- Are you an SME or a start-up?
- Do you want to introduce an innovative project or you may have a component of innovation in a process chain, service, etc?
- Do you want to get up to 80% grant to fund lost for the development of innovative projects?
If the answer is YES, the Cluster will provide through the annual programme of grants to companies belonging to clusters recognized as AEIs.
The Cluster of Energy of the Comunitat Valenciana is recognized by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MINECO) as Innovative Business Grouping (AEI), with registration number REAEI-150 from 2011, which gives its partners access to annual grants exclusive to R+D Projects, being the only association that is recognized in the Comunitat Valenciana in the area of Environment and Energy.
The program of support Groups, such as Innovative Business, managed by the Directorate General of Industry and Smes, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, which offers grants to companies associated to the clusters enrolled in the Registry industrial Clusters, Innovative, regulated by the Order IET/1444/2014.
The selected projects obtained grants of the MINETUR with an intensity of up to 80% for the development of innovative activities in products, processes, organisational innovations, or innovations in marketing, either individually or in co-operation between companies.
This project type allows the realization of technical feasibility studies, including the preparation of requests for help that provide access to community programs, state, regional and municipal support force.
In the years in which it is operating the program, the Cluster of Energy in the Region of Valencia has established itself as a Cluster generator and beneficiary of projects.
Examples of some of the projects achieved can be found in the corresponding section.