28/07/2026
Youth Guarantee 2026: Up to €17,094 to Launch Your Self-Employment Project
If you are between 18 and 29 years old and want to start your own business, the Youth Guarantee grant can help turn your entrepreneurial project into reality. This financial aid is designed to support young people entering the labour market through self-employment by providing funding for both the start-up of their business and the
05/09/2025
€16,576: New Grant to Promote Youth Self-Employment
Grants of up to €16,576 for young people registered in the Youth Guarantee who start their self-employment activity between July 12 and September 25, 2025.
20/12/2022
You can now establish a company for just 1€!
On October 19, Law 18/22 on Company Creation and Growth came into force, as part of the reforms driven by the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, with the aim of facilitating the creation of new companies and improving regulation and access to financing to foster their growth. According to the latest Doing Business 2020 Report,
24/10/2022
Llançadora, entrepreneurship grants
Autoocupació promotes “Llançadora, entrepreneurship grants,” an innovative project for maturing business ideas through the Dual Vocational Training program, subsidized by the Public Employment Service of Catalonia. The program’s objective is to help 12 entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 29 who are currently unemployed to mature their business ideas, test them in the market,
21/10/2022
YBI Global Entrepreneurship Summit
Autoocupació participated in the 2022 Global Youth Entrepreneurship Summit (Global Youth Entrepreneurship Summit 2022) organized by Youth Business International (YBI), which took place from October 18 to 20 in The Hague, Netherlands. Autoocupació’s director, Guillem Arís, participated in the Summit along with Sara Simón, director of Youth Business Spain, in the “Youth Business Spain Session”
04/10/2021
Competencies for successful entrepreneurship
It is often said that the most important factor for a business project’s success is the capacity of the entrepreneurial team, even above the idea or the business model. But what does this capacity consist of? What skills and attitudes are needed for successful entrepreneurship? Psychologist David McClelland interviewed hundreds of successful entrepreneurs in different
05/07/2021
Effectuation: Entrepreneurship with Common Sense
Less than half of new businesses survive beyond three years, and many entrepreneurs, after launching their business project, end up exhausted, in debt, and with a feeling of failure. Why? Among other reasons, because entrepreneurs have traditionally been taught to think managerially, based on a causal logic. Thus, they are encouraged to define objectives and
16/02/2021
Autoocupació holds the conference “Boost your professional network for entrepreneurship”
Last Thursday, February 11, Autoocupació held the conference Boost your professional network for entrepreneurship, within the framework of the Mature Ideas program and with the collaboration of Barcelona Activa. The event was held online, from 10 AM to 1 PM, and gathered over 140 entrepreneurs over 40 years old. Montse Basora, Director of Entrepreneurship at
