Grants and Subsidies

If you are an entrepreneur and want your idea to become a stable business, you will surely need financing to start it up. The thing is, finding funding to make it happen can be quite a challenge. So much so that it can even mean the failure of a great idea. Don't let that happen to you!

Of course, remember never to make plans assuming that they will grant you aid because we may not receive it. It is best to have a budget in advance and a marketing strategy to help you meet and attract customers. Have a website and that is good positioned among the first Google results It is key to the success of any business today.

Grants and subsidies to set up a business in Spain

In Amesb We tell you what are the main aids and subsidies for entrepreneurs that you can access in Spain.

Single payment for unemployment

El objetivo de la subvención es ayudar el arranque de nuevos proyectos de autoempleo, para acceder a ella hay que cumplir varios requisitos:

1. When applying for aid, the activity for which it is requested cannot have started.
2. Have the right to collect a minimum of three months unemployment benefit.
3. Not having obtained this aid in the last four years.
4. The objective of the work activity must be self-employment.
5. Once the benefit has been collected, the activity must start within a maximum period of one month.

Kit Digital

Se trata de una importante línea de ayudas a fondo perdido aprobadas por el Gobierno de España procedentes de los fondos europeos Next Generation, destinando 3.000 millones de euros para pymes y autónomos. Su objetivo es ayudar a las pequeñas empresas a dar el salto al mundo digital, pudiendo beneficiarse de hasta 12.000€ para servicios de diseño web, creación de tiendas online, mejora de la presencia en Internet SEO Avanzado y gestión profesional de redes sociales.

Las empresas de más de 10 trabajadores tienen hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2022 para solicitarlo. Para las empresas que tienen entre 3 y 9 trabajadores, el plazo es hasta el 2 de septiembre de 2023. Y por último, las empresas de menos de 3 trabajadores o autónomos en autoempleo, tienen plazo hasta el 20 de octubre de 2023.

Si quieres más información sobre estas ayudas puedes solicitar más información en Digitizing Agents

Youth aid

There are several aids dedicated to young people since they are the sector that presents the most unemployment (more than 50%). Among them is Enisa's Entrepreneurship Participatory Loan for Young People. If you are a young entrepreneur attentive to the main requirements:

1. Age less than 40 years.
2. Help aimed at acquiring the necessary assets to carry out the activity.

Help women

There are several grants for women entrepreneurs, among them we find the Microcredits from the Ministry of Equality, all women who wish to undertake and who have problems accessing financing or who do not have an endorsement can request it, other help comes from the Women's Institute that has of technical and financial advice for women.

But also, in some communities such as Catalonia, there are other aids such as subsidies for technology-based companies led by women, which support the growth and consolidation of this type of project. The funds are allocated, for example, to the costs of contracted personnel, training and consultancy expenses, the start-up of new products or services and communication and dissemination expenses.

Aid to trade, service, craft and fashion companies

The purpose of this type of aid is to promote and boost the commercial and service sector to favor the quality and competitiveness of the fashion and crafts sectors. Being able to benefit from them those self-employed professionals who are registered in the self-employed workers regime.

Innovation aid

There are grants for technological activities. Enisa financially helps technology projects, the Ministry of Economy offers support to entrepreneurs with tax reductions of between 35% and 60%.

Aid for internationalization

Foreign trade is a step further for any company, if you want to go for it consult the aid for entrepreneurs that the Foreign Trade Institute.

eTrade International Program

This program is focused on granting aid for digital internationalization projects to SMEs that are based in Catalonia and that have billed more than 100,000 euros in the last year. In addition, they must have a web page in a foreign language and an international promotion plan. Some of the eligible actions are international web design and programming expenses, content creation, development of digital marketing plans and advertising and communication expenses.

Subsidies for the digital transformation of commerce and restaurants in Barcelona

Estas ayudas tienen por objetivo impulsar y acelerar la transformación digital del sector del comercio y la restauración en Barcelona para que pueda adaptarse a las nuevas tendencias y hábitos de consumo y cubrir las nuevas necesidades y demandas de unos consumidores cada vez más digitales.