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To help repair the economic and social damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the European Commission, the European Parliament and EU leaders have agreed on a recovery plan that will lead the way out of the crisis and lay the groundwork for a modern and more sustainable Europe.
The Recovery Plan for Europe (NGEU) for high-impact projects towards a greener, digital and resilient economy related to the digitalisation of people, the productive fabric, technological infrastructures or the reform of the Public Administration is endowed with 750.000 billion euros to finance transformation projects.
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Object: Grant of two-year grants for the recruitment of young people seeking employment in carrying out research and innovation initiatives. It will be possible to hire researchers, technologists, technical staff and other professional profiles in R+D+i, as well as, where appropriate, research support staff excluding in any case administrative support work.
Organisation: Government of Catalonia.
Quantity and conditions:
The aid to cover gross salary and social security expenses will be €33.108,92/year.
Deadline: From January 12 to 25, 2023 (14:00 p.m.).
Object: Promote the incorporation of doctors in companies and technology centers.
Quantity and conditions:
Deadline: From January 31 to February 21, 2023.
Object: Foment of projects to accelerate the transition towards a circular economy in Catalonia, improve efficiency in the use of material resources and decouple global economic development from resource consumption.
Organisation: Government of Catalonia.
Amount and conditions: Class A, B or C projects related to material resources and waste other than water, energy and atmospheric emissions defined below can be subject to the subsidies regulated in these bases:
The classes are mutually exclusive. The same project cannot be a combination of classes A, B or C.
The amount of the aid is a maximum of 75% of the expenses subject to the aid for micro-enterprises and SMEs, or 50% if the beneficiary company is not a micro-enterprise or an SME. The amount is a maximum of 60.000 euros per project in the case of class A or B projects, and of 30.000 euros per project for Class C projects.
Terms: February 15, 2023.
Object: Promote experimental development projects that develop applications and services based on the framework of 5G technology that achieve the digital transformation of an economic sector. It is intended to promote a productive fabric that thinks, creates and designs applications and services that take advantage of this technology, exercising a role as a driver and demonstrator for the specific application sector, and thus strengthening the role of Spain as one of the driving poles of digitization through the application of 5G technology throughout the EU.
Amount and conditions: Characteristics of the projects:
Budgets: minimum project €1M and maximum €15M
Deadline: From February 13 to March 3, 2023 (13:00 p.m.).
Object: Support experimental development projects in cooperation between companies and research organizations, with the aim of promoting the validation and pre-competitive development of new technologies, products and Services. The proposals must be framed in a single challenge from those mentioned below:
Body: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities
Amount and conditions:
Terms: From February 13 to March 7, 2023 (14:00 p.m.).
Object: Promote projects of new business models that offer solutions to the challenges posed by the energy transition, related to innovation, the provision of flexibility services that allow greater integration of renewable energies, and therefore favor the decarbonization of the system, or the promotion and development of new business projects (startups) that provide innovative solutions for the energy transition.
Body: Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.
Amount and conditions:
The actions subject to aid will be structured in the following lines of aid:
a) Innovation in the energy transition.
b) Decarbonisation of the energy sector and improvement of the integration of renewable energies.
c) Startups for the energy transition.
Terms: Pending call.
Object: Industrial research or experimental development projects in Spain with a high innovative component carried out by companies with foreign capital participation.
Body: ICEX AND MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY, COMMERCE AND TOURISM
Amount and conditions:
Companies that meet the following requirements:
The following expenses will be subsidized:
Terms: From January 12, 2023 and will last for two months.
Object: It will encourage the development of high-impact digital projects and investment in growing companies through the strengthening of public financing instruments, the attraction of international funds and the empowerment of venture capital.
Body: MINECO-ICO
Amount and conditions:
The fund will invest mainly in funds and companies for the development of digital projects such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, cloud computing or green algorithms.
Who is it for?
Object: Aid to companies (small, medium or large) with industrial research projects or experimental development for the creation and significant improvement of a production process, product or service. Theme: Free. Bottom-up approach.
Amount and conditions:
Terms: Call open all year.
