Subsidies and aid.

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REQUIREMENTS

  • To be an SME, according to the definition of the European Union.
  • Have its own legal personality, independent of that of partners or participants.
  • Carry out the main activity and have its registered office in Spain, and those other registered office in the European Union, with an interest in Spain, understood as having a subsidiary or production, research, service or development centre with a registered office in Spain with a significant number of employees, the possession of the technology or the development.
  • To have an innovative business model, with clear competitive advantages.
  • Have a balanced financial structure and prove professionalism in management.
  • To show technical and economic feasibility of the business project.
  • Present the accounts for the last closed financial year, which must be deposited in the Commercial Registry or in another public register that may be appropriate.
  • In the event that the company receives a loan from Enisa, for an amount greater than 300,000 euros, it must present, externally audited, the financial statements of the last closed financial year.
  • The beneficiary companies will carry out their actions in accordance with the principle of not causing significant harm to environmental objectives, as set out in Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2020 on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investments and amending Regulation 8 (EU9).
  • Excluded are companies whose activity corresponds to the real estate and financial sectors and those excluded in accordance with the DNSH principle by the acronym ” Do No Significant Harm ” or do not cause significant damage to environmental objectives.

CONDITIONS

  • Minimum loan amount: €25,000.
  • Maximum loan amount: €1,500,000.
  • Co-financing of the financial needs associated with the business project.
  • Own funds must be at least equivalent to the amount of the loan.
  • To determine the amount, the amount of equity and the financial structure of your company will be assessed, among other factors.
  • The interest rate will be applied in two tranches:
    – First tranche: Euribor + 4% or Euribor + 6%, depending on the rating of the operation.
    – Second tranche: we apply a variable interest rate depending on the financial profitability of your company, with a maximum limit established between 4.5% and 6.5%, according to the rating of the operation.
  • Arrangement fee: 0.5%.
  • Maturity: maximum, 7 years.
  • Lack of principal: maximum, 5 years.
  • Early repayment fee: equivalent to the amount that the loan has accrued as a second interest tranche if it has been repaid within the agreed terms and the second interest tranche has been settled at the maximum rate, deducting the interest from the second tranche accrued up to the early repayment date.
  • Early maturity fee for change in shareholding: In the event of a change in majority control of the borrowing company and/or a global transfer of the borrowing company’s assets by any security, the option is established in favour of ENISA to declare the early maturity of the loan. If this option is exercised, an early maturity penalty will be established, equivalent to the amount that the loan has accrued as a second tranche of interest – if the loan has been repaid within the agreed terms and the second tranche of interest has been settled at the maximum rate – deducting the second tranche interest accrued up to the early maturity date.
  • The repayment of interest and principal is quarterly.
  • No guarantees are required.

OBLIGATIONS

The beneficiary company of these lines of financing, as the recipient of the aid from the Recovery Plan, Transformation of the aid – financed by the European Union, through the Next Generation EU funds – undertakes to recognise and guarantee the visibility of this financing throughout the life of the loan, having to use it in all documents, communications, websites and similar documents. Resilience and the European Union (Next Generation) . Likewise, it undertakes to expressly mention, throughout the life of the loan, the company’s corporate information (website, brochures, institutional presentations, press releases, etc.) which has funding from Enisa (Ministry of Industry and Tourism) incorporating the #clienteEnisa seal. On the date of signing the financing policy and prior to it, you must present a screen of the incorporation of the logos indicated above in the main and visible area of your website.

TERM

The application process is open all year round.

The formalization of the loans must be completed before August 31, 2026.

Grants for the digital transformation of strategic productive sectors by promoting the adaptation and incorporation of participants into data spaces, within the framework of the PRTR.

Beneficiaries

Private and public entities with economic activity, as well as Public Administrations with a high level of digital maturity in the use of data and artificial intelligence, which use digital technologies to improve their internal operations and seek to exploit the business opportunities offered by the sharing of their data in data spaces.

It will be a necessary condition to obtain the status of beneficiary to have carried out the effective incorporation of a participant into a data space or the advanced effective incorporation as a provider to a data space.

