The Council of Ministers approved yesterday the new call for PROJECTS IN STRATEGIC LINES, aimed at financing industrial research projects in collaboration between companies and research organizations. The call will allocate €64.5 million in grants and €43 million in credits to projects in 23 strategic lines.
From BIOVEGEN we have prepared a report that describes the main characteristics of the call. Of particular interest to our sector is the line 2 (Sustainable improvement of plant productivity: development of innovative phytosanitary programs and products).
23 STRATEGIC LINES:
- Emerging animal diseases and zoonoses: from pathogen biodiversity to sustainable production of animal-based foods.
- Sustainable improvement of plant productivity: development of innovative phytosanitary programs and products.
- New systems for observation, modeling, and management of marine ecosystems.
- Plastic sustainability: synthesis, recycling, and valorization.
- A new generation of batteries.
- Efficient conversion of sunlight to fuels and chemical products.
- Smart building technologies.
- Smart strategies for urban and metropolitan mobility.
- Cultural heritage.
- Experimental implementation of quantum technologies.
- Robots to assist people.
- Sustainable fuels.
- Digital twins: modeling and design.
- New biofabrication strategies: from organs-on-a-chip, organoids, or 3D bioprinting to clinical application.
- Nanomaterials and nanotechnology for the diagnosis of human diseases.
- New approaches to understand the mechanisms and establish new strategies for immunotherapy of solid tumor cancers.
- Innovative approaches to enhance understanding and identification of novel therapeutic targets for atherosclerosis.
- Disinformation, deceptions, and fake news through public and private channels.
- Strategies to address depopulation and socio-spatial inequalities.
- Demographic change and the future of public services: health and pensions.
- Predictive maintenance of infrastructures through intelligent systems.
- Exploitation and modeling of complexity in risk forecasting scenarios.
- Plastics in natural environments.