Object: Support for companies with applied technological innovation projects, very close to the market, with medium / low technological risk and short periods of return on investment, which manage to improve competitiveness.
Amount and conditions:
Terms: Call open all year.
Object: Funding of large industrial research projects developed in effective collaboration by business groups and aimed at carrying out planned research in strategic areas of the future and with potential international projection.
Amount and conditions:
Consortium made up of business groups with the following characteristics:
Minimum participation of research organizations: 15% of the budget. At least 1 of the subcontracted research bodies must be publicly owned.
Deadline: Open all year.
Object: Provide the necessary financial resources to newly formed SMEs (and startups) created by young people to address the investments needed by the business project in its initial phase. The business model must be innovative, new or with clear competitive advantages.
Amount and conditions: Loans of between € 25.000 and € 75.000, without guarantees.
Terms: Open all year.
Object: Provide the necessary financial resources to newly formed SMEs (and startups) created by entrepreneurs, with no age limit, to address the investments needed by the business project in its initial phase. The business model must be innovative, new or with clear competitive advantages.
Amount and conditions: Loans of between € 25.000 and € 300.000, without guarantees.
Terms: Open all year.
Object: Finance business projects based on a viable and profitable business model when your company is in one of the following stages:
Amount and conditions: Loans of between € 25.000 and € 1,5 million, without guarantees.
Terms: Open all year.
Object: To finance individual R&D projects developed by companies that collaborate with State-level Technology Centers in Cervera priority technologies.
Amount and conditions:
Deadline: Open all year.
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EUREKA: International network to improve the competitiveness of companies through the development of R&D projects with an orientation to international markets and based on innovative technologies:
IBEROEKA: Support for R & D projects in Latin America framed in the Iberoamerican Program of Science and Technology for Development (CyTED) initiative. The countries that are part of CyTED are: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela.
PRIMA: Initiative in research and innovation in the Mediterranean area has 19 countries and organizes calls funded by the PRIMA Foundation in different lines related to agriculture, food, water management in agricultural environments and sustainability .
International Technological Cooperation to develop R&D projects through agreements between the CDTI and counterpart agencies in the following countries: Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, Brazil, Korea, Cuba, Japan, China, Egypt, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Thailand and Russia .
International Technological Cooperation to develop R&D projects with unilateral monitoring by CDTI with any of the following countries: Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cape Verde Islands, Cambodia, Qatar, Chile, China , Colombia, South Korea, Ivory Coast, Costa Rica, Cuba, UAE, USA, Ecuador, Egypt, Philippines, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Sri Lanka, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia , Morocco, Mauritania, Myanmar, Mexico, Peru, Dominican Republic, Oman, Russia, Senegal, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Tunisia, Uruguay and Vietnam.
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Public Procurement of Innovation is an administrative action to promote innovation, aimed at promoting the development of innovative solutions from demand, through the instrument of public procurement.
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Object: Grants to SMEs and the self-employed for the process of digital transformation of the business.
Body: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.
Amount and conditions: It consists of a digital bonus with an economic amount for you to administer by choosing one or several digital solutions from the offers by the accredited digitization agents who develop the catalog services: web development, e-commerce, social media management, customer and supplier management, business intelligence and analytics, virtual office services and tools, process management, e-invoicing, secure communications and online cyber security.
Digital voucher amount:
• Small companies between 10 and less than 50 employees - €12.000 open.
• Small companies or Microcompanies with between 3 and less than 10 employees - €6.000 open.
• Small companies or Microcompanies with between 1 and less than 3 employees and self-employed people - €2.000 open.
To request the digital bonus you must register at www.acelerapyme.es and complete the self-diagnostic test. You will then need to access the catalog of digitizing agents and decide with whom you want to develop the digital solution.
Deadline: Consult the specific call.
Object: Fmention the innovation of SMEs through the European EDIH program. For this reason, innovation and the adoption of disruptive digital technologies by SMEs in any productive sector will be promoted, financing the provision of services by entities belonging to the EDIH to the SMEs that benefit from the aid.
Organisation: Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism.
