FCC and Barcelona’s
City council
create
the HUBarcelona
scholarship
programme
Letter
from the
Chairman on
lnternational
Women’s Day
FCC and Barcelona City Government have signed a coo-
peration agreement to create the HUBarcelona scholarship
programme. The grants are for university students in Barce-
lona who want to extend their studies to include smart city
strategies.
FCC will contribute 250,000 euro in total to the programme,
which will provide five scholarships of 50,000 euro each. The
city government will establish a tutoring system to monitor
the training funded by the scholarships and will design an
internship programme so that beneficiaries can apply the
knowledge they have acquired to projects of interest for the
city.
At the presentation of the scholarships, FCC Vice-Chairman
and CEO Juan Béjar commented: “We support Barcelona’s
initiative unconditionally, especially as the city is on the cutting
edge of innovation and optimal management of services”.
Barcelona Mayor Xavier Trias highlighted the importance of
the agreement with FCC: “We are investing in talent to create
services for citizens”, because “new technologies must gene-
rate returns to improve people’s living standards”.
The HUBarcelona scholarships were created to broaden and
deepen FCC’s public-private partnership with Barcelona in
the field of smart cities.
We have been celebrating, since the last
part of the 20th -century “International
Women’s Day every 8th of March, a cele-
bration that has spread across the world
and which has become a space for reflec-
ting on the progress achieved by women
and the aspects that have yet to be impro-
ved, and also to pay homage to the coura-
ge and determination of women who have
played an exceptional role in their countries
and in their communities.
“International Women’s Day” also offers us
the opportunity of increasing our support
for the rights and participation of women
in the political and economic affairs of our
society.
For many years, the FCC Group has been
intensely involved in equality-related issues.
