What are the subsidy lines?
Two subsidy lines are established in the self-employment initiative for young people within the FSE+ Program framework:
- Line 1, for young people with their fiscal domicile located in a microtown in Catalonia. For these purposes, microtowns are considered municipalities with fewer than 500 inhabitants, which can be consulted in the annex of the call resolution.
- Line 2, for young people with their fiscal domicile located outside a microtown in Catalonia.
Self-employed individuals with a fiscal domicile in a microtown in Catalonia can apply, in a single application form, for assistance for both lines, but will only be entitled to one, with priority given to Line 1. In case of a lack of available budget in Line 1, they will opt for Line 2, according to the evaluation criteria established in base 11.1 of the regulatory bases of these aids.
Who could be a beneficiary of the subsidy?
Young people between 18 and 29 years old who want to start activity as self-employed workers can be beneficiaries of the subsidy.
The following individuals cannot be beneficiaries if they meet any of the following circumstances at the time of submitting the application or during the subsidizable period:
Partners of commercial companies, worker cooperatives, labor companies, or private civil societies; nor members of communities of goods or entities without legal personality.
Collaborating self-employed workers.
- Self-employed workers who have carried out the same or similar economic activity on their own in the six months prior to the start date of the economic activity for which they are applying for aid.
- Self-employed workers who, from the start of their activity and for the next 18 months, have been employed by others. For these purposes, the simultaneity with employment by others is excepted according to the following limits:
- Self-employment can be combined with employment by others for a maximum of 18 stays in an 18-month period. In case of early termination as a self-employed worker, according to base 23.3.b) of the regulatory bases of these aids, the limit of 18 stays will be prorated based on the months they have been registered.
- For this section, one stay corresponds to a full day in a situation of registration in Social Security as an employee.
- Self-employed workers who have been beneficiaries of this or similar aid, as specified in the corresponding call.
- What is the amount of the subsidy?
- This call, co-financed by the European Social Fund Plus, has a budget of 13 million euros in subsidies of 15,876 euros. Additionally, a line of 500,000 euros is reserved for young people with a fiscal domicile in a microtown (one of the 337 municipalities with fewer than 500 inhabitants currently in Catalonia).
What is the deadline to submit subsidy applications?
The deadline to apply for the subsidy is from May 15, 2024, at 09:00 h, until July 15, 2024, at 14:00 h.
