This call aims to develop ecosystems and innovative interregional environments that are more connected, oriented to the transfer, dissemination and valorisation of knowledge, promoting collaborative and participatory models among the different agents of the system (public administrations, intermediate agents, knowledge generating centers, companies, especially SMEs, knowledge transfer offices, end users and civil society, among others), as well as support for social and territorial cohesion.
It is about creating supra-regional ecosystems focused on the elaboration of work plans, technological and innovation roadmaps shared between different autonomous communities, establishing common objectives and collaboration methodologies.
The definition of this call has been made jointly by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the CDTI, with the support of the Network of R+D+I Policies (IDI Network), an essential element of multi-level strategic coordination between the Autonomous Communities (CCAA) and the General State Administration (AGE), in order to collaborate in the mobilization of resources and access to European funding under the best conditions, all in the field of R+D+I.
This form of coordination seeks to provide a new strategic and operational vision to the processes of knowledge transfer in R&D, to underpin the capacities and cooperation of Spanish innovation ecosystems, promoting advances for territorial transformation with innovative and sustainable solutions to those shared sociotechnical challenges.
In this sense, the call is embodied in the Complementary Plan of Knowledge Transfer, an initiative in development of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities that reflects the joint effort of the Public Administrations to improve the capacities of knowledge transfer in regional innovation ecosystems, aimed at facing shared challenges (social, economic and/or technological) both current and future.
For this call, the following sociotechnical challenges have been identified:
- Challenge I: The fair and equitable ecological transition: towards an integrated agri-food system of environmental sustainability, social cohesion and health promotion.
- Challenge II: Energy transition towards a robust, efficient and sustainable electrical system: clean energies as a decarbonisation engine, economic prosperity and social equity in a sustainable society.
- Challenge III: Preserving to transform: the vital heritage as a strategic vector of balanced and sustainable territorial development
- Challenge IV: Determinants in health and care: The new socio-economic spaces.
- Challenge V: Systemic transformation towards sustainable, connected, efficient and safe mobility.
Calls
Summary sheet of the assistance
Ecosystems of Innovation and Transfer
Financing of actions to support the development of ecosystems and innovative interregional environments aimed at the transfer, dissemination and valorisation of knowledge, promoting collaborative models, promoting scientific-technological culture among the different agents of the system, as well as social and territorial cohesion.
Groupings of 4 to 8 entities. At least one knowledge-generating centre and a company or business association must participate in the group.
The entities that can form the consortium are:
- Companies
- Public research bodies
- Universities and their university research institutes
- Accredited Health Research Institutes
- State-level Technology Centers and Technology Innovation Support Centers
- Other public or private R&D&I centres
- Organizations supporting technology transfer, dissemination and dissemination of technology and science
- Associations and foundations.
- Public Administrations.
Commercial companies will not be able to exceed 30% of the eligible budget.
Competitive concurrence with specific submission deadlines.
The deadline for submitting applications will be open from December 17, 2025 to February 12, 2026.
Next opening.
Subvention.
14,282,014 euros.
Existe un reparto de fondos disponibles por CCAA (ver convocatoria, artículo 4).
This aid is governed by the de minimis regulation.
The aid intensity may not exceed the maximum of ERDF cofinancing according to the CAAC for the development of activities.
- Less developed regions (up to 85%): Andalusia, Castile-La Mancha, Ceuta, Extremadura and Melilla.
- Regions in transition (up to 60% and up to 85% in the Canary Islands): Baleares, Canarias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Valencian Community, Galicia, La Rioja, Principado de Asturias and Region of Murcia.
- Developed regions (up to 40%): Aragon, Catalonia, Community of Madrid, Navarre and Basque Country.
The individualised amount of aid shall be determined on the basis of the actual eligible cost of the action, the budgetary availability, the maximum percentage of ERDF cofinancing according to the development region in accordance with Article 4.5 of the call for proposals, and the maximum amount of ERDF funds available in each region, as laid down in Article 4.3 of the call for proposals.
Multiannual actions, in at least three of the eligible AAC, for the realization of:
- Analysis and diagnostics for the identification of sociotechnical and thematic challenges of interest to the supra-ecosystem; the design, concretion and planning of roadmaps to address common sociotechnical problems and challenges.
- Activities that enable and strengthen collaboration and knowledge transfer within and between related or complementary regional ecosystems, contributing to create a stable organizational structure of a supra-regional nature, which brings together several CAAC.
- Support activities such as training, dissemination, stimulation and advisory workshops to promote awareness, knowledge transfer, training and cooperation, oriented towards innovation and new models of socio-economic development.
- Definition, concretion and planning of proposals for public-private cooperation initiatives for the resolution of the identified challenges.
The eligible CCAAs are:
- Andalucia
- Aragon
- Asturias
- Balearic Islands
- Canaries
- Cantabria
- Castile-La Mancha
- Castile and Leon
- Catalonia
- Valencian Community
- Extremadura
- Galicia
- La Rioja
- Murcia
- Navarre
- Basque Country
Minimum Eligible Budget: 120,000 euros
Maximum Eligible Budget: 1,000,000 euros
Minimum eligible budget per entity: 30,000 euros
Duration: start in 2026. Completion: December 31, 2027 or June 30, 2028.
Balanced distribution of the budget over the duration of the project.
Participants will be responsible for any repayment obligations in relation to the activities they have undertaken to carry out. In case of non-compliance, all the members of the group will respond in solidarity up to the limit of the aid that would have been granted for their participation in the project.
The availability of FEDER funds in all the Autonomous Communities in which the project is located will be a requirement for obtaining funding.
Yes, FEDER funds 2021-2027.
No. No.
The objectives of the actions must be framed in at least one of the 5 socio-technical challenges described in Annex I of the call for proposals.
The following direct implementation costs will be accepted:
- Personnel costs: may be for the beneficiary’s own personnel or for new hires, except for those beneficiaries to whom the marginal cost modality provided for in article 9.9 of Order CNU/161/2025 of 7 February applies. They must correspond to a work center where the performance takes place.In no case the costs of personnel charged may have FEDER cofinancing additional to that offered in this call for proposals.
- Costs of acquiring fungible material, supplies and similar products.
- Costs of contracting external services and subcontracting.
- Costs arising from the training of personnel associated with the action.
- Costs derived from consulting, conducting studies, dissemination, events and advertising.
- Costs arising from the management of facilities and supporting infrastructure for the organisation of training programmes, workshops, conferences and for promoting the exchange of knowledge and networking, as well as transnational cooperation.
- The travel expenses that derive directly from the action linked to the coordination and networking meetings between the members of the group.
- The expense derived from the report made by an auditor.
- The cost of carrying out the validation opinion of compliance with the DNSH of the application.
Indirect costs shall be calculated on the basis of a fixed rate of 7% of the validly justified total costs of the action.
The evaluation criteria are contained in Order CNU 161 /2025 of 7 February.
- Constitution and capacities of the ecosystem: 30 points (threshold 10 points).
- Quality of the proposal and action plan of the proposal: 30 points.
- Expected scientific-technological, socio-economic and industrial impacts: 40 points.
The aid granted through this line can only be accumulated with other de minimis aid.
Resolution of 10 December 2025 of the Presidency of the Centre for Technological Development and Innovation E.P.E., approving the call for the granting of aid for Innovation and Transfer Ecosystems, linked to the Complementary Plan for Knowledge Transfer, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), within the framework of the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2024-2027.