Social and Solidarity Economy

In Barcelona, the Social and Solidarity Economy generates approximately 8% of jobs, with more than 53,000 people employed. Barcelona City Council is promoting these initiatives to create new projects and consolidate existing ones. In this video you can see La Borda, Suara and Nou Patufet.

The SSE in Barcelona has over 4,700 social and economic initiatives inspired from the values of cooperation, equality and self-management, putting people’s needs over financial gain. This video shows three initiatives (Cos, Arç and Gimnàs Sant Pau) relating to health and well-being.

With the support of Barcelona City Council, ethical finance institutions offer new Social and Solidarity Economy projects and initiatives  the opportunity to gain access to funding. 

Banks, enterprises, public authorities and players from the third sector and the SSE met at an international conference on banks with values to talk about how to promote a banking system that was closer to the real economy.