The grants aim to promote experimental development initiatives and strengthen collaboration between companies and research organizations. The Ministry of Enterprise hosted an event on ‘RIS4Mur’ to present the results achieved so far, as well as upcoming initiatives under the Regional Innovation Strategy.
The regional government, through the Ministry of Enterprise, Employment, and Social Economy, has announced new grants to fund public-private cooperative innovation projects. The call has a budget of nearly six million euros and is part of the Smart and Sustainable Specialization Strategy ‘RIS4Mur’ 2021–2027. The call and its documentation are available in the National Grants Database.
The announcement was made during the opening of the event ‘RIS4Mur. Connected to Transform’, which served to present an overview of the results achieved so far in implementing the regional innovation strategy and to introduce some of the initiatives to be launched in the coming months in R&D&I.
During her speech, the regional minister, Marisa López Aragón, emphasized that ‘RIS4Mur’ “is not a symbolic document, but a real roadmap to move towards a stronger, more sustainable, and innovative economy based on public-private cooperation, knowledge transfer, and the use of regional talent.”
The minister highlighted that the strategy has a total budget exceeding €714 million and noted that recent data “confirm its impact, with regional R&D investment exceeding €468 million in 2023, 10% higher than the previous year.” She also underscored “the boost from the private sector, whose R&D investment grew by 17%, surpassing public investment for the first time.”
In this context, López Aragón explained that the new grant call, endowed with nearly six million euros and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), aims to “strengthen connections between the business sector and research centers, and ensure that innovation translates into economic activity, employment, and competitiveness for the Region.”
The application period will remain open until February 9, through the CARM electronic headquarters.
The event, held at the Regional Archive, took place at the midpoint of the RIS4Mur 2021–2027 strategy and brought together companies, universities, technology centers, business associations, and research organizations. It included a presentation of the strategy’s results, a roundtable on successful company-university-technology center collaborations, and the talk ‘Cooperate to Be More Competitive’, delivered by Juan Martínez-Barea, a leading figure in technological entrepreneurship and innovation in Spain, and founder and president of the biomedical company Universal Diagnostics.
The minister concluded by stating that “innovation is the lever that will allow our companies, especially SMEs, to improve their competitiveness, access new markets, and generate quality employment,” reaffirming the regional government’s commitment to an investment “focused on real results and the transformation of Murcia’s productive model.”
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