The CDTI Innovation advances the topics of the next call for Science and Innovation Missions 2026 to facilitate the preparation of proposals and predictability

  • The CDTI Innovation openly advances the content of the missions in advance of the opening of the call, scheduled for the month of May 2026
  • The seven missions address priority country challenges in energy, aeronautics, antimicrobial resistance, strategic autonomy in security and defense, women’s health, food sovereignty and affordable housing
  • Early publication allows entities to start working in advance, according to the CDTI’s commitment to facilitate turnout and maximize the time available for preparing proposals.
     

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The selection of these missions has been carried out through dialogue and co-design with public and private agents of the R+D+I System, coordinated by the CDTI
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The CDTI Innovation, the innovation agency of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, advances the publication of the content of the seven missions that make up the next call 2026 for Science and Innovation Missions, whose formal opening is scheduled for next May. With this anticipated release, the CDTI focuses on giving the ecosystem as much time as possible to begin work on consortium design and proposal preparation before the official application deadline is opened.

The Science and Innovation Missions program of the CDTI Innovation is aimed at supporting, through competitive competition grants, large cooperative R&D projects that contribute to solving transversal and strategic country challenges of the Spanish economy and society, improving the technological and knowledge base of companies and promoting public-private cooperation in R&D&I. In its five previous editions, the program has financed 168 projects with a grant of 467 million euros and a total mobilized budget of 695 million euros, with the participation of 688 companies (of which 450 are SMEs) and more than 140 knowledge-generating centers.

For the call of 2026, and following the co-design and participation process on which the program is based, the CDTI Innovation has identified seven missions aligned with the main country-challenges included in the Strategic Plan 2024-2027:

  1. Development of a stable, flexible and resilient energy system with strong and reliable networks
  2. Towards a more efficient, sustainable and resilient aviation sector
  3. New scientific capabilities against multi-resistant microorganisms and other future challenges
  4. New capabilities to advance strategic autonomy in security and defense
  5. Women's health: bio-health research that reduces gender inequalities in this area
  6. Food sovereignty in Spain: a sector oriented to efficiency, quality, sustainability and food security
  7. Affordable, sustainable and quickly supplied housing through industrialized and digitized construction

The selection of these missions has been carried out through a process of dialogue and co-design with public and private agents of the System of Science, Technology and Innovation, coordinated and directed by the CDTI in three sessions held on 5, 9 and 13 March, aimed at the definition and improvement of the call, with a wide attendance of more than 360 attendees with representatives of technological platforms and business associations. As a novelty compared to previous editions, the participants were invited to assess and prioritize the mission proposals, which has provided the selection process with a particularly solid participatory basis. The process has also incorporated the industrial and socio-economic priorities and challenges identified by the various ministries.

As an important consideration, the CDTI Innovation recalls that the published content maintains the provisional and informative character and that advanced missions could be subject to modifications in the final call for proposals, being binding only the final wording that appears in the official text of the call for proposals.

More information available at: www.cdti.es/ayudas/misiones-ciencia-e-innovacion-2026

 

CDTI Innovation

The Center for Technological Development and Innovation, CDTI E.P.E. It is the innovation agency of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, whose objective is the promotion of technological innovation in the business environment. The mission of the CDTI is to ensure that the Spanish business fabric generates and transforms scientific and technical knowledge into globally competitive, sustainable and inclusive growth. In 2025, within the framework of the Strategic Plan 2024-2027, the CDTI provided more than 2 billion euros of support to Spanish companies and startups.

 

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