CDTI SERA — Partenariados Pilar 2 (Horizon Europe)

CDTI SERA — Partenariados Pilar 2 sits under CDTI E.P.E. as Spain's national co-funding channel for companies already approved in Horizon Europe Pillar 2 Partnerships. In 2026 it covered Water4All, Agroecology, and FutureFoodS, and it functioned as a direct-allocation route for Spanish firms that already held the relevant approval letter. The programme is therefore a follow-on funding mechanism for a European partnership, not a broad open competition. The grant intensity scales by company size, reaching up to 70 percent for small firms, 60 percent for medium firms, and 40 percent for large firms. Eligible work covers industrial research and experimental development. The 2026-1 call had a budget of EUR 425,000, the route runs twice a year, and the published timetable showed a first call closing on 27 March 2026 with a second call scheduled for July 2026. Eligible costs include personnel, materials, contracted research, consultancy capped at EUR 8,000, dissemination capped at EUR 15,000, and indirect costs at 25 percent. SERA is strongest for companies that already belong to a Horizon Europe partnership network and want to turn that European approval into Spanish co-funding without reopening the project case from scratch. The winning position is simple: the partnership fit is already settled, the documents are complete, and the proposed work reads as a clean national extension of the approved European programme. Applicants that can keep the scope tight and the paperwork precise will usually fare better than those trying to broaden the project late in the process.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.