Aid for freelancers and companies

List of subsidies from the Xunta de Galicia, with an open application call, for freelancers and entrepreneurs.

The Xunta de Galicia has open various calls for programs and grants aimed at self-employed workers and private companies, in order to promote the generation of employment and the start-up of new economic activities.

If you are thinking of registering as a self-employed person, hiring staff or recovering an economic activity in crisis or without generational change, see below the programs that still have their application call open until next September 30.

Promotion of self-employment

Economic aid of between 2,000 and 10,000 euros for unemployed people who start their activity as self-employed or self-employed in Galicia.

The deadline for submitting applications ends on September 30, 2021.

Aid for freelancers for permanent hiring

Incentives for freelancers or professionals living in Galicia, for the initial permanent hiring and training of unemployed people.

The deadline for submitting applications ends on September 30, 2021.

  • Hiring bonus. Financial aid for the initial permanent hiring of the unemployed. The maximum amounts will go from 16,250 euros for the first permanent worker and 22,500 euros for the second and third.
  • Training bonus. Aid of 4,000 euros for each worker registered as permanent, to carry out training actions that improve their knowledge and skills.

Galicia Entrepreneurship Program

Incentives for hiring the unemployed in the ordinary company whatever its legal form, including the self-employed, especially those with difficulties in finding a job (young people, women, long-term unemployed and people with disabilities or at risk of social exclusion).

The deadline for submitting applications ends on September 30, 2021.

  • Permanent hiring Between 6,000 and 16,000 euros, which may be increased by 25%.
  • Temporary hiring between 3,000 and 8,000 euros, which may be increased by 25%.
  • Transformation of temporary contracts into permanent ones between 2,000 and 3,000 euros.
  • Training actions that improve skills and knowledge related to the position between 2,000 and 4,000 euros.

Support program for the recovery of businesses in crisis or without generational change

Grants intended to promote the economic activity of cooperative societies and labor societies of the social economy of Galicia, arising from capital companies, civil societies, associations that were developing an economic activity or pre-existing autonomous persons, through a process of transformation .

The deadline for submitting applications ends on September 30, 2021.

  • Category 1. Asset acquisition.
  • Category 2. Advice.
  • Category 3. Professionalization and strategic development.
  • Category 4. Current expenses.

Technology-based employment initiatives

Subsidies for private companies, including freelancers, domiciled in Galicia and starting their activity within a period of no more than one year after the business project was classified as IEBT (Technological-based Employment Initiative).

The deadline for submitting applications ends on September 30, 2021.

  • Direct creation of stable employment.
  • Hiring of highly qualified technical personnel.
  • Start of the start-up of the activity