SOM-INN PORT encourages you to participate in the new call Ports 4.0 for Ideas and Commercial Projects

If you have an idea or commercial project proposal that has a specific application for the logistics-port sector, in order to achieve a new product, service, innovative process, or the improvement of an existing technology with an innovative component, you can obtain public aid by submitting your proposal to the new Ports 4.0 call.

On December 28, 2023, a new call for the Ports Fund 4.0 for Ideas and Commercial Projects was published in the BOE. This establishes the guidelines for the granting of public aid by State Ports, within the context of the Plan for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship for Innovation in the Port Sector.

Commercial ideas and projects must develop a new product, service or process, or improve an existing technology with an innovative component and develop its application in the logistics-port sector.

They shall promote the achievement of measurable advancement solutions in one or more of the following areas of logistics-port activity:

-Logistics efficiency in the field of infrastructure, operations or service provision.

-Environmental and energy sustainability.

-Security and protection.

-The digitization of intelligent processes and platforms.

-Any other innovative product, service or process that has an impact on the port logistics sector or the port nautical or fishing sector.

The endowment of this call for the financing of Ideas and Commercial Projects amounts to € 6,750,000 and has been distributed as follows:

1. As for the Ideas modality: the resources amount to €750,000 (of which €105,000 will be allocated to intrapreneurship, in other words, ideas presented exclusively by Port Authority and State Ports staff, either individually or collectively).

2. Regarding the Commercial Projects modality: resources amount to € 6,000,000.

The deadline for submitting proposals for ideas is two months (until February 29) and for commercial projects three months (until March 29) from the day following the publication of the extract of the call in the BOE, which was December 28, 2023.

The regulatory bases of the call can be found at this link.

From SOM-INN PORT we encourage you to participate in this call. If you have an idea or commercial project that fits this call and that you think can be developed in the Port of Tarragona, contact us at sominnport@porttarragona.cat

19 January 2024

Department of Studies and Innovation