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Discover regenerative actors, organizations, networks, and initiatives across Catalunya. Search by name or filter by priority area, territory, role, themes, and ontology tags.

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Organización catalana de agricultura regenerativa que acompaña a agricultores, cooperativas y empresas agroalimentarias mediante diagnóstico, hojas de ruta, asistencia técnica, medición y certificación, y formación profesional, integrando salud del suelo, viabilidad productiva y rentabilidad.

Food Ecosystems Girona provinceAlt Empordà

Place-based regenerative foundation and changemaker network stewarding the Muga Valley watershed in Girona. It combines ecosystem restoration, community-building, bioregional finance and multi-stakeholder governance, using the valley as a living demonstration for replication across Mediterranean watersheds.

Ecosystems Water Social Girona provinceAlt Empordà

Agència de Residus de Catalunya / circular economy and waste-related events, workshops, and consultations in Catalonia.

Circular Food

A cooperative federation in Catalonia focused on promoting housing co-ops and addressing social challenges related to access to housing. It organizes events and participates in educational programs.

Social regional

CoopCamp is an entity that works with vulnerable communities in Catalonia, focusing on social and economic inclusion through cooperative initiatives and social economy projects.

Social regional

AUS Arquitectes is an architecture firm that promotes sustainable and healthy built environments through critical and constructive perspectives. They aim to be a technical and social reference, advocating for spaces that enhance habitability, reduce environmental impact, and improve well-being.

Social Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

A cooperative service that consolidates the transport and logistics tasks of its producer and elaborator members, aiming to strengthen alternative food networks in Catalonia.

Food Circular Social regional

A pioneering urban innovation district in Poblenou, Barcelona, established at the end of the 20th century to preserve the productive character of an area that was once the epicenter of industrial revolution in Catalonia. It is one of the first such districts globally and has become a model for similar developments worldwide.

Social Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

A cooperative winery in Artés, Spain, aiming to strengthen its social base and modernize facilities while supporting local agriculture through sustainable practices.

Food Social Barcelona provinceBages

A cooperative in the Priorat region of Catalonia, established over a century ago and dedicated to producing high-quality wine and olive oil. It emphasizes innovation while respecting tradition and is deeply involved in its local community.

Food Social Tarragona provincePriorat

Association of reuse centres and reuse services in Catalonia, created after the SUBTRACT project to strengthen preparation-for-reuse, repair/reuse infrastructure, sector knowledge, policy and communication.

Circular Social regional

Aigües de Barcelona aims to transform traditional wastewater treatment plants into ecofactories, which are energy self-sufficient and convert waste from water purification into useful products for agriculture, construction, or mobility. The company is implementing circular economy principles by reusing resources and reducing environmental impact.

Water Circular Ecosystems Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

The Catalan Water Agency focuses on circular economy practices for water management in Catalonia and the Netherlands, aiming to reduce water demand and improve resource quality through initiatives like rainwater harvesting and wastewater regeneration.

Water Circular Ecosystems regional

Botanical association documenting, sharing and conserving Catalan flora through citizen botany, field knowledge and educational resources.

Ecosystems regional

Renewable-energy cooperative founded in Girona that supplies green electricity, builds shared generation projects and supports community energy.

Energy Social regionalGirona provinceGironès

Environmental association working on urban biodiversity, nature outreach, bat monitoring, aquatic biology and environmental education in Barcelona and Catalunya.

Ecosystems Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Environmental group defending nature in Camp de Tarragona and Terres de l'Ebre against industrial and urban pressure.

Ecosystems Tarragona provinceBaix Camp

Friends association of the Alt Pirineu Natural Park, promoting and sharing the park’s natural, cultural and landscape values through civic action and volunteering.

Ecosystems Lleida provincePallars Sobirà

Association making nature accessible through inclusive environmental education, conservation activities and projects with schools, vulnerable groups and the general public.

Ecosystems Social regionalBarcelona province

Association conserving, preserving and restoring the natural heritage of the Val d'Aran and sharing environmental knowledge with residents and visitors.

Ecosystems Lleida provinceAlt Penedès

Association for the defence and study of autochthonous flora and fauna; manages Camadoca wildlife conservation and environmental education centre in Santa Maria de Merlès.

Water Ecosystems Barcelona provinceBerguedà

Environmental NGO defending Catalan natural heritage through forest care, Collserola and Baix Llobregat work, Pyrenean brown-bear monitoring and the Cuidem els Boscos campaign.

