Barcelona City Council has been marking International Women’s Day since 1987 with the 8 March Award, which bears the name of Maria Aurèlia Capmany in homage to the renowned Catalan writer.

The goals of the award are to recognise initiatives and projects geared towards defending and promoting women’s rights, with a different theme every year, and also to offer financial and institutional support to help the winning projects to be carried out.

Projects may be submitted that are aimed at driving positive action and progress in eradicating the factors that perpetuate vertical segregation, fostering leadership and the empowerment of women in the different sectors of economic and social activities, promoting actions to mitigate the wage and pension gap, the feminisation of poverty or loss of opportunities for female talent, or training, guidance and self-organisation of women, facilitating opportunities to access decision-making jobs etc.

Requisites for projects submitted

Projects must be new and can start being carried out as from 1 January 2025. They must be developed with a gender and social justice perspective and centre their economy around an intersectional approach.

All projects must materialise in specific actions to be applied practically in the city of Barcelon and must be drafted in inclusive and non-sexist language.

The 8 March Award has a single project category for an award worth 15,000 euros that will be granted by a jury of experts. The decision will be announced at an event to be held on a date close to 8 March.

The terms and conditions for this year’s call are published in the BOPB. The submission period ends on 3 February 2025 and applications must be made online.