IESE Business School's MBA is the best in the world according to ‘The Economist's Full-time MBA Ranking 2021’.

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Singapore Airlines bets on Barcelona in 2021 with three weekly flights between the city and the Singapore-Changi Airport.

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The multinational pharmaceutical company Grifols starts testing a drug that would provide immediate immunity against Covid-19 after exposure to virus.

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Barcelona’s crime novel festival BCNegra will broadcast a total of 52 events and round tables by streaming, which will have the participation of 119 authors from all over the country in a 100% virtual edition.

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The Vall d'Hebron Hospital performs the first air transfer of a covid patient in Spain. The patient was moved from Barcelona to Mallorca, connected to a complex extracorporeal membrane ventilation system (ECMO).

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Catalan ‘biotech’ companies Ona Therapeutics, Koa Health and Peptomyc, lead the ranking of capital raised in the health sciences sector in 2020.

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The Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology will be the first center in Europe to establish a liquid biopsy testing laboratory using the digital sequencing platform of Guardant Health.

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Rosa María Sebastián, new General Manager of the Parc de Recerca UAB.

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Splice Bio, gene therapy company based in Barcelona and invested by Asabys, appoints Jean-Philippe Combal as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

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The Hospital Vall d’Hebrón has performed in Barcelona the most transplants in all of Spain in 2020, according to data presented by the Organización Nacional de Trasplantes.

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Cellnex integrates 3,150 communication towers of T-Mobile Infra BV’s in the Netherlands after consolidating its alliance with Deutsche Telekom.

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Naturgy buys the Hamel Renewables group, a company specialized in the development and storage of solar energy, and bursts into the North American market for renewable energies.

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The Barcelona-based venture capital manager company Nauta Capital led a €1.5 milion round in the German technology start-up Bird Eats Bug.

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The Barcelona company Tekman Education, backed by the venture capital firm Miura Private Equity, launches the Thinkö pedagogical platform with an investment of €2 million.

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BP Energy, the US venture capital fund specialized in investing in renewal technologies and decarbonization, signs Ramón Betolaza on his jump to Spain.

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The economy in the Eurozone will return to pre-Covid levels in 2022, according to the consultancy Mercer.

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TDCX, the technological company from Singapur, opens its headquarters in Barcelona with the support of Catalonia Trade Investment, the area of attraction of foreign investment of Acció, the agency for the competitiveness of the Generalitat. 

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4Founders Capital, the venture capital fund manager, led by Marc Badosa, raises €27 million and initiates investments in Barcelona start-ups.

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Barcelona will be connected along with other 12 European cities through a network of night trains. The project plans to create four international lines, with a direct one between Barcelona and Zurich from 2024.

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ESADE's MBA ranks 20th worldwide in ‘The Economist's Full-time MBA Ranking 2021’.

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The full-time MBA offered by EADA, 62nd position of ‘The Economist's Full-time MBA Ranking 2021’.

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The UPF Barcelona School of Management is recognized with the AMBA accreditation, for its academic quality and reputation, and is positioned amongst the leading management schools in the world.

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The business travel platform TravelPerk, founded by Javier Suárez and Avi Meir, has just acquired the competing company Next Travel. The Barcelona start-up adds 700 new clients and strengthens its presence in the United States, its main market.

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The Swiss technology multinational for cloud services Also chooses Barcelona and settles as a partner in the Pier03 building of the Barcelona Tech City.

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DIVE Medical, aimed at the universal, objective and early diagnosis of visual problems using technology based on eye tracking and artificial intelligence, closes a round of €300,000 led by BStartup Health, the program dedicated to health start-ups of Banco Sabadell.

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Glovo home delivery platform agrees with the Swiss real state fund Stoneweg an investment of €100 million in ‘dark stores’ to be closer to its customers and faster in deliveries.

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Telefónica and IBM reinforce their technological alliance in the world of the ‘cloud’ and digital transformation with the launch of Cloud Garden 2.0, a platform designed to accelerate the modernization of applications.

