Sponsorship

The City of Arts and Sciences provides a unique range of cultural services that stand out in an exceptional architectural setting. It is able to communicate different kinds of products to different kinds of public, adapting to your company's target needs:

Infant and juvenile
Family
Elderly public
Professional groups

For these reasons, collaborating and actively participating with the City of Arts and Sciences brings significant prestige and recognition, as well as providing many benefits for the sponsoring companies.

The contributions made by the sponsoring companies go towards financing scientific research projects and the cultural sphere. It is thus possible for the City of Arts and Sciences to develop and innovate what it has to offer society.

Noteworthy research projects:

Health sciences
Genome research
The environment
Renewable energies
Technology
Biotechnology
Food and health
Aeronautics
...

Sponsorship options

The City of Arts And Sciences provides the possibility of making a formal link to companies via two means of collaboration: sponsorship and patronage. Advertising sponsorship agreements are established with the City of Arts and Sciences; patronage is carried out via its Foundation.

The sponsoring companies and institutions associate their name with the management of projects and contents of the City of Arts and Sciences, as well as with whatever activities take place there.

In all of the sponsorship options, there will be the possibility of creating your own varied activities according to the negotiation between the parties and always in coordination with each one of the difference premises in the City of Arts and Sciences.

Tax benefits

Sponsoring companies: this is considered to be expenditure that is deductible from corporate tax. The General Law on Advertising, Law 34/1988-Art. 24: advertising sponsorship contract - this is the kind in which the sponsored party agrees to collaborate in the sponsor's advertising in exchange for economic aid in carrying out its activity of a sporting, charitable, cultural, scientific, promotional or other nature.

Patron companies: the amounts paid or expenditure made shall be considered to be deductible spending. Individuals: 25 % of the deductible base in income tax (IRPF) out of the gross tax payable. Companies: 35 % of the deductible base in the corporate tax out of the gross tax payable. Fiscal Regime Law for non-profit organisations and for tax incentives for patronage: Law 49/2002.

Sponsorship of contents and activities

Both the content and the activities are products that can be sponsored. There are different ways for companies to establish commercial ties with the City of Arts and Sciences.

An assessment is made according to the time of year and influx of visitors to the City of Arts and Sciences, as well as according to the location (main entrances, secondary entrances, most visited exhibitions/aquariums/films). The companies' promotional campaigns can be carried out in one or more buildings, depending on the agreement reached.

The City of Arts and Sciences is characteristic for the great versatility of its contents, which range from digital films or IMAX dome movies to scientific or technological exhibitions, as well as reproducing a diversity of marine ecosystems through the aquariums. Even animals can be sponsored.

We offer a wide array of possibilities for joint activities through sponsorship activities.

Public recognition / Advantages for image and communication

Presence of the brand in the facilities or activity areas associated with the sponsorship/patronage.
Presence in all the of City of Arts and Sciences advertising that refers to the sponsored activity: website, web TV, publications, posters, canvases, advertising flags, screens, group mailings, digital symbol system, etc.
The sponsoring companies will have the chance to organise a private event in the sponsored area. *
The sponsoring companies will receive special treatment in inaugurations and official ceremonies.
Information on activities and news related to the exhibition shall be sent.
For inauguration ceremonies, the brand will be present on the different physical means of promotion.
A 30 % discount on the price of all rentable areas.
A 15 % discount for workers from the sponsoring company in entrance tickets to our facilities while the sponsorship lasts.
A specific number of invitations to the City of Arts and Sciences.
The possibility of carrying out interlaced campaigns between the sponsoring company and the City of Arts and Sciences, depending on the campaign/product.

* Depending on the type of sponsorship.

"Flexibility is to be an important base for both interlocution and benefits in return".

Active involvement

The City of Arts and Sciences actively encourages the involvement of its sponsors/patrons in the different contents and activities, opening up possibilities for direct collaboration in research, awareness and the running of different projects, receiving regular information about advances and the progress of the projects and activities with which they are collaborating.

Together with the extensive exhibition material and content, the City of Arts and Sciences also promotes activities related to both science and cultural in general:

Activities via conference calendars such as Tuesdays in the Oceanogràfic, activity programmes, study courses, etc.
Activities where companies can be involved through specific sponsorship activities or via collaborations, so that these become a platform to promote their company, products, services, etc.

Hemisfèric (IMAX and full dome)

A unique and spectacular building that mimics a huge human eye, the eye of wisdom. This feature symbolises a gaze and observation on the world that the visitors discover through the surprising audiovisual projections. Inside it houses a large sphere, which is the biggest projection hall in Spain, with two projection systems:

Large format cinema: Imax Dome.
Digital projections: astronomic observations and entertaining shows.

Umbracle (promenade and car park)

This is the gateway to the City of Arts and Sciences, a landscaped promenade where the colours and aromas from plants and flowers blend in harmony to create an amazing, pleasant atmosphere. It is a viewpoint of over 17,500 square meters from which one can contemplate the buildings as a whole, the pools, promenades and landscaped areas of the complex. The lower part houses a two-storey car park with room for 690 cars and 20 buses.

Science Museum Príncipe Felipe

This building has a grandiose size and organic shape. It houses a multitude of activities and initiatives related to the evolution of life and scientific and technological information.

The Science Museum Príncipe Felipe is an interactive area where science is brought to the general public in an open, participative way. Customers can interact with the exbitions and determine the itinerary by his own in a playful atmosphere created by the different exhibitions, workshops and activities.

Oceanogràfic (Aquarium)

The Oceanogràfic is the largest marine aquarium in Europe. It is a unique place where one can walk around our planet's oceans, taking visitors to the most unique marine ecosystems.

The Oceanogràfic intends to boost environmental awareness and help preserve the marine ecosystem. Not only was it planned as a leisure and entertainment project, but also with an intention to educate, research and preserve the marine ecosystem. Here we offer your organisation the chance to:

Foster awareness about conservation of marine biodiversity and of the whole planet.
Support a centre for official training or else education aimed at the general public, which informs about and does research into the sea.
Support the recovery and rehabilitation of protected fauna and flora.
Contribute to the planet's environmental conservation and biodiversity.
Provide a place where everybody can enjoy the marine world and transmit a message about protection and respect for our environs.

The Oceanogràfic has facilities that are unique in Europe, which enables it to run research programmes of international importance.