105 million euros to subsidize R&D projects in ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR INTEGRATION IN THE VALUE CHAINS (includes AGRO-FOOD sector)

28/09/2021

On July 23, 2020, the Digital Spain 2025 Plan was presented, an updated Agenda that promotes the Digital Transformation of Spain as one of the fundamental levers to relaunch economic growth, reduce inequality, increase productivity and take advantage of all the opportunities these new technologies provide.

On September 8, 2020, the Minister Council approved the Spanish Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation 2021-2027, which is the basic instrument to consolidate and strengthen the Science, Technology and Innovation System (SECTI) in the next seven years. Later, on April 27, 2021, was approved the “Next Generation EU” Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan for the Spanish economy.

In this framework, is launched the Call for proposals 2021 for research and development projects in Artificial Intelligence and other digital technologies and their integration into value chains.

The purpose of this grants is promote scientific research, technological development and innovation in artificial intelligence in order to incorporate it into the production processes of value chains. The beneficiaries of the grants will be selected on a competitive basis to finance eligible projects and actions with the following characteristics: Development of strategic areas of business I+D+i and entrepreneurship in the field of technology.

The total budget for grants amounts to €105,000,000, with €50M for industrial research projects and €55M for experimental development projects.

  • Industrial research: It’s aimed at acquiring new knowledge and skills that may be useful to develop new products, processes or services, or to significantly improve existing ones.
  • Experimental development: Use of existing knowledge and techniques, of a scientific, technological, or business nature, with a view to developing new or improved products, processes or services.

La cuantía de las subvenciones dependerá del tamaño de la empresa solicitante y de la difusión que haga de los resultados.
Figuran en el Anexo I del Reglamento (UE) nº 651/2014 de la Comisión, de 17 de junio de 2014.

Requests will submit through the form provided for this purpose in the Electronic Headquarters of Red.es 

The following are not eligible: public enterprises, public law entities, non-profit entities, groups of natural or legal persons, associations or foundations (including federations, confederations or unions of these), civil societies, communities of property or any other type of economic unit or separate estate that does not have legal personality.

The documentation to be submitted includes the project report, agreements with third parties, economic information and a report on the incentive effect.

The deadline for submitting requests October 8, 2021 at 11:59 p.m.

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