23 July 2025

The CDTI launches the convening Cervera Centres with 60 million by 2025 to networks of excellence in r + D + I strengthen sovereignty spanish technological

Of the total budget of 60 million, a 50% more than in 2023, 50 will be available for critical dual technologies
Groups of between 4 and 7 technological centres may receive between 2 and 6 million for strategic programmes of r & D of 3 to 4 years
The recent evaluation of this programme, attesting that 98 per cent of staff Cervera incorporated and registered investigator 84 new patents

The submission of proposals will commence in late july and ending on 19 september 2025

The centre for technological development and innovation (CDTI Innovation) will open in the coming days the convening of Cervera 2025 programme Centres, with 60 million euros to finance strategic programmes of r & D developed in cooperation with groups of between four and seven technological centres and whose objective is to foster científico-tecnológicas capabilities of border and accelerate the transfer of knowledge towards business in priority Areas for competitiveness and strategic autonomy of Spain.

The convening identified two priority areas of technology (The consultation):

Civil technologies: food chain safe and healthy and efficient management and sustainable energy development.
Dual technologies: communications avanzadas-5/UN lobbying, asymmetrical threats, artificial intelligence, advanced autónomos-movilidad systems, advanced materials, technologies and digital quantum industry 5.0

These priorities are aligned with the various strategic delivery of the strategic Plan 2024-2027 of CDTI in the area of deep-tech momentum and the spanish technological sovereignty within the framework of strengthening european industrial resilience. In particular, and according to the results of the evaluation report submitted in may 2025 (https :// www.cdti.es/sites/default/files/2025-06/report _ evaluation _ cervera _ ct.pdf), the next programme Centres Cervera yielding positive results in the seven vectors of the Plan:

Expansion of innovative perimeter: 89 per cent of the centres financed in the calls 2019-23 claims to have attracted quite or “ lot ” to new smes towards r & D projects, having raised “ opportunities fund ”.
Growth based on r & D: 98 per cent of the new staff recruited investigator and the overall employment in R & D grew by 17, to strengthen the vector of critical mass científico-tecnológica.
Strengthening of the ecosystem: 50 centres of excellence 2019-23 treaty vertebraron 231 collaborations, 77 per cent of them inter-regionales, indicating that the effectiveness of Cervera as mesh of territorial cooperation and progress in the demographic challenge noted in the Plan.
Transfer and TRL chain. The reconvening finances the tranche TRL 3-6, which complemented the rest of the instruments CDTI (venture builder, industrial scaling, Innvierte deep-tech) positioned in the closer to the market and completing the value chain to complete with Cervera Centres ciencia-mercado the pipeline.
Disruptive innovation and autonomy: focusing on the quantum, IA, advanced materials or green energy technologies, all of them are in the technological Plan as key to the spanish sovereignty, aid contributes to the european framework for the reduction of strategic units.
International cooperation; Cervera joined 56 leaders and 334 participations in Horizon Europe in areas connected with their projects, planned for the spanish r & D and maximizing the return of the community.
Financial sustainability: with absorption rates of 98 per cent and court of more than 80/100, the instrument shows strong demand and efficient management, attributes the Plan identifies as basis for a sustainable financing.

The evaluation 2019-2019 Cervera credited direct impacts and tangible results in the ecosystem:

Scientific capacity-building: 81 per cent of schools invested in laboratories and pilot plants, 16.8 million allocated to equipment, there were 84 patents and 11 spin-offs and 80 per cent opened new lines of R & D.
Enterprise competitiveness: 96 per cent expected improvements in the products of their companies client and 81 per cent anticipated greater flexibility in production, effects which strengthen the industrial productivity and the creation of quality jobs.
Inclusion and cohesion: 71 per cent of the centres will continue to work with its partners after the project, weaving networks democratized stable access to the infrastructure of Last generation.

These achievements demonstrate the validity of the model Cervera: targeted public investment in networks of excellence that multiplying talent, infrastructure and transfer to the company, accelerating the passage of laboratory to the market and, accordingly, the improved well-being, safety and sustainability for the citizens. Specifically, investing in consolidating the dual national capacity to protect critical infrastructure, the development of monitoring systems and advanced cybersecurity while generating spin-offs civilians in 5G, IA medical or green chemistry. The selected civil technologies directly address the food security and the decarbonisation of the energy system, two social and environmental priorities.

The programme Cervera, therefore, guarantees that every euro invested public have a multiple return in quality employment, industrial resilience and quality of social life for citizens.

Claves de la Convocatòria 2025

Pattern of aid: subsidy at between 2 and 6 M €per consortium, with three or four years.
Beneficiaries: groups of Technological Centres or focal Support technological innovation. Must be registered in the register of Technological Centres and centres of Support for technological innovation.
Evaluation: strategic objectives of research and development and viability of the strategic programme (40 per cent), training and incorporation of human resources (20 per cent), internationalization (20 per cent) and the exploitation and dissemination of results (20 per cent).
Timetable: submission of proposals will commence in late july and ending on 19 september 2025; resolution before the end of the 2025 for initiation of activities in january 2026.

CDTI Innovation

The centre for technological development and innovation, CDTI E.P.E. is a public company under the ministry of Science, innovation and universities, whose goal is the promotion of technological innovation in business. The CDTI mission is to ensure that the business fabric english generates and transform knowledge into growth científico-técnico globally competitive, sustainable and inclusive. By 2024, within the framework of a new strategic plan, the CDTI provided more than $2.3 billion euros of support for business startups and spain.

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