Donostia/San Sebastián UP! is the annual Local Stimulus Plan, and its main objective is to foster the city´s economic development in an integrated and sustainable way. With this purpose, local partners are requested every year to identify the city´s most critical needs, to make sure that the strategic public investment lines identified will have a real impact and correspond to real needs. 
The result of this wide consultation process is a package of measures designed to create new jobs, help the generation of new companies, shape new public policies, etc., always with the focus that Innovation has to be the engine, the pillar of the process. In summary, it is the city´s operational tool to strengthen and impulse its economic development.
Since 2012, San Sebastian has made great efforts to promote Innovation and talent through its annual economic Stimulus Plans, investing nearly 32 million euros in promoting a smart, sustainable and inclusive development with impressive results such as the creation of 5.000 new jobs, more than 450 scholarships or the emergence of 1.400 new companies.
The Plan is structured following three main guidelines or strategic axis for the city: People, the Enterprises and the Territory, and several and different funding programmes are tailor-made for each of this headings: to attract international entrepreneurs, to foster the Innovation in the educational area, to make possible the return to San Sebastian of under 35 years old high qualified profiles, to fight against youth unemployment, to help companies to develop innovative projects, to help entrepreneurship, to put in relation enterprises and technological centres, and to develop SMART projects all over the city.
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