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National funding details

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Estimated envelope / Percentage of funding

The Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Commerce (MITyC), through the Secretariat of State for Telecommunications and Information Society (SETSI) with the Avanza Plan, funds the following topics:

  • Electronics and Communications Technology 
  • Digital TV 
  • Informatics 
  • Technologies of Services in the Information Society 
  • Trust and Security on Information and Communications

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Beneficiaries: 

  • Industries (including SMEs) 
  • Public and private research institutes (*) 
  • Universities (*)
    (*) Only participants in cooperative projects. Solicitant should be an industry

 
Modalities of funding: 

  • Loans: up to 75% of the total budget of the project. Payback term: 15 years, including a 3 years grace period. 
  • Grants: The following percentages: 
  • Industrial research: up to 50% (60%-70% for SMEs). Public research Institutes and Universities marginal costs. 
  • Technological development: up to 25% (35%-45% for SMEs). Public research Institutes and Universities marginal costs
Funding situation / Application rules

Types of projects: 

  • Individual Project. 
  • Cooperative project: led by and industry who acts as coordinator and responsible to the Spanish Administration

Items suceptibles of funding:

  • Direct labour costs 
  • Subcontractings up to 50% of budget 
  • Fungible materials 
  • Equipment and Instrumentation 
  • Other general expenses (overheads and travel expenses) with a limit of 20% of labour costs

All the expenses should be directly related to project. 

 

The procedure of funding is: Competitive calls.

Formalities to be fulfilled

Procedure of funding concession: 

  • Publication of Call for funding in the Spanish Official Journal 
  • Submission of applications:
    -   Application and Questionnaire 
    -   Technical Project Proposal 
  • The applications must be presented within the next 30 days after the call publication. 
  • Evaluation: It will be carried out by the Ministry of Industry staff and other public institutions depending on the Ministry. Also external experts may be used. 
  • Provisional notification: within 4 months after submission 
  • Ministerial Resolution: within 6 months after submission 
  • All payments will be in advance: beneficiaries must set up bank quarantees for loans only, if needed 
  • Justification of the project: beneficiaries must submit the cost statement of all expenses and related technical report within 3 months after the end of each funded year.