The CALL FOR SCIENCE AND INNOVATION MISSIONS 2021 has just been published with grants totaling 141,250,000 euros from the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism for competitive research projects in cooperation. The Center for Technological and Industrial Development (CDTI) will finance large business R&D projects through this program aimed at addressing relevant societal challenges:
- Promote 21st-century Spanish agriculture: sustainable, smart, resource-efficient, and adapted to Climate Change.
- Promote safe, efficient, and clean energy for the 21st century
- Promote sustainable and intelligent intermodal transport
- Boost the Spanish industry in the 21st-century industrial revolution
- Provide the necessary cybersecurity for 21st-century Spanish society: enhancing information security and privacy
- Boost tourism development by exploiting the possibilities of technology and artificial intelligence
- Promote the circular economy through new recycling technologies and valorization of polymer waste in Spain
- Enhance high-performance computing
- Advance and enhance the technological training of the Spanish biopharmaceutical industry to foster R&D efforts in the area of vaccines and advanced therapies.
One of the included thematic Missions is “Boosting Spanish agriculture of the 21st century: sustainable, smart, efficient in water resource consumption, and adapted to Climate Change”. Given the interest this call has for our sector, BIOVEGEN has prepared a report to convey the most relevant aspects of this program.
- Version: July 2021