Ecosystems regionalBarcelona province

Conservation entity working with landowners through stewardship to protect endangered fauna, restore coastal lagoons and ponds, and improve pastures.

Ecosystems regionalGirona provinceOsonaAlt Empordà

Non-profit integrating people with mental-health conditions through environmental work, including custody agreements and coastal and Francolí-river restoration.

Ecosystems Water Social Tarragona provinceTarragonès

Ecologist group active in Camp de Tarragona and Terres de l'Ebre on river restoration, biodiversity conservation and territorial defence.

Water Ecosystems Tarragona provinceBaix Camp

Environmental association founded in 1997 that works on knowledge, conservation, restoration, river stewardship, education, and environmental volunteering around the lower Gaià river basin and its coastal influence area.

Water Ecosystems Tarragona provinceTarragonèsAlt Camp

Foundation conserving wetlands and the European pond turtle through research, land stewardship, agroecology, forest management and environmental education; based at Can Moragues in Riudarenes.

Ecosystems Water Girona provinceLa Selva

Catalan ornithological institute running bird monitoring schemes and volunteer bird programmes across Catalunya.

Ecosystems regional

Non-profit running volunteer stays to conserve and improve mountain forests and landscapes in the Catalan Pyrenees; part of the wider Bergwaldprojekt network.

Ecosystems Lleida provincePallars Sobirà

Environmental non-profit based in Móra la Nova, Ribera d'Ebre, working on nature conservation, land stewardship and agroforestry spaces in the Terres de l'Ebre.

Ecosystems Food Tarragona provinceRibera d'Ebre

Association running Projecte Rius, a volunteer river-monitoring programme that samples water and riparian life across Catalan basins and publishes yearly ecological results.

Water Ecosystems regional

Foundation working on conservation and management of natural habitats and biodiversity; referenced for acquiring a finca to restore the ponds of the Empordà.

Ecosystems Girona provinceAlt Empordà

Natural-sciences museum in Granollers and citizen-science hub for Catalan biodiversity monitoring: hosts the Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, the bat-monitoring platform, SEMICE and the Liró project.

Ecosystems Barcelona provinceVallès Oriental

Naturalistes del Montnegre i la Tordera: entity promoting study, dissemination and defence of the natural heritage of the Montnegre massif and the Tordera basin.

Ecosystems Barcelona provinceVallès OrientalMaresme

CSIC marine-research institute in Barcelona working on ocean health, coastal ecosystems and marine habitat restoration; runs the BioMARató Catalunya coastal bioblitz.

Ecosystems Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Catalan microalgae / spirulina company referenced in Port de Barcelona’s PierNext article as producing spirulina products for food and gastronomy applications.

Food regional

Seaweed-based sustainable packaging company operating between Nyon and Barcelona, developing algae pellets, sheets, trays, and other bio-based packaging alternatives to conventional plastics.

Circular Ecosystems Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Barcelona UPF/MELIS spin-off developing biodegradable biomaterials and biotechnology solutions for the agri-food sector, including living microorganisms, bioactive molecules, biomaterials, and probiotic/postbiotic products for agriculture and aquaculture.

Circular Food Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Barcelona Science Park biomaterials and bioplastics startup developing high-value bio-based, biodegradable biomaterials from organic derivatives and residues for sectors including packaging, microelectronics, biomedicine, 3D printing, cosmetics, primary sector, and food industry.

Circular Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Barcelona cleantech company transforming biomass and industrial waste into clean syngas through gasification, replacing fossil fuels in energy-intensive industrial processes and enabling hydrogen, methanol, and sustainable aviation fuel pathways.

Energy Circular Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Pratdip microalgae biotech startup producing microalgae-derived products for sustainable agriculture and human health, including NovaTerra, a spirulina-based biostimulant for nutrient uptake, soil biology, and crop resilience.

Food Ecosystems Tarragona provinceBaix Camp

CRAG / CERCA spin-off at the UAB Eureka building developing bioactive molecules and biostimulants that increase crop resilience to drought and extreme heat, improving yields with fewer resources.

Food Ecosystems Barcelona provinceVallès Occidental

Barcelona SME applying industrial biotechnology to industrial wastewater treatment, bioaugmentation/biofiltration, biogas-plant efficiency, and biofertilizers for woody crops.

Water Circular Food Energy Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Lleida smart irrigation-monitoring company using probes and drones; precision agritech that may support water/resource efficiency in agriculture.

