Zaragoza continues in his career for becoming a reference city in opportunities for companies, entrepreneurs and self -employed. This is demonstrated by some initiatives launched by the City Council, led by Natalia Chuecawho aims to boost and strengthen “the business fabric” of the city, as the event held on Wednesday, “Zaragoza, land of sleep”, organized on the occasion of the Entrepreneurship Day.
Mayor Zaragoza comes from the world of private business. It shows in his way of approaching citizens and in the way of promoting the innovative capital that is generated in the city. Good proof of this is Chueca’s bet for Etopiathe space specialized in Steam innovation and vocations that has revitalized since it came to power.
The numbers speak for themselves. This year, more than 18,000 attendees And they have welcomed 156 entrepreneurship projects. This is due to the transformation of this place as an entrepreneurship, innovation and technology center, where 36 work spaces have already been enabled with networking areas of networking and events.
«Employment is very complicated, a lot of courage and a lot of inner impulse are needed and the objectives are very clear. Therefore, from the administrations such as the City of Zaragoza, what we have to do is encourage, generate synergies, support and facilitate that entrepreneurship work, ”said Chueca.
“Our purpose is that there are more entrepreneurs than tomorrow they join the business fabric of the city,” he said in the announcement of a new Autonomous impulse officeand that was part of its electoral program, where “training, the search for financing and accompaniment will be facilitated for the first months.”
Etopia: Entrepreneurship in Zaragoza
The celebration of this forum in Etopia, the Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology, has offered a great opportunity for the current and future promoters of new businesses and different actors of the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the city to know the benefits offered by this space for the development of projects.
This forum has been able to know success cases such as Salz Medina from Oil Salzysalz, Sergio Martínez de Zebra Inversiones, Diego and Beatriz Sorrosal de Soufflé Catering, Vitoria Cardiel de Maravic or Héctor Mainar of the company Soccer Emotion.
Also during these months, Etopia has encompassed the celebration of 328 events Focused on innovation and technology, which has contributed to strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Zaragoza.
As a nucleus of entrepreneurship in the city, it has brought together the main incubators of the city, with a long career as an active Zaragoza, Ciem or the terminal, and new experiences in collaboration with other entities such as Matrix, Salta and Hangar 73 program with different formulas and final objectives.
Hence, of the almost 18,000 participants, 3,432 have been schoolchildren who have participated and enjoyed the program in this municipal center.
Among the milestones that have marked the transformation of this center are the first National Congress of Education Steam, Pioneer in Spain with almost 5,000 attendees, more itineraries and more squares in the Etopia Kids colonies and two editions of the Entrepreneurship Week with more than 850 schoolchildren.
In recent months, the City of Zaragoza has opened a new window, that of training in artificial intelligence, with different pilot programs in collaboration with large technology companies. Microsoft performs free formations for unemployed and that add up to more than 500 attendees, while Google has gathered 230 teachers interested in the GEMINI tool of this company.
