The future
is now

Action by the City Council
for 2019-2023

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Four years marked by the pandemic...

Firefighters unloading supplies to set up a field healthcare area

A scene of La Rambla empty of vehicles and people

... and the
war in Ukraine (17,000 people assisted)

2015

2,550 M€

2021

3,253 M€

2022

3,406 M€

2023

€3.6 billion

Staff from an assisted living facility accompanying an elderly woman

Young Guàrdia Urbana city police agents who just joined the force

Staff from the Cuidem Barcelona cleaning service working on the beaches

Boost for public services

An additional 1,000 Guàrdia Urbana police officers
A new contract for and reinforcement of the cleaning service
Record social services spending

First participatory
budgets

with €30million

earmarked for 76 project
chosen by ordinary citizens
for neighbourhood improvements

Pioneering
regulations for activities with a high social,
nvironmental and economic impact

Gambling and betting shops
Macro-kitchens and “ghost” supermarkets
Major e-commerce operators

95% of the Municipal Action
Programme

implemented

In line with the

17 United Nations goals

that make up the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development

ECONOMY AND EMPLOYMENT

A plan for economic revival Barcelona
Green Deal

€10 million
earmarked for creating over 1,212 permanent and quality job contracts
(56% women).

86,779 people assisted in job promotion programmes (59% women).

Three young people talking in a unique, modern space

32,000 entrepreneurs assisted (58% women)

12,500 business projects assisted

850 shops supported by Barcelona Activa via the “Comerç a Punt” programme

Improvements to the municipal markets

Crowds walking by the entrance to the new Sant Andreu market on a sunny day

€100 million
invested in market network maintenance
11 major renovations

€17 million
to revive the retail trade and

35 officially protected premises purchased

€20 million
in local economy subsidies

Map using points to show the location of the Shop Locally campaign

Extraordinary permits for bar/restaurant terraces during the pandemic to support the catering sector

More than 3,600 new extraordinary licenses and extensions

Digital skills training for 66,000 people

20,000 people attended to by ICT Officers

Boost to strategic digital projects (IT Academy, Escola 42, Welcome desk)

New economic activity hubs

Unique venues for group work with people working inside and out

Digital economy at the Correos central post office
Industrial warehouses in the Besòs area
Palo Alto, in 22@
Sports Tech incubator at the Olympic Stadium
The blue economy at the Olympic Port

Major international events

Mobile World Congress: permanent headquarters agreement
America’s Cup
ISE Audiovisual Fair
Manifesta Art Biennial
World Architecture Capital
Global host for the Giga project

Tourist tax
€6 million
from the tourist tax to fund

40 projects and investments in different neighbourhoods

Families with children playing in a square and a poster with the name of the activity

World Sustainable Food Capital
and future cooperative hub atCan Batlló (Bloc 4)

SOCIAL ACTION EDUCATION CULTURE AND SPORTS

Support for carers with the VILA VEÏNA programme in the neighbourhoods,
and the

TARGETA CUIDADORto access benefits and personalised services

Creation of the municipal babysitting services
with 2,400 user families

Social services with a record budget
and innovation in social care

Combating the digital divide and feminisation of poverty
138,600 women and 455 companies and entities

have taken part in the programmes

Combating violence against women

96 purple points in the city

Kiosk at a Punt Lila information point open at night with a team inside to answer queries

300 welcome places + new assistance services for women

Guàrdia Urbana with

more women police officers

New services to address violence against women

Improved coexistence in areas where there are nightspots

New assistance model for homeless people,offering greater autonomy

1,100 new places

2 centres for homeless women

107,960 power supply cut-offs prevented

by the Energy Advice Points, with 37,873 households assisted

Map showing anonymised locations of homes provided assistance to keep their power supply from being cut off

Social services granted

115,351 financial assistance grants

totalling
€85.95 million
for emergency housing

Municipal dentist

€890,000 /annual
investment
in 4 dentist surgeries

More than
40,000 appointments

275 new flats with services
for elderly people
(427 under construction)

Radars community project in
59 neighbourhoods to combat loneliness

A senior woman and man at the entrance to their house

Remote assistance service reaches 108,000 people

Home Help Service budget up by 50%

New psychological support services:

Konsulta'm

13 spaces to assist young people

Suicide prevention helpline

6,500 instances of assistance

Land ceded for

5 new Health Centres (Besòs, Fort Pienc, Gòtic, Raval Nord and Congrés-Indians)

and improvements to Hospital del Mar

New entrance hallway at the Hospital del Marr

11,492 families

received financial assistance through the Childhood 0-16 Fund last year

2 new municipal nursery schools

4 more under constructions and a further

2 planned

Small children playing in the playroom of a municipal nursery school

A network with

104 schools

23 family parenting spaces

11 new schools

8 private schools now part of the municipal school network

€182 million in schools improvements

Teaching staff at 74 schools reinforced by educational and emotional support workers

New
Neighbourhood Plan

€150 million
in investments and projects in the

23 neighbourhoods
with most inequality

Scene of children participating in a classical music workshop at school led by an orchestra conductor

Shock plan to maintain cultural activity during the pandemic

and a new cultural rights plan to ensure that culture reaches everyone

Consolidation of the Biennial of Thought with more than 20,000 visitors

1 new library 3 further under construction
or at the planning stage

and new spaces for culture:
El Molino, Paral·lel 62, Gustau Gili and Antic Theatre

4 new municipal sports facilities under construction

5 being remodelled

A team of child athletes with their backs turned and arms around each other looking at the football pitch

13 renovated football pitches

"Ciutadella of Knowledge" the new science and research centre in the vicinity of Parc de la Ciutadella

PUBLIC SPACE, SUSTAINABILITY AND URBAN GREENERY

Vacuum vehicle from the urban cleaning service driving around and cleaning the street

€307 million/year
for cleaning and waste management

400 more workers

870 electric vehicles

Playable city with
over 900 public spaces for children’s play making

play areas more varied with opportunities for everyone to play

200 play areas
being renovated

26 infant and
primary schools
now have greener coeducational, more playable, community playgrounds

Protecting
schools

by calming traffic round 200 of them

Opening up streets

Car-free weekends on Gran de Gràcia and at the Creu Coberta - C/Sants hub

50 greener hectares

in the city

Girl doing a somersault on the grass in a park surrounded by vegetation

9,500 new trees planted

Promoting the construction of the new Barcelona Pet Shelter

103 shared-use recreational areasfor dogs, amounting to more than
900,000 m²

Dogs with their owners nearby using a recreation area

157 solar installations

doubling energy production

Barcelona Energia now the top public energy trading company in Spain

Mercabarna, the largest photovoltaic installation for self-consumption in Spain

Solar panels on top of the facilities at Mercabarna

Pergola in a children’s playground with solar panels in the public space

MOBILITY

610,000

fewer polluting
journeys

Reduction

11%

in NO2
emissions

The price of frequent user public transport passes has been reduced by half

Investment in
€475 million on public transport
50 new underground trains have been acquired