Subsidies and aid.

PURPOSE OF THE GRANT

Boost small businesses digitally.

WHAT CAN THE GRANT BE USED FOR?

Specifically, the subsidy must be used for one or more of the following actions:

  • Web design and development
  • E-commerce or e-commerce stores
  • Social Media Management
  • Customer and/or supplier management
  • Business intelligence and analytics
  • Virtual office services and tools
  • Electronic invoices
  • Cybersecurity
  • Advanced internet presence
  • Marketplace

BENEFICIARIES:

Small businesses, micro-enterprises and self-employed workers who meet the following requirements:

  • Be registered as self-employed or as a company with a minimum of 6 months from the date of the application
  • Be registered and be more than 6 months old
  • Be up to date with tax and Social Security obligations
  • Take a digital maturity test
  • In the case of companies with between 3 and 10 workers, they must have their tax domicile in Spanish territory.

AMOUNT:

Depending on the size of the company applying for it, the grant ranges from €2,000 to €12,000

  • Company with less than 3 employees: €3,000 maximum (including the rental of a computer for €1,000 for 12 months) UNTIL OCTOBER 2025
  • Company with 3 to less than 10 workers: €6,000 maximum UNTIL 31 DECEMBER 2024
  • Company with 10 to less than 50 workers: €12,000 maximum UNTIL 31 DECEMBER 2024
  • Companies with 50 to 100 workers: €25,000 UNTIL JUNE 2025
  • Companies with 100 to 250 employees: €29,000 UNTIL JUNE 2025

PROCESSING:

The payment will not be made directly to the beneficiary, but the company or self-employed person who is entitled to these aids, and requests them, will be granted a “Digital Voucher” for the determined amount that will be received directly by the company that provides the digital service.

For this reason, the companies that provide the services are those that have registered as digitising agents. Therefore, the aid will only be obtained if the eligible action is contracted to one of the companies that have registered to provide the services.

TERM:

  • Until 31 December 2024, regardless of the number of employees in the company.

ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES:

  • Website and Internet Presence
  • Commerce
  • Social Media Management
  • Customer Management
  • Business Intelligence and Analytics
  • Process Management
  • Electronic Invoice
  • Virtual Office service and tools
  • Secure Communications
  • Cybersecurity
  • Advanced internet presence
  • Marketplace

This subsidy seeks to promote sustainable mobility and contribute to the consolidation of tourism that is more respectful of the environment and aligned with the values of sustainability.

  • Amount: they cover up to 80% of the cost of infrastructure and services for cyclists, such as bicycle repair stations, secure car parks, washing areas, etc. with a maximum of €10,000 per project.
  • Application deadline: From 27 January to 10 March 2025
  • Who can request it?
    • Local tourist establishments, such as hotels, campsites, restaurants, concert halls, and other sports activities, that want to install bicycle infrastructure, can apply for these grants.
    • These establishments must be registered under CNAE codes 551, 552, 553, 561, 9004 and/or 9319.
    • Housing for tourist use (HUT’s) are excluded from this call.
  • Average resolution time: Maximum 2 months
  • Project requirements:
    • It will be necessary to submit a breakdown budget and a plan of the location, both of the facility and of the place where the identification plate provided by the City Council will be located.
    • The facilities must comply with safety and quality standards.
    • They must be accessible and visible to bicycle users.

The ACCEDEMOS Call for Employment Grants is a project promoted by Fundación MAPFRE since 2013.

Beneficiaries

They are aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises, self-employed workers and social entities with tax domicile in Spain and legally constituted or registered with Social Security before 31 December 2023.

The aid will be granted for the creation of new jobs located throughout the national territory.

Scope of application

The following specific requirements are established depending on the geographical environment, taking into account the number of inhabitants of the municipality where the job has been created:

– Towns of up to 30,000 inhabitants (rural areas):

  • That the average workforce of the previous year does not exceed 9 employees.
  • That the new employee has an indefinite contract and
    • has been legally unemployed for at least 1 month, or
    • you are entering the labour market for the first time and have completed your studies in the last 12 months.
  • That the new employee has a work-study training contract.

– Populations affected by DANA:

  • That the applicant’s tax address or the location of the workplace for which the employee is hired is located in one of the towns affected by the DANA identified in RD Law 06/2024 of 05 November.
  • That the employer’s average workforce at the end of 2024 does not exceed 19 employees.
  • That the contracted worker is over 18 years of age and has access to employment through an open-ended contract or work-study training.

