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Red.es will invest €40 million to find AI projects serving SMEs and startups
Original title, in Spanish: “Red.es invertirá 40 millones para encontrar proyectos de IA que sirvan a pymes y startups - MuyPymes”
- Publication
- MuyPymes (Spain)
- Author
- Mari Rodriguez
- Published on
- 17 September 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
The Spanish public entity Red.es is launching a call with a budget of up to €40 million to select entities to develop AI use cases for Spanish SMEs and startups. According to María González Veracruz, Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, the aim is for AI to become a competitiveness tool accessible to the whole productive fabric, rather than reserved for a few players. Each agreement must produce at least 30 use cases meeting real business needs, of which at least 15 must be generalised so that they can be reused by large numbers of SMEs and startups. Red.es may fund up to 80% of each project, with a ceiling of €12 million per agreement, with the collaborating entities contributing at least 20%. The agreements will last two years.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
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40 EUR million
Total budget of the Red.es initiative for AI projects aimed at SMEs and startups
Spain
« Presupuesto de hasta 40 millones de euros »
Source: Red.es
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80 %
Maximum percentage of each project funded by Red.es
Spain, per agreement
« Red.es podrá financiar hasta el 80% de cada proyecto, con una aportación máxima de 12 millones de euros por convenio »
Source: Red.es
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12 EUR million
Maximum Red.es contribution per signed agreement
Spain, per agreement
« con una aportación máxima de 12 millones de euros por convenio »
Source: Red.es
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20 %
Minimum contribution required from collaborating entities per agreement
Spain, per agreement
« las entidades colaboradoras, las firmantes de los convenios, contribuirán con, al menos, el 20% »
Source: Red.es
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30 use cases
Minimum number of AI use cases to be developed per agreement
Spain, per agreement
« cada convenio deberá generar al menos 30 casos de uso orientados a dar respuesta a necesidades productivas y empresariales en distintos sectores económicos »
Source: Red.es
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15 use cases
Minimum number of use cases to be generalised for reuse by SMEs and startups
Spain, per agreement
« Se generalizarán al menos 15 de los 30 casos de uso desarrollados »
Source: Red.es
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2 years
Duration of the signed agreements
Spain
« Los convenios que se formalicen tendrán una duración de dos años »
Source: Red.es
Classification
- Country
- Spain
- Company size
- Micro-businesses, SMEs
- Industries
- All industries, or industry not specified
- Companies
- Red.es (cited), Cámara de Comercio de España (cited)
- Keywords
- public funding, SMEs, startups, use cases, artificial intelligence, red.es
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to MuyPymes and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.