Food Water Lleida provinceSegrià

Girona farm and crop management software company; precision agritech that can support reduced inputs and resource-efficient agricultural management.

Food Girona provinceGironès

La Sentiu de Sió large-scale biogas/biomethane and CO₂-capture initiative using livestock waste.

Circular Energy Food Lleida provinceNoguera

Barcelona climate-biotech startup developing biological fuel-cell technology that generates electricity from organic compounds released by plants through roots, plus plant-based biological switches and sensors.

Energy Ecosystems Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Alcarràs livestock-manure circular bioeconomy initiative transforming manure into compost, biogas, and biomethane, linked to around 150 farming families.

Circular Energy Food Lleida provinceSegrià

CSIC/UAB spin-off producing biodegradable paper batteries using paper, carbon, and biodegradable metals for single-use diagnostic devices and environmental sensors.

Circular Barcelona provinceVallès Occidental

Vic anaerobic-digestion project processing roughly 120,000 t/year of manure and agri-food waste.

Circular Energy Food Barcelona provinceOsona

Barcelona startup developing marine-degradable bioplastics from algae extracts, natural sugars, and vegetable oils.

Circular Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Barcelona startup developing bio-based, compostable packaging materials from plants, minerals, and agricultural residues.

Circular Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Santa Perpètua de Mogoda startup using bacteria to ferment organic waste, including brewer’s yeast by-product, into PHA bioplastics.

Circular Barcelona provinceVallès Occidental

Barcelona early-stage startup tackling invasive Atlantic blue crab by developing culinary and commercialization pathways to turn the invasive species into a harvested resource.

Food Ecosystems Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Barcelona IQS / Universitat Ramon Llull spin-off developing biomimetic, disintegrable bioregenerative structures for scalable seagrass restoration, artificial reefs, and eco-friendly anchoring systems.

Ecosystems Circular Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Barcelona cellular-meat / precision-fermentation R&D consultancy.

Food Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Barcelona startup extracting protein from algae side-streams and invasive Mediterranean seaweed through biotech processing.

Food Ecosystems Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Barcelona plant-based egg-alternative company.

Food Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Barcelona company developing fermented plant-based cheese alternatives.

Food Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Barcelona company developing mycelium-fermented bacon-style strips as alternative protein.

Food Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Barcelona plant-based meat company using legume-based alternative proteins to reduce the ecological footprint of conventional meat production.

Food Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

University of Barcelona spin-off developing microorganism-based biopesticides, microbial biocontrol agents, regulatory dossiers, and integrated pest-management training.

Food Ecosystems Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Barcelona foodtech company developing micro-extrusion plant-based meat alternatives.

Food Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Barcelona-registered alternative-protein company using mycelium solid-state fermentation for vegan whole cuts.

Food Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Agrobiotech company in Olèrdola manufacturing biocontrol agents, biostimulants, and soil-regenerating biofertilizers via microbial engineering and soil-microbiome tools.

Food Ecosystems Barcelona provinceAlt Penedès

Catalan federation/chapter of Ecologistas en Acción, relevant to CATBIS as Catalunya-facing environmental-justice, ecology, climate, energy, water, and ecosocial-transition movement infrastructure.

Ecosystems Energy Water Social regional

Agricultura Regenerativa Ibérica is an Iberian association promoting regenerative agriculture and livestock. It supports producers, technicians, farms, and organisations working to restore soil fertility, biodiversity, climate resilience, food sovereignty, and rural viability.

Food Ecosystems Social regional

Catalan government department responsible for agriculture, livestock, fisheries, food policy, rural affairs, agri-food systems, food quality, and related public services in Catalunya.

Food Water Ecosystems Social regional

CTFC is Catalonia’s Forest Science and Technology Centre, a Solsona-based research and technology-transfer centre for sustainable forest management, biodiversity, resilient landscapes, forests and water, bioproducts, and circular bioeconomy.

Ecosystems Circular Food Water Solsonès

Coordinatora Catalana de Fundacions is a membership association representing over 3,000 Catalan foundations. It provides a comprehensive directory of foundations by sector, along with training, resources, and coordination services for the foundation sector across Catalonia.

Social regionalBarcelona provinceBarcelonès

Revista Soberanía Alimentaria is a Barcelona-based magazine publishing critical analysis and stories on food sovereignty, agroecology, and land justice. It serves as a platform for grassroots voices and food system transformation across the Spanish state.

