📋 Tender Overview
The objective is to enhance research in artificial intelligence and the digital transformation applied to all scientific and research fields.
Presentation of the program Generation D: Building the IA generation.
The Spanish government will finance a total of 374 research contracts in public centers for four years with the aim of enhancing the application of artificial intelligence and digital transformation to science and research. The staff who have already signed their contracts will carry out their work in four public centers beneficiaries of the Generation D: Building the IA.The Ministry of Science Innovation and Universities and the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function have presented the program to which Red.es provides an investment of 120 million euros. The beneficiaries of the program are postdoctoral profiles (43%) Predoctoral (17%) and technicians (41%). The act of presentation has been attended by the Secretary of State for Science Innovation and Universities Juan Cruz Cigudosa and the Minister for Digital and Public Function Oscar Lopez. The Secretary of State for Science Innovation and Universities has assured that today with generation D Spain adds and builds digital talent especially talent in artificial intelligence the most disruptive technology of our time which can promote the scientific and innovative advance We can not even imagine and explained that it is advances that can lead us to the highest levels of progress and well -being if we lead the AI with responsibility and put it at the service of the society to which we owe ourselves. digital to a million teachers to 26000 public employees to 2800 SME managers to 3200 professionals in cybersecurity. Generation D participants are going to develop high research capacities in AI applied with impact on sectors as diverse as biomedicine microelectronics marine sciences or nanoscience said Minister Oscar Lopez in his speech. For Lopez it is especially remarkable that about 40% of the contracts have been signed by women who will inspire the next generations. Research during the meeting The applications that artificial intelligence in science have been common in addition to knowing some of the main open lines of research among the more than 200 with which the project has by the hand of the researchers themselves who have shared their experiences and perspectives on how the program promotes their professional development and technological innovation in Spain. Pharmacology Agricultural Astronomy Oceanography Nanoscience Robotics Cardiovascular Education or Genomic among others. The four selected entities to execute the program dependent on the Ministry of Science Innovation and Universities are the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) the National Center for Cardiovascular Research Carlos III (CNIC) and The National Oncological Research Center (CNIO). The investigations are carried out from work centers of the four entities distributed in 29 provinces in the 17 autonomous communities. More than 36% of these research contracts are occupied by women reaching 50% in the CNI and CNIC centers. In addition 25% of the investigating personnel have come from other countries including countries outside the European Union. of the Next Generation funds of the European Union within investment 4 of component 19.
