{"id":7291,"date":"2019-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecoindustria.net\/noticias\/lagencia-catalana-de-residus-ha-publicat-les-bases-de-la-convocatoria-2019-de-subvencions-per-a-projectes-de-foment-de-leconomia-circular-a-empreses\/"},"modified":"2019-05-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T22:00:00","slug":"lagencia-catalana-de-residus-ha-publicat-les-bases-de-la-convocatoria-2019-de-subvencions-per-a-projectes-de-foment-de-leconomia-circular-a-empreses","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/ecoindustria.net\/en\/noticias\/lagencia-catalana-de-residus-ha-publicat-les-bases-de-la-convocatoria-2019-de-subvencions-per-a-projectes-de-foment-de-leconomia-circular-a-empreses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catalan Waste Agency has published the basis for the 2019 call for grants for projects promoting the circular economy to companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Companies can receive up to \u20ac40,000 per project in lost funding<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beneficiaries can be companies, private companies, groups of companies and business or trade union organizations.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>the<strong>Waste Agency of Catalonia<\/strong> has already published the bases for the 2019 call for grants to business projects promoting the<strong>circular economy<\/strong>. The official call will open in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applicant companies may receive up to <strong>\u20ac40,000 per project<\/strong> in a lump sum grant, which will cover a maximum of 75% of expenses in the case of SMEs or 50% in the case of a large company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bases include aspects such as the type of subsidized projects, which are classified into three categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Class A: Projects of<strong>implementation<\/strong> <strong>in the market <\/strong>of new products or services  <\/li><li> Class B: <strong>Studies for obtaining and testing prototypes<\/strong> or demonstration projects of new products or services<\/li><li>  Class C: <strong>Sector studies <\/strong>with communication actions for business associations or trade unions. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Class A or B projects must belong to one of the following categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> Ecodesign of products or services that promotes greater efficiency of material resources<\/li><li>New business models that promote resource efficiency (servitization, collaborative economy, etc.) <\/li><li>Reuse and repair of products. <\/li><li>Return services of used products promoted by the distributor or manufacturer of these products, with the purpose of reusing them, remanufacturing them or recycling them (take-back schemes). <\/li><li>Remanufacturing <\/li><li>Industrial symbiosis that promotes the efficiency of material resources other than water. <\/li><li>New applications of recycled materials. <\/li><li>New processes or technologies that allow the recovery of waste that is not currently being recovered, or that increase the performance and\/or quality of existing third-party waste recovery operations. <\/li><li>Landfill mining for material recovery. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#039;s novelty, the Class C projects, will consist of the preparation of studies on the potential of the circular economy either at the sectoral or territorial level, as well as the resulting communication actions (campaigns , days, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eligible activities must begin after the grant application. <\/strong>The subsidized expenses will be the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The <strong>labor cost <\/strong>of the own staff dedicated to the coordination and execution of the project. <\/li><li>The <strong>costs of consumables and materials<\/strong>, except the raw materials used for the mass production of products. <\/li><li>the<strong> analytical <\/strong>and the <strong>essays<\/strong> directly related to the environmental quality of the product or service or its suitability for use. <\/li><li>The <strong>rent<\/strong> of equipment and premises. <\/li><li>The <strong>purchase of equipment<\/strong> (only amortization cost in class A projects). <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>All those companies interested in applying for aid can contact the economic promotion center in your city<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portaleconomic.gavaciutat.cat\/\">Gav\u00e0 Impulsa \u2013 Business Services Center (Gav\u00e0)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viladecans.cat\/es\/can-calderon-0\">Can Calder\u00f3n Economic Promotion Center (Viladecans)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ocupacioiempresa.santboi.cat\/?page_id=538\">Sant Boi Service Center<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elprat.cat\/empresa-comerc-i-ocupacio\">Economic Promotion Center El Prat de Llobregat<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":6644,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[144,179,1],"tags":[204,203,30,205,46],"class_list":["post-7291","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economia-circular","category-economia-cirular","category-general","tag-agencia-de-residus-de-catalunya","tag-ajuts","tag-economia-circular","tag-empresa","tag-subvencions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoindustria.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/7291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoindustria.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoindustria.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoindustria.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoindustria.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoindustria.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoindustria.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoindustria.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}