Head of Division: Teresa del Barrio Juanes.

Contact: Torrelaguna street 58 bis.

Email: dpro@aei.gob.es

Principal functions:

The head of Economic and Administrative Management and Programming Division has as main functions:

• Coordinate the dependent subdivisions.
• Control the application of the regulations on state grants, in coordination with the SEIDI.
• Plan and coordinate the execution of the calendar of calls contemplated in the annual action program approved by SEIDI.
• Coordinate with the Division of Coordination, Evaluation and Scientific and Technical Monitoring the planning, distribution and control of the budget assigned to each call.

Head of Subdivision: Eusebio García Pascual.

Contact: Torrelaguna street 58 bis.

Email: seco@aei.gob.es

Principal functions:

La Economic Management Branch tiene encomendada, en coordinación con la Secretaría General las siguientes funciones principales:

• The planning and financial management and the management and realization of payments derived from the actions of the AEI.
• The management of AEI actions derived from collaboration agreements and agreements signed with other national and international entities.

The Grant Monitoring and Justification Subdivision has as its functions the control and economic-financial monitoring of the actions financed and the grant granted by the AEI whose economic monitoring is the responsibility of said Subdivision.

Head of Subdivision: Carmen Mena Valverde.

Contact: Torrelaguna street 58 bis.

Email: sjus@aei.gob.es

Emails: the economic justification inquiry form directed from the economic management department of the beneficiary entity is accessible through the link Economic Justification Inquiries.

• Queries on the economic justification of the grant of the announcements (including the announcements for R+D and RTC Projects co-financed with FEDER):
  • PID - R+D Projects Modalities «Research Challenges», «Excellence» and «Generation of Knowledge»
  • PDC - R+D+I Projects to carry out «Proof of Concept»
  • PLE - R+D+I projects in «strategic lines»
  • TED - Strategic projects oriented towards the ecological and digital transition
  • RTC/CPP - R+D+I Projects «Collaboration Challenges» and «Public-Private Collaboration»
  • EXP - "Explore Science" and "Explore Technology" projects
  • PCI - R+D+I Projects «International Joint Programming»
  • ERC/EUR - Promotion Actions «Europe of excellence»
  • EUIN/EIN - Promotion Actions «Europe Research»
  • ECT - Europe Technology Centers
  • GPE - European Project Management
  • RED - Research/Networks of Excellence
  • PTR - Grant for Technology and Innovation Platforms
  • CEX - “Severo Ochoa” Centers of Excellence and “María de Maeztu” Units of Excellence
• Queries on the economic justification of Human Resources grant not co-financed by the European Social Fund:
  • JdC - Subprogram Juan de la Cierva-incorporation
  • FJC - Grant for contracts Juan de la Cierva-training
  • PTA - Technical Support Staff Subprogram
  • PTQ - Torres Quevedo Subprogram
  • DI - Grant for contracts for the training of researchers in companies (Industrial Doctorates)
  • IED - Grants to encourage the stable incorporation of doctors
  • EMP - Grant for hiring technologists to carry out R+D+I activities in SMEs (EMPLEA)
  • BES - Grants for pre-doctoral mobility for short stays in R+D centers
  • FPI - Grants for the training of trainee researchers (announcements until 2013)
  • RYC - Ramón y Cajal Subprogram (announcements until 2014)

Emails for inquiries about field verifications in projects co-financed with FEDER and documentary requirement of 5% in FEDER projects:

• visitas.feder@aei.gob.es. Consultations on on-site verifications in R+D and equipment projects
• visitas.rtc@aei.gob.es. Consultations on on-site verifications in public-private collaboration projects Collaboration Challenges co-financed with FEDER
• cincoporciento.feder@aei.gob.es. Consultations on the procedure of the documentary requirement of 5% carried out on R+D projects co-financed with FEDER

Principal functions:

Specifically, this Branch performs the following main tasks:

• Carry out economic and financial control and monitoring of the actions financed by the AEI, whose economic monitoring is the responsibility of said Subdivision: receipt and verification of the justifications presented by the entities benefiting from the grant. Notification of rectification requirements and study of the allegations presented.
• Process refund procedures when appropriate, as a result of checking the justifications presented.
• When applicable as a result of a reimbursement resolution, issuance of payment letters and request for models 069 to the Delegated Intervention and update of the amortization tables of loans granted.
• Preparation of annual plans for field verifications, carrying out visits, and generation of provisional and final reports.
• Attention to audits by control bodies: involves collecting documentation, reviewing it, submitting it, coordinating and preparing allegations and, where appropriate, preparing and executing action plans.
• Issue reports on appeals filed against resolutions issued in grant verification procedures.
• Monitoring of the execution of the resolutions of appeals for reinstatement and sentences handed down by administrative litigation.
• Preparation of reports requested by the Delegations of Economy and Finance and the AEAT in relation to reimbursement files, return of quotas and the Enforcement procedure.

The European Fund Grants Management Subdivision is entrusted with:

• Planning, coordination, management and monitoring of AEI actions co-financed with European funds.
• Certifications to the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) and the European Social Fund (FSE) of expenses related to operations managed by the AEI.

Head of Subdivision: José María Ocón y Alcoceba.

Contact: Torrelaguna street 58 bis.

Email: safe@aei.gob.es

Principal functions:

Specifically, this subdivision performs the following main tasks:

• Plan, coordinate and manage the Community Structural Funds assigned to the AEI.
• Carry out the economic and financial monitoring of calls co-financed with the FEDER and the FSE (*):
  • In the calls co-financed by the FSE (Ramón y Cajal Program, Grants for the Promotion of Youth Employment and Implementation of the Youth Guarantee and Predoctoral Contracts for the Training of Doctors), or others that have this co-financing in the future.
  • In the calls co-financed by the FEDER, those for the Acquisition of Scientific-Technical Equipment.
• Manage the certifications to the FEDER and the FSE through the telematic applications enabled by the General Directorate of Community Funds and the Administrative Unit of the FSE (UAFSE).
• Implement fraud control measures (ex ante and ex post evaluation).
• Coordinate State grants within the scope of the AEI, together with the SEIDI.
• Issue reports on appeals filed against decisions issued in the procedures that are the responsibility of this subdivision.

(*) The economic and financial monitoring of the rest of the calls corresponds to the Subdivision of Monitoring and Justification of Grants.

The Planning and Administrative Management Subdivision is entrusted with the operational management of the administrative procedures for granting rants, being the instructing body for said granting procedures.

Head of Subdivision: Israel Marqués Martín.

Contact: Torrelaguna street 58 bis.

Email: sol@aei.gob.es

Principal functions:

Specifically, this subdivision performs the following main tasks:

• Coordinate the preparation, approval and publication of calls for grants.
• Attend and advise applicants and potential beneficiaries during the application submission and processing phase.
• Carry out the administrative review of the applications and the correction of defects and Process the resolutions of withdrawal and inadmissibility that are appropriate.
• Send the files to the evaluation applications, for their scientific-technical, economic and financial evaluation.
• Monitor the correct receipt of the evaluation reports and the financing proposal.
• Convene the evaluation commission whose report will serve as the basis for approving the provisional resolution proposal.
• Formulate and notify the provisional resolution proposal and open the hearing process.
• Process the allegations and, if necessary, send them to the evaluation systems.
• Request as many other reports as required by the call or by applicable regulations.
• Formulate and notify the final resolution proposal and send it to the Economic Management Branch for the corresponding economic and accounting procedures.
• Notify the concession resolution to the beneficiary.
• Manage the reception and verification of the employment contracts that are presented after the concession resolution, in the actions in which this is required in the call.
• Issue reports on the appeals that are submitted during the entire investigation phase of the calls and until the granting, upon request, when appropriate, of complementary reports to other units.

In addition, this subdivision is responsible for the Management of the Entities System (SISEN), processing the additions, deletions and modifications of both registered entities and their legal representatives, as well as, when the entry into force occurs, of manage the request for information to the AGE Power of Attorney Registry.