• The Ministry of Finance is organizing the third annual European Funds project competition "#EuropaSeSiente" to highlight the results of European funds support in Spain.
• The competition has a multi-fund approach so that projects that have received funding from shared management European funds (ERDF – including the European Territorial Cooperation objective –, ESF+, ISF, IGFV, AMIF, FEMPA, FTJ, EAFRD and EAGF), as well as projects from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), financed by the Recovery and Resilience Facility (Next Generation – EU) are eligible.
• Applications must be submitted by June 6, 2025. Winners will be announced in October 2025.
• In the 2024 edition, two rural projects were awarded: “Millo e Landras” and “Somnia”.

European funding is a key pillar for promoting development and innovation in rural Spanish projects. Thanks to it, many dreams in rural Spain become reality, empowering their communities. Likewise, European funds support projects in the Spanish countryside, supporting the agricultural and livestock sector and, with them, their communities and the general public. Hence the importance of highlighting these initiatives so that they are recognized and serve as inspiration for undertaking new projects.

For this reason, the Ministry of Finance is organizing the third annual European Funds project competition, "#EuropaSeSiente," to highlight the results of European fund support in Spain.

In this new 2025 edition, the competition is once again seeking projects that have received funding from European funds. These funds include shared management funds – ERDF (including the European Territorial Cooperation Goal), ESF+, ISF, IGFV, AMIF, FEMPA, JTF, and EAFRD. and EAGF - as well as the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) projects, funded by the Recovery and Resilience Facility ( Next Generation – EU ).

Presentations: bases and deadlines

This edition will be structured in three phases, as described in therules , with the winners being announced at the end of the final phase, which will be held in October 2025 in the town of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, as part of the 2025 European Funds Annual Event.

Applications must be submitted using the followingform before 11:59 p.m. on June 6, 2025.

Again, projects can be submitted in 6 categories :

1. #EuropeFeelsCompetitive category, for projects focused on industrial transformation, support for SMEs, research promotion, and digitalization .

2. #EuropeFeelsGreen category, for projects focused on energy transition, the fight against climate change, sustainable agriculture, environmental protection, environmental rehabilitation, biodiversity, the circular economy, or the efficient use of resources.

3. #EuropeFeelsConnected category, from the perspective of the transport of goods and the mobility of people. This category featured projects focused on sustainable mobility, environmentally friendly transport, the efficient and safe movement of people, and effective and secure border management, among others.

4. #EuropeFeelsSocial category, for projects that seek to promote inclusion, non-discrimination, and gender equality at all levels, including, among others, the reintegration of disadvantaged people into the labor market, family reconciliation, and educational strategies, as well as asylum-related actions.

5. #EuropeFeelsClose category, for projects aimed at the sustainable and inclusive development of rural areas, or supporting local and regional strategies that help address specific development challenges in certain areas.

6. #EuropeMovesYou category, which addresses a topic of special interest that represents a global challenge for the immediate future. This year's category will focus on resilience and will include projects that contribute to the adaptation of an organization or system to adverse situations with positive results.

Nominations in past editions

In 2024, two rural projects were honored at the "EuropaSeSiente" Awards, among all the finalists: Millo e Landras (Galicia) and Somnia (Valencia). Millo e Landras won in the #EuropaSeSiente Verde category, and Somnia won in the #Europasesiente Cercana category.

The awards ceremony took place on June 20 and 21, 2025, in Cádiz (Andalusia), at a gala held in the town of Chiclana. The four selected primary sector projects attended in person, along with the other 14 nominated projects that drew from other funding sources.

Meanwhile, in its first edition in 2023 , there were 3 projects that were finalists: Cielos Andaluces, Broadband extension in municipalities (Asturias):   Adamo , and Living Museums   (Castilla y León and Galicia) . Finally, Adamo won the #EuropeFeelsClose category for his project to expand broadband in rural municipalities in Asturias, where he managed to bring fiber optics to nearly 30,000 families in hard-to-reach areas, significantly contributing to the fight against depopulation.