The 2021 SCIENCE AND INNOVATION MISSIONS Call has just been published, offering grants amounting to 141,250,000 euros from the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism for competitive research projects in collaboration. The Center for Technological and Industrial Development (CDTI) will finance large business R&D projects through this program aimed at addressing significant societal challenges:
- Promote 21st-century Spanish agriculture: sustainable, smart, efficient in water resource consumption, and adapted to Climate Change.
- Promote a safe, efficient, and clean energy for the 21st century
- Promote a sustainable and smart intermodal transport
- Promote Spanish industry in the 21st century industrial revolution
- Ensure necessary cybersecurity for 21st-century Spanish society: enhancing information security and privacy
- Boost tourism development by leveraging the possibilities of technology and artificial intelligence
- Foster the circular economy through new recycling technologies and the valorization of polymeric waste in Spain
- Advance high-performance computing
- Promote the technological advancement and training of the Spanish biopharmaceutical industry to foster R&D actions in the field of vaccines and advanced therapies.
One of the thematic missions included is “Boosting Spanish agriculture in the 21st century: sustainable, smart, resource-efficient, and adapted to Climate Change”, therefore, given the interest that this call has for our sector, from BIOVEGEN we have prepared a report to communicate the most relevant aspects of this program to our partners.