PUBLICATION BOE 08.02.2025

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Amount

Up to a maximum of  €4,000,000.00

Notice Details

This call is part of ECM/71/2025, of January 16^th, which establishes the regulatory bases for these subsidies. With it is intended to promote R&D investment in Spain by companies with foreign ownership that are already established or are planning to set up in Spain.

For the purposes of this call, a foreign-owned company is defined as a company with a foreign stake of at least 50% of its share capital. Foreign shareholders with a stake in the company may be either legal entities domiciled abroad or natural persons not resident in Spain. Furthermore, the requirement of having a percentage of foreign investment equal to or greater than 50% shall be deemed to be met when this investment has been made directly in the capital of the applicant company or when this percentage of foreign investment is reached indirectly, through a shareholding by a third entity/entities which, in turn, have a stake in the applicant company.

Projects will be assessed on a competitive basis according to the criteria set out in the call for applications, and the General Block Exemption Regulation (EU Regulation No 651/2014) will apply.

The maximum aid ceiling per beneficiary may not exceed 800,000 euros (aid received by companies in the same business group will be cumulative). The aid will be a percentage of the investment made, consisting of at least 500,000 euros.

The projects to be supported must be implemented before 31 December 2026 in one or more of the Autonomous Communities in Spain, according the categories established in the EU regulations. The budget for this call is €4,000,000. However, the maximum availability per region for all program calls framed within Order ECM/71/2025 is the following:

a) From the “less developed” regions category (Andalusia; Castile-la Mancha; Ceuta; Extremadura; and Melilla): €2,640,548.

b) From the regions “in transition” category (Asturias; Balearic Islands; Canary Islands; Cantabria; Castile and Leon; Region of Valencia; Galicia; La Rioja; and Murcia): €4,644,169.

c) From the “more developed” regions category (Aragon; Catalonia; Madrid; Navarre; and the Basque Country): €3,584,574.

The application must be made through the ICEX Virtual Office:

- If you are a company that is not yet established in Spain, and therefore do not have a NIF, you must register with the SOY PARTICULAR profile. In the event that the INDIVIDUAL does not have a NIE or DNI, he/she must send an email to the address  financiacion.investinspain@icex.es   to make the application. This process may take 24-48 hours, so please request it in advance. 

- In the event of being a company already established in Spain, and having a NIF, you must register with the SOY EMPRESA profile. Once you have created an account, you will log in with your username and password to process your application.

More information:

ICEX-Invest in Spain T (+34) 91 349 71 00; (+34) 91 503 5813
financiacion.investinspain@icex.es