Food Social regionalBarcelona provinceBarcelonès

Las Acacias is a permaculture education center in Castelldefels offering workshops, camps, and training in regenerative agriculture and bioconstruction. It focuses on ancestral wisdom recovery, children's nature-based learning, and local community cooperation for ecological restoration.

Food Ecosystems Social Circular Baix Llobregat

ACTE (Assemblea Catalana per la Transició Ecosocial) is a Catalan coalition of movements, collectives, organizations, and individuals. It pushes a just, democratic ecosocial transition (ecofeminist + global justice) and aligns actors around shared narratives, demands, mobilization, and political action.

Social Energy Food Water regional

Pod is a cooperative digital management tool designed for the agrarian sector, helping small farmers, cooperatives, and artisans streamline orders, traceability, and invoicing. It focuses on improving the quality of life and profitability of rural producers in Spain.

Food Social Circular

Caixa Enginyers is a Catalan cooperative bank and financial group offering cooperative banking, insurance, and socially responsible investment products with sustainability and member ownership at its core.

Social Energy regional

Simbiosy is a Spanish consultancy specializing in industrial symbiosis and circular economy. It helps territories and companies optimize resource flows, waste valorization, and collaborative business models to drive local sustainability.

Circular Ecosystems Barcelonès

Barcelona Circular (BAC) is a Barcelona circular-economy and industrial digital-transformation hub in Bon Pastor, acting as an entrepreneurship, innovation, prototyping, coworking, and training lab for new circular business models.

Circular Social Barcelonès

Can Gabarra / CoopGabarra is a rural cooperative housing and cultural-community project in Dosrius, recovering heritage buildings for collective living, cultural activity, sustainability, and circular-economy values.

Social Circular Maresme

Barcelona Activa is Barcelona City Council’s local economic development agency, supporting employment, entrepreneurship, business competitiveness, strategic sectors, and inclusive, sustainable economic development.

Social Circular Energy Barcelonès

CoopCat is the Confederation of Cooperatives of Catalunya, the main representative body for Catalan cooperatives across sectors including work, agriculture, consumption, housing, education, services, energy, and social economy.

Social Food Energy Circular regionalBarcelonès

BioHubCat is Catalonia’s Bioeconomy Hub, a one-stop shop dedicated to generating economic value from renewable organic resources in Catalunya.

Circular Food Ecosystems regional

Sebastia is a wood construction company based in the Pyrenees (Lleida), manufacturing sustainable structural timber solutions from locally managed pine and spruce forests since 1954. It promotes bioeconomy and proximity-based forest management in Catalonia.

Ecosystems Circular regionalLleida province

Catalan federation representing, promoting, and defending consumer cooperativism and the rights of consumer-members and users in Catalunya.

Social Food regional

Worker cooperative linked to Mujeres Unidas Entre Tierras (MUET), providing care and domestic-work services while supporting labour regularization and better conditions for home-care workers.

Social regionalBarcelona provinceBarcelonès

Codi Cooperatiu is a nonprofit technology cooperative developing web and mobile applications, integrations, APIs, dashboards, and digital tools with cooperative technological accompaniment.

Social BarcelonèsOsona

Coopdevs is a Barcelona open cooperative developing free/open-source software, digital tools, Odoo/ERP systems, business intelligence, and technological accompaniment for cooperatives and social-and-solidarity-economy projects.

Social Circular Barcelonès

Network of Catalan conservation entities stewarding natural heritage and supporting environmental volunteering and donation infrastructure across Catalunya.

Ecosystems Social regional

CoopGeeni is a Catalan integral cooperative for services, housing, and consumption, supporting cooperative housing, energy renovation, building rehabilitation, renewable energy, and local energy communities.

Social Energy Circular regional

AnaWin / TACTIC is a Terra Alta-based agri-food software company building tools for vineyard, winery, traceability, compliance, and agricultural management.

Food Circular Terra Alta

Anigami is a Catalan nature-experience organisation active in outdoor education, adventure, forest bathing, and nature-connection activities, with activities including Collsacabra / Osona.

Ecosystems Social regionalOsona

Civic Energy is a Catalan union of cooperatives supporting the creation and management of local energy communities through technical, social, communication, funding, and operational accompaniment.

Energy Social regional

Catalan social and solidarity economy network; umbrella entity behind xes.cat and related ESS initiatives such as Mercat Social.

