{"id":15442,"date":"2021-01-19T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T09:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/new-call-for-cervera-grants-for-technology-centres\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T14:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T12:14:16","slug":"new-call-for-cervera-grants-for-technology-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/en\/new-call-for-cervera-grants-for-technology-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"New call for Cervera grants for Technology Centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][vc_empty_space el_class=&#8221;vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs&#8221;]<div class=\"vntd-special-heading\"style=\"margin-bottom:px;\"><h1 class=\"header  font-secondary\" >New call for Cervera grants for Technology Centres<\/h1><div class=\"header-strips-one \" ><\/div><h2 class=\"description normal \" >Within the framework of the State Programme for Knowledge Generation and Scientific and Technological Strengthening of the R&amp;D&amp;I System<\/h2><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1611048901856{margin-right: 20px !important;margin-left: 20px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;}&#8221;]At <strong>IMPULSO<\/strong>, we are pleased to inform you that the 2021 call for the <strong>GRANTS FOR CENTRES OF TECHNOLOGICAL EXCELLENCE \u201cCERVERA\u201d<\/strong> has now been published. These grants are intended to finance strategic cooperative research, development and innovation programmes carried out by Technology Centres and\/or Technology Innovation Support Centres at national level, <strong>in one of the Cervera priority technologies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Below, we summarize the <strong>main characteristics<\/strong> of these grants:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>BENEFICIARIES<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Groups of Technology Centres and\/or Technology Innovation Support Centres at national level registered in the Register of Technology Centres.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The groups must consist of a <strong>minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 centres<\/strong>. The coordinating entity of the group must be a Technology Centre. Each centre may submit a maximum of 3 applications (1 as coordinator).<\/p>\n<p>Centres that were beneficiaries for that same technology in the previous call of this programme may not receive aid under a Cervera priority technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>PROJECT TYPES<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Implementation, in cooperation, of strategic cooperative research, development and innovation programmes in one of the Cervera priority technologies, which are set out in Annex I of the call and are grouped into 11 broad areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advanced materials.<\/li>\n<li>Circular economy.<\/li>\n<li>Energy transition.<\/li>\n<li>Smart manufacturing.<\/li>\n<li>Health technologies.<\/li>\n<li>Safe and healthy food chain.<\/li>\n<li>Deep learning and Artificial Intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>Advanced mobile networks.<\/li>\n<li>Smart transport.<\/li>\n<li>Information protection.<\/li>\n<li>Quantum computing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>ELIGIBLE COSTS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All costs must be associated with the activities proposed in the strategic programme:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><u>Direct costs:<\/u><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Personnel costs dedicated to the project.<\/li>\n<li>Costs of purchase, rental, financial leasing (leasing), maintenance, repair and depreciation of tangible assets.<\/li>\n<li>Costs of purchasing consumables, supplies and similar products.<\/li>\n<li>Costs of acquiring intangible assets.<\/li>\n<li>Costs of applying for industrial and intellectual property rights.<\/li>\n<li>Costs of contract research, know-how and patents acquired or obtained under licence from external sources.<\/li>\n<li>Innovation support and advisory costs.<\/li>\n<li>Costs arising from conducting studies, and from the publication and dissemination of results.<\/li>\n<li>Costs arising from training staff associated with the action.<\/li>\n<li>Registration costs for congresses, seminars, conferences and technical workshops (maximum \u20ac10,000 per year and beneficiary).<\/li>\n<li>Costs of use of and access to ICTS and major scientific facilities, national or international.<\/li>\n<li>Audit costs (limit \u20ac2,000 per year and beneficiary).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><u>Indirect costs:<\/u><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Application of a 21% rate to the total duly justified eligible costs of the action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>PROJECT REQUIREMENTS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Minimum budget<\/strong> requested: <strong>\u20ac2,000,000<\/strong>. The minimum eligible budget will be \u20ac1,700,000.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maximum budget<\/strong> requested: <strong>\u20ac4,000,000<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Balanced annual budget distribution.<\/li>\n<li>The duration of the strategic programme will be <strong>3 calendar years<\/strong> (from the date determined in the award decision).<\/li>\n<li>Only <strong>non-economic<\/strong> R&#038;D&#038;I activities will be supported.<\/li>\n<li>The<strong> participation<\/strong> of the members of the group must be <strong>balanced<\/strong>, so that the coordinator does not exceed 50% of the requested budget and that of the partners is between 15% and 35% of the requested budget.<\/li>\n<li>Content requirements: <strong>Must align with the Cervera priority technology<\/strong> selected in the application.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TYPE AND INTENSITY OF AID<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The total amount of the<strong> grant will be up to 100% <\/strong>of the strategic programme submitted by the group.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>maximum individual amount<\/strong> of each grant per beneficiary group will be <strong>\u20ac4,000,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>SUBMISSION DEADLINE <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The application submission period will be  <strong>from February 1 to March 15, 2021 at 12:00.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>BUDGET ALLOCATION:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u20ac20,000,000<\/strong>, which may be increased to <strong>\u20ac40,000,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>19\/01\/2021<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243; offset=&#8221;vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs&#8221;][vc_empty_space][vc_wp_search][vc_basic_grid post_type=&#8221;post&#8221; max_items=&#8221;3&#8243; element_width=&#8221;12&#8243; item=&#8221;2633&#8243; initial_loading_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1611048835456-bb7b11e2-a2a7-1&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][vc_empty_space el_class=&#8221;vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1611048901856{margin-right: 20px !important;margin-left: 20px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;}&#8221;]At IMPULSO, we are pleased to inform you that the 2021 call for the GRANTS FOR CENTRES OF TECHNOLOGICAL EXCELLENCE \u201cCERVERA\u201d has now been published. These grants are intended to finance strategic cooperative research, development and innovation programmes carried out by Technology Centres and\/or Technology Innovation Support Centres at national level, in one of the Cervera priority technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[283,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-public-calls"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera.png",1117,550,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera.png",1117,550,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera.png",1117,550,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera-300x148.png",300,148,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera-1024x504.png",1024,504,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera.png",1117,550,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera.png",1117,550,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera-100x100.png",100,100,true],"bg-image":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera.png",1117,550,false],"fullwidth-landscape":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera-1117x500.png",1117,500,true],"sidebar-landscape":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera-880x380.png",880,380,true],"sidebar-auto":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera-880x433.png",880,433,true],"portfolio-square":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera-450x350.png",450,350,true],"portfolio-auto":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera-450x222.png",450,222,true],"square":["https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Cervera-270x270.png",270,270,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Ana Cordero","author_link":"https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/en\/author\/ana\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/en\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulso.es\/en\/category\/public-calls\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Public calls<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][vc_empty_space el_class=&#8221;vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1611048901856{margin-right: 20px !important;margin-left: 20px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;}&#8221;]At IMPULSO, we are pleased to inform you that the 2021 call for the GRANTS FOR CENTRES OF TECHNOLOGICAL EXCELLENCE \u201cCERVERA\u201d has now been published. 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