– Towns with more than 30,000 inhabitants (rest of the national territory):

  • That the average workforce of the previous year does not exceed 4 employees.
  • That the new employee has an indefinite contract
    • is under 30 years of age and has completed their studies in the last 12 months.
    • Is equal to or older than 50 years of age and has been legally unemployed for 6 months or more.
  • That the new employee has a work-study training contract.

Amount

450 financial grants will be awarded plus 60 extraordinary grants for the DANA in the amount of:

  • 515 euros per month to hire a new full-time employee.
  • 310 euros per month for part-time employment (minimum 20 hours).

Characteristics

  • The aid will be awarded for a maximum duration of 9 continuous months.
  • Only one grant will be granted per employer and per employee.
  • The contracts must be permanent or work-study training.
  • The hiring of the new employee for whom the grant is requested must be made on or after 1 January 2025.

Term

They can be requested from 10 February 2025 until the budget is exhausted or in any case until 30 September 2025.

The SOC has opened the early call for 2025 of the Form and Insert program, which allows access to subsidies to carry out training actions with a commitment to contract.

The Form and Insert Programme promotes the implementation of training actions aimed, preferably, at unemployed people, to cover the hiring needs of companies.

The SOC subsidizes training. On the other hand, the hiring commitment is 40% in companies, guilds and business associations, and 60% in training centres.

BENEFICIARIES

  • Training entities of the SOC Register.
  • Companies, guilds, cooperatives, foundations or associations with a workplace in Catalonia.
  • Groups of entities, natural or legal, public or private.

RECIPIENTS

The training actions are addressed, as a priority, to unemployed workers, who are unemployed job seekers (DONO), in a minimum proportion of 70% of the students enrolled in the training action.

The percentage of employed workers who can participate is 30%.

People affected by an ERTE can also participate in the Form and Insert call and, for the purposes of calculating the aforementioned percentages, do not count as employed, as established in Order TES/1109/2020.

Participating students, whether unemployed or employed, must be registered at the offices of the Public Employment Service of Catalonia.

ELIGIBLE ACTIONS

  • Professional certificates
  • Specialties not leading to professional certificates
  • Tailor-made training
  • Non-work internships

AMOUNT

The amount of the subsidy is determined with the application of an economic module of training action for the number of students awarded. This module will become a result module linked to the contracting commitment assumed by the entity.

CHARACTERISTICS

  • Each beneficiary entity must start at least one of the training actions before 30 December 2025 and must end, at the latest, by 30 November 2026.
  • The justification can be made between 1 and 30 December 2026.
  • Budget of the call: 5,500,000.00 euros.
  • More than one application can be made with a minimum difference of 2 months between one application and the other.

TERM

The deadline for submitting applications begins on February 26, 2025 and ends on October 31, 2025.

The Ministry of Business and Labour has published aid for the reindustrialisation and maintenance of industrial activity in difficulty in Catalonia, for 2025.

BENEFICIARIES

Industrial companies with Catalan classification code of economic activity 10, 11, from 13 to 32, both inclusive, and 38 that have their operational headquarters in Catalonia, or that are newly established in Catalonia.

ELIGIBLE PROJECT

  • Grants for reindustrialisation projects that contribute to restarting or continuing the activity of production centres subject to closure or relocation.
  • Aid for the maintenance of industrial activity in a situation of difficulty.

ELIGIBLE EXPENSES

Grants for reindustrialisation projects that contribute to restarting or continuing the activity of production centres subject to closure or relocation:

  • Investment in fixed assets of the production establishment subject to closure. The fixed assets subject to the grant must be included in the company’s assets and remain in the establishment for at least 3 years from the date of completion of the project.
  • The hiring of jobs affected by the reindustrialization project, which must be maintained for at least 3 years from the date of hiring.

Aid for the maintenance of industrial activity in a situation of difficulty:

  • The acquisition of the productive fixed assets of the production unit in difficulty, which must be maintained for at least 2 years from the acquisition.
  • The subrogation of jobs in the production unit in bankruptcy or difficulty, which must be maintained for at least 2 years from the date of hiring.

AMOUNT

It is a non-repayable grant with a maximum intensity of €2,500,000 per project.

TERM

The deadline for submitting applications will open on 08/01/2025 at 09:00 a.m. and will end on 01/10/2025 at 2:00 p.m.

The purpose of the grant is to promote the removal at source of waste from insulation and construction materials containing asbestos, located in the territory of Catalonia, and the correct management of asbestos waste.

The purpose of the subsidy is to promote and encourage the removal of waste from insulation and construction materials containing asbestos, and to ensure that this is carried out in optimal conditions, with the ultimate aim of improving the environment and minimising the risk that this material entails for public health.

