Spain Science Innovation Tender

The Minister for Science and Innovation Diana Morant stressed that this new line of aid will encourage female leadership in science technology and innovation.The Official State Gazette BOE has published today the bases of the new call for NEOTEC Women Entrepreneurs grants which allocates five million euros to finance the start-up of innovative business projects led by women. The Minister for Science and Innovation Diana Morant stressed that this new line of aid will encourage female leadership in science technology and innovation.There will be no fair transformation or a better future if we do not add the talent of half the population that of women the minister highlighted this Tuesday during the act Breaking glass ceilings The scientific woman from the laboratory to entrepreneurship organized by the Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology SEBBM in collaboration with the National Museum of Natural Sciences MNCN-CSIC the Spanish Association of Biocompanies AseBio and the Spanish Association for Cancer Research ASEICA .The new call is part of the NEOTEC initiative of the CDTI a body dependent on the Ministry of Science and Innovation. This program aims to finance the creation of technology-based companies with a vocation for growth contributing to entrepreneurship and accelerating the transfer of knowledge from public research organizations and universities.Specifically NEOTEC Mujeres Emprendedoras will promote new business projects that require the use of technologies or knowledge developed from research activity and in which the business strategy is based on the development of technology. Projects lasting one or two years in any technological and sectoral field may receive the grants. The companys management body must be made up mostly of women and they must have the majority of the companys share capital or a significant stake in the project that is the object of the aid.Subsidies may reach up to 70 of the action budget with a maximum subsidy amount of 250000 euros per beneficiary. The deadline for submitting applications to the call will begin on February 17 2022 and end on April 19 2022.Measures to promote real equality in RDIDuring her speech the Minister of Science and Innovation highlighted that the Ministry is working to retain the talent of women accompanying them in their research careers for example with a new mentoring program with a gender focus.Likewise Morant has underlined that the reform of the Law on Science Technology and Innovation will give legal certainty to gender equality in the RDI system for the first time in the history of Spain. It will do so with transformative measures to achieve real progress and ensuring the gender perspective as a crosscutting axis of Spanish scientific planning the minister stated during the event held on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science which is commemorated every February 11 to remember the fundamental role that women and girls have in science with the aim of promoting their full and equitable participation.