Sergi Ferrer-Salat (Barcelona, 1968) directs one of the most important pharmaceutical businesses in the country and at the same time is fully dedicated to the world of culture. He wants to free it from commercial interests and expand it. The foundation he presides over has multiple projects related, above all, to music: for more than twenty years it has awarded the Reina Sofía prizes for musical creation; it collaborates with the Barcelona Jazz Festival, with a program of masterclasses by the great names of international jazz at the Liceu Conservatory; it awards the Ferrer-Salat Scholarships to young musicians, and with the Liceu and the Foundation of Parochial Schools of the Archdiocese of Barcelona, it has a music education program in Primary for social integration in disadvantaged environments. The musical projects of his foundation continue to grow. Recently, with the psychiatry and mental health department of Vall d'Hebron, he has promoted the Hip Hop Project In, which tries to help refugees who arrive in Catalonia and have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder with music.

"Catalonia, which has always been a pioneer in many areas, still doesn't have its own patronage law. We can't be the last to have one," says Enric Rius, advisor to the Catalunya Cultura Foundation in the drafting of a proposed Catalan patronage law. Parliament is certainly late. At least, later than La Rioja, Castilla-La Mancha, the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands, Navarre, and the Basque Country. "The consensus to pass the law is there, but what's needed is to prioritize it," adds Rius. The hottest issue is out of the kitchen sink, but there's still no agreement to bring it to the table and defend it as a national initiative rather than a partisan badge.