2025 Call for Grants for RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND OTHER DUAL-USE TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR INTEGRATION INTO VALUE CHAINS

We at IMPULSO are pleased to remind you that the 2025 Call for GRANTS aimed at financing R&D PROJECTS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND OTHER DUAL-USE TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR INTEGRATION INTO VALUE CHAINS from the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, through Red.es, remains open.

These calls have a total budget allocation of €130 million.

Below, we summarize the main characteristics of these grants:

BENEFICIARIES

Companies that meet the following requirements:

• Tax domicile located in Spanish territory, or having a tax residence or permanent establishment in the territory.
• Not being subject to any of the prohibitions set forth in Article 13.2 of Law 38/2003, of November 17.
• Not being subject to a pending recovery order.
• Not being considered an undertaking in difficulty.
• Not being considered: public entities, public law entities, non-profit entities, groups of natural or legal persons, associations or foundations, professional associations, civil partnerships, communities of property, or any other type of economic unit or separate patrimony lacking legal personality.

PROJECT TYPES

Experimental development projects that include at least one of the following types of projects:

• Creation of prototypes.
• Execution of pilot projects.
• Testing and validation of new or improved products, processes, or services in environments representative of real operating conditions.

Projects must be developed in one of the following technological areas:

• Artificial intelligence technologies.
• Advanced connectivity, navigation, and digital technologies.
• Cybersecurity and security systems technologies.
• Internet of Things and virtual reality.
• Advanced detection technologies.
• Space technologies.
• Robotics and autonomous systems.
• Advanced materials and manufacturing technologies.

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS

• Individual projects.
• Duration: maximum execution period of 15 months from the publication of the Grant Award Resolution.
• Incentive effect.
• Competitive bidding.
• Budget: minimum eligible budget of €100,000 per project, and maximum of €5,000,000.
• They must be developed for application in any productive sector, except for healthcare activities.
• Indication of the possible dual use of the expected results.
• Each applicant may submit a maximum of 3 different projects.
• A maximum of 2 projects per applicant will be financed.
• In no case will developments subject to Law 13/2011, of May 27, on the regulation of gambling or that promote or contain content advocating violence or hatred be eligible for subsidies.

ELIGIBLE COSTS

• Personnel costs (maximum hourly cost €50/h).
• Indirect costs (15% of direct personnel costs).
• Costs of services provided by external personnel, contracts, and subcontracts (external hourly cost <€50/h).
• Expenses associated with the audit report (<1.5% of the budget).
• Instrument and material costs (<30% of the budget).

TYPE AND INTENSITY OF AID

Grant with the following maximum intensities:

Incompatible with other subsidies for the same eligible expenditure.

GUARANTEES AND ADVANCES

• Guarantees: required for obtaining an advance payment. It will amount to 100% of the advance.
• Expected payment: 40% advance payment, subject to the establishment of guarantees, and the remainder after justification.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

Open until September 30, 2025, at 12:00 PM.

10/09/2025