Barcelona City Council

Awarding of grants and subsidies for projects, activities and services in the areas of local development, job promotion and the social and solidarity economy. The aim of these grants and subsidies is to provide the city’s neighbourhoods and districts with the resources they need through empowering the stakeholders that carry out their socio-economic activities there, for the purpose of making these activities sustainable over time and to increase the city's resilience to economic fluctuations, fostering projects with a social purpose or a social return that improve people's quality of life and reduce socio-economic inequalities. The projects and activities for which the grants and subsidies are to be awarded must foster public interest activities and are aimed at boosting employment in the territories by acting on groups that are especially vulnerable to unemployment to increase job market participation and eradicate situations of underemployment; revitalise all the economic activities that have a positive impact on social cohesion and coexistence in the city's neighbourhoods, respect for the environment and the promotion of responsible consumption; promote local businesses and entrepreneurship based in the territories, led by specific groups or geared towards addressing community-based problems; promote the social and solidarity economy and socio-economic innovation in a cross-cutting manner in all its actions; strengthen and enable community stakeholders (associations and cooperatives, networks, etc.) so that they can become promoters of the social and solidarity economy in the local area; and boost the use of open technology and digital manufacturing to foster new forms of innovation and collaboration that can overcome the social and sustainability challenges facing the territories (digital social innovation).

In accordance with RD 537/2020, of 22 May, from 1 June onwards, the suspension of terms and the interruption of application periods established by DA 3a of RD 463/2020, of 14 March, will be abrogated. Therefore, the administrative periods that were suspended will be resumed.

On 5 June, the modification to the campaign will be published in the BOPB, along with the inclusion of a new Category 7: Resumption of local economic activities in the neighbourhoods included in the Neighbourhood Plan: recuperating locally-based economic activity in the neighbourhoods included in the Neighbourhood Plan, for local businesses, shops and projects, which take part in the economic and/or community fabric of the neighbourhood/district where they are located.

Therefore, the new application period for the campaign, initially established as from 17 March to 17 April, will now be as follows:

Categories 1 to 6: from 2 June to 2 July (including both dates)

Category 7: from 8 June to 6 July (including both dates)