QSL Serveis Culturals

What QSL Serveis Culturals does

QSL Serveis Culturals is a Barcelona-based private professional services company founded in 1994 that designs, manages, and delivers public sector projects for municipal and regional governments primarily across Catalonia. The firm operates across eight thematic areas—culture, education, interculturality, gender, participation, youth, intersectionality, and older persons—delivered through seven service lines: project conceptualization and production, civic facility management, technical event and congress management, consulting and advisory, training (under the QSL Serveis Formatius brand), communication and awareness campaigns, and materials development. QSL manages a portfolio of named civic centers across Barcelona districts (Sarrià, Casa Groga, Carmel, Vil·la Florida, Teixonera, Casa del Rellotge, Mas Guinardó) and operates programs such as InfoJove, Konsulta'm, and anti-ageism initiatives for clients including Ajuntament de Barcelona, Ajuntament de Sabadell, Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Agència Catalana de Joventut, and Consell Assessor de la Gent Gran.

Name

QSL Serveis Culturals

Legal name

QSL, SERVEIS CULTURALS, S.L

Website

https://qsl.cat

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

QSL Serveis Culturals is a Barcelona-based, partner-owned professional services firm founded in 1994 that designs and delivers cultural, educational, youth, and social inclusion projects and manages civic facilities for municipal and regional public administrations across Catalonia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cultural and Social Public Services

NAICS

Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (71)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744), Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro primary industry

Cultural Adjustment & Integration Services (intercultural programs, community connection) (EDALANAD)

Keywords

• Cultural project management
• Civic facility management
• Public sector consulting
• Community engagement services
• Intersectional training programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Barcelona

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Public Administration Contracts: QSL generates revenue primarily through service contracts with public administrations (municipal governments, city councils) for managing cultural centers, implementing social programs, and providing consulting services in areas of culture, education, participation, and diversity. These are typically multi-year service agreements secured through competitive bidding processes.
2. Training and Formation Services: The company offers professional training services on topics such as intersectionality, intercultural education, sexual education, and youth policies, both to public institutions and other organizations. Training sessions and workshops represent a recurring revenue stream.
3. Consulting and Advisory Services: QSL provides specialized consulting services incorporating intersectional perspectives for public health agencies and other institutional clients, including program design, implementation support, and methodological tool development.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

QSL Serveis Culturals is a Barcelona-based services company that designs, manages, and delivers public service projects for municipal and regional governments across Catalonia. Its core work covers conceptualization and end-to-end production of cultural, educational, and social programs; management of civic facilities and youth spaces; technical event coordination; consulting; professional training; awareness campaigns; and development of educational materials.

Product overview

QSL Serveis Culturals is a services company (not a software product company) that designs, manages, and delivers public service projects primarily for Catalan and Spanish municipal governments. Its core offerings span seven service lines: Conceptualization and Production of Projects and Programs, Facility Management, Technical Event Management, Consulting and Advisory Services, Training (under the QSL Serveis Formatius brand), Communication and Awareness Campaigns, and Materials Development. Projects are organized across eight thematic areas: Culture, Education, Interculturality, Gender, Participation, Youth, Intersectionality, and Senior Citizens (Persones grans).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Conceptualització i producció de projectes i programes (Project and Program Conceptualization and Production)

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 15 years of experience managing projects for elderly/older persons with anti-ageism approach
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• elParlantecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 June 2026Strategic alliance between QSL Serveis Culturals and elParlante to offer comprehensive anti-ageism services to municipalities. elParlante is a leading organization in educommunication that develops projects around ageism including 'La GRAN pantalla' festival. The partnership combines QSL's technical knowledge and service management experience with elParlante's communicative creativity to transform social narratives about aging.
• Col·lectiu i+ (Professionals per la Diversitat)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSince 2015, QSL leads the initiative 'Col·lectiu i+, professionals per la diversitat' promoting and accompanying projects that foster interculturality, recognition of diversities, gender perspective, and intersectional analysis and intervention. Col·lectiu i+ is a collective of professionals specialized in diversity work.
• ACELLECminorOthersACELLEC is listed as a partner/organization that QSL coordinates with or is part of. ACELLEC appears to be a professional or sector association in the cultural/social services field.
• Xarxa d'Empreses Nous Usos Socials del TempsminorOthersQSL participates in the 'Xarxa d'Empreses Nous Usos Socials del Temps' (Network of Companies with New Social Uses of Time), coordinated by Barcelona City Council. This network promotes innovative approaches to time use and social organization.
• Agència Catalana de JoventutcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerQSL designs and delivers training programs commissioned by the Catalan Youth Agency (Agència Catalana de Joventut), including the intersectional perspective applied to affective-sexual education program and related materials like the 'Joves i mirades diverses' guide.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Fundació Catalana de l'Esplai (Fundesplai): Catalan nonprofit foundation delivering education, leisure, and cultural-services programs for public administrations, including civic-center operations and youth services directly comparable to QSL's portfolio.
• Fundació Pere Tarrés: Barcelona-based foundation providing leisure education, social services, and training for public institutions in Catalonia, with overlapping mission in interculturality, youth programs, and civic engagement.
• Fundació Carulla: Catalan cultural foundation active in participatory cultural programming, citizen engagement, and cultural-education projects for municipalities — directly comparable to QSL's cultural and participation streams.

Broad incumbents

• PwC España: Multinational consulting firm with significant public-sector advisory work in Spain, competing for strategy, transformation, and program-management tenders that intersect with QSL's consulting services.
• Deloitte España (Public Sector): Large professional-services firm with a public-sector practice competing for higher-value municipal and regional consulting and program-implementation tenders that overlap with QSL's consulting work.
• Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (ICUB): Barcelona's municipal cultural agency that both funds and directly operates cultural programs, competing with QSL on civic-center programming and cultural-services contracts within the same city.
• KPMG España: Major professional-services firm with a public-sector practice in Spain that participates in cultural, social, and institutional transformation mandates competing with QSL's consulting offerings.
• EY España: Global consulting network with a Spanish public-sector practice providing advisory and program-implementation services, bidding on the same institutional clients served by QSL.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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