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The Business Support Office offers a wide range of free services for growing businesses and self-employed people, including shops, restaurant sector and social and solidarity economy organisations. Select the service you need depending on your situation.
Are you an established company or a self-employed person?
These are the services available for incorporated companies and self-employed people.

Asset Publisher

Information and municipal procedures

We’ll keep you informed and support you through the municipal procedures required to perform an economic activity in Barcelona: initial activity communiqués, permits, district use plans and so on.

Strategy and management

Support for enterprises, shops and organisations from the social and solidarity economy for diagnosing and defining improvement initiatives.

Funding

Advice for achieving the funding needed by your enterprise, whether public or private.

Digitalisation

Supporting small enterprises and self-employed individuals through digitalisation processes.

Talent management

Support for hiring staff, from the identification of vacancies to the search for talent, pre-selection and sending candidates.

The service also channels companies' interest in the talent that VET can provide.

Location

Advice on looking for places to set up or expand your business in Barcelona.

Sustainability

Support to assess the sustainability of the company, both at the level of facilities and for the product/service it develops

Equality and time management

Support to improve the running of enterprises in terms of equality between men and women and better time management.

Innovation

Strategic advice and support for small enterprises that wish to innovate, seek out new opportunities or integrate creativity techniques to improve their business.

Prototyping

Advice, support and tools for implementing your business prototyping plan.

Transferring

Advice for business people who wish to transfer their business and for entrepreneurs who wish to bring continuity to a going concern.

Internationalisation

Expert guidance for embarking on exporting and internationalising your business.

Business landing

Advice and support for foreign projects wishing to invest in Barcelona.

These are the services available for unincorporated companies and people who want to register as self-employed persons.

Asset Publisher

Information and municipal procedures

We’ll keep you informed and support you through the municipal procedures required to perform an economic activity in Barcelona: initial activity communiqués, permits, district use plans and so on.

Setting up enterprises

We’ll advise you on the procedures for registering as a self-employed individual or for incorporating a new Limited Company (SL). We can help you with all of this here at the Entrepreneur Assistance Point of the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism's CIRCE network.

Funding

Advice for achieving the funding needed by your enterprise, whether public or private.

Location

Advice on looking for places to set up or expand your business in Barcelona.

Prototyping

Advice, support and tools for implementing your business prototyping plan.

Transferring

Advice for business people who wish to transfer their business and for entrepreneurs who wish to bring continuity to a going concern.