Barcelona City Council

The subsidised activities and projects must foster activities of public or social interest for the City of Barcelona and contribute to achieving the goals of the 2030 Barcelona Social and Economic Strategy-The reactivation and strengthening of an economy for the life of the city, and those of the 2021-2023 Municipal Promotion Plan for the Social and Solidarity Economy, promoting and reinforcing the strategy’s lines of action, including the development of common elements that define the transformational nature of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), democratic and participative management; being geared towards human needs and with a commitment to the community; and working towards minimising the climate emergency, geared towards a fair energy and ecological transformation in the City of Barcelona, in compliance with subsidy line 4335 for fostering the cooperative, social and solidarity economy, within the Barcelona City Council’s Strategic Subsidy Plan, which is included in this subsidy programme.

The projects must be related to the following activities:

Reactivation, internal strengthening and inter-cooperation activities:

• Promoting measures that generate new SSE initiatives in the city, creating jobs or maintaining existing ones, considering social justice and improved employment conditions.
• Measures to transform trading companies, economic partnerships and associations into SSE organisations that create stable, sustainable employment, considering retributive justice, without wage gaps, horizontal and vertical gender gaps and under improved working conditions.
• Promoting measures to strengthen and enhance current SSE initiatives.
• Promoting measures to improve their coordination and inter-cooperation, creating hubs that
• can scale up and help business activity to grow.
• Promoting practical actions which, within the framework of minimising the climate emergency and being geared towards a fair energy and ecological transition, become tools for dissemination and raising awareness, and for the promotion and showcasing of the SSE as an alternative economic model.
• Inter-cooperation activities directly linked to strategic lines, support levers for reaching the 2030 BCN SSE Strategy’s city objectives, and to the city projects and work groups that develop them. 

Provided they meet all the requirements of the campaign and its terms and conditions, the potential beneficiaries of this subsidy campaign include:

• Legal persons
• Groups with a second level or higher legal personality, made up of public or private legal persons moulding ESS inter-cooperation projects
• Groups without legal personality, made up of public or private legal persons, moulding ESS inter-cooperation projects
• Groups of natural persons, including individual businesspeople, in the process of constituting an ESS cooperative.
• Groups of natural persons involved in community and collaborative economy projects for the common good that have not yet been formalised.
• Any other form of legal trading entity that presents a project for becoming an ESS cooperative.                           

Submission deadline: March 23 to April 13 (both included)