The Council of Ministers has given the green light this Tuesday to a royal decree regulating the granting of direct aid of 800,000 euros to the entity Spain Startup and Investors Services, responsible for organizing the "South Summit" event. The subsidy will be channeled through the Ministry for Digital Transformation...
The Spanish Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs' Associations (Ceaje) has formalized the launch of its renewed Executive Committee, the body that will support President Antonio Magraner during the period initiated after his unanimous election last April.As the Confederation has indicated in a note sent to the media, the new leadership integrates...
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, met this morning at the Moncloa Complex with representatives of the Spanish Association of Digital Economy (Adigital) and with companies from the sector to address how to reinforce the scalability of Spanish 'startups' through public-private collaboration frameworks.Also present at the meeting were the...
The Minister of Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability, Mikel Jauregi, has stressed that the Basque Entrepreneurship Interinstitutional Plan (PIE) 2025-2028 is set to provide "certainties" in a context of "uncertainty" that affects entrepreneurial activity.Jauregi spoke before the Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability Commission of the Basque Parliament, which is holding...
Salvaje is born, a new Spanish chocolate firm that bursts onto the scene with the goal of transforming this food into a tool for the conservation and defense of animal species linked to cocoa cultivation.The brand, driven by Nacho Rivera, a positive impact entrepreneur and founder of The Overview Effect,...
The 'startup' fabric in Spain has experienced a strong boost in the last year, with an increase of close to 40% and approaching the threshold of 5,000 companies. This is according to the first continuous evaluation of the Startup Law (Law 28/2022), a detailed X-ray of the innovative entrepreneurial ecosystem...
The Minister of Rural Development, María Jesús Susinos, participated this Tuesday in the signing of 33 contracts corresponding to projects financed through the LEADER 2023-2027 program. These actions represent a global investment of 1,039,216 euros, of which 722,168 euros come from public aid aimed at strengthening the economic, business, and...
The National Federation of Associations of Self-Employed Workers (ATA) has announced the winners of its Self-Employed Worker of the Year awards, which are celebrating their twenty-fifth edition, with a total of 11 recognitions for different initiatives and careers to commemorate the silver anniversary of these awards.As the organization pointed out...
Casual Hoteles has launched "Movimiento Casual" (Casual Movement), a new podcast available in video and audio, with which it seeks to give prominence to people capable of generating a positive impact in areas and sectors such as tourism.The project, partly presented by the chain's president and CEO, Juan Carlos Sanjuán,...
Four business initiatives linked to the agricultural and agri-food sector have been recognized with the Rural'Up award, a program that seeks to promote and support the development of sustainable and innovative projects in the rural Leader area of Mallorca.These awards are driven by the Mallorca Rural association, with the financial...
The President of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, has urged governments and public administrations this Thursday to commit decisively to national talent, foster new entrepreneurial opportunities, and "not put obstacles in the way" for projects to move forward and Spanish society to continue advancing.In his speech at the Foro Taleñto España,...
The Chamber of Commerce of Spain has celebrated the fifth edition of its annual awards, in which the most outstanding initiatives of the territorial chambers have been recognized for their economic, business, and social impact throughout the country, as the institution itself communicated this Friday.The director of the Representation of...
The Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function, Óscar López, has announced that throughout this month of June, more than 162 million euros will be authorized in aid aimed at promoting new research, testing, and experimentation infrastructures in dual-use technologies.The announcement was made during a meeting with the press held...
The predisposition of the population to start a business in the next three years has risen to 13.8%, after advancing 2.6 percentage points and thus consolidating the recovery after the "stagnation" recorded the previous year, as communicated this Tuesday by Enisa.This data is collected in the report of the Observatory...
The "Forum Challenges and opportunities of rural Spain: Asturias", promoted by the Mapfre Foundation and the Government of the Principality and presided over by Her Royal Highness Doña Elena de Borbón, has counted on the participation of the president of the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias. During his...
Enisa and CaixaBank, through DayOne, have presented the national awards of a new edition of the "Premios EmprendeXXI", consolidated as one of the reference recognitions to promote, accompany and support the entrepreneurial ecosystem, as detailed by the Ministry of Industry together with CaixaBank in a statement.These awards are aimed at...
The president of the Union of Professionals and Self-Employed Workers (UPTA), Eduardo Abad, has described this Wednesday as an "absolute outrage" the reform of flexible retirement approved by the Government, which opens the door to combining pension with work, also in the case of self-employed workers.Abad maintains that the recently...
The Department of Agriculture, Water, Livestock and Fisheries has awarded the "Ticket Rural" 2025 grants, corresponding to the two resolutions approved this year, for a total amount of 2.6 million euros, which will support the launch of 146 entrepreneurial initiatives in the rural areas of the Valencian Community.These subsidies are...
The Councillor of Rural Development, María Jesús Susinos, has attended the contract signing ceremony for a new call of the LEADER program, with which 17 business projects will be launched in the Saja-Nansa region. Together, they represent a total investment of 439,210 euros, of which 365,394 euros come from public...
The Ministry of Industry and Tourism has supported more than 8,450 companies in the last 45 years, channeling more than 1.5 billion euros through the National Innovation Company (Enisa), as communicated this Thursday during the celebration of EnisaDay.At the event, the Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu, stressed that...
The high-growth technology company platform EsTech, created in 2022 by the Spanish Association of the Digital Economy (Adigital), SpainCap, Endeavor, and nine 'scaleups', has expanded its network to 24 members following the addition of Alinia, Grupo Destinia, Fotocasa, and Transparent Edge, as announced this Tuesday. With these incorporations, the entity...
The advancement of women in the business sphere continues to grow worldwide, although it still does so slowly. A study by the business insurance comparison service iSelect analyzes in which countries there are better conditions for female entrepreneurship, taking into account factors such as women's business ownership, self-employment, or presence...