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

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 from 3 to less than 10 workers: €6,000 maximum CLOSED
  • Company from 10 to less than 50 workers: €12,000 maximum CLOSED
  • Companies with 50 to 100 employees: 25.000€ CLOSED
  • Companies with 100 to 250 employees: €29,000 CLOSED

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

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.

Updated on 07/08/2025