years of age.

Do you export? Do you want to internationalise your business? ACCIÓ, the Agency for Business Competitiveness, and Barcelona Activa provide the resources you need to drive your international activity at any of its stages.

Do your form part of Barcelona’s economic activity? Are you interested in creating jobs, promoting investment or attracting talent? Use the resources provided by Barcelona Business and find information about the opportunities that the city’s strategic sectors offer.

Strategic industries. Barcelona Activa

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