The subsidies can finance 80% of the cost of the actions of the projects that qualify for them. Applications can be submitted until May 13 electronically through the specific procedure.
To qualify for subsidies, projects must start during 2024 and have a maximum duration of twelve months. This year’s call is organized into two thematic areas, “Strengthening” and “Intercooperation”, and each one has three modalities.
To qualify for subsidies, projects must start during 2024 and have a maximum duration of twelve months. This year’s call is organized into two thematic areas, “Strengthening” and “Intercooperation”, and each one has three modalities.
Strengthening
Intercooperation
What’s new in this edition
Regarding other calls, the digitalization modality has been redefined to favor the incorporation of digital tools and digitalization processes, the improvement of digital skills and access to technology to increase the viability, scalability and growth of digital companies. the ESS.
The specific modality that existed in previous editions is also eliminated, the possibility of having interns is opened and it is made transversal in a good part of the modalities.
To expand information on the details of the eighth call for “Enfortim l’ESS”, an in-person information session has been scheduled on April 16, at 11:30 a.m., at Bloc4BCN. There will also be three more sessions, online, on April 18, April 25 and May 6.
The call has been carried out by the BIT Habitat Foundation, the municipal agency for urban innovation, together with the municipal company Barcelona Ciclo del Agua and the Municipal Office of Climate Change and Sustainability.
This edition is endowed with 400,000 euros, which will be used to finance up to a maximum of 80% of the chosen projects that have a budget of between 30,000 and 100,000 euros. The challenge aims to improve the relationship of the city and citizens with water, in a context of climate emergency and, in particular, drought emergency.
Proposals eligible for aid must fall within one of the following three areas:
The solutions presented must be scalable and replicable, in order to foresee implementation in a global city context. Since the first edition, in 2020, the chosen solutions have been tested in the real urban environment of Barcelona.
Proposals must be submitted through the Virtual Procedures Office. There is time until May 20. In summer the projects will be chosen.
