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The Girona-based facility will host R&D, production, and strategic operations, creating over 1,000 highly qualified jobs.

DHL’s new hub in Barcelona strengthens Catalonia’s role as a bridge between Europe, America, and Africa, boosting SMEs’ access to global markets.

The Catalan company is one of the few in Europe capable of transforming RFID-based labels, which enable product traceability and can be customized for any sector.

Barcelona has secured its place among the world’s leading innovation hubs, ranking 3rd for attracting investment projects in Artificial Intelligence (AI). According to the newly released Global Location Trends 2025 report by IBM, the city is becoming a magnet for international companies driving the future of AI.

Barcelona consolidates its role as a hub for management education, with four Catalan business schools ranked by the Financial Times in 2025.

Catalonia's capital has been ranked among the 50 leading innovation clusters worldwide in the Innovation Cluster Ranking 2025.

Catalonia is involved in these projects through ACCIÓ – Catalonia Trade & Investment, alongside entities from countries such as Germany, Austria, Norway, Finland, and Italy.

Catalonia is set to become a European leader in next-generation telecommunications with the launch of 6GStarLab, the first open 6G research laboratory in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

The region climbs nine spots in the European Commission’s Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2025 (RIS), which analyzes 241 European regions in total.