Barcelona will be the world capital of Architecture in 2026 and will organize the international congress of the guild, which brings together 3.2 million professionals from around the world, and the celebration of the general assembly of the International Union of Architects (UIA).

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Barcelona ranks ten start-ups among the 100 most promising in Europe, according to Wired magazine - born in the US and specialized in technology. They are Heura, Lagaam, MediQuo, Factorial, X1 Wind, Amenitiz, Learlinfe, Hubtype, Koa Health, and Unnax.

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Barcelona is the 11th safest city in the world and the fourth in Europe according to The Economist's Safe Cities index 2021. The ranking analyzes 60 large cities around the world and collects 76 indicators that measure safety in 5 categories: infrastructure, health, environment, personal safety and digital security.

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The UB leads the Spanish campuses and is once again among the 200 best universities in the world, according to the Shanghai 2021 ranking, which lists a thousand institutions.

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Grup Focus presents its largest theatrical programming as a commitment to recovery, with 20 productions, 8 co-productions and 40 external productions and an investment of €6 million.

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The electric car charger company Wallbox lands in the US with its first factory in Texas. The company expects to generate 250 jobs and produce 500,000 units in the country in 2030.

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The online flower sales platform born in Barcelona, Colvin, raises 45 million in an investment round led by the French fund Eurazeo. The scale-up wants to grow in Europe and plans to hire 100 people this year.

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Eurofragance invests €5 million in expanding capacity and automating its factory in Rubí and expanding its workforce by one hundred people.

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The audiovisual group Mediapro is strengthened in the United States with its fourth production center, located in Miami. It already has two in Miami, one in Brooklyn and the another one also recently opened in Manhattan.

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Fluidra, the multinational specialized in swimming pools and aquatic equipment, buys the US company SR Smith Holdco, of exterior material for commercial and residential swimming pools, for 240 million dollars.

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The British brand of the iconic Dr. Martens boots opens its first store in Spain in Barcelona and also locates commercial offices and a showroom in the city.

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The Vall d'Hebron Hospital removes and transplants for the first time in Spain the lungs of a baby donated in controlled cardiac arrest.

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Barcelona Supercomputing Center develops an open AI model named MarIA that can write and understand Spanish. It can be used in linguistic predictors and correctors, chatbots, automatic summary applications, smart searches, automatic subtitling, among other applications.

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The biotechnology company specialized in urology Devicare makes its debut in pharmacies by the hand of Difefac Pharma.

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Sant Joan de Deu Hospital coordinates a European project to treat polycystic ovary syndrome in young women that is studying the effects of a novel treatment.

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The VHIO participates in a biomedical proteomics unit, led by IRB Barcelona, to advance towards personalized medicine.

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The spin-off of the Vall d'Hebron Hospital IMIDomics raises 14 million euros to develop new drugs against immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.

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The luxury hotel InterContinental Barcelona will open this September after an investment of 14 million euros.

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Jordi Clos, Chairman of the Derby Hotels Collection, is once again chairing the Gremi d'Hotels de Barcelona after the resignation of Jordi Mestre.

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Kengo Kuma designs sculptural metal-mesh curtain for Gaudí's Casa Batlló with 164,000 metres of aluminium chains.

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The Gothsland Gallery presents a selection of some thirty works made by great artists around 1900.

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Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) changes its brand to Barcelona School of Economics (BSE).

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Barcelona will host the European Tech School, a new online school on ‘blockchain’ and cryptocurrencies.

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Read the article by Elena Foguet, Business Director in Spain at Value Retail, in Cinco Días: “El retail re-evoluciona: cómo llevar la magia a casa”.

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Interview with Clara Lapiedra, CEO and founder of Aula Magna Business School, in El Economista “AMBS nace con la intención de fomentar y mejorar el acceso a las mujeres a cargos de responsabilidad”.

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Read the article by Anna Gener, CEO of Savills Aguirre Newman Barcelona, in El País about the Barcelona Airport expansion: “Un marco mental”.

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Read the article by Esteve Almirall, professor and director of the Center for Innovation in Cities d'Esade, in Via Empresa: “És la cultura, estúpid!”.

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Interview with Jose Maria Martínez-Sierra, new general director of the UPF Barcelona School of Management, in La Vanguardia: "Formar líderes más que enseñar contenidos es conectar talentos". 

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Pedro Fontana, new vice president of Banc Sabadell.

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SAP acquires SwoopTalent intellectual property to boost talent data intelligence.

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