The CDTI Innovation increases by 50 million euros the budgetary allocation of Cervera Aid for Technology Centers 2026

The CDTI Innovation, the innovation agency of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, has extended by 49,552,000 euros the budget of the 2026 call for Cervera Grants for Technology Centers, which goes from 20 to 69.55 million euros. The additional amount, coming from the Industrial and Technological Plan for Security and Defense, will go to the projects already presented around the priority technologies Cervera linked to security and defense.

The extension of credit has been published in the Official State Gazette on October 16 through excerpt from the resolution of the Presidency of the CDTI, of October 13, 2026 that declares the availability of this credit and extends the budget of the call for applications. The call, approved by a resolution of 3 June 2026, already provided for this possibility in its Article 4.2 to add up to EUR 50 million to the initial allocation if the available credit was increased before the granting of the aid. That forecast, which the CDTI Innovation announced when it opened the call in June, is now effective.

All the amount of additional credit will be used to finance applications in the priority technologies Cervera listed in Annex I of the call, defined in collaboration with the Ministry of Defense:

1. Advanced digital twins for the reinforcement of defence capabilities
2. Quantum sensors applied to defense
3. Enabling technologies for vehicles in hypersonic flight
4. Technologies for kinetic electromagnetic systems
5. Advanced metamaterials and nanomaterials for defence and security applications

The increase in credit, which will allow the financing of more strategic programs than would have allowed the initial endowment, is attributed to line 28.08.467C.74927 of the General State Budgets of 2023, extended for 2026, endowed with 150 million euros for CDTI grants within the Industrial and Technological Plan for Security and Defense.

This extension does not open a new deadline for applications or restart the deadline to resolve and will apply to the proposals submitted between June 11 and July 10, 2026, which the CDTI Innovation evaluates in competitive competition. On September 2, the investigating body published the request for correction of errors, and the following acts of the procedure will be notified through publication on the CDTI website.

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