Amount and conditions: The actions subject to the aid will consist of services that facilitate the adoption of disruptive digitization solutions by the beneficiaries. These services will cover the following types of services:
Terms: September 30, 2025 or until funds are exhausted.
Object: To support and promote, through funding, female digital entrepreneurship projects and reduce the gender gap in this area.
Body: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, MINECO-ENISA.
Amount and conditions:
Loans are intended for emerging companies or those in the growth, consolidation or internationalization phase in which one or more women hold a relevant position of leadership or power within the company: in the shareholders, in the board of directors or who are part of the management team.
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Object: Encouraging the indefinite hiring of young people.
Body: The Caixa.
Amount and conditions: Direct aid of 4.800 euros for indefinite contracts formalized between 22 November 2022 and 31 March 2023 to young people between 16 and 29 years of age for a minimum period of 6 months. Contracts must be full-time and only part-time work will be accepted in the case of ERTE with reduced working hours due to Covid, during the period in which this ERTE is in force.
Terms: March 31 at 19 p.m. or until funds are exhausted.
Object: New edition of the 30 Plus program offered to Maresme companies.
Body: Managed by SOM of Mataró City Council.
Amount and conditions: A subsidy for 6 - 9 months of €1.166/month for new hires of people over 83 who are unemployed. You will have the support of SOM technical staff throughout the process.
Object: Grants to participate in international fairs and direct business missions.
Body: ICEX
Amount and conditions: They are specified in the respective call.
Object: Consolidate the international growth of Spanish SMEs that have a competitive project and/or facilitate the review of the international strategy for companies affected by changes in the conditions of their usual markets.
Body: ICEX
Amount and conditions: For SMEs (except for technology-based startups) with their own product, brand or service, with a minimum turnover of 200.000 euros, with potential exporters who wish to start, consolidate or reorient their international strategy and who meet the different requirements established in the regulatory bases.
Eligible expenses are grouped into two blocks:
Deadline: It is extended until February 20, 2023.
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Object: Aid for the promotion of economic activity in Mataró
Body: City of Mataró
Amount and conditions: B60% discount on the fee for environmental licenses and prior communications, and for controls after the start of the activity, for people who are unemployed, or a 75% bonus for people unemployed under the age of 30.
Who can ask for it? People who start an activity in Mataró and who are sole proprietors or constitute a private civil society or community of property.
You can request:
Object: Encourage the creation of businesses with the bonus to Social Security contributions for the self-employed.
Amount and conditions:
Men and women who are registered in the Special Scheme for Self-Employed Workers of the Social Security, who have not been registered in the previous 5 years.
Men over 30 and women over 35, a maximum bonus of 24 months:
Men up to 30 years and women up to 35 years, a bonus of up to 36 months:
Accounting of the perception of the unemployment benefit with self-employment: People who are receiving the unemployment benefit and register as self-employed, can reconcile for a maximum period of 270 days the perception of the benefit upon enrollment in the RETA (special self-employment regime), as long as the application is submitted within 15 days of enrollment.
Deadline: The whole year.
Object: To support and promote, through funding, female digital entrepreneurship projects and reduce the gender gap in this area.
Body: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, MINECONISA
Amount and conditions:
Loans are intended for emerging companies or those in the growth, consolidation or internationalization phase in which one or more women hold a relevant position of leadership or power within the company: in the shareholders, in the board of directors or who are part of the management team.
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Object: Change2Twin is a European project (Horizon 2020) that supports manufacturing SMEs in their digitization process by providing digital twin solutions. The digital twin concept is one of the biggest game changers in manufacturing and allows companies to significantly increase their global competitiveness.
Amount and conditions: You will participate in an 11-month support program to adopt digital twin technology to improve your company's competitiveness.
Terms: March 16, 2023.
Object: Ppromote entrepreneurship, the growth of industrial establishments and improve their industrial competitiveness.
Body: Spanish Refining Company- General Secretariat of Industry and SMEs
Amount and conditions:
For SMEs with the following Economic Activities:
Interest and commissions on loans granted with SGRs are subsidized.
