Find out about the main features and requirements of the last call for proposals of the ERDF Innterconecta 2016 grant programme and some of the projects and companies that were beneficiaries.
Find out about the main features and requirements of the last call for proposals of the ERDF Innterconecta 2016 grant programme and some of the projects and companies that were beneficiaries.
The CDTI (Centro para el Desarrollo Tccnológico Industrial) as manager of ERDF (European Regional Development Funds) from the 2007 - 2013 round, designed a regional instrument to promote the generation of innovative capacities in less developed regions through the financing of experimental development projects carried out through business consortia: FEDER Innterconecta.
Through this instrument, the CDTI has sought to promote cooperation at regional level, the implementation of projects geared to the needs of the regions and the generation of innovative capacities that promote greater territorial cohesion.
The ERDF Innterconecta calls are co-financed by the ERDF through the different Operational Programmes in which the CDTI has been an Intermediate Body. In the 2014 - 2020 round, the calls will be co-funded through the Pluri-Regional Operational Programme for Smart Growth.
The aim of the ERDF Innterconecta 2016 call for proposals was to support experimental development projects in the form of cooperation projects between companies. This call was intended only to finance projects developed in the geographical area of the Communities of Andalusia, the Canary Islands, Castilla La Mancha, Extremadura, Galicia and Murcia and the Autonomous Cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
The themes of the projects presented had to respond to one of the eight Social Challenges previously established in the Order of regulatory bases:
- Health, demographic change and well-being.
- Food safety and quality; productive and sustainable agriculture, natural resources, marine and maritime research.
- Safe, efficient and clean energy.
- Intelligent, sustainable and integrated transport.
- Action on climate change and efficiency in the use of resources and raw materials.
- Social changes and innovations.
- Digital economy and society.
- Security, safety and defence.
The minimum eligible budget was €1M and the maximum budget was €4M, with projects having a mandatory multi-annual duration.
ERDF Innterconecta 2016 beneficiary clusters had to be made up of at least two autonomous enterprises between them, of which at least one of them had to be large or medium-sized and the other had to be an SME. The maximum number of enterprises in the grouping was six, and none of the autonomous enterprises in the grouping, nor any group of linked or associated enterprises, could exceed 70% of the project's bankable budget.
Some of the companies and projects that benefited from the FEDER Innterconecta 2016 programme are:
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