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If you're planning to establish a video game company in Catalonia, we have valuable information about the aids and incentives available to you. Here you have details on various grants, subsidies, and tax incentives that can help you get started. Explore our site to learn more about how you can benefit from these opportunities and successfully establish your video game company in Catalonia.
Specific incentives for videogames industry
Grants for Audiovisual and Video Game R&D Projects
Beneficiaries: Small and medium sized companies.
Entity: Centre for Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)
Grants for digital creativity business incubators
Beneficiaries: Companies.
Entity: General Directorate of Innovation and Digital Culture. Ministry of Culture of the Government of Catalonia
Refundable incentives for videogames development
Beneficiaries: Private companies whose corporate activity is the development,
production, editing, distribution or marketing of videogames. Companies or
the team involved in the project must have been working in this sector a
minimum of two years.
Entity: Catalan Institute of Cultural Enterprises. Ministry of Culture of the Government of Catalonia.
Grants for videogames and immersive content development – CREA MEDIA
Beneficiaries: European videogame production companies, XR studios and
audiovisual production companies that can demonstrate recent experience in producing commercially distributed eligible works.
Entity: European Commission
Grants for internasionalitasion projects of video games companies and entities
Beneficiaries: Entities and companies
Entity: Institute of Cultural Enterprises of Catalonia. Ministry of Culture of the Government of Catalonia
Grants for the incorporation of catalan in video games
Beneficiaries: Entities and companies
Entity: Ministry of Culture of the Government of Catalonia
Startup incentives
Grants for technology-based startups
Beneficiaries: startups that fulfill the following requirements: owning a
technology; being registered between the 19/03/2024 and 18 months before
applying to this program; founded and owned (51%) by entrepreneurs; not
having received more than €250,000 in grants/loans/capital from others than
the founders; not being listed; profits not distributed yet.
Entity: ACCIÓ. Ministry of Business and. Labour of the Government of Catalonia
Grants for technology-based startups CDTI – NEOTEC
Beneficiaries: small innovative companies that fulfill the following
requirements; develop innovative products, processes or services or R&D costs
account for over 10% of operating costs; at the date of application, the
company must have been registered at most for three years and at least for six
months; not being listed; profits not distributed yet; minimum capital €20,000.
Entity: Centre for Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)
Participatory loans for digital cultural companies
Participatory loans are a line of support particularly geared towards cultural startups
with a digital business model who are looking for a leg-up during the initial
phases of their business projects.
Entity: Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies. Ministry of Culture of the Government of Catalonia
R&D&I Incentives – R&D projects
Grants for R&D Projects (Nuclis)
Beneficiaries: companies established in Catalonia for at least 2 years.
Entity: ACCIÓ. Ministry of Business and Labour the Government of Catalonia
Partially refundable loans for R&D Projects
Beneficiaries: companies.
Entity: Centre for Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)
R&D&I Incentives – Tax Incentives
Corporate tax deductions related to R&D&I
Beneficiaries: Entities resident in Spanish territory that are subject to the corporate
tax and carry out research and development activities and
technological innovations.
Entity: Spanish Ministry of Treasury
Reduction to Social Security Contributions related to R+D+I
Bonuses of 40% of employer’s social security (SS) contribution
(common contingencies) for staff exclusively dedicated to R+
Entity: Spanish Ministry of Treasury
Patent Box
Companies developing certain technological IP (patents, utility models,
complementary certificates for the protection of medicines and
phytosanitary products, registered advanced software).
Entity: Spanish Ministry of Treasury
R&D&I Incentives – Hiring Researchers
Grants for hiring a PhD (Torres Quevedo)
Beneficiaries: Companies, Technological Centers, business’ associations and
Scientific and Technological Parks
Entity: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
Grans for hiring researchers (Programa Investigo)
Beneficiaries: : companies and research.
Entity: Universities and Research Aid Management Agency
CREA FEINA INVESTIGA - Grants for hiring researchers in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona
Beneficiaries: companies established in a municipality within the Metropolitan
Area of Barcelona.
Entity: Barcelona City Council
General Hiring Incentives
CREA FEINA JOVES -Grants for hiring employees in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona
Beneficiaries: Companies established in a municipality within the Metropolitan
Area of Barcelona that have been in business for at least six months.
Entity: Barcelona City Council
Training contracts
Companies hiring people under 30 on a part time basis enrolled in a training
program. Duration of the contract: minimum 3 months and maximum 2 years.
Entity: Spanish Ministry of Labor and Social Economy
Personal income tax for non-residents
Individuals under the non resident special regime in Spain for a maximum of 6
years. Beneficiaries must not have been legal residents in Spain for the previous five years.
Entity: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
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