The CDTI is preparing the launch of the 2024 call of the Science and Innovation Missions programme.
This programme aims to objective foster research on cross-cutting and strategic challenges, improve the knowledge and technology base of Spanish companies and stimulate public-private cooperation in R&D&I.
For the 2024 call, the following have been defined eight missions to address the cross-cutting challenges of combating climate change, promoting energy transition, strengthening actions related to circular economy and sustainability, advancing in the digitalisation of industrial and economic activity, including e-health, and developing technologies that contribute to the development of the new Spanish industry.
- Sustainability and efficiency of air transport.
- Decontamination of ecosystems.
- More efficient, sustainable and environmentally friendly buildings environmentally friendly and adapted to climate change.
- Sustainability and efficiency in processing and packaging for a quality and safe food industry.
- Safe driving adapted to the new models of electro-mobility and autonomous vehicles.
- Development and strengthening of the Spanish integrated photonics ecosystem.
- Digital health: driving the development of bio-health technologies based on digital systems.
- Enabling technologies for the development of a flexible, automated, secure and intelligent logistics environment
Applied R&D projects will be submitted by consortia of between 2 and 6 companies led by SMEs (except micro-SMEs) or large companies, with a total budget of between 1.5 and 6 million euros (minimum 175,000 per company) and a minimum subcontracting of 5% of the project budget to research organisations.
The projects shall have a duration until 31 December 2025.
More information: https://www.cdti.es/sites/default/files/2024-04/nota_de_prensa_26042024_misiones.pdf
