CDTI RELEASES DRAFT CALL FOR 2025 CDTI SCIENCE AND INNOVATION MISSIONS
The 2025 call for proposals is expected to open in May-June
We are pleased to inform you that the 2025 Call for Proposals for the CDTI SCIENCE AND INNOVATION MISSIONS Program (Centre for the Development of Technology and Innovation) is expected to open in May-June. The draft for public consultation has just been published, outlining proposals for the upcoming major strategic challenges for Spanish RDI.
The objective of this program is to finance cooperative RD projects, led by companies, that address the socioeconomic challenges faced by developed societies. It will have a budget allocation of at least 50 million euros, with no fixed amount reserved for each Mission.
Among the proposals for this edition are lines of work focused on artificial intelligence and automation, the circular economy, sustainable mobility, and biotechnology applied to health.
This program is consolidating as a great opportunity to foster research and technological development in the business sector, offering a series of advantages that can boost the growth of your projects.
We provide an advance on the main characteristics of this program, pending confirmation once the call for proposals is published:
BENEFICIARIES:
Business consortia formed by a minimum of 2 and up to 6 companies, where at least two are autonomous from each other, and at least one is an SME.
TYPES OF PROJECTS:
Collaborative RDI projects that fall within one of the missions identified in the call, so that their objectives are oriented towards one or more of the proposed areas of improvement for the mission. However, submitted projects may propose new additional objectives complementary to those already defined, provided they are consistent with the selected mission.
According to the aforementioned draft, the country challenges or goals for the 2025 call will be:
- Competitiveness: Promote a competitive, productive industry that generates quality employment.
- Autonomy: Boost strategic autonomy.
- Sustainability: Promote innovation for environmental and social sustainability.
- Inclusion and equality: Inclusive and responsible innovation.
- Demographic challenge.
The technologies and areas of action proposed in the draft are:
| 7 Missions (technologies) | Areas of action |
| Innovation in the care model to reduce hospital stays and care pressure. | · Prevention and early diagnosis.
· Decentralized out-of-hospital models. · Reduction of hospitalization |
| Responsible artificial intelligence. | · Bias-free and anonymized AI.
· Transparency and explainability. · Human supervision. |
| An interconnected and secure industry. | · Secure connections.
· Interoperability and standardization. · Optimization of logistics and supply chain management. |
| Secure territory management against adverse climatic phenomena. | · Prevention and risk analysis.
· Intelligent land use. · Increased resilience of buildings and transport and critical infrastructures. · Prevention and management of adverse effects derived from climate change. |
| Strategic sovereignty in fundamental raw materials for industry and energy transition. | · Extraction and processing of existing strategic resources.
· Reduction of strategic material needs. · Circularity and reuse of strategic raw materials. |
| Capacity building for strategic autonomy in security and defense. | · Information security and protection.
· Development of more efficient and lower-cost automated and remote management systems for security and defense applications. · Increased level of protection and security of critical infrastructures. |
| Sustainable mobility and decarbonization of collective and large-volume transport in Spain. | · Promotion of more efficient electrification solutions in CGV transport.
· Cost reduction in sustainable fuels. · Promotion of smarter logistics and combined transport solutions. · Smart Infrastructures and Networks |
PROJECT REQUIREMENTS:
- Project budget: between €1.5 and €6 M.
- Minimum budget per company: €175,000
- Balanced budget distribution throughout the project duration.
- No participant can be responsible for more than 70% of the project’s eligible budget.
- Subcontracting research organizations: minimum 5% of the eligible budget.
- Subcontracts per beneficiary: < 50% of their eligible budget.
- An internal agreement regulating the operation of the consortium must be signed.
- Incentive effect.
- Incompatible with any other public aid.
ELIGIBLE COSTS
The following direct execution costs are admissible:
- Personnel costs.
- Costs of instrumentation and inventory material.
- Costs of contractual research, technical knowledge, and patents acquired or licensed from external sources under arm’s length conditions.
- Consultancy costs and equivalent services exclusively for the project.
- Consultancy activities to support the coordination tasks of the consortium representative (maximum: €15,000).
- General expenses and other additional operating expenses directly arising from the project.
- Audit report expense (maximum: €2,500/beneficiary).
The indirect costs: 20% of direct expenses.
AID:
Non-repayable grants of up to 80% for small companies, up to 75% for medium-sized companies, and up to 65% for large companies.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
Opening date: May-June. Closing 1.5 or 2 months.
If your company has a project that fits this call and you are interested in applying for funding, at IMPULSO we offer a comprehensive support service throughout the entire life of the application, from the preparation of the proposal to the final justification and collection. Thanks to our experience, you will be able to take advantage of this great funding opportunity.
31/03/2025
