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  Industry | 7/10/2025

  The Ministry of Industry and Tourism launches a new call for €9 M in aid for Innovative Business Groups

  The grants are aimed at fostering cooperation between companies, technology hubs and other agents of the innovative ecosystem, by developing collaborative projects that contribute to the digitalisation, sustainability and transformation of the productive fabric.

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  Tourism | 7/9/2025

  The festival Dos Entroidos do Oriente Ourensán is declared a Festival of National Tourist Interest.

  The carnivals of the municipalities of Manzaneda, Viana do Bolo and Vilariño de Conso, in the province of Orense, receive this joint distinction for their ancestral character and cultural values.. The Secretary of State, Rosario Sánchez, values the union between the town councils to make the request and that their festivities ‘have been preserved to a greater extent than in other places’. These are traditional carnivals in neighbouring towns, and the residents of each municipality, grouped together in folións (processions), join in the celebrations in other municipalities.

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  Industry | 7/8/2025

  Jordi García Brustenga, new Secretary of State for Industry

  Until now, García Brustenga was Director General for Industrial Strategy and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the Ministry of Industry and Tourism. The new Secretary of State holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration from Pompeu Fabra University, an Executive Master's Degree in Public Management (EMPA) from ESADE, and an official Master's Degree in Strategic Management and Business Communication from the University of Vic.

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  Tourism | 7/4/2025

  International tourists will spend around €58 billion in Spain this summer, 3.8% more than in 2024.

  In June, July, August and September, almost 42 million international tourists are expected in Spain, 3.2% more than in the same period in 2024 Jordi Hereu highlights the attractiveness of a leading tourism sector, an international benchmark in terms of quality and sustainability thanks to the boost provided by unprecedented public investment in recent decades Once again this summer, tourist spending will be higher than the number of visitors, which is in line with the Government's philosophy of prioritising quality over quantity, one of the fundamental axes of the change in the tourism model Spain will continue to grow in terms of tourists in the high season, but at a slower rate than in the rest of the year, which contributes to consolidating the change in the tourism model towards de-seasonalisation and de-concentration of destinations The minister closed the El Escorial summer course run by the Secretary of State for Tourism on the capacity of administrations to provide the sector with new instruments to govern the tourism of the future

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  Industry | 7/3/2025

  Hereu reminds that on Monday 7th the period for submitting projects to the PERTE VEC IV battery line opens

  During his speech, the minister highlighted the value of the PowerCo gigafactory project, which has an investment of €3 billion and will generate more than 20,000 direct and indirect jobs. The Minister for Industry recalled that this project has been awarded more than €260 million from the PERTE VEC, an instrument to support private companies in the sector that has already allocated €2,500 billion to innovation and development projects in the Spanish motor sector, benefiting more than 300 companies.