Barcelona City Council

Award organised by Barcelona City Council, which focuses on a different theme each year to further the defence and promotion of women’s rights. The aim of this edition is to support projects that help promote affirmative action to eliminate vertical segregation in various economic and social sectors, as well as projects that foster leadership and the empowerment of women within organisations.

Projects or initiatives with the following purposes are eligible:

• Drive affirmative action initiatives to further the eradication of factors that perpetuate vertical segregation and to contribute to eliminating gender stereotypes, as well as social, economic, and labour barriers that restrict women’s participation and access to positions of responsibility and decision-making.
• Implement specific projects to promote leadership and empowerment of women in various economic and social sectors and encourage best practices and visibility of new female role models.
• Promote initiatives to mitigate the effects of vertical segregation that impact women’s lives, such as the gender pay and pension gaps, feminisation of poverty, loss of opportunities and female talent, and psychosocial, physical, psychological, and emotional risks.
• Drive training, guidance, and self-organisation initiatives for women to increase opportunities for access to decision-making positions, empowerment, and leadership within organisations.

The projects must meet the following requirements:

• They must be brand new or have started no earlier than 1 January 2024 (under no circumstances can they be completed projects).
• They must be implemented from a gender and social justice perspective.
• They must prioritise feminist economics, environmental sustainability, social and community shared responsibility, empowerment, and the social and political participation of women.
• They must lead to specific initiatives with a practical application that are carried out in the city of Barcelona, at the neighbourhood, district, or citywide level.
• They must be written in inclusive and non-sexist language. The presentation of the project must include a commitment that, if the project is receives the award, all images and language used will be inclusive and non-sexist.

Projects may be submitted by natural persons, groups, associations, or other non-profit organisations from the city of Barcelona. Each participant may submit only one project.

Natural persons responding to the call must be officially registered residents of Barcelona.

Organisations must have their headquarters in Barcelona. In the case of legally unincorporated groups composed solely of natural persons, the representative of the group must be an officially registered resident of the city of Barcelona.

The 8 March Awards has a single project category, which corresponds to an award worth 15,000 euros that will be granted by a panel of experts.

The panel will announce the award-winning project n the course of a public event. This will take place on a date close to 8 March. The date, place and time will be announced in due course, and can be found at ajuntament.barcelona.cat/dones.

Projects must be submitted in electronic format through the electronic registry of the City Council, on the procedures and grants portal of Barcelona City Council.

The standardised forms for submitting applications can be found on both the municipal website’s procedures portal (https://w9.bcn.cat/Ajuntament/premis.html) and the website https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/dones/en/. They must be accompanied by the documentation specified in the Clause Eight of the call for applications.

Submission of applications: from 1 to 14 February 2024, both inclusive.