Social Circular regional

Ethical/cooperative bank named in this WIP doc as running "Ethical Banking Projects" — support for solidarity-economy initiatives. Pitched as a natural match for ReFi BCN's GG24 quadratic-funding round on mission alignment ("perfect alignment with ethical banking mission") and access to international ethical-finance networks.

Barcelona-based engineering company developing IoT, hardware, firmware, cloud, AI, and edge-to-cloud technology solutions for sectors including smart cities, energy, healthcare, agriculture, and industry.

Energy Circular Social Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

BiorNE is the permaculture association of the Northeast bioregion, legally constituted in 2017 to support permaculture projects and people across Catalunya and Aragón.

Food Ecosystems Social regional

ARCA is the Catalan regional network for rural and maritime development. It supports and represents 11 Local Action Groups and 5 Fisheries Local Action Groups, helping rural and coastal territories create better livelihoods and opportunities.

Food Water Ecosystems Social regional

CoopHalal is a Barcelona-based Islamic financial services cooperative offering ethical, interest-free financing for individuals and companies, promoting solidarity finance, community resilience, and values-aligned economic transition.

Social Barcelonès

4BlueTech is a Barcelona-born climate-tech startup developing modular CO₂ / emissions-capture and traceability systems. Its work links carbon capture, air-quality monitoring, circular capture-to-use pathways, and emissions-compensation models.

Energy Circular regional

Federació de Cooperatives Agràries de Catalunya is the Catalan federation representing agricultural cooperatives across Catalunya.

Food Social regional

Artificial Nature / DAN*NA is a Barcelona-based advanced materials company developing PLH, a patented bio-based polymer platform for bioplastics, bio-resins, agriculture, cosmetics, and biomedical applications.

Circular Food Barcelonès

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Cambium Permacultura is a Barcelona-based nonprofit association promoting the dissemination and application of permaculture through education and training, active since 2003.

Food Ecosystems Social Barcelonès

Catalan agroecology cooperative promoting the transition toward fairer and more sustainable food systems through local agroecological transition projects.

Food Social Ecosystems regional

Nonprofit rural sustainability association based around Vilafranca del Penedès / Font-rubí, working on sustainable rural initiatives, agroecology, low-tech, education, and regenerative project support.

Food Ecosystems Social Alt Penedès

Arç Cooperativa is a Catalan insurance brokerage specializing in ethical and solidarity-based insurance for the social and solidarity economy, the voluntary sector, and renewable-energy initiatives.

Social Energy regional

Aiguasol is a Barcelona-based cooperative providing energy consultancy, engineering, software, and applied research for renewable energy, energy communities, district networks, building decarbonisation, and energy-transition planning.

Energy Social Barcelonès

BATEC is a Barcelona cooperative intercooperation project for energy transition, working from the social and solidarity economy toward a sustainable, just, and democratic energy model.

Energy Social Barcelonès

CONFAVC is the Confederation of Neighbourhood Associations of Catalunya, coordinating hundreds of neighbourhood associations and federations and supporting campaigns, training, social projects, participation, and community struggles to improve quality of life in Catalan neighbourhoods.

Social regionalBarcelonès

AKASHA Hub is a Barcelona civic hub and self-managed community for social innovation, shared knowledge, sustainability, experimentation, makers/workshops, and social-impact projects.

Social Circular Barcelonès

Canòdrom is Barcelona’s Digital and Democratic Innovation Centre, an open civic space for digital culture, open-source technologies, digital rights, democratic participation, and community programming.

Social Circular Barcelonès

AMAP is the Catalan Association of Municipalities and Entities for Public Water. It promotes and supports public water management across Catalunya, providing resources, coordination, and municipal support.

Water Social regional

Barcelona Energia is the public 100% renewable electricity supplier for Barcelona and the metropolitan area, promoting energy transition, efficiency, local renewable generation, self-consumption, and citizen participation.

Energy Social BarcelonèsBaix Llobregat

Aliança contra la Pobresa Energètica (APE) is a Catalan grassroots movement defending universal access to basic supplies such as water and energy. It supports affected households and campaigns against utility cut-offs and energy poverty.

Energy Social regional

Comunalitat de Sants is an urban communal-economy initiative in Sants, Hostafrancs, and La Bordeta that strengthens social transformation through the social and solidarity economy, community spaces, mutual aid, food sovereignty, common goods, education/care, employment, and rooted local economy.

Social Food Circular Barcelonès

BCNUEJ is a Barcelona-based research lab at ICTA-UAB focused on urban environmental justice, climate justice, sustainability, housing rights, health, and just urban planning.