Eligible actions

Eligible activities are considered to be those undoubtedly linked to the incorporation of the beneficiary entities into a data space, including:

  1. Identification of the opportunities offered by a data sharing space, selection of the data space and use cases, elaboration of the business plan based on data sharing, and investment decision making.
  2. Management of legal and regulatory conditions and requirements for integration into a data space; Assessment of the degree of legal compliance with the main European regulations in the field of data, identification of gaps in their compliance and possible associated risks.
  3. Data preparation and creation of data products.
  4. Implementation of the technical connection with a data space regarding the adaptation of the architecture, infrastructure and software and the participation in a use case.

Eligible expenses

The following items may be subsidised:

  1. Own personnel expenses.
  2. Costs of contracting services.
  3. Costs for the acquisition of products for the preparation of data and connection to a data space.

Amount

Private and public entities with economic activity: up to 15,000 euros (partial incorporation) or up to 30,000 euros (full incorporation).

Public Administrations: up to €25,000 (partial incorporation) or up to €50,000 (full incorporation).

Characteristics

  • Budget: An investment of 60 million euros will be allocated to these aids, according to the Ministry’s communication.
  • Concession regime: Non-competitive competition.

Term

They can be requested from 11:00 a.m. on 03/11/2025 until 11:00 a.m. on 31/03/2026.

Subsidies to promote the international growth of Spanish SMEs that have a competitive project through their participation in the ICEX Next programme.

ELIGIBLE CONCEPTS

  1. Personalised advice: Hours of specialised consultancy by a programme consultant.
  2. Prospecting expenses and studies related to international markets, both online and offline or physical channels.
  3. International promotion expenses.
  4. Expenses for the development of a commercial network abroad.
  5. Expenses for technological solutions for:
    • the correct management and evaluation of promotional activities from search to customer tracking.
    • the optimization and digitization of foreign operations.
  6. Costs of the beneficiary company’s internal staff dedicated to internationalisation project tasks.

REQUIREMENTS OF THE BENEFICIARIES

a) Be an SME as defined in Annex 1 of Regulation (EU) no. Commission Regulation (EC) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty. Associations and Foundations are excluded.
b) Have their own product or service that can be marketed internationally and have their own brand. In the case of service companies, these must be provided abroad.
c) Not be a commercial or productive subsidiary of a foreign company.
d) Have a turnover of more than 300,000 euros, except for recently created technology-based companies in which the turnover is reduced to zero. A technology-based company is one whose activity requires an intensive use of scientific and technical knowledge and technologies for the generation of new products, processes or services and for the channelling of research, development and innovation initiatives and the transfer of results.

e) Companies will be able to access the programme regardless of the percentage of international sales in total turnover, giving special focus, in this call, to companies that consolidate or boost their foreign position and on the desire to include those companies that, due to the characteristics of their business model, must be global from their inception.
f) To have the minimum personal and material resources to tackle its international growth, in particular to have at least one staff member who assumes responsibilities for the international project and to have its own website.
g) Not have participated in ICEX initiation programs (PIPE or ICEX Next).
On the other hand, companies that have participated in these programmes between 1997 and 2010 and that have a turnover of more than 1,500,000 euros in the last financial year may be beneficiaries of the programme.
h) Not have non-payments with ICEX.
i) To comply with the requirements set out in Article 13 of Law 38/2003, of 17 November.

AMOUNT OF THE GRANT

The maximum subsidy per beneficiary company will be 24,000 euros, corresponding to 60% of ICEX co-financing of the expenses. Therefore, the company will be able to present a maximum of 40,000 euros of expenditure made, which will be applied to 60%.

CHARACTERISTICS

  • Concession procedure: Competitive competition.
  • Resolution: The maximum period for notifying the resolution will be 6 months from the start of the selection procedure.

TERM

Applications can be submitted from November 4 to 18, 2025, at 5:00 p.m.

Call with the aim of encouraging the hiring of unemployed people, and especially those who belong to vulnerable groups.

