In the first four years of the Horizon Europe program, regional entities have secured €68.9 million in European innovation funds, compared to €30.5 million under the previous program
The Ministry of Business offers training to 24 entities to prepare proposals for the European R&D&I Framework Program, Horizon Europe
The regional innovation ecosystem has obtained €68.9 million dedicated to innovation, development, and research in the first four years of the Horizon Europe Framework Program, which started in 2021. This amount is more than double the funds obtained during the same period in the previous Horizon 2020 program, when the Region received €30.5 million.
The Ministry of Business, Employment and Social Economy, through the Institute of Development (Info), has organized training sessions to facilitate access to these funds for more regional entities. This training action on Proposal Preparation for the Horizon Europe R&D&I Framework Program, lasting 16 hours, saw strong business participation, reaching 70 percent of the 24 attending entities.
The director of Info, Joaquín Gómez, emphasized “the success of these practical training initiatives, which always reach full capacity, demonstrating the growing interest of our innovation ecosystem in continuing to leverage European funding to boost competitiveness, anticipate trends, enhance sustainability, and foster technological development in a constantly evolving world.”
Of the total funds obtained between 2021 and 2024, companies have benefited from more than €21.7 million, representing 31.5 percent of the total. Sectoral analysis highlights the food industry; bioeconomy; natural resources; agriculture and environment with a total of €24.9 million; the digital sector with €11.7 million; the Health program with €4.8 million; and the Security program with €5.1 million.
Gómez noted “that these record figures of European R&D&I funding are helping to drive the technological advancement of the regional economy,” and recalled that “the latest statistics on innovation investment in the Region show that we are on the right path, as we continue breaking glass ceilings and are among the three communities with the highest growth in the last decade.”
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