BIOVEGEN report. Call for R&D&I Projects in Strategic Lines 2021

Yesterday the Council of Ministers approved the new call PROJECTS IN STRATEGIC LINES, intended to finance collaborative industrial research projects between companies and research organizations. The call will allocate 64.5 million euros in subsidies and 43 million euros in credits to projects in 23 strategic lines.

At BIOVEGEN we have prepared a report that describes the main characteristics of the call. Of special interest to our sector is the line 2 (Sustainable improvement of plant productivity: development of innovative phytosanitary programs and products).

23 STRATEGIC LINES:  

1. Emerging animal diseases and zoonoses: from the biodiversity of pathogens to the sustainable production of foods of animal origin.
2. Sustainable improvement of plant productivity: development of innovative phytosanitary programs and products.
3. New observation, modeling and management systems for marine ecosystems.
4. Sustainability of plastics: synthesis, recycling and recovery.
5. A new generation of batteries.
6. Efficient conversion of sunlight to fuels and chemicals.
7. Smart building technologies.
8. Intelligent urban and metropolitan mobility strategies.
9. Cultural heritage.
10. Experimental implementation of quantum technologies.
11. Robots to help people.
12. Sustainable fuels.
13. Digital twins: modeling and design.
14. New biomanufacturing strategies: from organs on a chip, organoids or 3D bioprinting, to clinical application.
15. Nanomaterials and nanotechnology for the diagnosis of human diseases.
16. New approaches to understand the mechanisms and establish new strategies for cancer immunotherapy of solid tumors.
17. Innovative approaches to improve the understanding and identification of novel therapeutic targets for atherosclerosis.
18. Disinformation, hoaxes and fake news through public and private channels.
19. Strategies to address depopulation and socio-spatial inequalities.
20. Demographic change and the future of public services: health and pensions.
21. Predictive infrastructure maintenance through intelligent systems.
22. Exploitation and modeling of complexity in risk forecasting scenarios.
23. Plastics in natural environments.