FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE MADRID IMPACTA AWARD

Until Thursday 5 de junio de 2025 a las 23:59 horas.

However, we recommend that you not hurry until the end of the term, since you may encounter technical problems when using your digital certificate. 

Companies that meet the following requirements may participate:

1. Being an SME according to the definition established in the Recommendation of the European Commission of May 6, 2003 (DOUE» no. 124, of May 20, 2003).
2. Have any of the following legal forms:
   • Physical persons: individual or self-employed entrepreneur, limited liability entrepreneur, community property and civil partnerships.
   • Legal persons: public limited company, limited company, new company limited company, labor limited company, cooperatives and associations that carry out an economic activity on a regular basis.

If you are not incorporated in any of these legal forms, you do not meet the participation requirements.

Other requirements to participate are:

Companies, regardless of the legal form indicated above, must haber iniciado su actividad empresarial a partir el 1 de enero de 2018. And, furthermore, there must be issued billing for the project for which the award is submitted.

Las empresas candidatas han de disponer de un proyecto de emprendimiento social, original, creativo, disruptivo and innovative, con o sin base tecnológica, orientado a dar respuesta a situaciones complejas. Un proyecto emprendedor con impacto positivo y que, por tanto, no solo genere un beneficio económico para el negocio sino también para la sociedad en su conjunto.

A measurable social impact project characterized by developing new products or services, identifying new customer segments, alleviating shortage problems in any sector (health, food, housing or similar), implementing automation and digitization of traditional sectors, training in skills digital and technological or similar.

Do not.

El Premio Madrid Impacta 2025 va dirigido a empresas en funcionamiento.

Si no sabes si estás dentro de la definición europea de pyme, puedes emplear la herramienta ¿Soy una pyme?

Completa el test y sal de dudas.

Yes, as long as you carry out an economic activity on a regular basis, otherwise no.

Do not.

Yes, if you have started billing before to present yourself for this award. Yes No No.

The call requires that the participating companies have started their activity after the January 1, 2018, regardless of the date on which they were constituted or registered as autonomous.

Companies created before that date and that have started activity can be presented, if they are presented with a new line of business started between January 1, 2018 and the date of publication of the call, the 21 de abril de 2025. This requirement must be accredited.

Only winning applications will be requested to prove this with the presentation of the Certificate of census status issued by the State Tax Administration Agency, in order to verify the start date of the company's activity.

Applications must be submitted, along with the required documentation, in the Registry of the Madrid City Council:

• Electronically, accessing the Electronic Headquarters of the Madrid City Council: Solicitud de participación en el premio Madrid Impacta 2025. In this case, one of the electronic identification systems accepted by Madrid City Council must be used.

The legal persons, entities without legal personality and other subjects bound by article 14.2 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations, are required to submit the application by electronic means.

• in person, in the registry offices of the Madrid City Council. They may also be presented through the other forms provided for in article 16.4 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations.

El plazo de presentación de solicitudes finalizará el 5 de junio a las 23:59 horas.

You have to present:

1. The solicitud de la convocatoria de participación en el premio Madrid Impacta 2025.
2. The executive Summary (documento de extensión máxima de 5 páginas), redactado en español, ciñendo la información de los puntos detallados en la convocatoria.
3. The identificación del equipo promotor deberá ser una breve reseña de la persona o de cada una de las personas promotoras del proyecto. Todo ello, incluido dentro del resumen ejecutivo sin exceder el límite de páginas.

Aquí te ofrecemos un modelo del resumen ejecutivo que te puede servir para cumplimentar y adjuntar en la solicitud. Se podrán presentar imágenes y gráficos de apoyo, pero siempre sin superar el límite de 5 páginas. 

Yes, it is national.

The tax domicile of the company has no influence, as long as it is in Spain.

Even if you live abroad, you can participate in the prize, but you must take into account that, if you go to the second phase, you will be summoned to the elevator pitch, brief presentation before the jury, which is face-to-face

If you don't show up at elevator pitch, you would be automatically disqualified.

write to us premiomadridimpacta@madrid.es and we will answer you as soon as possible.