The CDTI Innovation announces the opening of the 7th Called for bilateral projects España-china r & D

Projects should be related to any of the following areas of interest:

• Sustainable Cities
• Production technologies, including Smart Production
• Technologies for biomedicine and health, extreme fragility and Age, health associated with climate change, sustainability of health systems and global prevalence Diseases
• Clean Technologies, including Environmental Technologies, renewable energies or management and water treatment
• Modern agriculture, including sustainable agriculture, food processing, food security, food and security of animals, fisheries and aquaculture
• Advanced Materials without environmental impact assessment in the cycle, from its extraction, processing and recycling

The projects selected must have civilian purposes and development-oriented or significant improvement in a product, process or innovative service with a market. Its duration will be between 24 and 36 months.

Participation

Should participate, as a minimum, a spanish company and one entity china.

On the part of the people's republic of China can participate both companies and other agencies generators of knowledge (universities, research and technology, hospitals, etc.).

By spain should participate, at least, a company, optionally, you can collaborate with other agencies of investigation (universities, OPIs, centres of innovation and technology) that can be contracted in the budget through external input or as members of the consortium ´.

The proposal must be balanced in both technical and financial resources for the entities of each country; they allowed an imbalance in budgetary terms than 30-70% among entities of Spain and China, nor any member may have a budget of more than 70 per cent.

Financing

In the case of Spain, spanish companies participating in the business projects of r & D selected will receive financial assistance by the CDTI Innovation that can reach up to 85 per cent of eligible cost of the project. In China, the entities may receive up to 3 nearly rmb700 billion in the form of subsidy.

Will be eligible for funding to a maximum of 20 proposals if exceed assessment processes of both the CDTI Innovation and the ministry of science and technology of China (MOST).

In thislink you can download the document of this call in english.

For information about the7Th Called España-china web site of the CDTI Innovation.

Submission of applications

The deadline for submission of applications is:

• Spain (CDTI Innovation): 22 january 2026 (12:00 CET)
• China (MOST): 16 december 2025 (16:00 UCT)

For further information, please contact:

CDTI
Department of Foreign Technology Action
Tel: + 34 91 581 56 07
E-mail:china@cdti.es
http://www.cdti.es/

China (DEC MOST)
Division of European Affairs, MOST
Tel: + 86-10-5888 1357
E-mail:wangys@most.cn
https :// service.most.gov.cn/

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