Bloc4BCN - Cooperative Hub
Bloc4BCN is the new cooperative hub of Barcelona. One of the largest cooperative centres in Europe.
As Bloc4BCN we contribute to the development and socio-economic transformation of the city of Barcelona and the entire Catalan territory through raising awareness and promotion of cooperative movement, incubation and acceleration of cooperatives, boosting intercooperation, local and international connections and alliances with other cultural, educational and business actors.
Personalised support
We understand support as an intensive and personalised advice for the creation of new socio-economic initiatives and for the consolidation, growth and strengthening of existing cooperatives.
Expert advice
We offer advice, training courses, meeting and work spaces, connection with the cooperative ecosystem and access to financing and digitalisation.
Raising awareness
We bring cooperativism closer to citizens through public awareness campaigns and dissemination events.
Cooperation
We cooperate within formal and non-formal educational spheres to bring talented people closer to the Social and Solidarity Economy.
Project incubation programmes
Bloc4BCN – Cooperative Hub provides social and solidarity economy organisations and cooperatives with an environment of work, relations and creation for them to receive the necessary support and training from experts to bolster and grow their projects.
Incubation
Incubation is the programme for newly created collective projects (0 to 3 years) that need intensive support to ensure the initial growth.
Acceleration
Intended for cooperatives with 3 to 6 years of activity that need to delve deeper into a specific aspect of their company or business model.
Intercooperation
This programme is addressed to social and solidarity economy organisations and cooperatives that seek to generate a strategic centre to develop new services and markets, make diagnoses and respond to social challenges in a cooperative and innovative way.
Semi-industrial workshops
For the projects that require a semi-industrial space due to their activity.
Services
Bloc4BCN offers multiple services for social and solidarity economy organisations that wish to develop their projects.
Event, meeting and co-working spaces
Bloc4BCN – Cooperative Hub offers solutions to your needs, whether it’s a welcoming space outside your home or a place for working when you come to Barcelona. Discover our facilities and co-working spaces located in a special, bright and equipped environment! Don’t think long and hard about it and rent your space now.
Training
Through ongoing training we want to respond to different needs of the organisations and people that form the Social and Solidarity Economy. Discover various scheduled sessions and choose the one that suits your needs best. There are different intensities and formats: in-person, virtual and hybrid.
Support for cooperatives
We offer you a personalised support from the beginning to success! We attend to your needs from support for creating and establishing the cooperative to its consolidation and growth. We also encourage intercooperation with other projects to boost your business to the next level. Grow your cooperative with the help of our experts!
Incubated cooperatives
We provide an environment of work, relations and creation to offer the necessary support and training from experts to bolster and grow cooperative projects.
Access to finance
Through analysis and personalised advice, we offer alternatives within the Social and Solidarity Economy to facilitate access to finance for the organisations and cooperatives that want to create, expand or bolster their project.
TechBloc4
The support programme for digital technology-based cooperatives and entrepreneurs, which combines training, personalised mentoring and access to digital resources to apply disruptive technologies.
Challenges of Cooperativism
A space for building solutions collaboratively, by means of a particular and systematised methodology for analysing different challenges with an impact on both the city and the country. We will try to find out how cooperative movement can provide solutions to solve such needs through expertise and experience.
JovESS
Are you between 16 and 30 years old and interested in cooperativism? With JovESS (Youth and SSE), Bloc4BCN offers young people a meeting point for creating synergies both with our professionals and with other young attendees. If you want a space to share your academic and life concerns and needs, this is your space!
Internationalisation
We connect Catalan cooperatives with the rest of the world in order to expand their activity in other countries through international contacts, by participating in fairs, submitting tenders or applying for grants.
We also aspire to make Bloc4BCN the reference point for foreign cooperatives that seek to open up their business in Catalonia.
SSE Diagnosis
How can cooperativism and SSE be present in more and more sectors and with more ambitious proposals? By means of research and diagnosis, the capacity to interact with knowledge and applied research centres, we will respond to the needs through the benchmark for productive and reproductive socio-economic transition of the city.
Local intercooperation
Find out how Bloc4BCN is boosting the Social and Solidarity Economy! Our mission is to promote intercooperation, both at the territory and sector level, through innovative and ambitious proposals aligned with the strategic axes of the Barcelona SSE Strategy 2030.