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Repsol produces the first batch of biofuel for aviation in the Complejo Industrial de Tarragona and is making progress in the production of fuels with a low carbon footprint for sectors where electrification is difficult.

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LaLiga and MEDIAPRO lauded in 'SPIA Asia' sports industry awards for innovation in their audiovisual broadcasting for the creation of a virtual tribune and sound when broadcasting matches without fans.

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Bn10, the financial technology company, reaches an agreement with Weecover, the technological company of the insurance sector, to offer 100% digital insurance 'on demand' for mobile phones and urban mobility through its application.

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Barcelona is committed to promote itself as a cultural destination to overcome the crisis of COVID-19. Turisme de Barcelona approves a budget of more than €20 million for 2021 to relaunch the city’s tourism brand in the next two years.

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The exhibition “Línies Vermelles. La censura en la col·lecció de Tatxto Benet” has been the most visited exhibition in the history of the Centre d’Art La Panera and the Museu de Lleida with about 7,000 face-to-face visitors and approximately 12,000 virtual visitors.

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Il·lacions Gallery, the gallery specialized in contemporary design founded by Xavier Franquesa, reopens a new exhibition space in order to encourage and reactivate Barcelona’s design ecosystem and to welcome the proposals and experimentations of new talent. 

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Gustavo Dudamel will direct ‘Otello’ at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, with a staging from the Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper.

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The Barcelona City Council promotes a plan to attract quality cultural tourism through the Forum ‘City, tourism, culture. A joint opportunity’ formed by 150 professionals and with the creation of a public-private fund.

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The Fundació Catalunya Cultura awards AgriEnergia Group with the Premi Empresa Cultura, focused to companies that carry out an action of commitment and contributed to culture with a territorial impact, and creates the Segell d’Empresa o Entitat Compromesa amb la Cultura.

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News & Coffee reinvents the kiosk business in Barcelona, betting on specialized press and coffee to connect with neighbors and collaborating with local talent as the essence of the city.

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Koldo Echebarria, general manager of ESADE, reflects on the economy and the real challenge of the European funds in an article in El País.

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Read the article by Mariano Marzo, External Advisor of Repsol, on the global food system and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in La Vanguardia.

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Read the article by Pol Morillas, director of the CIDOB, on the challenge of the Biden Administration to restore North American politics, in La Vanguardia.

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Read the interview with Camino Quiroga, notary at Diagonal 490 Notarios, in La Vanguardia: "El techo de cristal es terrorífico".

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Interview with Miguel Vicente, president of Barcelona Tech City and co-founder of Antai Venture Builder, in Business Insider for promoting a comprehensive digitalization plan that includes the creation of spaces such as Pier01 to attract international talent and train local ones.

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Watch the video report in Monocle of Santa & Cole, the industrial design firm, located in the Parc de Belloch.

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Read the article by Joaquim Coello, Andreu Mas-Colell and Montse Vendrell, members of Barcelona Global, and other experts in La Vanguardia: "Misión transformar el país".

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Interview with Àlex Nogueras, president of Art Barcelona and co-owner of the NoguerasBlanchart gallery, in The New Barcelona Post highlighting local art and the approach of art galleries to the city because “every country needs a collection of contemporary art”.

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Fundación Cuatrecasas awards the Manuel Olivencia Award for Good Corporate Governance to Inditex for its level and high-quality of information transparency when managing the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Alexandra Mitjans, director of Ashoka Spain, included in the Last Top 100 of Women Leaders in Spain of 2021, an international organization that encourages entrepreneurship and social innovation to generate positive change in society on a large scale.

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Andbank, the Andorran private banking firm, has increased its business volume by 23% and reached €13,056 million, its highest growth since 2012.

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Fundación Repsol opens its 10th call for the Fondo de Emprendedores acceleration fund program, to support technology startups that work on innovative solutions related to low carbon emissions, the circular economy and digitization for the energy industry. 

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