"Within the framework of the National Connected Industry Strategy 4.0, the Activa Startups program, financed with Recovery funds, supports collaboration between startups and consolidated companies with innovation potential. Its purpose is to promote innovation and the growth of new generation companies, through the development of collaborative environments and promoting their digitization. Each call for ""Activa Startups"" regulates the geographical scope of application. Beneficiaries: this initiative is articulated through different types of calls: Calls for SMEs Calls for Startups Call for SME-Startup Consortiums Type of aid: Non-refundable grant, competitive competition. Endowment: €44,000,000. Intensity: Subsidy of up to €40,000 per company. Characteristics of the projects: The projects may have as their objective the resolution of technological challenges, advice on innovation, the acquisition of new knowledge or the demonstration, adaptation and customization of various technologies. The challenges must be raised by the SMEs and the startups will work on their resolution."

"The main objective of the Cervera projects is to promote R&D through the creation or significant improvement of a production process, product or service with the collaboration of state-level Technology Centers or with ""Cervera"" Technology Centers of Excellence. The beneficiaries of this aid are small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), startups and mid-cap companies (MIDCAPs) with tax domicile in Spain. In addition, the projects must have a participation of at least 10% of the approved project by one or more technology centers."

The "Ekintzaile" Aid Programme pursues the objective of providing financial support to new innovative and/or technology-based business projects, preferably of an industrial nature and/or related services linked to the industrial product-process, led by individuals or companies recently constituted and supervised by a BIC, for the phases of maturation of the idea and start-up of the company. The programme includes support throughout the entire process of feasibility analysis, start-up and maturation of new companies, providing advice and infrastructure for the location of their activities, and seeks to facilitate access to financing of the investments necessary to carry out the business plan.

"Objective: To initiate and/or consolidate the international growth of small and medium-sized Spanish companies that have a competitive project and/or facilitate the revision of the international strategy for companies affected by changes in the conditions of their usual markets. Beneficiaries: Spanish companies with export potential that wish to start, consolidate or reorient their international strategy and that meet the following requirements: Being a small and medium business. Have your own product or service that can be marketed internationally and have your own brand. In the case of service companies, these must be provided abroad. Not be a commercial or productive subsidiary of a foreign company. Have a turnover of more than 200,000 euros, eliminating this requirement for recently created technology-based startups that already have a marketed product or service, given the special characteristics of their growth in terms of the required speed of access to the market. Companies will be able to access the program regardless of the percentage that the international sales figure supposes over the total turnover, giving the special focus of this call on companies that consolidate or reorient their foreign position and on the will to include those companies that for the characteristics of your business model must be global from the outset. Having the minimum personal and material means to address its international growth, in particular having a person responsible for the international project and its own website. Not having participated in ICEX Initiation programs, that is, the PIPE or ICEX Next programs. Have no defaults with ICEX. Meet the requirements of article 13 of Law 38/2003, of November 17. Endowment: €10,800,000. Type of aid: This is a non-refundable grant with a maximum limit of the grant per beneficiary for this call is 24,000 euros corresponding to 60% co-financing of certain expenses arising from the design and implementation of the international strategy. Therefore, the company may present up to a maximum of 40,000 euros of expenditure made, to which 60% will be applied to determine the ICEX subsidy. "

This aid aims to support companies with fewer than 50 employees to use external skills as part of their innovation project and with a view to diversification, particularly for virtuous projects committed to the ecological transition.