Work and business

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Barcelona Treball

Discover the services, programmes and resources that Barcelona Activa provides for training, job-hunting and professional growth.

We’re strengthening the social and solidarity economy

The latest call for grants, open from 15 April to 14 May, allocates a budget of 900.000 euros to bolster businesses and organisations within the social and solidarity economy.

If you’re young and you’re looking for a job, Barcelona Activa is here to provide advice and guidance. The organisation’s support and training centre, the Convent de Barcelona, helps people under 30 to get a foothold in the labour market, and to improve their professional skills.

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.

Support for women entrepreneurs

Discover Lidera, the women’s networking and support space for professionals, directors and entrepreneurs.

Looking for work?

Barcelona Activa offers an information service on all the job seeking resources and guidance available.

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.

Business funding

Barcelona Activa has a financial service for supporting and accompanying self-employed workers, enterprises and organisations looking for needed or specific financial resources.

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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!

Kit Digital subsidies

Information, advice and support for businesses and the self-employed to apply for Kit Digital subsidies.

Enterprise and consumption

The Municipal Consumer Information Office (OMIC) has a space for helping to relate company activities to consumer satisfaction.

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.

InnoBA

Social Economy Business Directory

Barcelona Activa is offering you an online tool for searching social economy enterprises and associations and promoting social public procurement.

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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.

Financial education

Fancy improving your personal and family finances? Check out the new website with a free digital course and various resources for improving your financial decisions.

Barcelona Sports Hub

Reference space where different stakeholders in the sports sector join forces and create synergies to foster improved competitiveness, innovation and entrepreneurship.

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IT Academy

Fancy learning how to programme in eight weeks? Check out the IT Academy’s innovative self-learning method and training offers.

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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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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.

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.

Check out Barcelona Activa’s reports with their key aspects for starting an enterprise. Business idees, business plan, taxes and plenty more!

Reports for entrepreneurship

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

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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Exhibitors and visitors from a trade fair with social economic projects

Tables for business and entrepreneur assistance

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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

Montjuïc features a new hub bringing together sport and technology to turn the city into an international benchmark in sportstech and improve the economy for the sector’s enterprises, organisations and institutions.

Barcelona Sports Tech Hub

Discover the international-talent assistance service enabling people coming over to live in the city to develop their full professional and personal potential.

Barcelona International Welcome Desk

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