Barcelona-Catalonia is made up of a set of projects located in the metropolitan area to form a fairer, more efficient and more sustainable urban development model. A model that opts for redevelopment as a way of dealing with social inequalities and improving quality of life, and as a strategy to begin the energy transition to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and cut emissions of atmospheric pollutants.
Barcelona, ‘the almost ideal European city’, eighth best in the world in The World’s Best Cities 2021
● The ranking is based on statistical figures and the opinions of residents and visitors ● This year, the unemployment rate, inequality and the contagion rate for COVID-19 have also been assessed. Despite the current difficult situation, the image of Barcelona does...
MediaMarkt chooses El Prat (Barcelona) for its Global Business Services, an international administrative hub
● The start-up of the new space will involve the hiring of 500 workers ● This new administrative center will serve eleven non-German-speaking countries The German group MediaMarktSaturn reinforces its commitment to Barcelona, which has been chosen as the...
Catalan clusters raise more than half a million euros from the European Commission for internationalization projects of their companyies
● The financing ratio is much higher than the weight of the population of Catalonia in the European Union ● Five of these clusters have also obtained the highest certificate of international excellence In the call Clusters Go International of the Comissió Europea in...
Sant Adrià, in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, will host the first global submarine cable landing port, the gateway to Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean.
Work has already begun on the first international submarine cable landing station in Catalonia, an infrastructure that will come into operation in 2022, and which will allow the arrival of fiber optic cables without any restrictions. The installation will be the...
The Government promotes the Space Agency of Catalonia: first nanosatellites in 2021 to deploy global IoT connectivity services
The Catalan Government, in the framework of the so-called New Space Economy to promote a new economic sector of high added value and generator of opportunities, based on the use of smaller satellites and lower cost than nanosatellites orbit at low altitude, has...
With the purchase of Vilynx, Apple wants to turn Barcelona into a center specializing in the development of artificial intelligence
The American Apple has recently acquired the Barcelona start-up Vilynx. According to various sources, the operation would have closed for about 40 million euros. The Catalan company specializes in the development of intelligent software that indexes and tags videos in...