One-liner: the textile-employers cluster (Ontinyent) — the corporate demand side for textile/fashion/smart-textile startups; pairs with AITEX for testing.
What a founder gets
- Live grants/subvenciones tracker (open/closed calls filtered by type: digitalization, R&D, innovation, internationalization, financing) — a textile-specific lens on the same national/regional aid a founder would otherwise have to hunt for alone.
- R&D+i fiscal-deduction filing ("Tramitación Expedientes de Deducciones Fiscales") — a non-grant financing route: 12% of collection-design spend, 12% of innovation-project spend, 25–42% of R&D-execution spend, recovered as tax deduction.
- Corporate-demand access: as the employers' association for the sector, ATEVAL is the fastest route to introduce a textile-tech product/service to incumbent Valencian textile manufacturers.
- Training (coaching workshops, Lean Manufacturing program, Industry 4.0 talent workshops) and studies (circular-economy positioning, cost-reduction analysis for electro-intensive textile industry).
- Pilot projects: digital-transformation-in-textiles pilot program.
- Lobby/representation function ("Lobby Empresarial") — sector voice with public administration on regulation and funding design.
Who it's for
- Textile, fashion, and smart-textile companies and suppliers — both traditional manufacturers seeking digitalization/innovation aid and tech startups selling into the textile value chain (testing pairs naturally with AITEX).
How to engage
- Membership/contact via ateval@ateval.com · +34 962 913 030 · C/ Els Telers 20, Ontinyent (Valencia). Client hours: Mon-Thu 9h-14:30h & 15h-18h, Fri 9h-15h.
- Non-members can still browse the open-calls tracker at ateval.com/subvenciones-y-ayudas to see what's live.
Key facts
- Founded 1977 (first textile employers' association registered in Spain); president Pepe Serna. HQ: C/ Els Telers 20, Ontinyent, +34 96 291 30 30.
- Runs a live grants/subvenciones tracker for members, R&D fiscal-deduction filing (12% collection design, 12% innovation, 25–42% R&D), Lean Manufacturing training and digital-transformation pilots.
- Also runs European, regional and national project lines ("Proyectos europeos / regionales / nacionales") as a channel for member co-participation in EU-funded consortia.
- Team confirmed 2026-07-05 (ateval.com/el-equipo-ateval): president Pepe Serna, gerente Salomé Beneyto — both known_contacts CONFIRMED current, no change. Staff roster: Laura Santos (Competitiveness & Innovation), Mónica García (Administration), Julia Vercher (European Projects), Leila Bachetarzi (International Promotion), Noelia Martínez (Circular Economy/CSR), Verónica Ferre, Alba Tudela, Garazi Sánchez, Eugenia Miguel, Gema Miró.
- Grants tracker checked 2026-07-05 (ateval.com/subvenciones-y-ayudas): all 5 listed convocatorias show "Plazo cerrado" (closed) — internacionalización IVACE (closed 15/06/2026), contratación jóvenes internacionalización (closed 15/05/2026), INNOVATeiC-CV (closed 05/05/2026), INNOVAProD-CV (closed 05/05/2026), Sistema Valenciano de Innovación AVI (closed 23/04/2026), industrialización PYMEs (closed 10/03/2026). No new open calls as of run date — monitor for next-round reopenings, particularly the IVACE energy-efficiency 2026 call referenced in ATEVAL's news feed (see Notes below).
Relations
- Funded by: IVACE+i Cluster Program
- Partners with: AITEX
- See also: Textiles (niche)