The grace period of the operations can be of maximum 3 years.
Object: The Productive Industrial Investment Support Fund (FAIIP) is set up to provide returnable financial support to promote industrial investments that contribute to promoting industrial development, strengthening industrial competitiveness and maintaining the territory's industrial capacity.
Body: Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism.
Amount and conditions:
a) Financing of up to 75% of the budget.
b) Collect investments made from July 1, 2020 and up to 2 years after formalization.
c) Minimum budget of €200.000
d) Type of financing:
e) A 10% guarantee must be presented in the case of loans.
Deadline: Pending call Applications may be submitted until funds are exhausted.
Object: Promote the deployment of renewable energies, both thermal and electric, in the different consumer sectors, encourage greater control of consumption through the development of storage systems behind the meter and the boost to industry and the associated business sector.
Body: Generalitat Catalonia-ICAEN.
Amount and conditions:
Different programs are opened:
Deadline: Consult according to the program.
Object: Promote competitiveness and modernization, through the digital and sustainable transformation of small and medium-sized trading companies and trade associations and entities.
Organisation: Generalitat de Catalunya with NextGenerationEU Fund.
Amount and conditions: They may be beneficiaries of these subsidies:
In the field of trading companies, the beneficiary must have at least one establishment at the foot of the street in Catalonia. To finance:
The aid granted has the character of a maximum amount and will consist of a single contribution per beneficiary of up to 80% of eligible expenses with a maximum of 75.000 euros. The minimum investment is 2.000 euros.
Terms: January 19, 2023.
Object: Funding of investment projects to improve the competitiveness of the video game and digital creation sector, improve its resilience and boost its internationalization.
Body: Ministry of Culture and Sports
Amount and conditions:
Eligible activities:
Projects whose essential activity is purely educational or academic, or competitions, leagues or tournaments of video game players, such as electronic sports (esports), will not be funded.
GRANT, up to 80% of the total project, maximum €120.000.
Terms: January 27, 2023.
The recipients of the loans are self-employed people and micro-enterprises in the restaurant and small business sector whose activity has been affected as a result of the measures implemented due to the Covid-19. The loan line, initially endowed with 20 million euros, has the guarantee of 100% of Avalis de Catalunya.
The amount of the loans has been set at 15.000 euros plus the risk and mutuality expenses inherent in Avalis de Catalunya. Recipients will be able to apply for five-year credits with a grace period included in the term.
Object: Financing for the self-employed, entrepreneurs and all types of companies, both Spanish and foreign, that want to carry out business activities and/or investments, cover liquidity needs or expenses within the national territory. It can be applied for directly from credit institutions.
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Object: To finance freelancers, entrepreneurs and companies that wish to obtain liquidity through the payment of invoices from their commercial activity within the national territory, or to cover the production costs of goods for sale in Spain. You can apply directly to credit institutions.
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Object: Financing for freelancers, entrepreneurs and types of companies domiciled in Spain with investment or liquidity needs outside the national territory. Also companies that want to export and need to apply for supplier credit, buyer and complementary financing. You can apply directly to credit institutions.
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Object: Microbank and Caixabank financing line in collaboration with Tecnocampus. We help you with your business plan. It launches any proposal, from a self-employment project to a micro-enterprise.
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Object: Loans for small and medium-sized companies that want to finance investments or working capital needs to grow, open new markets, make new developments or strengthen the company's activities. The operations approved through this line have preferential conditions thanks to the co-financing of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union.
Amount and conditions:
Loans to short term:
Loans to long term:
Object: Loan with guarantee for Catalan SMEs and self-employed that make investments or for working capital needs. The ICF makes the loan and Guarantees of Catalonia grants the endorsement.
Amount and conditions:
By ICF, 12-month EURIBOR + 1,50% (monthly settlements); by Avalis, annual risk commission of between 1,60% and 1,95%.
Object: Loans for companies in the social and cooperative economy to finance investments, working capital needs, advances in contracts with the public sector and capitalizations of the companies themselves.
