Red.es›Red.es› offers RedIA

RedIA pairs a large public budget with co-financing from European regional development funds, which lets it back industrial experimental-development projects carrying substantial technical risk. Awards are grants rather than repayable finance or equity, so a successful applicant retains ownership of the resulting technology.

The call covers a broad set of technology families at once, allowing a company to propose work spanning artificial intelligence, advanced connectivity, cybersecurity, robotics, or advanced manufacturing instead of a single narrow category. Aid intensity follows the European state-aid framework for experimental development.

RedIA funds only experimental-development activities, which places earlier feasibility work and later commercial scale-up outside its scope. Healthcare activities are excluded from the call, so projects centred on medical or clinical applications have to seek other programmes.

Applicants must fit a defined project budget band and apply within the call's limited window, so the programme does not suit work that needs continuous or rolling support.

RedIA opened in 2025 as an initiative of Red.es, the public business entity attached to the Spanish ministry responsible for digital transformation. The call was framed under the national artificial-intelligence strategy and the country's digital agenda, and financed through the European regional development programme.

It followed an earlier experimental-development call run by the same entity, whose bases and procedures the RedIA call reuses, and it sits alongside a sibling initiative addressing health. Together the two lines form the entity's main business-facing artificial-intelligence funding instruments.

RedIA is a Red.es grant initiative that funds artificial-intelligence and digital-technology projects run by Spanish companies. It supports experimental-development work across prototyping, piloting, and testing of AI systems alongside advanced connectivity, cybersecurity, robotics, and the other enabling technologies named in the call.

Aid is awarded through a competitive call administered by Red.es, with regional allocations set by development level and co-financing drawn from European regional development funds. Awards take the form of grants for eligible project budgets rather than repayable finance or equity.