Barcelona Global calls on the new municipal government led by Mayor Jaume Collboni to develop ambitious policies so that the city becomes a world benchmark in strategic areas with very high impact.
Today the association held its general assembly, the highest governing body, at the International University of Catalonia (UIC), with the participation of more than 300 members. The meeting took stock of the projects achieved and the challenges for the future with the aim of promoting Barcelona in strategic areas with a high transforming impact, developing new events, and attracting investment and impact talent.
The assembly was attended by the president of Barcelona Global, Maite Barrera, and the general directors of the association, Mercè Conesa, and of Barcelona
Maite Barrera has called for "ambition" to position the city in strategic areas and "build a winning Barcelona". “In the face of current challenges, cities play a fundamental role and have an extraordinary power to solve problems. We have to be very ambitious”, stated the president of Barcelona Global.
In this sense, he highlighted the association's drive to ensure that Barcelona has the first plant in Spain dedicated to the design and prototyping of advanced material chips open to the entire ecosystem; a project that “would transform the semiconductor ecosystem and put us at the front lines of southern Europe”
The project report to start up this plant has already been presented to the Perte Xip Commissioner, who has to decide on granting the necessary investment (350 million euros) to make it a reality in 2026.
“Barcelona has a superpower that the cities with which we compete envy: a committed, entrepreneurial civil society oriented towards collaboration and weaving public-private alliances to make Barcelona an attractive city for investment and impact talent, a business city friendly”, he told Maite Barrera.
The president highlighted the role of the Barcelona investor attraction agency
Barcelona Global continues to work so that Barcelona consolidates major sporting events, such as the Sailing America's Cup, so that others extend their commitment, such as the Spanish F-1 Grand Prix; and for the city to be the protagonist of the Ryder Cup.
Barcelona Global is preparing a document that analyzes the solutions so that Barcelona can have an intercontinental airport, necessary to attract investment and international talent, and that respects the area's ecosystem.
Likewise, he has announced the agenda that he will soon present to the new mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, to ask the new government for "rigor and agility" on fundamental issues such as eliminating barriers to talent and attracting investment, defining a stable framework in urban planning and housing, decongesting the mobility of the city with sustainable and agreed measures, committing to quality tourism and commerce and promoting cultural diversity and projecting it internationally.
