Type of stakeholder

• Governmental institution

Interests of the stakeholder

• Support and promote the cultural and creative sector.

About the stakeholder

Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) is an agency that orchestrates public support for the promotion of culture, both in Spain and overseas. Its aims include promoting Spain’s rich and plural artistic legacy and fostering the internationalization of its most contemporary creative and culture sector.

From historical heritage to emerging creation, AC/E strives to give prominence to culture as an essential component of a country’s reality and image, projecting it both within and outside Spain.
Highlighting the main creative and cultural fields – from science to history, and from visual, performing, and audio-visual arts to literature, music, architecture, and design, among many others – AC/E’s projects underline Spain’s diverse role in global culture, as well as the recent contributions of its newest creators.

Stakeholder contact information

artesvisuales@accioncultural.es

Stakeholder website

https://www.accioncultural.es/en

Type of stakeholder

• Governmental institution

Interests of the stakeholder

• Tourist promotion of Catalonia

• Link private and public tourist sector

• Increase loyalty of tourst visitors

About the stakeholder

The Catalan Tourist Board (CTB) was set up by the Government of Catalonia and is responsible for implementing the government’s tourism promotion policies. It replaced the Turisme de Catalunya consortium, formerly responsible for this work, in early 2010.
The Catalan Tourist Board was created as a body of the Government of Catalonia under Law 15/2007, of 5 December 2007 (in Catalan), in accordance with the powers related to tourism conferred by article 171 of the Catalan Statute of Self-Government. The purpose of the CTB is to promote Catalonia as a leading tourist destination based on quality and the social and economic profitability of the tourism industry.
When the CTB took over from the consortium as the body leading initiatives to raise international awareness of the attractions that Catalonia can offer, it marked a turning point in Catalan's promotional strategy. The main innovation, which is now growing stronger, was the involvement of the private sector, which now shares in the tasks and responsibility for promoting and selling tourism in Catalonia around the world.
Obtaining measurable results is one of the priority directives of the new body, which focuses its efforts on tourism resources and companies in the industry. To this end, the CTB supports the commercialization of products and also encourages the generation of self-financing resources.

Stakeholder contact information

Sofia Pla ( spla.oset@gencat.cat )

Stakeholder website

Catalonia Tourist Board

Type of stakeholder

• Governmental institution

Interests of the stakeholder

• Build links between culture and technology.

• Support cultural and creative sector in their international journey.

• Work with digital companies.

About the stakeholder

Catalan Arts is the Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies’ brand for the internationalization of the Catalan cultural and creative companies in areas such as music, performing arts, books, visual arts, and digital culture. Via our network of offices in Europe (Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, London, and Paris) they work on a variety of lines of action to connect, mentor, and support creative companies in their international journey.
To this end, Catalan Arts works to strengthen Catalan companies’ and their creative works’ presence at international fairs and key professional events. They also offer a range of useful materials and resources to professionals based in Catalonia who want to develop their projects internationally, as well as to professionals from other countries looking for artistic productions and willing to establish contact with their creators and promoters.

Stakeholder contact information

internacional.icec@gencat.cat

Stakeholder website

https://www.catalanarts.cat/en/

Type of stakeholder

• Governmental institution

Interests of the stakeholder

• Support the creative sector

• Support companies in the sector

About the stakeholder

The Spanish Association of Video Game and Entertainment Software Producers and Developers (DEV) represents the interests of companies and entities committed to developing this sector. It aims to advocate for its institutional recognition as a strategic, highly technological sector, a driving force for new business models, and an international exponent of our culture.

DEV represents both Spanish and international video game development companies based in Spain. The Association is also open to those companies that develop their activity along the value chain of the video game development sector, such as training, sale of hardware and software, provision of services, etc.

Stakeholder contact information

info@dev.org.es

Stakeholder website

https://dev.org.es/index.php

Type of stakeholder

• Governmental institution

Interests of the stakeholder

• Promote and disseminate digital culture.

• Create a space for debate, exchange of ideas, training, art, and technology.

About the stakeholder

This program promotes and disseminate culture and art, with digital, innovative, and creative formats. Exhibitions, workshops, debates... our cultural offer is wide and diverse.
Also, education is a fundamental pillar at Fundación Telefónica. That is why we develop a series of educational programs around art, technology, and innovation aimed at all audiences.

