ABOUT
Barcelona has made impact its business, and its future. A city where capital, ideas, and organizations believe that the economy can, and must, be shaped differently. Once a year, that conviction takes shape so that together, all people & the planet can thrive.
Happening on the 09-16 October 2026, Barcelona4Impact is an open platform and celebration of a growing movement of impact and innovation.
Universities, entrepreneurs, investors, public institutions, innovation hubs, and any organization driving positive impact and a better future are invited to be part of the week.
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
We invite you to be part of our official programme. Join a city-wide movement turning ambition into action — making Barcelona a main stage where conversation turns into action.
Registering your event does more than put it on the map. It puts your work in the spotlight and connects it with a growing movement of founders, investors, organisations and changemakers working to build a better future for all.
Categories
AI for good and responsible technologies.
Solutions for climate change, the energy transition, and decarbonization.
Health innovation, biotech and life sciences.
Resilient and sustainable food systems.
PROGRAMME
Investor and Founder Day. A series of interactive sessions bringing together Ship2B Ventures investors and the founders of its portfolio companies, starting with a panel discussion featuring two special guests, moderated by Ship2B Ventures co-founder and general partner Xavi Pont.
2nd edition of the Systemic Summit, the transformative social innovation lab where leaders of the impact economy and key actors (business, government, academia, civil society) mobilize around systemic challenges to build collective responses.
A session that will explore how to design and promote systemic pilots against unwanted loneliness that generate a long-term impact. We will share approaches and insights to make initiatives more equitable, sustainable, and replicable, incorporating collaboration among actors, impact assessment, and strategies to facilitate their scalability to other contexts and territories.
We are celebrating a decade of driving purposeful projects, valuable connections, and new ways to generate social impact. A gathering to discover everything B-Value has achieved over these ten years, learn about inspiring success stories, and explore how innovation, capital, and collaboration can continue to accelerate transformative solutions.
A pioneering space to open a practical conversation in Spain on new ways to finance and support high-impact projects. A gathering to connect with foundations, investors, family offices, social entities, and support actors, and to explore how to combine patient capital, strategic support, impact measurement, and mission alignment to strengthen projects with transformative potential.
Most people see crises; climate, energy, broken systems, geopolitical instability; and look away. Some see the most important work of their generation. The next economy will be built by the founders who chose the hard problems, and the funders who had the conviction to back them early. Impact/Week gathers the world's foremost founders, funders, thinkers and doers for a two-day conference dedicated to accelerating solutions for people and planet. // This event is highly curated. Apply to attend.
This one's for the builders. It's Norrsken's take on a hackathon: team up, use AI, and build working prototypes or actionable solutions to real-world challenges that desperately need fixing. Happening over 3 days from Oct 13–15. This event is being championed by partners such as Spotify, Lovable, NVIDIA, Advandia and others. 32+ hours, a room full of determined people, and one mission to move the Paris Agreement from commitment to action. The Fixathon is Norrsken's take on the hackathon. Apply now!
We will convene for a day of novel insights, reflection, exchange, and collaboration dedicated to advancing meaningful impact in times of complexity. This year’s program will focus on some of the most urgent questions shaping the social impact field today. Designed for academics, practitioners, policymakers, partners, students, and leaders across the social impact ecosystem.
AI is transforming climate action, but it has its own footprint. Panel with founders, ESG professionals, and technologists on using AI responsibly for the planet. Free to attend, with networking after.
Invest In Nature brings together companies, investors and ecosystem leaders in Catalonia, connecting capital, expertise and opportunities to transform knowledge into action, driving natural capital regeneration and the transition to a regenerative economy.
Promoting Entrepreneurship is the platform that connects researchers, entrepreneurs, innovation managers and investors to discuss and explore how entrepreneurship research can drive successful high-quality business ventures and innovation.
Europe's climate transition depends on scaling transformative companies, not just breakthrough technologies. This event brings together leading climate investors and founders to explore how collaboration can accelerate European systemic change
Llega a Barcelona WAS circulamos es un punto de encuentro entre el mundo universitario y el mundo empresarial. Es un programa que conecta a estudiantes universitarios con directivas expertas en sostenibilidad y resuelven retos de economía circular
Ask most companies who owns sustainability, and you'll get a vague answer: a manager who reports up separately, a report filed once a year, a function disconnected from how the business actually decides things. This session argues for a different model: su
An experiential workshop to explore how to transform sustainability challenges into innovation opportunities. Through systemic thinking and co-creation, participants identify levers for change and design missions to drive collective action.
A working session with public, private, and investor actors to explore how to activate territorial projects capable of generating collective impact and systemic transformation. The gathering will focus on new opportunities to value local resources, promote sustainable business models, and scale solutions linked to bioeconomy, forest management, and regenerative agriculture.
A guided morning walk through Barcelona's Gothic Quarter. No panels, no pitches. A relaxed start to the day and real conversation among founders, investors and operators across climate, energy and impact. The route starts at D Origen Coffee Roasters and ends at Norrsken House Bacelona (La Barceloneta).
See where plastic waste will become new nylon. Join Epoch for an exclusive tour of our newly acquired production plant, where AI-designed enzymes meet industrial-scale polymerisation. Short remarks from our leadership, followed by a networking reception.
The night before Impact/Week 2026, the Norrsken sister funds – Norrsken Evolve, Norrsken Launcher, and Norrsken VC – are hosting a warm welcome ahead of the flagship event for portfolio founders and operators.
International development and humanitarian organizations face the challenge of increasing their impact in a context of increasingly limited resources. This session will bring together experts, NGOs, public institutions, social economy organizations, and impact investors to explore new financing models, innovative partnerships, and impact investment approaches. An opportunity to discover inspiring experiences, identify new collaboration opportunities, and rethink the long-term sustainability of the sector.
We use supermarkets as a relatable case to explore circular economy and nature-inspired design. Assess where the system falls short, learn practical redesign tools, and create feasible solutions — tools you can apply to any system you want to reimagine.
8va edición impulsando el talento femenino y el liderazgo transformador. El congreso conecta innovación, IA, salud, bienestar y sostenibilidad para inspirar, generar alianzas y promover organizaciones más inclusivas, innovadoras y preparadas para el futuro
We explore Barcelona's tourism through the lens of living systems and permaculture, to imagine other possibilities and turn them into concrete actions applicable to any project.
An exclusive screening of two of this year's most celebrated documentaries, on the two forces reshaping the century: a warming planet and the arrival of AI. Open to ticket-holders of the Impact/Week conference by Norrsken Foundation.
Ideal for impact & climate friends, this is a morning beach walk along the Barcelona coastline, with an optional short guided meditation by the water. A calmer, more intentional format for decompressing and connecting after an intense Day: smaller-group energy, real conversation.
The obligation to hire people with disabilities in mainstream businesses is entering a new phase: a more demanding framework and closer monitoring of compliance. This leaves many companies facing a very specific question: how do we do it, and with whom? Catalonia's Special Employment Centres are the natural partner on this path: we support mainstream businesses both in direct hiring and in the collaboration arrangements set out by the regulations, with proven experience and prepared staff.
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