Feder-Innterconecta € 132 M earmarked for Spanish r & d projects.

public-private collaboration.

-aid, managed by the CDTI in collaboration with regional entities, want to promote the r & d of Andalusia, Extremadura and Galicia

-Seek to promote major technological and industrial projects in strategic areas

Spain, March of 2013– the Feder-Innterconecta program with 132 million euros will finance projects of r & d in Galicia, Andalusia and Extremadura. Calls for this aid target target technological and industrial progress of the regions through projects of high technological level, high added value and that will stimulate the creation of qualified employment.

This program promotes cooperation between the different administrations, the productive sector and r & d agents. As a result, each beneficiary group of this program of public-private partnership must be constituted by a minimum of three companies of different size and significant participation — a minimum of 15% — from research organizations.

Calls to boost r & d in these three regions through the financing of projects of industrial research and experimental development. Selected projects must be of a strategic nature and have great dimension, in addition to economic and commercial imaging further than our borders.

Subsidies are allocated to projects and multiannual actions, of two years duration, having a minimum budget of 2 million euros in the case of Andalusia, one and half in the case of Galicia and one million euros in the case of Extremadura.

FEDER-Innterconecta granted aid in the form of subsidies co-financed with a special game of Feder of the European Union funds dedicated to the promotion of business r & d in Spain. They are managed by the Centre for Industrial technological development ( CDTI ), in collaboration with the Galician Innovation Agency, the Agency for innovation and development in Andalusia, and the Department of employment, Enterprise and innovation of the Junta de Extremadura.

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with 75 million euros for projects, Galicia is the biggest beneficiary of the three, being relevant to this community projects focused on agri-food and marine resources, technologies biohealth, technologies of information and communications, production technologies, materials and nanotechnologiesenergy, construction, environment, and sustainable transportation.

Andalusia, with 50 million, must focus their projects on energy and climate change, biotechnology and health, aerospace, information society, metallurgical industry and agribusiness.

Finally, Extremadura, with 7 million euros, aims to relevant industries for their projects the energy, water technologies, technologies of construction and sustainable public works, health and biotechnology, information and communications, metalworking, agro-industrial technologies and valorization of natural materials.