BENEFICIARIES

Owners of real estate that contains asbestos elements from construction that promote asbestos removal, whether natural or legal persons, public or private, or communities of residents.

AMOUNT

The subsidy will be of a monetary nature, with a percentage of 100% of the invoices presented and a maximum per square meter of asbestos roofing according to the following scale:

Maximum eligible amount:

  • Asbestos roofs up to 49 m2: (€2,000)
  • Asbestos roofs from 50 m2 to 99 m2: (40 €/m2)
  • Asbestos roofs from 100 m2 to 499m2: (30 €/m2)
  • Asbestos roofs from 500 m2 to 999 m2: (25 €/m2)
  • Asbestos roofs from 1000 m2: (20 €/m2)

These amounts are for each subsidized action, according to the budget of the RERA company that will carry out the asbestos material removal work.

The amount of the aid includes the removal of asbestos carried out by companies registered with the RERA, its transport, as well as the management and treatment of asbestos waste.

CHARACTERISTICS

  • Aid subject to the de minimis regime
  • The concession procedure is that of non-competitive public competition
  • The subsidies awarded must be publicised, indicating their amount, objective or purpose and the beneficiaries by displaying them on the Notice Board of the Government of Catalonia and on the website of the Waste Agency of Catalonia.
  • The execution period runs from the date of submission of the application until 24 months after the date of the decision to grant the award.
  • The maximum period of justification will be 27 months from the date of the award resolution.

TERM

The application period begins on January 15, 2025 and will be open until November 28, 2025 or until the available budget is exhausted.

The objective of this grant is to finance Research, Development and Innovation (R+D+i) projects to promote and make more competitive the offer of products and services necessary for the deployment of data spaces in all economic sectors and for all those involved in data sharing ecosystems.

Data space products and services include, among others, data platforms, data exploitation tools, data infrastructures and any other technological resource that allows the efficient management and use of data and its sharing.

BENEFICIARIES

  1. Companies and business associations of a public or private nature, regardless of their legal form, that carry out an economic activity.
  2. Public and private research and knowledge dissemination organisations.

The beneficiary entities must comply with the definitions set out in Annex I of the Regulatory Bases.

ELIGIBLE ACTIONS

  1. Data space building blocks: Projects associated with the development of fundamental technical components of data space architectures, such as connectors, data logging, identity management, data models, etc.
  2. Data products and services: Projects that develop products and services that implement an integrated use case in a data space. These will have a direct application in one or more economic sectors, providing a viable business plan.
  3. Data processing tools: Projects associated with tools for the preparation and processing of data, prior to connection to a data space, such as data anonymisation, generation of synthetic data, improvement of data quality, purification, etc.
  4. Data space platforms: Projects that develop platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions for data spaces. These platforms offer entities that cannot/do not want to develop their own data space solution as a service access to the construction of their own data space. Also included in this category are solutions that allow entities to connect directly to an existing data space.
  5. Data discovery: Projects focused on the development of tools for the discovery of a company’s data, as well as the analysis of these for their future exploitation and incorporation into a data space.
  6. Tools to ensure regulatory compliance: Software products that allow a data space to be adapted to compliance with national and/or European regulations.

Projects must be completed by 30 June 2026 at the latest.

ELIGIBLE EXPENSES

  • Personnel costs: researchers, technicians and other auxiliary staff to the extent that they are dedicated to the project.
  • Costs of instruments and inventoriable material, to the extent and during the period in which they are used by the project.
  • Contractual research expenses, technical know-how and patents acquired or obtained by license from external sources as well as the costs of consultancy and equivalent services.
  • General costs directly derived from the project, in which up to 15% of the project’s personnel costs may be allocated, the costs of training staff in technologies associated with the project and expenses aimed at the protection through industrial property of the intangible assets obtained during the development of the project.
  • Other additional operating costs, including costs for materials, supplies, and similar products.

AMOUNT

The intensity of the grant, in the form of a non-refundable grant, will be:

  • Public and private companies, business associations and private research and dissemination organisations: 45% of the eligible project costs in the case of small companies, 35% in the case of medium-sized companies and 25% in the case of large companies. The intensity may be increased by 15 percentage points if the results of the project are widely disseminated.
  • Public research and knowledge dissemination organisations: 100% of the eligible marginal costs of the project.

The projects will have a minimum eligible budget of 300,000 euros and a maximum of 1,000,000 euros.

