Applications Open for 11th INDIA-SPAIN Joint Call for R&D&I Projects 2024

The 11^th joint industrial R&D name for proposals between Indian and Spanish industries is opened for application submission until 20^th May 2025. Potential initiatives might be funded by DST via TDB in India and CDTI in Spain.

Your challenge should exhibit:

• Industry-driven and market-oriented R&D initiatives, joint technological co-operation initiatives consisting within the improvement of latest or substantial enchancment of merchandise, processes or providers for the businesses that function and are headquartered in India and industrial companions (start-ups, SMEs and huge corporations) in Spain might be thought of.
• The product, course of or service should be revolutionary and there should be a technological intervention concerned.
• The challenge ought to have an apparent benefit and added worth ensuing from the technological cooperation and mutual contribution between the members from the partnering nations (e.g. sharing data base, business leads, entry and sharing of R&D infrastructure and many others.).
• The challenge should have a civilian goal.
• The challenge should be important for all challenge companions in a well-balanced consortium.
• The collaborative initiatives must be revolutionary and targeted on creating prospects for new applied sciences, providers or processes that may leads to commercialisation. 

This Call for proposals is open to collaborative R&D initiatives within the following areas/sectors:

• Circular financial system and sustainability: Economically aggressive manufacturing processes and merchandise, important supplies and/or vitality that scale back, exchange and/or reuse assets and/or goal for sustainability and environmentally pleasant processes and/or applied sciences. Also together with Drinking Water, Water Purification, Water Desalination, Irrigation Technologies and Wastewater Treatment & Management within the subarea of Water Technologies.
• Digital transformation (Smart Mobility, Smart Grids, Smart Cities, and many others.).
• Digital well being and medical gadgets: embody classes similar to cellular well being (mHealth), well being data know-how (IT), wearable gadgets, telehealth and telemedicine, and customized medication.
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advanced Materials
• Any different sector of mutual curiosity.
• Duration of initiatives: Project could also be as much as two years.

Selected challenge members will obtain funding from Technology Development Board (TDB), on behalf of Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, in India and from Centre for the Development of Technology and Innovation, E.P.E. (CDTI) in Spain respectively.

Based on the joint advice of DST and CDTI, the members from Indian facet might be funded via TDB.

For extra particulars please go to: https://tdb.gov.in/india-spain-joint-call-rdi-projects-2024

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