BENEFICIARIES

  • Non-profit organisations, including associations and foundations
  • Worker cooperatives
  • Private natural or legal persons and communities of property with the capacity to sign, as entrepreneurs, an employment contract
  • Public law corporations

REQUIREMENTS OF THE RECIPIENTS

For this call, the recipients are:

  • Unemployed people aged 45 or over
  • Unemployed women aged 30 or over in vulnerable situations
  • Long-term unemployed people aged 30 or over
  • Unemployed migrant people of non-EU origin aged 30 or over

For the purposes of this call, women in a situation of vulnerability are considered to be those who meet one or more of the following requirements:

  • Women recipients of the guaranteed income of citizenship
  • Women in situations of gender violence
  • Women who are mothers of single-parent families
  • Women with legally recognized disability
  • Unemployed women not receiving unemployment benefits

A long-term unemployed person is understood to be a job seeker, who has been unemployed for a minimum of 12 months, whether continuous or not, during the last 18 months prior to the employment contract that is the subject of the application. In the event that this minimum period cannot be accredited by registering as a job seeker, periods in which the person has not been registered with the Social Security in the general scheme or any of the special schemes may also be considered in this calculation. Periods of registration for work and benefits for the benefit of the community will not be taken into account in this calculation.

The recipients must be registered with the corresponding Employment Office of the Public Employment Service of Catalonia as unemployed job seekers, whether they are registered or suspended, and must have the capacity to formalise an employment contract at the time of signing.

The recipients cannot have been hired by the same applicant person or entity in the 12 months prior to the contract for which the subsidy is requested.

AMOUNT

The subsidy consists of a monthly economic module, depending on the contribution groups:

  • Groups 3 – 7: 2,034.07 euros
  • Groups 8 – 11: 1,600.17 euros

CHARACTERISTICS

  • The indefinite contract modality is eligible in accordance with current labour regulations.
  • Contracts must be entered into full-time and have the work centre located in Catalonia.
  • Contracts signed on a part-time basis or intermittent permanent contracts will not be eligible. A reduction in working hours for the care of children or dependent family members provided for in the Workers’ Statute is not considered a part-time contract, provided that the contract has been concluded on a full-time basis.
  • Eligible contracts must be signed in professional categories 3 to 11.
  • The eligible period is determined according to the date of subscription of the contract and the end date of the programme, and comprises a subsidised contracting period of 12 months, as well as a subsequent period of 12 months in the contract.
  • Contracts must be signed from the day following the date of publication of the call and until 1 October 2026.
  • A maximum number of 10 eligible contracts per beneficiary person or entity is established and substitutions will not be eligible.

TERM

The application period is from 9:00 a.m. on September 9, 2025 to 3:00 p.m. on October 1, 2026.

Support for applied projects, very close to the market, with medium/low technological risk and short periods of recovery of investment, which manage to improve the competitiveness of the company through the incorporation of emerging technologies in the sector.

BENEFICIARIES

  • Companies that are validly constituted, have their own legal personality and tax domicile in Spain and develop the innovation project in Spain.
  • Associations and foundations provided that they carry out an economic activity on a regular basis, and are registered with the IAE at least 2 years prior to the date of application.
  • Incentive effect: Before starting work on the project, the beneficiary must have submitted their application for aid to the CDTI in writing.

TYPE OF PROJECT

Technological innovation projects include the following types of activities:

  • Incorporation and active adaptation of emerging technologies in the company, as well as the processes of adaptation and improvement of technologies to new markets.
  • Application of industrial design and product and process engineering for the technological improvement of the same.
  • Application of a new or significantly improved production or supply method, including significant changes in techniques, equipment and/or computer programs.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROJECT

  • Minimum eligible budget: 175,000 euros.
  • Duration: from 9 months to 24 months.

TYPE AND AMOUNT

Partially refundable aid.

  • Aid of up to 75% of the approved budget (up to 85% if it is co-financed with the ERDF).

Non-refundable tranche (calculated on a maximum of 75% of the approved budget):

  • CDTI funds: 7%
  • European Funds: 10%

Fixed interest rate with two options depending on the repayment period chosen:

  • 5-year repayment: One-year Euribor +0.50%.
  • 7-year repayment: One-year Euribor +1%.

First capital repayment one year after the project’s expected completion.

