The objective of Ekin + Program is to support the creation, promotion, growth and consolidation of innovative business projects in the city of San Sebastián, through the support in an initial period to entrepreneurs and recently created companies. This support consists of the validation, start-up, financing and maturation of innovative, accelerable and invertible projects, encouraging the creation of a high-performance community in innovative projects, and generating meeting spaces between new entrepreneurial initiatives and local tractor companies.The objective of Ekin + Program is to support the creation, promotion, growth and consolidation of innovative business projects in the city of San Sebastián, through the support in an initial period to entrepreneurs and recently created companies. This support consists of the validation, start-up, financing and maturation of innovative, accelerable and invertible projects, encouraging the creation of a high-performance community in innovative projects, and generating meeting spaces between new entrepreneurial initiatives and local tractor companies.

It is about supporting new business projects that present innovative solutions, both at a general level and those that support and and fave the challenges about the economic and social transformation that the COVID-19 pandemic has entailed.It is about supporting new business projects that present innovative solutions, both at a general level and those that support and and fave the challenges about the economic and social transformation that the COVID-19 pandemic has entailed.

The beneficiaries of the Ekin + 2020 Program can be:

  • Entrepreneurs with an innovative business project that will be established in San Sebastián on a date after the application is submitted.
  • Companies located in San Sebastián and recently created with an innovative business project and a maximum of 5 years old


The Ekin + program is presented as a comprehensive support tool that includes the following lines:

  1. Ekin + individual Assessment: expert mentoring and complementary support services.
  2. Ekin + Grant: economic grant for the dedication to achieve the objectives established during the Ekin + assessment phase.
  3. Validation of the project as an innovative project for the calls for programs and grants from Fomento de San Sebastián within the framework of the innovation and talent strategy.