Professional opportunities
To find a job and improve it
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Get moving towards employment
If you have recently lost your job, don’t give up »
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Training plans
Enrolment open. Immediate start of the courses »
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New guide 'Barcelona, city of employement'
More than 180 resources to find a job or improve it. »
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Work practice in a company
For companies who want to receive students in practice. »
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Public employment offer
Consult the open calls by the City Council of Barcelona »
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Activities for professional de Porta22
Learn to move in a labour world in continual transformation »
Barcelona Activa accompanies people looking for work or who want to improve their job by adapting their professional profile to the needs of the labour market and the specific demands of companies (detailed information available in Spanish)
Professional orientation and search for work
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» Get moving towards employment
A professional orientation programme for recently unemployed people.
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» Work in the neighbourhoods
Programmes that get close to the neighbourhoods through actions of accompaniment for labour and vocational insertion and local development.
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» Personalised itineraries of orientation and insertion
Specific responses to various needs
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» Espai de Noves Ocupacions Porta 22
Activities, advice, and a wide range of contents so as to discover the new labour panorama and adapt oneself to it.
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» Job search space
Totally equipped spaces and of free access to facilitate autonomous search for work.
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» Job search strategies and activities for professional change
Activities focused on the achivement of professional objective
Training for employment and professional improvement
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» Barcelona grows in professional opportunities
Integrated training and insertion itineraries for the unemployed. As well as the formative stage, the programme includes a period of practice in companies and coaching by a technical specialist in labour insertion.
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» Training programmes aimed at insertion.
Training programmes for jobs, trades and specific sectors of high demand. It also includes professionalised training programmes for youths who have prematurely dropped out of the education system.
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» Training programmes in priority areas
Training programmes in different areas aimed preferably at unemployed people registered with the Employment Service of Catalonia.
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» Life Long Learning
Specialised training in ICT, aimed at increasing the competitiveness of SMEs and improving the productivity.
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» Professional skills developement
Activities aimed at improving the most valued skills and abilities in the labour market in areas such as communication, negotiation, creativity, teamwork and cooperation.
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» Technological training - Cibernàrium
Offer of short length seminars and workshops adapted to the different levels of applied knowledge of new technologies, both to discover and learn how to use the digital tools as well as to progress in the knowledge of useful applications for the business world, innovation and design.
Training and work programmes
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» Workshop schools and trade skills houses
Programmes of reference aimed at labour insertion for youths under 25 years old with special training gaps, by means of professional qualification, learning a trade within a real productive context.
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» Vocational workshops
One year long programme for the unemployed over 25 years old that combines training and labour experience in emerging activities of collective interest, such as services to people.
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» Employment plans
Programme aimed at the unemployed with the aim of updating their knowledge and providing them with new skills and abilities by means of being contracted to carry out works and services of collective interest such as services for people and the community, the environment, tourism, new technologies or the conservation of heritage.
Other resources
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» Socio-labour insertion network
The Network, promoted by the City Council of Barcelona and with the collaboration of the different actors working in this field, makes available to the city this Resources Portal as a tool that gathers together different services and programmes of insertion that the member entities of the Network offer.
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» Entrepreneurs’ Resource Centre
Self employment is also an option. Why don’t you create your own business? Consult the coaching services for entrepreneurs and the tailor-made programmes for business creation of Barcelona Activa.