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03/09/2024
New call for grants to offer courses
The Consortium for Continuous Training of Catalonia has opened the 2024 call for grants for training organizations to offer sectoral and transversal courses, with a total budget of 36.5 million euros. Between 2021 and 2023, more than 259.25 million euros have been allocated to training, information, advice, and guidance programs for employed workers and companies.
30/07/2024
Interview with Sandra Broto Belarra, director of the Lleida Employment Office
You are the director of the Lleida Employment Office. What services do you provide to citizens and businesses? Regarding citizens, job applications. Collecting applications from individuals who contact us is our main task, as it allows us to offer personalized, comprehensive, and inclusive employment guidance services, and the rest of the services from the new
29/07/2024
Neoskills: training skills with virtual reality
Digital transformation processes and the increasing mobility of the labor market are accelerating the pace of changes in the professional profiles demanded by companies. This acceleration means that many technical and professional competencies, those specific skills linked to a particular job, which until recently were the most valued, are no longer a priority. On the
10/07/2024
€4,000 grants for first-year expenses for the self-employed
A new grant of up to €4,000 is being launched to alleviate the burden of expenses that self-employed individuals must take on during their first years of activity. The grant aims to boost entrepreneurship in the city of Barcelona and also seeks to help new businesses establish themselves in the market more easily. Beneficiaries and
10/07/2024
Grant for self-employed individuals to hire an employee
The application period is now open for the “TU + 1” grant, a subsidy for self-employed individuals to hire a salaried worker. This grant aims to promote the permanent hiring of an unemployed person to support business growth. Requirements The employment contract must be permanent and for a working day equal to or greater than
04/07/2024
Registration opens for the 4YFN 2025 Awards
The application period is now open for the 4YFN 2025 Awards, a global competition aimed at finding the best startup in the world. How it works From all participating startups, 20 will be selected across 5 different categories. From these 20, 5 finalists will emerge (1 per category) and will be invited to the 4YFN25
04/07/2024
Edgers, the professionals of the future
A new group of professionals using the future as a tool for transformation. According to expert Gerd Leonhard, the world will change more in the next 20 years than it has in the last 300. Today, the pace of evolution regarding demographic, climatic, and especially technological changes is exponential. This means that the innovation
Awards
04/05/2022
Entrepreneurship
30/10/2026
Grants and financial support for starting a business: what’s available and how to apply
28/07/2026
Youth Guarantee 2026: Up to €17,094 to Launch Your Self-Employment Project
05/09/2025
€16,576: New Grant to Promote Youth Self-Employment
20/12/2022
You can now establish a company for just 1€!
Grants
27/08/2026
New grants of up to €5,000 to open, renovate or digitalise businesses in Lleida
28/07/2026
Youth Guarantee 2026: Up to €17,094 to Launch Your Self-Employment Project
15/07/2026
09/07/2026
2026 TU+1 Programme Call Opens: Up to €21,762 to Hire Staff on Permanent Contracts
Guidance
25/01/2023
Interview with Miquel Carrión, Deputy Director of Youth Employment at the SOC
31/08/2022
Acredita’t Program: Accredit your professional competencies
04/10/2021
New call for guidance and training for people on ERTO
07/09/2021
Mentoring
09/10/2026
20/05/2026
Great session at the new Startup Huddle edition in Castellar del Vallès
20/05/2026
Autoocupació is hosting a new edition of Startup Huddle in Girona
16/01/2023
Autoocupació’s SOS Mentoring program, honored at the “la Caixa” Foundation Social Innovation Awards
Networking
20/05/2026
Great session at the new Startup Huddle edition in Castellar del Vallès
20/05/2026
Autoocupació is hosting a new edition of Startup Huddle in Girona
28/06/2022
Startup Huddle Barcelona: Summer Edition
17/02/2021
New Startup Huddle Barcelona dedicated to tourism
News
30/10/2026
Interview with Joan Romero i Circuns, Executive Director of ACCIÓ
30/10/2026
Grants and financial support for starting a business: what’s available and how to apply
26/10/2026
09/10/2026
Reempresa
25/05/2022
It is seven times easier to take over an existing business than to create a new one.
03/07/2020
Great changes start with the prefix RE-
13/05/2019
Reempresa, invited to the International Business Transfer Summit in Quebec
13/02/2019
Reempresa saves 2,000 companies from closure in Catalonia
Training
28/07/2026
What Are Reskilling and Upskilling? Learning to Adapt to Change
27/04/2022
4 reasons that will motivate you to obtain a professional certificate
08/02/2018
4 reasons that will motivate you to obtain a professional certificate
10/10/2017
New training courses in Autoocupació
