The grant aims to:
Promote the culture of entrepreneurship and business initiative as an engine of economic growth by supporting innovative proposals in areas related to Social Entrepreneurship.
Provide candidates with knowledge and tools to complement their entrepreneurial skills and enable them to make their business projects a reality.
Promote new entrepreneurship projects that have emerged from values such as effort, drive and innovation.
Professionals with degrees in Social Sciences, Legal Sciences, Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Health Sciences, Economics, Business Sciences, Engineering and Architecture from a Spanish university or from abroad and approved in Spain, who have a Spanish residence permit, or multidisciplinary teams, mainly composed of professionals, with a viable, creative and innovative business idea, may apply for the grant.
The project can be developed by one or more members of a studio/company/group.
Candidates who have already been awarded a social entrepreneurship grant by the Arquia Foundation in previous calls are not eligible to apply for the grant.
Registration period: From April 23rd 2018 to June 29th 2018 at 12:00 pm
Development of the Programme: Pending confirmation by Barcelona Activa. Planned to start in January 2019.
The required documentation can be sent through the 'registration' form until call closing date (June 29, 2018 - 12:00 pm).
More information in the Terms and Conditions (PDF format).
The registration process is completed via the Arquia Foundation web platform, and is formalised according to the following points:
Registration in this call can only be completed online via the Arquia Foundation platform.
To be able to start the registration, prior accreditation on the Arquia Foundation platform is required for those who are not already AF users or who have not yet been accredited.
The application is made when the registration form has been completed and the required documentation for the call has been attached. Proposals submitted by means other than the Internet will not be accepted.
The jury's decision is final.
The Foundation reserves the right to reproduce and/or exhibit the proposals selected from the tender either partially or in their entirety.
June 29, 2018 at 12:00 pm
Applications will be assessed by the jury, taking the following criteria into consideration:
CV with the professional and academic achievements of the applicant and/or each member of the team, to assess the leadership capacity, commitment and motivation in terms of the business project.
Report of the proposed project for the grant, assessing its originality and feasibility. Canvas Analysis.
Tutors and members of the jury may contact candidates directly to arrange a personal interview if they deem it necessary, in order to clarify aspects of the idea or project.
We believe in projects with great potential that must meet the following criteria:
Originality of business idea: it must be a creative and innovative idea that provides a new approach to work and that contributes significantly to the social sphere.
The business idea must have a clear, orderly and legible structure and be based on a market opportunity with sufficient potential for monetisation.
Innovative business model with a high capacity for generating value and a great potential for growth.
The project must allow for a viable insertion into the market: clear and realistic objectives, definition of strategies and resources necessary to put them into practice, studied planning and a detailed budget.
Capability and leadership of the entrepreneur or entrepreneurial team: they must have certain qualifications and be able to work in a team.
The scholarship includes a place in the Social Entrepreneurship Program of Barcelona Activa, which comprises sessions once a week during 6 months that include training for the elaboration of the business plan, entrepreneurial skills, follow-up tutorials and entrepreneurial experiences.
Apart from the services and resources of Barcelona Activa, Arquia Foundation offers each entrepreneur one (1) advisor of recognized prestige in professional development management, related to the field of Architecture, who will tutor them throughout the project through face-to-face and online sessions. This mentoring will be oriented to decision making and will guide them through the whole process of preparing the business plan and analysing its feasibility. It will also provide the scholarship holder, within its possibilities, with the contacts and information required to work on its business project successfully. In this edition, Monica Bonafonte, director of COAC Escola Sert, will be in charge of tutoring the scholarship holder.
With the goal of equalizing participation opportunities at a territorial level, the Arquia Foundation will subsidize the scholarship holder with an economic endowment of €7,000 as a help for travel expenses that will allow him/her to travel to attend all the sessions in Barcelona Activa and, to part of his/her team, to the accompanying sessions if they consider it necessary.
The Arquia Foundation will provide coverage as stated in the Arquiseguros travel assistance policy for the scholarship holder.
Barcelona Activa is the organisation responsible for driving the economic development of the city of Barcelona, designing and implementing employment policies for all citizens and promoting the development of a diverse economy and an economy of proximity.
For 30 years, it has boosted the economic activity of Barcelona and its sphere of influence, supporting employment policies, entrepreneurial initiative and companies, as well as promoting the city internationally and its strategic sectors in terms of proximity to the region.
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