Social Ecosystems Energy Barcelonès

Barcelona member of the global Impact Hub Network, combining coworking and event spaces, community-building, entrepreneurship support, consulting, impact and innovation, and territorial regeneration.

Social Ecosystems Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Justicia Alimentaria is an organization working for food sovereignty, social justice, and the transformation of the food system through campaigns, education, research, advocacy, and citizen mobilization.

Food Social regional

Animal Latitude is an association organizing environmental education, nature observation, workshops, consulting, research, and projects that build respectful and sustainable relationships with the natural world. It is relevant to CATBIS as environmental-learning and nature-connection infrastructure.

Ecosystems Social regional

Strategic design and research lab working on institutional innovation, civic infrastructure, land, housing, climate transition, and new governance models for systemic change.

Social Ecosystems

Aethnic is a Barcelona/Catalunya organization promoting responsible and sustainable tourism as a tool for socio-ecological transition, local economies, environmental responsibility, social justice, and community benefit. Its Catalonia-wide responsible tourism network makes it relevant to CATBIS as sustainable-territorial transition infrastructure.

Social Ecosystems regionalBarcelonès

CHAPTER #2 is a Catalan social-innovation organization using entrepreneurship, innovation, lean methodologies, and the social economy as tools for social and labour inclusion, including migrant inclusion.

Social regional

Aigua és Vida is a Catalan platform defending water as a human right and common good, not a commodity. It advocates public, democratic management with citizen participation, social/environmental justice, climate-aware policy, ecosystem protection, and fair water use.

Water Social regional

Barcelona social enterprise for fishing tourism, marine education, scientific outreach, and responsible local fish consumption, connecting citizens with the Barcelona Fishermen’s Guild and Mediterranean marine biodiversity.

Food Water Ecosystems Social Barcelonès

CEL COOP is a Catalan cooperative quality label / initiative supporting local cooperative energy communities and advancing ecosocial transition and energy justice.

Energy Social regional

Colectic is a Barcelona nonprofit technology cooperative working for social transformation through participation, learning, community action, digital inclusion, social technology, and the socialization of ICT.

Social Circular Barcelonès

Barcelona City Council’s Urbanism, Climate Action, Mobility, Neighbourhood Plan and Urban Services area is responsible for city-scale urban ecology, climate, mobility, public space, water, and urban-service policy.

Energy Water Circular Social Ecosystems Barcelonès

Cooperative financial services organization / ethical finance funder.

Social regional

Catalan public body for climate action, food and rural agenda.

Energy Food Water Ecosystems Social regional

Federation / network of worker cooperatives.

Social regionalBarcelona provinceBarcelonès

Cooperative / social economy organization in Barcelona.

Social Circular Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Coòpolis — Ateneu Cooperatiu de Barcelona is Barcelona’s cooperative-development and social-and-solidarity-economy support infrastructure, based at Bloc4 and offering training, accompaniment, observatory work, and ecosocial-transition programming.

Social Energy Barcelonès

Regenerative services organization for rural territories.

Food Ecosystems Social regional

Ajuntament de Barcelona is Barcelona’s municipal public institution. It is relevant to CATBIS as city-level governance, funding, policy, and implementation infrastructure for urban ecology, climate adaptation, social economy, public services, and ecosocial transition.

Social Ecosystems Energy Circular Barcelonès

Regenerative / permaculture farm or project in Catalunya.

Food Ecosystems Social regional

Bax is a Barcelona-headquartered innovation consultancy helping public, private, research, and civil-society actors design pilots, EU collaborations, tools, and strategies across circular economy, energy, nature, mobility, materials, urban transition, and related fields.

Circular Energy Ecosystems Social regional

Azolla Projects is a Barcelona-linked naturetech / carbon-farming startup helping farmers transition to regenerative agriculture through soil-carbon monitoring, carbon credits, and regenerative carbon-farming methodologies.

Food Ecosystems Energy regional

Spanish network of local governments working to build sustainable, resilient, inclusive, diverse, healthy, accessible, and environmentally respectful local food systems through agroecology-based public policies.

