Sabadell City Council has signed a collaboration agreement with CIESC (Consejo Intersectorial de Empresas de Sabadell y Comarca), an umbrella organisation which has 15,000 companies associated (with some 200,000 jobs) to facilitate the insertion of the most vulnerable groups, prioritising those who participate in social emergency programmes and refugees. Sabadell also has collaboration agreements with the Roma Secretariat (Secretariado Gitano) and with the ECOM Federation (people with disabilities) to develop actions that favour labour insertion to those particular groups.
The city's economic promotion service does provide services to entrepreneurs of migrant origin or ethnic and cultural minorities. Regarding procurement of goods and services, and despite national legislation does not contemplate measures to favour companies with an intercultural inclusion or diversity strategy, the City Council is currently working to include social clauses in all its tenders.
Intercultural approach in procurement: the Council is also working on tenders that take into account aspects related to inclusion and interculturality in the technical award criteria. The biannual programme 2018-2019 on public grants in Sabadell includes interculturality as a criterion.
