In light of the Barcelona Startup Fair coming up next week, we want to recognize our wonderful Lead Sponsors. Without their support, connecting hundreds of jobseekers and some of the hottest top hiring companies in Barcelona wouldn’t be possible.
Get to know these organizations that are really changing our society through innovation and education with the aim to promote economic growth.
Meet the Barcelona Startup Fair Sponsors:
Mobile World Capital Barcelona is an initiative aimed at turning the city into the permanent global centre of mobile technologies and an urban laboratory for new applications that will transform companies’ and people’s lives through the development of an industrial and technological fabric based on the potential of mobility, linked to various areas, such as health, the automotive industry, transport, the agro-food industry, mobile payments and leisure, creating, at the same time, new business opportunities.
In addition to the Mobile World Congress, which is held annually in Fira de Barcelona, the Mobile World Capital, with headquarters in the MediaTIC building in the 22@ district, is based on MWHub, concerned with industrial and business development, Mobile World Centre and Mobile World Events more focused on the impact of mobile technologies on people’s everyday lives.
The initiative, promoted by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Barcelona City Council, Fira de Barcelona and GSMA, is governed by a Foundation chaired by the Mayor of Barcelona, which important companies from different sectors have joined. Barcelona was appointed Mobile World Capital for the period from 2012 to 2018 by the GSMA, the association that represents the interests of over 800 mobile phone operators worldwide and over 200 companies in the mobile ecosystem.
Barcelona Activa is the executive tool of the Economic Development policies of the Barcelona City Council.
For 25 years, Barcelona Activa has promoted the economic growth of Barcelona and its influence area, fostering businesses, entrepreneurship and employment, while promoting the city internationally and its strategic sectors, while maintaining proximity to the districts and citizens.
The Barcelona Activa‘s mission is to be the reference organization for policies supporting enterprises, employment creation and international projection of Barcelona, as an excellent environment for economic activity and social progress.
Barcelona Activa accompanied and supported more than 2,400 new projects in 2011, 139 companies were to be installed in its business incubator and Technology Park, nearly 14,000 people were served by programs while entrepreneurship training programs and professional jobs were more than 21,000 people.
Set up in 1993, the IDEC is Pompeu Fabra University’s graduate centre designed to deliver this quality continuing education addressed to professionals and in close partnership with the world of business. The IDEC is committed to highly-specialised education in a multidisciplinary, innovative and creative academic environment through a range of masters and postgraduate programmes fully tailored to the educational needs of the professional world under the premise of quality and academic excellence.
After two decades at Pompeu Fabra University, the IDEC is now a national and international benchmark in prestigious, high-level continuing education in the world of academia.
The Barcelona School of Management was founded in 2011 as the new business school of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). It was launched as a response to the current global need of capacitating state-of-the-art professionals in business management and public administration.
The Barcelona School of Management bases its methodology on three core ideas: evidence-based management, entrepreneurship and innovation and engaged social value. It also understands education as a merger between University and Industry. That is why leading companies and public authorities participate in the development of all its academic programmes. The school is a catalyst for cross-line training and research, with all its academic training being practice-oriented in order to attain a fully scientific approach to knowledge.
We we still have a few support sponsor slots left.
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