The first session of experiences from the ‘Impulsem el que fas’ initiative was held on 2 April, bringing together all the organisations that implemented projects within the framework of the 2017 and 2018 calls.

“Barcelona has a strong community of digital innovators focused on social impact and the maker movement is part of it.” – Tomás Díez, Fab Lab Barcelona Director.

The aim of the two consultations, which come from the municipal areas of Social Rights and Ecology, Urban Planning and Mobility, is to find innovative solutions that meet the challenges of the ageing population and the city’s changing energy model.

Barcelona has been unanimously selected as the deputy chair of the Eurocities European network of cities' Knowledge Society Forum Eurocities. The election took place on 18 October in the city of Zaragoza, within the framework of the autumn meeting of this forum. Barcelona’s term of office begins this month and runs until October 2020.

The meeting began with an introduction and roadmap of the symposium under the guidance of Francesca Bria, the Commissioner for Digital Technology and Innovation and in charge of the EU DECODE programme, with the aim of coordinating a strategic vision on how digital technologies can benefit an alternative political, economic and social project to the prevailing surveillance capitalism and data extractivism, controlled by a handful of companies based mainly in the United States and China.