Amount and conditions:
The ICF studies the viability of the project from a financial point of view, then formalises and manages the loan. The operations approved through this line will have the assumption of 80% of the credit risk of the operation by the Department of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.
Object: Encourage the transformation and modernisation of the tourism sector. Line of loans to finance facilities modernisation projects that improve accessibility, energy efficiency, competitiveness and drive the digital transition in the sector.
Body: ICF
Amount and conditions: The amount of the loans ranges between € 60.000 and € 2 million, and it is possible to finance 100% of the project. As for the term, the loan can be applied for up to 10 years with the possibility of a grace period of up to 2 years.
Deadline: December 31, 2022.
Object: The Innovation Loan allows the financing of business projects that have the support of a collaborating entity of MicroBank, such as the Tecnocampus.
Amount and conditions:
Object: Aimed at recently established SMEs (and startups) created by young people to address the investments that the business project needs in the initial phase.
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Object: Aimed at supporting the early life stages of SMEs promoted by entrepreneurs, without age limit.
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Object: Aimed at supporting the business projects of companies interested in expanding their business or achieving a competitive improvement.
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Object: To support and promote, through funding, female digital entrepreneurship projects and reduce the gender gap in this area.
Body: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, MINECO-ENISA.
Amount and conditions:
Loans are intended for emerging companies or those in the growth, consolidation or internationalization phase in which one or more women hold a relevant position of leadership or power within the company: in the shareholders, in the board of directors or who are part of the management team.
Condicions:
Requirements:
Object: ICF manages through IFEM the support for the creation and development of innovative start-ups through venture capital programs and co-investment with private investors through participatory loans.
Amount and conditions: The expenses associated with the development of the business plan that is the subject of the application will be financed. A corporate entrepreneurship project is understood to be one in which a corporate investor enters the capital of a small company to develop a business plan that responds to a need for innovation and/or growth of the corporate investor. .
Object: Venture capital fund intended to invest in startups that promote technological and/or innovation projects with high growth potential.
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Object: Fund entrepreneurship projects for people who are unemployed or in precarious work situations. The aim is to encourage the self-esteem of these people and encourage the creation and consolidation of jobs.
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Micro-patronage is a collaborative project financing mechanism developed on the basis of new technologies. It dispenses with traditional financial intermediation and consists of contacting project promoters who request funds through the issuance of securities and shares or through the application for loans, with investors or fund providers looking for a return on investment. . Two characteristics stand out in this activity: the massive union of investors who finance small projects with high potential in small amounts and the risky nature of this investment. There are several crowfunding platforms.
Alternative business financing is a reality, with a multitude of options and specialisations. There are so many, that finding the most suitable option for your needs is the first of the important decisions to make. The Alternative Financing Adviser created by ACCIO will help you achieve this. Tell them, in just 5 clicks, what your needs are, and they will suggest the solutions that best suit your sector, the situation of your company and the particularities of your project.
Object: To support small business and stop its disappearance, promote talent and innovation and contribute to generating technological solutions for retail trade that serve to energize and modernize small business.
Organisation: At the Secretaría de Estado de Comercio of the Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo in collaboration with the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and the Sociedad Estatal Correos y Telegrafos SA
Amount and conditions: The financial endowment of the prizes is €23.800 to be distributed among the winning ideas which will be a maximum of 4, in addition to enjoying other solutions from the Sociedad Estatal de Correos y Telegrafos SA service portfolio
Deadline: January 17, 2023.
CaixaBank and ENISA open the call for the EmprendeXXI Awards, aimed at Spain's most innovative startups with less than three years of activity.
In this edition, 19 awards will be given at a territorial level to the newly created companies with greater impact in their territory. The winners of this phase will receive a cash prize of 6.000 euros.
In parallel, companies, from any territory, that offer them will be rewarded better solutions to some of the current challenges for the entity and for society in general. Companies selected for this category will receive a cash prize of 20.000 euros. There are 6 challenges.
In addition, ENISA offers those who participate in these Awards the possibility of accessing their financing aimed at innovative entrepreneurship, as well as training.
Terms: December 5, 2022.