The CDTI may require the constitution of guarantees for the repayment of the aid when the economic and financial analysis of the company so requires.

Where appropriate, the CDTI may apply a reduction or exemption to the guarantees requested.

Advance of up to 50% of the aid with a limit of 300,000 euros, with no requirement for additional guarantees to the financial conditions approved by the Board of Directors, and up to 75% with guarantees considered sufficient by the CDTI for the difference.

The company must contribute at least 15% of the project budget with its own resources or external funding.

Aid subject to the de minimis regime.

ELIGIBLE EXPENSES

  • The acquisition of new fixed assets that represents an important technological leap for the company carrying out the project.
  • Personnel costs.
  • Materials and consumables.
  • Contracting of external services and subcontracting.
  • General expenses. The limit of supplementary overheads may not exceed 25% of personnel costs or 20% of the direct costs of each operation.
  • Project audit costs.
  • Expenses derived from obtaining an assessment report on compliance with the principle of not causing significant damage to the environment (DNSH).

APPLICATION DEADLINE REQUEST

The presentation of projects can be carried out continuously, since the call is permanently open.

The grants announced by the CDTI for R+D projects aim to promote applied business research and development activity, aimed at the creation or significant improvement of a production process, product or service that incorporates a differential technological aspect over existing technologies on the market.

BENEFICIARIES

  • Companies incorporated in Spain, with independent legal personality and tax domicile in the country, which develop the project in the national territory.
  • In the modalities of national cooperation: consortia of companies (minimum two, maximum six), where at least one is an SME and the companies are autonomous from each other.

TYPE OF PROJECT

  • Individual R+D Projects: national projects presented by a single company.
  • National Cooperation R+D Projects: national projects presented by a consortium of a minimum of two and a maximum of six companies, one must be SMEs and at least two autonomous from each other. Each consortium will identify the company that will act as “project coordinator”.
  • International Technological Cooperation R+D projects presented by Spanish companies participating in international technological cooperation programs managed by the CDTI
    • Multilateral programmes EUREKA, IBEROEKA and COSINA.
    • Bilateral programmes established by CDTI with institutions and funding agencies in other countries under bilateral agreements.
    • Programme of international projects with certification and unilateral monitoring by CDTI.
  • European Technological Cooperation R+D projects, related to the enhancement of the technological capacity of Spanish companies to participate in the following initiatives and projects:
    • Important Projects of Common European Interest (ICIP). Aimed at facilitating the participation of Spanish companies in EU initiatives of great quantitative or qualitative importance, in which several Member States participate3.
    • Projects of the IHI Institutional Partnership (Innovative Health Initiative).
    • Projects derived from Horizon Europe Partnerships.
  • R+D projects for Technological Training for participation in international or national tenders, related to the enhancement of the technological capacity of Spanish companies to participate in tenders for projects and programmes managed by international organisations in which CDTI holds Spanish representation or with which CDTI has cooperation agreements, as well as the technological training to participate in the tenders of the Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructures (ICTS):
    • Large scientific and technological facilities
    • Unique Scientific and Technical Facilities (ICTS) included in the Map of Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructures (ICTS) in force.
  • R+D projects for the development of dual technologies related to the technological training of Spanish companies to tender in the field of defence and security.
  • Oriented R+D Projects (PO): individual R+D projects, presented at national level by a single company. During 2024, these projects will be oriented towards R+D developments:
    • That substantially improve the efficiency and sustainability of the systems for the production, use and storage of renewable energies and green hydrogen in significant percentages.
    • Relating to the prevention and extinction of fires.
    • Related to technologies aimed at the development of cutting-edge microprocessors and alternative architectures, integrated photonics and quantum chips.
  • R+D projects in specific calls: R+D projects that are presented within the framework of a specific call published by CDTI and that will have the characteristics established in this call.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROJECT

  • Duration: The projects will have a duration of 12 to 36 months, with the exception of the R+D projects of National Cooperation, which will have a duration of 12 to 48 months, without prejudice to the approval of possible extensions of execution.
  • Minimum eligible budget: 175,000 euros.
  • Incentive effect: Before starting work on the project, the beneficiary must have submitted their application for aid to the CDTI in writing.