Food Social regional

Associació GENS (Grup d'Experimentació en Naturisme i Sostenibilitat) is a rural association based in Font-Rubí (Alt Penedès, Catalonia) promoting sustainable rural initiatives to address social, economic, and environmental challenges. Its work spans four axes: training in sustainable practices and rural project management; accompaniment and specialist services for rural and agroecological initiatives; environmental projects focused on protecting and recovering natural ecosystems; and community building through collaborative networks and mutual support. Key programmes include the Regen Hub (accelerator for regenerative agri-food enterprises), Acadèmia Rústika (training for rural professionals), La Gatera (agroecological food group), Defensem el Llentiscle (environmental defence), and Can Ubach (demonstrator site).

Food Ecosystems Social Alt Penedès

Ágora Regenerativa is a training and consultancy platform for regenerative transition in rural territories. It supports rural entrepreneurs, agroecological practitioners, regenerative agriculture, livestock, forest management, and organisations working toward environmental regeneration.

Food Social Ecosystems regionalBaix CampPriorat

Barcelona permaculture hub connected to 12 Principles Permaculture Design, envisioned as a permanent space for learning, courses, skill-sharing, networking, and regenerative design in an urban and social context.

Food Ecosystems Social Barcelonès

Madrid-headquartered B Corp (founded 2017 by Gonzalo and Gabriel Úrculo, Juliette Simonin, and Moises Calviño) and market leader in the European farmer-to-consumer direct sales industry. Originally born from Naranjas del Carmen, a Valencia orange farm that built its own direct sales infrastructure, CrowdFarming now offers farmers a full one-stop-shop platform — IT infrastructure, logistics, customer service, packaging, and marketing — to sell directly to end consumers across Spain, France, Germany, and Italy. Its signature model is the tree adoption system, where consumers finance a tree or plant and receive its harvest, building a direct relationship between producer and consumer and significantly reducing food waste. Also offers direct box subscriptions for seasonal organic produce. Has raised $34.2M from impact investors including Triodos, Astanor, and Seaya Ventures, and secured a €15M EIB loan in 2023. Certified B Corp with a score of 106.6. Increasingly integrating regenerative agriculture practices into its farmer network.

Food Social

Advisory body of the Government of Catalonia and Catalan society on landscape, created to study, protect, manage, plan, and raise awareness about Catalan landscapes and their values within a sustainable development framework.

Ecosystems Social Water regional

Catalan rural cooperative services hub based in Ripoll that brings together social-economy projects to support rural territories facing systemic crisis through regenerative development, governance, participation, land stewardship, forestry management, agroecological dynamization, entrepreneurship, global justice, and migrant reception.

Food Ecosystems Social regionalRipollès

Public research centre founded in 1987 by the Generalitat de Catalunya, UAB, and the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC), with the UB and IRTA subsequently joining. Based at the UAB campus in Cerdanyola del Vallès, CREAF is dedicated to terrestrial ecology, territorial analysis, and global change, pursuing excellence in both basic and applied research. Works across four core areas: biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, global change, and Earth observation (remote sensing and GIS). Key applied topics include regenerative agriculture, nature-based solutions, Mediterranean basin ecosystems, citizen science, and ecosystem services. Produces conceptual and methodological tools to support environmental management and territorial planning by public administrations and private actors. Acts as a bridge between academia, government, and society, and is positioned as a reference centre for terrestrial ecology and global change research in the Mediterranean region.

Ecosystems Food Water regional

Cultural and educational cooperative (founded 2006, based in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) that drives situated processes to collectively institute material and symbolic practices, forms of relation, and knowledges understood as common-use resources. Works at the intersection of critical art, popular education, and community organising, with a long-term, place-based presence in working-class neighbourhoods — particularly La Florida and Bellvitge in L'Hospitalet. Part of La Col·lectiva, the Ateneu Cooperatiu of L'Hospitalet. Operates horizontally and transdisciplinarily, combining feminist, anti-racist, and cooperative principles throughout all its work.

Social Baix Llobregat

Enginyers Agrònoms de Catalunya (COEAC) is the Catalan professional college/association for agricultural engineers, offering professional services, training, sector commissions, and representation for agronomy and agri-food professionals.

Food Social regional

International organisation established by European States in 1993, headquartered in Joensuu, Finland, with offices in Barcelona, Bonn, Brussels, Rome, and Malaysia. Has 30 member countries and ~130 member organisations from 41 countries. Conducts interdisciplinary research and provides science-to-policy support on forest-related issues across three programmes: Bioeconomy, Governance, and Resilience. Its Barcelona office — hosted at the Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site — is home to the Mediterranean Facility (EFIMED), the Genetic Resources Facility (EFIGEN), and the International Partnerships Facility. EFIMED specifically focuses on improving the resilience of Mediterranean forested landscapes through research, policy advice, and networking, and runs the Mediterranean Forest Research Agenda 2030, a biennial Mediterranean Forest Week, a Young Leadership Programme, and the MedForest open-access knowledge platform. Also hosts the EFI Bioregions Facility, which supports bioregion-scale forest governance and landscape approaches across Europe. Strong overlap with the bioregional and Mediterranean ecosystem research agenda.

