The City Council promotes the creation of an Innovation and Talent Center in the Fuengirola Free Area
The City Council has put out to tender the public concession of a municipally owned building to promote an incubator for entrepreneurial project companies in strategic sectors. The concessionaire will have to promote events that foster an entrepreneurial professional community, as well as training and advice on matters such as new technologies.
6/25/2026 – The City Council promotes the creation of an Innovation and Talent Center in the Fuengirola Free Area. Mayor Ana Mula, together with the Councilor for Innovation, Isabel González, announced today that the City Council published, a few weeks ago, a public offer for the public concession of a municipally owned building for this purpose located in the Fuengirola Free Area, specifically, next to the Paseo Fluvial Sohail.
“Innovation is one of the issues on which we have been working the most in recent years. Putting technology at the service of our neighbors, improving the effectiveness of public services, is a priority objective of my team. And, at the same time, offering an avant-garde, modern image. Being a reference in terms of attracting talent and technological knowledge. Therefore, in my electoral program I proposed the creation of an Innovation Center. And, as always, we fulfill that contract with the people of Fuengirola,” he explained. the councilor
In this way, the bidding process began at the beginning of this month and concluded last Monday, June 22. There is only one offer presented, which is already being analyzed by the Contracting Board. The document that governs it establishes that the concessionaire who wins the competition will have to draft a project, remodel the building – with a constructed area of approximately 800 square meters – and put into service an Innovation and Talent Center there.
To do this, there will be two phases: an initial one in which you will have to develop the project (three months) and the work, which will have a maximum duration of two years. And the second, to open it to the public and manage it, for the next 30 years. In this period it will have to face the cost of the municipal concession fee, of 20,000 euros per year, starting from the sixth year, as well as the investment corresponding to the remodeling of the building, its supplies and furniture.
The technical document that structures this public procurement process establishes that concessionaires will have to offer the following uses and services: the creation of a business incubator or accelerator through programs and spaces to support startups and entrepreneurial projects, especially in strategic sectors such as technology, creative industries or smart tourism; the organization of events and networking; development of activities aimed at positioning the center and Fuengirola as a destination for national and international companies and professionals; as well as the organization of workshops, courses, mentoring and training events in digital, business and professional skills.
“Therefore, we are talking about a project that aims to definitively place us on the national map as a city of innovation and talent generation. We hope to be able to start it as soon as possible and thus comply with our program,” concluded Ana Mula.