CDTI Innovación›CDTI Innovación› offers Proyectos de I+D (CDTI R&D Projects)

CDTI describes its international technological-cooperation projects as company-led initiatives that can reinforce Spanish companies' technological capacities and extend the impact of their products, processes and services in global markets. The Proyectos de I+D page identifies multilateral programmes such as EUREKA, IBEROEKA and PRIMA, alongside bilateral cooperation arrangements.

The wider instrument also lists European technology-cooperation formats connected with European partnerships and projects, as well as national collaboration. These are distinct project modalities within CDTI's I+D support offer; the relevant partner, call and eligibility conditions depend on the selected route.

CDTI's instrument page names technical and financial criteria for evaluating proposals. Technical review includes the project's commercial exploitation plan, its technology and innovation, the capability of the company or consortium, and expected socioeconomic, gender and sustainability effects.

Financial assessment considers whether a company is in difficulty, its financial condition and risk, the project's financial analysis, and the alignment between participating companies and their financial commitments. The page presents both groups as part of project evaluation.

CDTI presents Proyectos de I+D as an ongoing instrument for company-led industrial research and experimental development. The current official page distinguishes individual projects, national cooperation, European and international cooperation, dual-technology development, and strategic projects.

The page describes the programme's present objectives, eligibility framework and aid terms, while CDTI's wider institutional history dates to 1977. That organizational date does not establish when this specific instrument was first introduced; no offering-specific origin year is stated on the current service page.

The application page lists the conditions for proposing a project, including a minimum eligible budget of €175,000 and a general duration of 12 to 36 months. National cooperation projects may run from 12 to 48 months, and an application must be filed before work begins for the aid to have an incentive effect.

Eligible costs must be exclusively for, or directly arise from, the supported R&D activity. The page lists personnel, instruments and materials, contract research, technical knowledge and acquired patents, consulting, equivalent services, supplementary overhead and other project-related costs.

The instrument provides partially repayable support of up to 85% of the approved budget, with a non-repayable tranche between 10% and 33% of the aid and fixed interest tied to one-year Euribor. Repayment terms run 10 or 15 years, including a grace period of two to three years.

The instrument also offers an advance of up to half the aid, capped at €300,000, without additional guarantees for the advance.

CDTI describes Proyectos de I+D as support for companies conducting industrial research and experimental development to create or significantly improve production processes, products, or services. The official page says the program is open across sectors and technologies and accepts applications throughout the year.

The instrument covers individual projects and multiple cooperation formats. National cooperation uses a consortium of two to six autonomous companies, while the page also identifies international and European technology cooperation, technology-capacity projects for tenders, dual-technology projects, and strategic oriented projects.