TERM

The application period will begin at 9:00 a.m. on 20/12/2024 and will end on 31/01/2025 at 2:59 p.m.

Promote projects to accelerate the transition to a circular economy in Catalonia, by improving the efficiency of the use of material resources and decoupling global economic development from resource consumption.

Beneficiaries:

The following beneficiary companies are eligible for the subsidies regulated by these rules, provided that they have at least one operational establishment located in Catalonia, that the main action or actions that are the subject of the call are carried out in Catalonia, and that the subsidised project benefits the aforementioned establishment or in the territorial scope of Catalonia:

  • Class A or B projects: private companies and groups of private companies.
  • Class C projects: business organisations whose purpose is to represent the interests of a business sector or a territorial area, provided that they are of a private nature and with their own legal personality, or trade unions.

Eligible actions:

Class A. Projects for the implementation of new products or services in the market of the following categories:

1) Eco-design of products or services that promote greater efficiency of material resources other than water and energy with an improvement in environmental performance and a reduction in environmental impact throughout their life cycle.

Examples of eligible projects are: dematerialised products and services, with a reduction in material weight, multifunctional, mono-material, made with recycled materials, long-lasting, repairable, reusable, remanufactureable, recyclable, modular and upgradable, with the replacement of non-renewable raw materials with renewable raw materials, etc.

2) New business models that favour resource efficiency (servitisation, collaborative economy, etc.).

3) Reuse, preparation for reuse, maintenance and repair of products and other ways to extend the useful life of products and their components.

4) Food use. Projects that work in the line of food use and valorization in any of the links of the food chain.

5) Return services for used products promoted by the distributor or manufacturer of these products, with the aim of reusing, remanufacturing or recycling them (take-back schemes).

6) Remanufacturing.

7) Industrial symbiosis that promotes the efficiency of material resources other than water and energy.

Class B. Projects to obtain and test prototypes or demonstration projects for new products or services, in the following categories:

1. Eco-design of products or services that promote greater efficiency of material resources other than water and energy with an improvement in environmental performance and a reduction in environmental impact throughout their life cycle.

Examples of eligible projects are: dematerialised products and services, with a reduction in material weight, multifunctional, mono-material, made with recycled materials, long-lasting, repairable, reusable, remanufactureable, recyclable, modular and upgradable, with the replacement of non-renewable raw materials with renewable raw materials, etc.

2. New business models that favour resource efficiency (servitisation, collaborative economy, etc.).

3. Reuse, preparation for reuse, maintenance and repair of products and other ways to extend the useful life of products and their components.

4. Food use. Projects that work in the line of food use and valorization in any of the links of the food chain.

5. Return services for used products promoted by the distributor or manufacturer of these products, with the aim of reusing, remanufacturing or recycling them (take-back schemes).

6. Remanufacturing.

7. Industrial symbiosis that promotes the efficiency of material resources other than water and energy.

Class C. Sectoral and territorial studies of industrial symbiosis for private business associations or trade unions:

This class includes projects that include the preparation of studies on the potential of the circular economy in a specific sector or subsector or territorial studies of industrial symbiosis, as well as the communication actions that derive from it (campaigns, conferences, etc.).

These studies must justify the need detected in the sector or in the territory and must be accompanied by letters of support for the project and confirmation of the active participation of the actors involved (members of the business association and local authorities in the territory). Their participation must be ensured, at least, in the communication actions of the project and the dissemination of the results of the project.

The classes are mutually exclusive. The same project cannot be a combination of classes A, B or C.

Amount of the subsidy:

The amount of the grant is a maximum of 75% of the expenses covered by the grant for micro-enterprises, SMEs and technology centres and universities, or 50% if the beneficiary company is not a micro-enterprise or an SME. The amount is a maximum of 90,000 euros per project in the case of class A projects, 60,000 euros per project in the case of class B projects, and 30,000 euros per project in the case of class C projects.

Budget:

The maximum endowment determined by this call is €1,700,000. This budget is distributed as follows:

  • Class A and B projects: 90% of the budget allocation.
  • Class C projects: 10% of the budget allocation.

Funds not used in class C projects can be redistributed in class A and B projects.

Characteristics:

  • With regard to the cost of the audit report, the maximum aid intensity is 100%.
  • Aid subject to the de minimis regime.
  • The minimum expenditure, made and justified, of the subsidised activity required is 50% of the eligible expenses included in the project presented (excluding the expenses of the audit report).
  • Concession procedure: Competitive competition.

Term:

The deadline for submitting applications for these grants is from February 4 to 2 p.m. on March 4, 2025.

Updated on 14/03/2024