TYPE AND AMOUNT

Partially refundable grant.

  • Fixed interest rate: 1-year Euribor.
  • Aid of up to 85% of the approved budget.
  • The company must contribute at least 15% of the project budget with its own resources.
  • Advance of up to 50% of the aid with a limit of 300,000 euros, with no additional guarantees required.
  • Non-refundable tranche of between 10% and 33% of the aid.
  • Return: 10 or 15 years including a absence between 2 and 3 years.
  • The CDTI may require the constitution of guarantees for the repayment of the aid when the economic and financial analysis of the company so indicates.
  • Where appropriate, the CDTI may apply a reduction or exemption to the guarantees requested.

ELIGIBLE EXPENSES

  • Personnel expenses (researchers, technicians and other auxiliary staff, insofar as they are dedicated to the research project). Expenses can be charged to the project for both staff with an employment contract and self-employed staff who are members of the company.
  • Costs of instruments and materials, to the extent and during the period in which it is used for the research project. In the event that the instruments and material are not used throughout the useful life of the project, only the depreciation costs corresponding to the duration of the project, calculated according to good accounting practices7, will be considered eligible7.
  • Costs of contractual research, knowledge and patents acquired or licensed from external sources at market prices, and the costs of consultancy and equivalent services allocated exclusively to the project8. However, the consultancy costs associated with the project application are excluded.
  • Additional overhead expenses directly derived from the research project.
  • Other operating expenses, including costs of material, supplies, and similar products, that arise directly from the project.
  • Audit expenses.
  • Expenses arising from obtaining an assessment report on compliance with the principle of not causing significant damage to the environment (DNSH).

Subcontracting:

External collaborations may not exceed 65% of the eligible budget in general, and may reach up to 80% for the biopharmaceutical sector due to the high cost of trials of this type of product.

APPLICATION DEADLINE REQUEST

The presentation of projects can be carried out continuously, since the call is permanently open.

These grants are grants to companies, entities and research organizations to develop industrial doctorate (DI) projects. In industrial doctoral projects, a student carries out their thesis in a company or entity in the private or public sector, with the aim of combining academic research with practical application to a business or innovation environment.

BENEFICIARIES

Academic environment:

To research organisations: public and private universities of the Catalan university system, research centres, hospital foundations and technology centres based in Catalonia.

Business environment:

a) In co-financed industrial doctorate projects (DI-COF): companies and entities with a work centre in Catalonia.
b) In specific industrial doctorate projects (DI-ESP): to any company or entity.

REQUIREMENTS

• Academic environment:

1. To be a research organisation based in Catalonia: university, research centre, hospital foundation or technology centre.
2. To be a beneficiary of a grant to support the scientific activity of research groups (SGR).
3. The person supervising the thesis must be a member of a current SGR group, a researcher at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) or have obtained funding from the European Research Council (ERC).

• Business environment: not to be a research organisation or an entity dependent on it.

1. DI-COF projects: be a company or entity. Companies or entities that can play the role of academic environment, centres attached to universities and entities belonging to the public sector of the Generalitat do not meet this requirement.
2. DI-ESP projects: to be a company with a work centre in Catalonia or outside Catalonia. This modality must be selected when:
a) The doctoral student’s dedication to the project is part-time.
b) The workplace in the business environment is outside Catalonia.
c) The business environment is represented by an entity of the public sector of the Generalitat.

• Entities from the academic and business environment must sign a collaboration agreement to develop the project jointly.

1. At least two entities must participate, one representing the academic environment and one representing the business environment.
2. In cases where a research centre, a hospital foundation or a technology centre leads the project, the university in the university system of Catalonia where the doctoral student is to enrol for the thesis tutoring must also necessarily sign the collaboration agreement.
3. The agreement may provide for other institutions to participate in the project.

• Candidates: be able to access a doctoral programme and accredit an average grade of at least 6.5 out of 10 in the studies that give access to the doctorate (bachelor’s and master’s degrees or other equivalent access routes, weighted according to the number of credits).

TERM

From February 28 to December 10, 2025 at 2:00 p.m.

Updated on 10/11/2025