With the aim of bringing university students and the general population closer to another way of creating a company, focused on transforming social needs, the University of Barcelona, the Pompeu Fabra University, the Open University of Catalonia, the  Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, the CEO of the Abat Oliba University and the EADA Business School held their first meting with Ms Lamiya Morshed etc. Ms Morshed is the Director of the Yunus Centre, Mr Amir Khashru, the CFO of Gramm Healthcare Trust and Mr Jahangir Alam, the Director of Microfinancing and Development in the University of Dhaka.

At this meeting they had the opportunity to get to know each other, share experiences and start to create a network to set up the Barcelona branch of the YSBC. This centre will also be the organisation in charge of evaluating the actions carried out within the framework of Social Business City Barcelona, a programme set up by Muhammad Yunus himself.  It is promoted by Tandem Social and receives support from Barcelona City Council, the "la Caixa" Foundation, the FC Barcelona Foundation, the Social Company Apuntes, the Training and Work Foundation, the Intermedia Foundation, the Gentis Foundation and Diplocat.

The main objective of this programme is to reduce youth unemployment in the city of Barcelona through the promotion of and support for entrepreneurship and social companies. Out of the 17 YSBC which currently exist worldwide, YSBC Barcelona will be the first one to be promoted and co-managed by a group of universities and business schools.  In the words of Dr Inés Alegre, a Professor from the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, who participated in the meeting "We are therefore looking at a great alliance of highly diverse actors but who all have one common objective: the social and sustainable transformation of the problematic issues in this particular territory."