Cultural infrastructure & venues

El Pumarejo is a non-profit cultural association and live music venue operating as an incubator for emerging artists and cultural projects. Founded in 2015 and based in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, it provides a physical warehouse space for concerts, DJ sets, workshops, and performances, primarily focusing on experimental, folk-contemporary, and underground music scenes. The organization hosts resident collectives, runs La Penca Radio for community broadcasting, and creates programming that integrates diverse cultural forms including music, cinema, and visual arts. It operates through a volunteer-driven model with support from public institutions and ticket sales.

Festivals Terres de l'Ebre is a regional cultural brand that aggregates and promotes festivals across the four counties of Terres de l'Ebre in southern Catalonia. The initiative operates as a coordinated network bringing together diverse festivals spanning music, cinema, theatre, dance, and other arts under a unified promotional framework. It provides a digital platform with festival discovery tools, calendars, and mapping to connect audiences with cultural events throughout the region.

Paisatge Sonor de Barcelona/Catalunya is a strategic initiative driven by the company Sonorus, with support from APECAT, aimed at transforming Barcelona and Catalonia's sonic landscape by promoting locally produced music—especially in Catalan—in ambient music settings for both local and visiting audiences. The project seeks to reinforce Catalan linguistic and cultural identity through curated soundscaping that bypasses algorithmic control. It also focuses on fair artist remuneration, personalized sonic experiences, and strengthening the Catalunya brand internationally.

Nabla Audio develops AI-powered acoustic optimization software that analyzes how sound behaves in real spaces and automatically optimizes speaker placement for clearer, more consistent audio reproduction. Their flagship product, SPOT (Speaker Placement Optimization Technology), combines neural acoustic simulation, LiDAR-based 3D room scanning, and a 1,900+ material database to recommend optimal speaker configurations without requiring specialized acoustic consultants. The platform targets a broad range of users including home audio enthusiasts, sound engineers, venue owners, and architects. Two additional products — ARC (AI-powered Room Correction) and LouDS (Loudspeaker Design Suite) — are in development.

Musa Guide is an AI-native audio guide platform designed for museums, galleries, castles, and cultural heritage sites. It replaces traditional hardware-based audio guides with a spatially aware, conversational AI system that runs on visitors' personal smartphones via QR code, requiring no app download. The platform combines curator-controlled knowledge graphs, spatial routing, and continuous conversational AI to deliver personalised, interactive tours in 40+ languages. Institutions can choose from revenue-share, subscription, or prepaid pricing models with no upfront costs.

Escena 4.0 is a modular, energy-positive cultural infrastructure system based on a plug-and-play geodesic dome that can be rapidly configured as a stage, cinema, or immersive theatre in minutes. The system integrates automated rigging, building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), immersive LED/AV technology, and spatial audio design, reducing assembly times by up to 60% and operational costs by up to 45%. It targets festivals, cities, education, sports, and emergency/defence applications through a combined sales, renting, and leasing model with proprietary IP and industrial-academic partnerships. The project is preparing pilots and demonstrations at ISE 2026, MIDEM 2026, and MWC 2026 within the EIT Culture & Creativity ecosystem.

Fundación Music For All is a Spanish nonprofit that drives accessibility and inclusion in live music and culture, ensuring people with disabilities can fully participate in festivals and cultural events. It offers a quality certification seal for festivals and venues, accessibility consulting and training programs, and a consumer-facing mobile app (Festivalesaccesibles.com) to help audiences discover accessible events. The foundation also runs the Observatorio Inclusivo de la Música, a research observatory developed in partnership with the University of Granada, collecting and publishing data on accessibility levels across Spanish music festivals.

PikiP Solar Speakers is a Marseille-based manufacturer of solar-powered audio and energy systems designed for the professional event and cultural industries. The company produces an integrated range of low-consumption speaker systems, battery-powered energy stations, solar generators, and self-powered amplifiers that eliminate the need for diesel generators or grid connections. PikiP also offers custom engineering and on-site integration services for both temporary events and permanent venue installations. Their proprietary Acoustic Efficiency Label and Dual Power Supply patent reflect a genuine R&D-driven approach to sustainable professional audio.