The Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, has highlighted the Spanish Government’s firm commitment to developing greener and more sustainable solutions and advancing digitalisation through science and innovation.

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The Ministry of Science and Innovation, through the State Research Agency (AEI), has awarded 288.6 million euros to 1,711 research projects in the 2021 call for Strategic Projects oriented towards the Ecological Transition and Digital Transition.

These grants, financed with European funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, aim to promote R&D&I activities to increase the competitiveness and international leadership of Spanish science and technology through the generation of scientific knowledge and through quality research geared towards the ecological transition and the digital transition.

Specifically, the ecological transition projects are aimed at climate change mitigation, adaptation to climate change, sustainable use and protection of water and marine resources, circular economy, pollution prevention and control and the protection and recovery of biodiversity and ecosystems.

To advance these objectives, the generation of scientific knowledge, the development of technologies and support for environmental policies applied to productive activities, the protection of natural resources and the quality of life of people and society as a whole will be promoted.

The digital transition projects aim to boost the infrastructures, skills and technologies needed for a digital economy and society through the digitisation of the entire value chain in key sectors.

This will make use of the synergies and opportunities of new technology and data management developments, using disruptive digital technologies and putting people and their digital rights at the centre of the process.