Autoocupació: 2023 in figures

23 January 2024

Business Creation

The Business Creation service offers personalized and fully subsidized support throughout the self-employment journey, with the aim of transforming entrepreneurs’ business ideas into viable and successful companies. During 2023, the business creation service launched new projects, such as the Llançadora, entrepreneurship grants. The service also assisted 558 entrepreneurs, advising them on creating their business plan, market study, and the viability of their entrepreneurial project, and contributed to the creation of 117 new businesses, generating more than 150 new jobs.  

Training

Autoocupació is committed to occupational training for active and unemployed individuals as a way to help them achieve their professional goals. It also offers the possibility of undertaking internships in companies through Professional Certificates. During 2023, the training service reached almost 4,000 trained students: Specifically, 3,980 students attended one of Autoocupació’s courses taught during the year. This translates to a total of 22,213 hours of training delivered in Virtual Classroom, Tele-training, and in-person formats at the Foundation’s four delegations.

Mentoring

Autoocupació offers personalized support through its mentoring service, where volunteer business owners and professionals share their experience with young entrepreneurs to help them consolidate and grow their businesses. During 2023, the service established 261 new mentoring relationships and contributed to supporting 256 businesses. Throughout the year, 350 entrepreneurs participated in the program, and 216 mentors initiated a new mentoring process.
 

Reempresa

Reempresa, an initiative by Patronal Cecot and Autoocupació, reaffirms itself as Catalonia’s business buying and selling market. In 2023, a total of 528 successful business transfers were achieved, with more than 1450 jobs safeguarded. Autoocupació closes the year for the Reempresa service with 902 sellers and 1360 new entrepreneurs.

Guidance

Autoocupació also offers a personalized information, professional guidance, and job search support service for all individuals, whether unemployed or active, who are facing a job placement or career change process. During 2023, 2267 people benefited from guidance and support for over 5,000 hours. More than 30% successfully entered the job market.

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