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Check out all the resources available to the cultural and tourist sectors: up-to-date information and online advice for Barcelona’s culture and tourism sectors and economic-revival measures.
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Subsidies, grants and funding
Barcelona City Council is allocating a large amount of resources to drive city recovery and promotion policies, in the form of grants, subsidies and funding. The City Council is reaffirming its commitment to promoting the economy, fostering employment and shaping the city’s future, by having more programmes, services and budgetary allocations.
Call for grants for revitalization of the local economy. They are financed projects that promote employment in neighbourhoods, entrepreneurship and the social economy and solidarity, among others. Highlights the method of revitalizing empty premises on the ground floor.
Period: June 2025
Advice
Barcelona City Council is at your side, helping you to look for information, selecting the resources best adapted to your needs and supporting when it comes to processing grants or drawing up personalised plans for your business with the help of experts. Our advice services will help you to start, consolidate or continue developing projects.
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Support service for international talent wanting to come and live in the city or who have recently settled here. It provides information on procedures and processes such as work and residence permits, access to housing, healthcare and education, the steps to creating a business, investing or working in Barcelona, and other practical matters for living in the city. Face-to-face assistance is given at the Barcelona International Welcome Desk offices (MediaTIC building) or by video conference. You need to book an appointment.
Period: In 2025
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Programme that distinguishes tourist operators committed to responsible management under certain requirements based on the United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs). Enterprises and organisations receive training and advice on making an improvement plan and obtaining Biosphere Sustainable Lifestyle certification, enabling them to improve their positioning.
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Business one-stop-shop for enabling economic activity in the district. Located in the MediaTIC building, the office offers information for carrying out a business activity in the 22@ district. Preliminary use-plan reports, activity-starting and ending statements, licence transfers and applications for occupying public roads and squares can be processed there.
Period: In 2025
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Thanks to collaborative efforts between various institutions, Barcelona has a platform for statistical information, knowledge and tourism intelligence offering studies and up-to-date data on the city and the entire region comprising Destination Barcelona.It can be used to access statistics about visitor profiles, their economic impact, employment data in the tourism sector, and information regarding accommodation, infrastructure, and transport, as well the latest Online Reputation Report (IRON) for Destination Barcelona and the Sustainability Indicator System (SITS OTB).
Period: In 2025
Training
To be competitive, you need to be up to date. So Barcelona City Council has launched a wide range of specialised training lines, designed to prepare you for the future with more drive than ever. The range of free possibilities means there is something for everyone!
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Programmes for entrepreneurship include accompaniment and networking for the creation of enterprises and organisations aimed at certain groups of entrepreneurs (young people, older people and women) or sectors of activity (creative industries, food, sport, tourism or projects with a social impact).
Period: In 2025
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A programme for supporting the creation of innovative, responsible and sustainable enterprises that meet the new needs of the tourist sector in Barcelona city and province. Participating projects receive training in the fields of entrepreneurship and tourism, under a personalised accompaniment plan. The programme is promoted by Barcelona Activa - Barcelona City Council, Barcelona Provincial Council, the Catalan Association of Specialist Travel Agencies (ACAVE) and the Barcelona Hotels Guild.
Period: In 2025
Promoting the city
Barcelona is a city that looks to the future and possesses all the attributes for playing a key role in the changes that are coming. The City Council is therefore driving ahead with economic-promotion tools, both local and international, fostering public-private cooperation initiatives and launching campaigns that strengthen the city’s full economic potential.
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This year will see the twelfth edition of Barcelona International Community Day, an F2F event that includes an exhibitors’ fair and an extensive programme of activities (seminars, workshops, roundtables and networking) to welcome the city’s international community, offering useful information and resources for living, working and doing business in Barcelona.
The 2024 edition is planned for Saturday, 25 October
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The Barcelona Tourist Consortium runs a series of campaigns to promote tourism in the city. Equipped with a considerable digital component, they are aimed at several specific target sectors for the purpose of attracting a local, high-value visitor profile that shares Barcelona’s attributes.
Period: In 2025
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Thanks to collaborative efforts between various institutions, Barcelona has a platform for statistical information, knowledge and tourism intelligence offering studies and up-to-date data on the city and the entire region comprising Destination Barcelona.It can be used to access statistics about visitor profiles, their economic impact, employment data in the tourism sector, and information regarding accommodation, infrastructure, and transport, as well the latest Online Reputation Report (IRON) for Destination Barcelona and the Sustainability Indicator System (SITS OTB).
Period: In 2025
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Barcelona City Council, in collaboration with Academia Europaea (Barcelona Knowledge Hub, AE-BKH), awards this prize annually with the aim of helping give science greater visibility, as well as promoting, strengthening and boosting the value of excellence in research and its impact on society in Europe.
Call: second half of 2025
Regulatory changes and tax rebates
The Barcelona City Council is firmly committed to ensuring that our city is an easy place for economic activity. This is why it has launched regulatory and administrative changes that simplify things for city residents and economic sectors and speed up and simplify procedures and payment periods.
The City Council offers different rebates on the tax for business activities.
Rebates for cooperatives
Cooperatives and cooperative unions, federations and confederations can request an IAE rebate provided they present documentary proof that they are registered in the Cooperatives register and meet the requirements set out in the Tax byelaw and Act 20/1990, of 19 December, on the tax system for cooperatives.
The rebate is for 95% of the amount of the tax levied.
Tax rebates for increased staff numbers
Natural or legal persons who pay municipal tax and have increased their staff by 10% or more are eligible for a rebate. The increase must have involved indefinite contracts and taken place during the tax period immediately prior to that in which the subsidy is requested.
It must be borne in mind that this increase in staff numbers must have occurred in their work centres in the Barcelona municipality.
Rate reduction for use of renewable energy
Rebates for natural and legal persons installing systems for harnessing heat or electricity from the sun’s energy, for three consecutive years as from the date of application for the installation’s legalisation or registration.
Period: specified for each rebate
