CALL DETAILS:
Entity: Ministry of Business, Employment, and Energy of the Government of the Balearic Islands
Recipients:
- Individuals registered under the special regime for self-employed workers or an equivalent alternative regime.
- Companies engaged in industrial activities in the Balearic Islands seeking to modernize their production structure or digitize their processes, meeting the requirements established in the call.
- Non-profit legal entities considered as “Balearic Industrial Development Centers” in the industrial sector, physically established in the Balearic Islands.
- Laboratories dedicated to research, innovation, and/or technological development, physically established in the Balearic Islands.
Sector: Industry
Subsector: Modernization and Digitalization
Application Deadline: Until February 24, 2025
Reference Websites:
Call and terms of the grant
Eligible Activities:
- Program I. Design and Innovation:
a) Costs of contracting external entities for industrial design and innovation projects aimed at acquiring new knowledge and skills for developing new products, processes, or services, or significantly improving existing ones.
b) Acquisition of prototypes from external entities to be used in the applicant’s work centers located in the Balearic Islands.
- Program II. Production:
a) Acquisition, installation, and transportation of machinery for use in the applicant’s work center located in the Balearic Islands, directly related to the company’s activities.
b) Acquisition, installation, and transportation of accessories, associated technical installations, and those integrated into the machinery mentioned above.
c) Acquisition, installation, and transportation of accessories, associated technical installations, and those integrated into the existing machinery in the work center located in the Balearic Islands.d) Acquisition, installation, and transportation of welding equipment and accessories, excluding consumables, personal protective equipment (PPE), and similar items.
e) Acquisition, installation, and transportation of molds and patterns for product manufacturing, to be used in the applicant’s work centers located in the Balearic Islands.
f) Acquisition, installation, and transportation of tanks, barrels, drums, filtration systems, and similar items for wine, beer, liquor, or similar production processes in the applicant’s work centers located in the Balearic Islands.
g) Acquisition, installation, and transportation of containers, mixing and processing reactors, reagents, tanks, and similar items integrated into the company’s production process units.
h) Training for operating the subsidized investments.
- Program III. Digitalization:
a) Acquisition, installation, and transportation of tangible assets for automating and/or digitizing storage to improve product logistics.
b) Acquisition, installation, and transportation of tangible and intangible assets for digitizing the production system: UPS, servers, NAS, electronic equipment, diagnostic tools, measurement and control equipment, as well as software and ICTs.
c) Acquisition, installation, and transportation of Industry 4.0 technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, collaborative robotics, cloud computing, virtual reality, and augmented reality.
d) Costs of contracting external entities for web page and web environment design.
e) Training for operating the subsidized investments.
Eligible Period: Investments installed, operational, invoiced, and paid between September 25, 2024, and September 24, 2025, are eligible.
Aid Intensity:
- Program I. Design and Innovation:
- Subsidies covering 50% of the invoice amount (excluding VAT) for asset acquisition, technical documentation, and investments specified in Section 4.1 of the call.
- Total eligible expenses must be equal to or greater than €2,000 (excluding VAT), with individual expenses of at least €500 (excluding VAT).
- Maximum grant amount per beneficiary: €10,000.
- Program II. Production:
- Subsidies covering 50% of the invoice amount (excluding VAT) for asset acquisition and investments specified in Section 4.2 of the call.
- Total eligible expenses must be equal to or greater than €5,000 (excluding VAT), with individual expenses of at least €500 (excluding VAT).
- Maximum grant amount for training (Section 4.2 h): €600.
- Maximum total grant per beneficiary: €20,000.
- Program III. Digitalization:
- Subsidies covering 50% of the invoice amount (excluding VAT) for asset acquisition and investments specified in Section 4.3 of the call.
- Total eligible expenses must be equal to or greater than €5,000 (excluding VAT), with individual expenses of at least €500 (excluding VAT).
- Maximum grant amount for training (Section 4.3 e): €600.
- Maximum total grant per beneficiary: €20,000.
Subject to minimis: Yes.
CALL ORGANIZER:
Organism: Directorate-General for Industrial Policy, Government of the Balearic Islands.
Administration: Regional.
Geographic Scope: Balearic Islands.
Type of Aid: Grant.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE:
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