Objectives
The objective of the programme is to support implementation in March and consolidation of «cooperation institutions» Cantabrian companies grouped dealt with foreign markets.
Specifically the objectives expected are:
-Promote a culture of cooperation in enterprises of Cantabria.
-Reduce the risk and cost of companies access to international markets.
-Promote the presentation to the international market of a wide selection of products and services Cantabria.
-Increase the bargaining power of the Cantabrian companies selling their products, both for the purchase of raw materials and services as well as for funding.
Description
The following international activities related to the activity of foreign trade shall be considered susceptible of cash delivery without payment and that occur between January 1 and December 31, 2015. A single application shall be submitted by beneficiary:
(a) expenses of Constitution of the new entity’s cooperation.
(b) expenses for the plan of internationalization.
(c) human resources or outsourcing expenses.
(d) participation of Exhibitor fairs/congresses held in 2015 both clustering outside the Spanish as within the country territory. In the case of international fairs held in Spanish territory, shall be considered object of cash delivery without consideration those that have international recognition referred to in the «Official Gazette» on December 29, 2014, which approves the official calendar of international trade fairs of the year 2015.
(e) visits of prospecting of the grouping to fairs international conferences without Exhibitor held outside the Spanish territory.
(f) commercial prospecting trips referred to in the Plan of internationalization of the group or consortium.
(g) name and trademark national and international record.
(h) support for the opening of a point of sale, fi subsidiary or branch of the group abroad.
(i) costs associated with the development of market research.
- j) expenses of international promotion of the group.
Beneficiaries
The program is aimed at collaborative structures that have a joint internationalization strategy and want to implement it in one or more selected way proof foreign markets each. They may be people beneficiarias:
(a) export consortia with its own legal personality domiciled in Cantabria.
(b) associations or business groups with its own legal personality domiciled in Cantabria, representing a collective of Cantabrian companies and whose objective is the joint internationalization. When is the benefi ciary an association, associate members of the beneficiary who undertake to carry out all or part of the activities that underlie the granting of cash delivery without payment on behalf and for the account of the first, shall also be regarded as beneficiaries.
(c) the new structures must have been created during the years 2014 and 2015.
(d) they must have at least five companies of Cantabria, independent and not linked between itself, that moves by his commercial interest are committed to jointly operate in foreign markets sharing risks and costs.
(e) the strategy of international cooperation will be a memory that must be presented in SODERCAN and whose objective is to deal with foreign markets of grouped shape.
The company or the companies participating in consortia, associations or groupings must have products or services and shall, in addition to develop their business in any of those referred to in the regulatory Bases.
Amount
The maximum intensity and total sum of cash delivery without payment in each of the actions will be:
-70%, with a maximum of €35,000 (per application and requesting entity), for entities constituted by 2015. (Except expenses of Constitution which will be 100%).
-40% with a maximum of €35,000 (per application and requesting entity), for entities constituted in 2014.