- The call will have a grant of 9 million euros in grants and will be open until next May 20
- These grants will be aimed at R&D projects that apply technologies such as big data, blockchain, supercomputing, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things or 5G, among others
The Ministry of Economy and Business, through a resolution signed by the Secretary of State for Digital Advance, has published the call for the granting of R&D grants in the field of Digital Enabling Technologies. The call is endowed with a budget of 9 million euros in grants.
Within the scope of the published call, Digital Enabling Technologies are considered to be those information and communications technologies with high impact and disruptive capacity, strategic for the development and digital transformation of the economy and society. The objective of the call is to strengthen the competitiveness of Spanish companies in the set of Digital Enabling Technologies through R&D activities.
The projects submitted to the call will focus, preferably, on the use and application of the Internet of Things and future 5G communication networks, technologies for the treatment of mass data and distributed databases (blockchain), supercomputing (HPC), diffuse and cloud computing, natural language processing, robotics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, micro / nano electronics, cybersecurity, biometrics and digital identity. The empowerment of these technologies is aligned with the priorities that the European Union will promote in the next Community legislative period through the Digital Europe and Horizon Europe programs.
The deadline for submitting applications begins the day after the publication of the extract of this resolution in the Official State Gazette and ends on May 20, 2019. The full resolution of the call is available in the help portal.
The grants are aimed at individual R&D projects with a minimum investment of € 200,000, which can range from the proof of concept of a technology to the development of a non-commercial prototype. The aid intensity will be up to 80% and will take into account the level of maturity of the technology, the gender impact and the transparency and dissemination of the project results