Ecosystems Circular Food Water Barcelonès

Barcelona climate justice project working to create long-term physical, social, and educational infrastructure, including a Climate Justice Center and Movement School for social and ecological movements.

Social Energy Barcelonès

Internal ecosystem/container row for the Som / social-economy cooperative ecosystem in Catalunya, likely grouping cooperative, commons, and solidarity-economy actors connected to ecosocial transition.

Social Energy Food Circular regional

Internal ecosystem placeholder for Catalunya’s cluster ecosystem: sectoral business and innovation clusters that may connect to bioeconomy, circular economy, food systems, energy, and territorial transition.

Circular Food Energy Social regional

Non-profit cooperative (Cooperativa Eixarcolant, SCCL) based in Jorba (Anoia, Catalunya Central), founded in 2016, working to recover and reintroduce wild edible plants and traditional agricultural varieties as a lever for transforming the agri-food system toward a more sustainable, healthy, and just model. Its name comes from the Catalan word for hand-weeding — reclaiming so-called "weeds" as valuable resources. Core work spans ethnobotanical prospection and oral history gathering; a seed bank of 400+ entries of wild and traditional varieties; seed and seedling commercialisation; consumer and producer education; and a network of territorial nodes across Catalunya. Organises annual events including the Jornada Gastronòmica de les Plantes Oblidades (Gastronomy Day of Forgotten Plants), ethnobotany film screenings, and hands-on workshops. Has collaborated with the Centro Nacional de Recursos Fitogenéticos to repatriate and recultivate traditional varieties from central Catalunya that had been preserved off-site for decades. Also runs the SINGULARS project, a coalition of 200+ people and organisations to normalise the consumption of local, healthy, affordable food while supporting local farming and trade.

Food Ecosystems Social regionalAlt EmpordàUrgellNoguera

Barcelona-based foundation and impact-investing ecosystem builder supporting startups and organizations that address social and environmental challenges through acceleration, investment, and cross-sector collaboration.

Social Energy Circular regionalBarcelona provinceBarcelonès

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Social Circular regional

Bloc4BCN is Barcelona’s cooperative hub at Can Batlló, a public-cooperative space supporting cooperatives and social-and-solidarity-economy initiatives with workspace, training, incubation, acceleration, and ecosystem connection.

Social Energy Food Circular Barcelonès

Regenerative Investing Academy is an educational initiative connected to Atreyu that develops learning journeys, field resources, and practices for regenerative investing and living-systems-aligned capital.

Social Barcelona provinceBarcelonès

Catalan non-profit cooperative strategic consultancy supporting organizations, institutions, and communities through regenerative, resilience-oriented, and bioregional approaches to activate territorial transformation.

Social Ecosystems Food Water regionalGirona provinceGarrotxa

Pan-European collective of 25+ system-changing organisations, funders, and impact investors initiated by Ashoka Netherlands and co-led by Commonland and OpEPA, with partners including the Presencing Institute and The Weaving Lab. Its mission is to mobilise 1 million changemakers to restore, protect, and regenerate 1 million hectares of land and sea in Europe by 2030. The core instrument is the Bioregional Weaving Lab (BWL) — a geographically grounded, multi-stakeholder partnership process that weaves together local innovators, farmers, policymakers, NGOs, and citizens around a shared vision for their territory. The process draws on Theory-U and the 4 Returns framework (natural, social, financial, and inspirational), helping communities map root causes, align on a holistic landscape plan, and connect with funders and investors at bioregional scale. To date, 8 BWLs have been established across Europe (Ireland, the Netherlands, and others), with a target of 10. The Collective represents hundreds of system changers working directly in bioregions on nature-based solutions, ecosystem restoration, and biodiversity.

Ecosystems Social Water

Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice offers education and support for practitioners working with living-systems thinking, place-based regenerative development, and transformational systems change.

Iberian network of regenerative territories connecting people, landscapes, and organizations across Spain and Portugal to accelerate social, environmental, and economic landscape regeneration.

Ecosystems Food Social Water regional