Work area: Entrepreneurship & Innovation

“Improving our capacity for enterprise and innovation. Catalan society has historically proven to be imaginative, creative and enterprising. It is important to shore up these characteristic features over the coming years with initiatives that boost added-value businesses, industry and technology, the service economy, our education network and, above all, our knowledge of foreign languages. This is a challenge that can be achieved by changing our mentality and providing support and social recognition to entrepreneurs.”

University and Business

Education, at all levels, is one of the main tools for social, cultural, and economic progress. FemCAT is committed to higher education and research, which is an aim in itself and at the same time a measure of human development and of the creative ecosystem. FemCAT is involved with the Catalan public university system in various initiatives that have evolved as both parties deemed appropriate. Between 2011 and 2014 we carried out ten editions of [...] Read more...

Barcelona Education in Science and Technology (BEST)

The Barcelona Education in Science and Technology Foundation (BEST) was created in the summer of 2017 to promote excellence in university education – especially collaborations across disciplines and universities –, promote the education of individuals with a high professional and technical qualification, as well as identify, attract and promote student talent with proven intellectual and effort capacities. Best was founded by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the association Barcelona Global and [...] Read more...

Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST)

The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), founded in January 2015, is an alliance of various public and private agents and six excellent research centers: the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the Institute for Photonic Sciences (ICFO), the Catalan Institute for Chemical Research (ICIQ), the Catalan Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), the Institute for High-Energy Physics (IFAE), and the Institute for Biomedical Research (IRB). FemCAT is a founding partner of BIST and, since [...] Read more...

Vicens-Vives Program

In his work “News from Catalonia”, Jaume Vicens Vives wrote “There is no possibility of culture or political and economic life without the existence of a group of people who govern or manage, and who understand the objectives to be achieved by the society.” Since 2003, the Vicens Vives Program for leadership and civic engagement, driven by the Chair of Leadership and Democratic Governance at ESADE, is aimed at young managers to help them develop [...] Read more...

Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (BGSE)

The Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (BGSE) is an institution for scientific cooperation in research and higher education in the areas of economics and social sciences. It was founded in July 2006 by four academic institutions: Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), the High Council on Scientific Research (CSIC), and the Center for Research in International Economics (CREI). It is also supported by Grup Agbar, the AXA Research Fund, Banc Sabadell, [...] Read more...

Social Councils

The Social Council of the Public Universities is the body for society’s participation in the University, and has the role of taking on, integrating, and relating University activity with the public sector, civil society, and the productive sector. FemCAT proposes people from the business world who can represent and help fulfill the aspirations of society with respect to the University world in the best way possible. More information: Consells Socials de les Universitats Públiques de [...] Read more...

Multilingualism

FemCAT, since its beginning, has shown interest in improving the level of language learning in the entire society. The bases of this improvement must be the education system, as a transversal agent in society, and the business world, as an agent involved and benefiting from any improvement in human capital. However, the possibility of offering all citizens a daily life where languages are present is also important. The Foundation has set as its general objectives [...] Read more...

Comunication

FEMCAT GENERAL ASSEMBLY: RE-ELECTING THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND THE PRESIDENCY
The Annual FemCAT Assembly was held yesterday, on January 22. Approximately 50 members came together in Barcelona to elect new trustees and a new presid...
X FORUM – EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING: FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF COMPANIES
FemCAT defends closer collaboration between the production and education systems to create professionals with better future options. It is importan...
INDUSTRY, NOW AND FOREVER
The employer’s association Foment del Treball published an interesting report last November on the Catalan business structure, placing special emphasi...
A BENCHMARKING TRIP TO DENMARK
From November 7 to 10, 2017, around 20 FemCAT member companies and a delegation of journalists from various media outlets participated in the seventh ed...
NOTICE: FEMCAT CALLS FOR DIALOGUE AND MEDIATION ONCE MORE
We’re joining the call for dialogue and mediation made yesterday by the Parliament of Catalonia. Mediation is the best tool to allay interlocutors tha...
NOTICE FROM FEMCAT
Special meeting of the FemCAT Board of Trustees held on October 2, 2017 It is with great astonishment and outrage that we’ve watched the acts of op...
Fifty organizations reaffirm and adhere to the Lighthouse Manifesto (Manifest del Far)
The Lighthouse Manifesto (Manifest del Far) was formulated in May 2014 and signed by the majority of business institutions in Catalonia, including FemCA...
50 ENTITIES REISSUE THEIR COMMITMENT TO THE LIGHTHOUSE MANIFESTO
The Lighthouse Manifesto was drawn up in May 2014 and signed by the majority of Catalan business institutions, including FemCAT. In August 2015, the ent...
WE REJECT ACTIONS THAT RESTRICT DEMOCRACY, FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND CATALONIA’S RIGHT TO SELF-GOVERNMENT
We act in response to the indispensable commitment of civil society to the economic and social aspirations of the Catalan people. We emphatically reject...
The youth unemployment problem from the perspective of Professor José García Montalvo
José García Montalvo, Department of Economics and Business Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, made the opening speech of the IX FemCAT Forum on...

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