Ivace+i awards €11.1 million to 46 business R&D projects
The call for applications, published in March, funds initiatives by companies with headquarters or production centres in the Valencian Community and is supported by the ERDF.
Ivace+i has awarded €11.1 million to 46 business research and development projects in the Valencian Community. The decision, announced on 17 October, is part of the business value chain consolidation programme, which aims to promote innovations that can be extended to customers, suppliers and other connected companies.
The grants were awarded through a competitive process. Companies with headquarters or production centres in the Valencian Community are eligible, and the projects cover improvements to products, processes and organisation. The call had a maximum budget of €13,734,485; the decision allocates €11.1 million to the 46 selected initiatives.
According to figures released by the Generalitat, small and medium-sized enterprises account for nearly 60% of the projects, while initiatives by large companies make up 40%. Around a third of the projects involve collaboration between several companies; the rest are individual initiatives.
The circular economy accounts for nearly 30% of the initiatives. The agri-food sector comes next, eight percentage points lower, while enabling technologies represent 17%. Projects related to health, advanced industry, sustainable habitats, decarbonisation, sustainable mobility and infrastructure have also been selected.
The programme aims to ensure that a company’s innovation has an impact on other members of its value chain. The outcomes envisaged by the scheme include making it easier for customers or suppliers to adopt improvements and supporting the growth of related business activity.
For companies in Guardamar and the Vega Baja, the call is aimed at initiatives that fit these areas and have their headquarters or production centres in the Valencian Community. The decision announced relates to the 2026 call, so these grants concern projects that have already been selected.
The call was published in the Diari Oficial de la Generalitat Valenciana on 31 March, and applications were open from 1 to 21 April. The European Union, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for the Valencian Community 2021–2027, provides 60% of the programme’s funding.
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