Barcelona

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.

• Barcelona Treball’s permanent services
• Specific services for young people
• Personalised advice. Barcelona Treball

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.

• Professional fields
• Barcelona Activa job search engine
• Feina Activa job search engine. Gencat [Es]
• Barcelona Activa’s personalised programmes
• Làbora Programme. Social services [Es]

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

• Barcelona Activa
• Barcelona Treball blog [Ca]

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.

• Catalan Employment Service [SOC]
• SEPE appointments
• Benefits. SEPE

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.

• Specific services for young people
• Employment. Young people [Es]
• Oficina Jove de Treball (Employment office for young people). Generalitat of Catalonia [Ca]
• European job mobility portal. EURES
• Employment space for young people. Barcelona Activa

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.

• Barcelona Emprenedoria
• Barcelona Treball blog [Ca]
• Lidera. Support for women entrepreneurs
• Catalunya Emprèn. Gencat
• Do you want to open up a business? Commerce

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.

• Social and solidarity economy. Barcelona City Council
• Social economy and cooperativism. Gencat

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

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

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]

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.

• Business Support Office
• Do you own a business? Commerce

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.

• Internationalisation and foreign commerce procedures. Business Support Office
• ACCIÓ. Gencat

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