The submission period will end on July 24.
The new period for submitting co-edition projects to Barcelona City Council runs from 3 to 24 July 2023. The projects must be based on the City of Barcelona and its residents, and they must fit into the one of the ten collections approved by Barcelona City Council’s Editions and Publications Board on 7 April 2021.
Barcelona City Council’s Directorate for Publishing Services is responsible for creating, publishing and marketing publication products under the Plan approved by Barcelona City Council’s Editions and Publications Board. It performs this work through its own creations, with other municipal services, and in co-edition with the private publishing sector.
Co-edition projects with the private publishing sector are established for the improved exploitation, dissemination and promotion of the publications. In addition, they are also used for establishing a framework of collaboration with the publishing sector and providing it with support.
In order to ensure the transparency and objectivity of the selection process for the various co-edition publishing projects, every six months (in January and July) the Publishing Services carries out a selection process.
The projects must be based on the City of Barcelona and its residents and they must fit into one of the ten collections approved by the Editions and Publications Board on 7 April 2021 (see the book formats that form part of each collection). If they are not part of any of these collections, you must indicate which collection belonging to the publishing house is proposed.
Barcelona Books collections
• Gent de Barcelona [People of Barcelona]. Barcelona residents or individuals closely connected to the city, including high-profile figures and everyday people.
• Barcelona Ecologia [Barcelona Ecology]. Every aspect relating to urban environment, sustainability, urban nature and the climate-change emergency.
• Barcelona, Present i Futur [Barcelona Present and Future]. Tackling the economic, scientific, digital and social aspects, both historical and contemporary, that explain the city model and its metropolitan area, as well as the future perspective they describe.
• Barcelona, Arquitectura i Urbanisme [Barcelona Architecture and Urban Planning]. To show the city’s urban planning lines and model and prioritise citizen knowledge of the unique projects and characters involved in the city’s architecture and urban planning.
• Barcelona, Ciutat i Barris [Barcelona City and Neighbourhoods]. The history, memories and culture of the city and its neighbourhoods. Dissemination of the past and present of the network of associations and social organisations and movements that have left their mark on the city and its neighbourhoods.
• Barcelona Literària [Literary Barcelona]. Barcelona’s links to its literary heritage and the city’s literary representation.
• Barcelona en Vinyetes [Barcelona in Comics]. Introducing the graphic novel genre and comics to tell the history and stories of the city and its residents.
• Barcelona Beceroles [Barcelona Alphabet Books]. Bringing the city to very young readers through publications that are attractive both graphically and narratively.
• Darrere la Càmera [Behind the Camera]. Books with old and new photographs of the city. To appreciate the city’s transformation and its tradition of photographers.
• Arts a la Ciutat [Arts in the City]. Catalogues and publications from museums and art centres.
Project evaluation
The selection process begins at 9 am on 3 July and closes at 2 pm on 24 July 2023.
Project evaluation takes into account the criterion of parity, in order to ensure a balanced presence of men and women authors, as recommended by Barcelona City Council’s Editions and Publications Board.
Barcelona City Council’s Editions and Publications Board is the body which makes the final evaluation, which is published on this website within four months, once the period for project presentation has finalised. The co-edition contract between the publishing company and Barcelona City Council is then prepared and formalised, a process which requires between six and eight months.
You may see the form, but you may not, under any circumstances, send anything until the day the process officially begins. If you have any queries, please contact us by email at barcelonallibres@bcn.cat.
