The 4th Congress of the Third Social Sector will be held under the slogan “Social inequalities, local solutions”. Its main objective is to afford visibility to the work of social organisations, the relevance of interaction between them and the local administrations and the importance of bolstering this daily work in order to achieve a fairer society that strives to improve the quality of life of the more vulnerable groups.

It will feature an opening key-note conference, two major colloquia and 6 debates. Moreover, 54 innovative Third Social Sector experiences will be presented. This 4th Congress features the début of a technological area where social apps targeting the Third Sector will be presented, as well as different technological innovation experiences for the social organisations.

Between July 9 and 13, 2018 , the 27th Summer School of the Social Welfare Area of the Barcelona County Council was held in the Espai Francesca Bonnemaison of Barcelona, which this year addressed “The gender perspective and People Care professions”.

The school consisted of 20 training activities (in the form of seminars, workshops or single-topic events), an opening keynote speech and two major events that helped the local world to provide answers to a diverse social reality. Professionals from the areas of social services and equality and citizenship from town and city councils, other local organisations, Third Sector entities, associations, foundations, as well as other professionals and students from the people care areas participated in the school. You can obtain further information here.