Stakeholder contact information

contacto@fundaciontelefonica.com

Stakeholder website

https://www.fundaciontelefonica.com/cultura-digital/en

Type of stakeholder

• Governmental institution

Interests of the stakeholder

• Build links between culture and technology

• Help cultural sector

• Work with digital companies

About the stakeholder

The Catalan Government’s Department of Culture understands digital culture as the result of the constantly changing relationship between humans and the new technologies of the digital age, including all the possible intersections between traditional artistic languages and digital tools that create innovative mutations of the traditional forms of expression.
In the field of Digital Culture, the ICEC (The Catalan Institute of Cultural Enterprises) accompanies and supports business projects and translates innovative and digital reality into the cultural sphere, with special emphasis on video games, audiovisuals, music, and multimedia sectors.
The ICEC, through the Digital Culture Area, works towards two main objectives. Firstly, the professionalization of the video game sector to boost its competitiveness and the promotion of dialogue with other agents in the cultural environment. Secondly, to support the different cultural sectors in their digital transformation.

Stakeholder contact information

Marisol López

digital.icec@gencat.cat

Stakeholder website

https://culturadigital.blog.gencat.cat/ 

Type of stakeholder

• Creative Lab

Interests of the stakeholder

• Supporting creators who work with digital formats

About the stakeholder

IDEAL aims to research, experiment, and create immersive content using XR technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, holography, 360º, among other new narrative media.
IDEAL Lab collaborates with several universities in Barcelona (UPC, UPF, BAU, ENTI, ESDI, ELISAVA), startups, and artists for research, learning, and producing new immersive audiovisual projects.
IDEAL has a permanent program of artistic residencies housed in the same center. The purpose is to support creators who work with digital formats, with the intention of creating a space for the development of these artistic languages. IDEAL wants to emphasize the importance of positioning itself, in addition to being an exhibition space, as a space for the development of these artistic disciplines.

Stakeholder contact information

info@idealbarcelona.com

Stakeholder website

https://idealbarcelona.com/en

Type of stakeholder

Cutlural institution

Interests of the stakeholder

The Library provided the MED GAIMS project with a huge amount of information related to the past of the city. This information was used to know exactly what was the project dealing with, and the project received help from professional technicians in documentation. The Library has become the documentation source for the whole project, from the input phase to the final stages where difficult-to-find documents were provided and scanned to use with the gamified experiences.

About the stakeholder

The Library Víctor Balaguer is a unique public library in the country. It was conceived in a general way to become the National Library of Catalonia built with enormous donations from personalities from the XIXth century. It’s a library with documents from the Xth century to the XXIst century. On the shelves, we can find partitures, letters, maps, incunabula, scrolls, and so on… The library includes historical research with personal documents from entire Spain from all kinds of fields like literature, arts, anthropology, history of science, politics, society. It also contains very important documents related to the commerce with Cuba and Philipines at the ending of the XIXth century when it still was a Spanish colony. Moreover, it contains local information from Vilanova i la Geltrú, as well as a historical file of high interest. In addition, the library offers consultation services of documents in the room and reprography.

Stakeholder contact information

Laia Manuel i Viejobueno
lmanuel@victorbalaguer.cat

Stakeholder website

https://www.victorbalaguer.cat/en/prueba-inicio-en/

Type of stakeholder

• Cultural event

Interests of the stakeholder

• Bring together the most influential personalities in the world of videogames

• Inspire the next generation of digital creators

• Share innovative ideas

About the stakeholder

The Video Art Game Experience in the city of Amposta (VAG) is a meeting about video games in Catalonia. However, it is not fair for showing novelties or giving conferences oriented to professionals and students. This forum wants to be a meeting point for the general public with concerts, exhibitions, lectures, and workshops. 

What the event's intent is to visualize the video game or digital art among the population.

Stakeholder contact information

hello@vag.cat

Stakeholder website

https://vag.cat/

Type of stakeholder

• Governmental institution

Interests of the stakeholder

Vilanova Turisme promotes the town of Vilanova i la Geltrú and offers the visitors the best possible experience to fulfill their expectations.

About the stakeholder

Vilanova Turisme has the need of building, working with the view in the future, an economic system based in the tourism sector. Understanding tourism as a richness and prosperity, understanding richness as the incomes derived from the tourist activity and the prosperity the sustainability in time).
The lines of work are with a sustainable way with the town resources, the natural environment, and the respect for the visitors, always keeping the essence of the city of Vilanova i la Geltrú.
Vilanova Turisme works with a tourist marketing plan and draws strategies and actions for the development of the tourism sector with private-public cooperation.

Stakeholder contact information

Xavier Arrojo

Stakeholder website

https://www.vilanovaturisme.cat