If you have a company in Catalonia and are looking for funding to grow, innovate or expand internationally, ACCIÓ is one of the first doors to call. Every year, this public agency of the Government of Catalonia manages a wide range of grants and grants, from €25,000 for international promotion to €250,000 for R&D projects, with calls open all year round and aimed at both startups in the early stages and at consolidated SMEs.

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ACCIÓ Business Aid Lines

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🔴 Growth Projects

New business opportunities

Objective: Promote strategic and structural change projects by preparing a business plan to develop an opportunity and its subsequent implementation.

• Beneficiaries: Companies with an operational establishment in Catalonia (SA, SL, Scoop)
• Amount: Strategic up to 30,000€/Structural up to 90,000€
• Deadline: Junio

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Cooperative projects

Objective: Increase the competitiveness of clusters and companies through cooperative projects aligned with strategic sectorial challenges.

• Beneficiaries: Companies, environmental agents and clusters accredited within the Catalunya Clusters Program
• Amount: Maximum 75% of the accepted eligible expenditure
• Deadline: Junio

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🌍 Projects for Internationalization

Multilocation projects

Objective: Facilitate the opening of new subsidiaries abroad.

• Beneficiaries: SMEs/large companies
• Amount: Up to 60,000€
• Deadline: Julius

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International promotion projects

Objective: Facilitate the international promotion of companies on digital and physical channels.

• Beneficiaries: SMEs/large companies
• Amount: Up to 25,000€
• Deadline: Julius

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🔬 Business Innovation Projects (R+D+I)

Technological Exploration (ET)

Objective: Support to analyze and test a technology at an early stage to assess its potential and viability before investing.

• Beneficiaries: SMEs/large companies/Emerging companies (startups)
• Amount: Up to 30,000€
• Deadline: Mayo

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Applied Research and Technological Development (RD)

Objective: Support industrial research and experimental development projects that make it possible to advance the currently available technology.

• Beneficiaries: SMEs/large companies/TECNIO accredited technology developers/Emerging companies (startups)
• Amount: Up to 250,000€
• Deadline: Mayo

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Technological Innovation (IT)

Objective: Support for applied innovation projects (TRL 7-9) that promote the technological, digital and green transformation of companies and improve their competitiveness.

• Beneficiaries: SMEs/large companies/Emerging companies (startups)
• Amount: Up to 90,000€
• Deadline: Mayo

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💼 High Impact Business Investments

High-impact business investments (general line)

Objective: Encourage tractor investments, both from the point of view of creating employment and investing in fixed assets.

• Beneficiaries: SMEs/large companies
• Amount: Depending on the type of project
• Deadline: Junio

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Business investment projects

Objective: Promote investment projects in fixed assets that involve the creation of a new establishment, the incorporation of a new activity, the expansion of productive capacity or the improvement of the production process.

• Beneficiaries: SMEs/large companies
• Amount: Depending on the type of project
• Deadline: Abril

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Occupancy creation projects

Objective: Promote projects to create employment for a minimum of 3 new jobs.

• Beneficiaries: SMEs/large companies
• Amount: Depending on the type of project
• Deadline: Abril

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⚛️ Business Projects in Nuclear Transition Zones

Growth projects and new business opportunities

Objective: Promote strategic change projects through a business plan or its implementation, as well as by attracting talent.

• Beneficiaries: SMEs/large companies
• Amount: Business plan up to 30,000€/Implementation up to 210,000€/Recruitment of talent up to 200,000€
• Deadline: Abril

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Cooperative projects

Objective: Promote competitive business reinforcement projects that contribute to generating economic impact and opportunities.

• Beneficiaries: SMEs/large companies/environmental agents
• Amount: Depending on the type of project
• Deadline: Abril

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Entrepreneurial projects with high added value

Objective: Promote the development of the business plan of the emerging company with high added value in its initial stages.

• Beneficiaries: Small Businesses
• Amount: Up to 50,000€
• Deadline: Abril

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Technological innovation projects

Objective: Promote innovation projects with medium/low technological risk and short periods of investment recovery, which promote technological, digital and green transformation to incorporate advanced technologies.

• Beneficiaries: SMEs
• Amount: Up to 150,000€
• Deadline: Abril

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How Intelectium can help you

At Intelectium, we accompany technological startups in the analysis of their fit with the lines of ACCIÓ. Our goal is to maximize the chances of success by optimizing each of the evaluable sections.

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We work under a completely success-oriented model: we don't charge initial setup fees to start working, but we assume the risk of the project and only charge if we get funding for the company.

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If you are considering applying to any of the ACCIÓ lines, contact us for expert advice and an initial evaluation of your project through dealflow@intelectium.com.