Grants for projects to carry out international promotion activities

You must first find out if your company is eligible to apply for the grant.

The aid is aimed at companies with operational headquarters in Catalonia incorporated as a public limited company, limited liability company or cooperative company that meet the following requirements:

• Turnover over 250,000 euros in the previous year.
• Having the company’s website in a foreign language.
• Have a current international promotion plan (IPP), prepared as of 2022, containing the model information.

Companies dedicated to intermediation or distribution are not eligible for this aid, nor are companies in the tourism or cultural sector whose objective is to attract clients to Catalonia.

In this phase, the online application for assistance and documentation of the project must be submitted:

• Technical report of the project.
• Complete and detailed project budget.
• Declaration of the aid received in concept of minimums in the last three years.
• International promotion plan.

The aid intensity is 50% of the project budget, up to a maximum of €20,000. Projects must have a minimum requested expenditure of €12,500.

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Once the application is submitted, the file will be reviewed by the program experts within a few weeks. The justification is granted according to evaluation criteria such as whether the degree of investment in digital promotion in relation to the total budget requested, the action plan is aligned with the international promotion plan presented, the export experience of the company…

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From EMD we will get started as soon as you are ready to concretize the work plan.

The following actions and expenses are considered eligible:

1. Digital promotion expenses such as web and/or e-commerce development and content creation to access new markets, digital marketing plan actions and international advertising campaigns…
2. Physical promotion expenses such as participation in promotional events: fairs, congresses, exhibitions, point-of-sale promotion, tastings, seminars, etc.
3. Expenses for the preparation of the report of justification of the aid by a statutory auditor (maximum eligible cost of 1,000 €).

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The supporting documentation is detailed below:

• A financial report, also containing the report of an auditor registered in the ROAC.
• Technical report of the action according to the model available on the ACCIÓ website.
• Demonstrative documentation of the actions carried out.
• Report justifying the deviations between the justified action and the initially subsidized action (if applicable).
• Signed statement.

At EMD we like a job well done and we will guide you in the presentation of the necessary documentation. We will carry out the part that corresponds to the technical report of the justification. Because we know what to do and how to do it.

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