Funding opportunities for Business Innovation

Boost ICT research towards te market

The i2CAT Foundation has extensive experience in developing research and innovation projects, which ultimately help our customers improve their business. Thanks to our deep understanding of innovation, we are the perfect technology partners to bring your companies' projects to reality.

i2CAT is an officially certified research centre with both Catalan and Spanish administrations. This provides us with access to several funding and grant instruments that can help your business achieve your innovation goals.

Funding opportunities via CDTI

CDTI (Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial) supports Spanish businesses that want to conduct research and development projects with favourable loans, financial aids, and subsidies via a wide portfolio of calls and invitations to tender. Some of these calls require the collaboration of businesses with registered technological centres, such as i2CAT, to access the financial support. i2CAT is an official registered centre with the Spanish Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) and can be your technology partner for a joint development of innovation projects.

Funding opportunities via ACCIÓ

ACCIÓ (Agència per la Competitivitat de l'empresa) supports businesses located in Catalonia with financial aids and subsidies with the goal to incentivise innovation projects. Some of the calls require the collaboration of businesses with registered technological centres, such as i2CAT, to access the financial support. i2CAT is both an accredited TECNIO and CERCA centre with the Catalan administration and can support your company by transferring its knowledge in advanced technologies into your business.

Funding opportunities via European Union’s Next Generation

The Spanish Government is making available funds coming from the European Union via the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. This plan includes several calls for proposals, subsidies and financial aid aimed at Spanish businesses in a wide range of sectors and topics. Some of these instruments require the collaboration of private businesses with research organisations. In these cases, i2CAT can support interested companies with their application.

Other funding opportunities

i2CAT has also supported businesses applying to other funding instruments made available by the European Union, such as those offered by the European Innovation Council.

Do you have an idea for an innovation project? Do you need support in your research efforts? Do not hesitate to get in touch and tell us more about your needs. Together, we can set your business apart with innovative and advanced Internet technologies.

CDTI-Cervera R&D transfer projects

Characteristics

Cervera R&D Transfer Projects is a financing line, granted by the CDTI, aimed at research and business development projects of an applied nature for the creation or significant improvement of a production process, product or service.

The essential characteristic of this call is that companies must collaborate with Technological Centers, such as i2CAT, to perform certain activities in the project.

i2CAT is an official registered center within Cervera program and holds a leading position in the research and development of advanced digital technologies at local and international scale. With our experience in supporting innovation, we can collaborate with your company to apply to this call and to develop the requested innovation project.

Projects

The projects must demonstrate a technological differential aspect over the existing technologies in the market. The minimum project budget is 175.000 euros and, for individual projects, the duration is between 1 and 3 years.

SMEs and mid-cap companies

Companies that collaborate with Technological Centers of national scope in the priority technologies Cervera. Among all the technologies, i2CAT stands out in:

- Eco-Innovation
- Intelligent manufacturing
- Health technologies
- Safe and healthy food chain
- Deep learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Advanced mobile networks
- Intelligent transport
- Protection of information