Spain’s scientific boom
Research, development and innovation (RD&I;) is set to be boosted in Spain as the country’s ministry for science and innovation announced its national RD&I; plan for the 2008-2011 period. The plan will award over €47 billion to RD&I; projects over four years, double that of the preceding four-year period. The plan comes in addition to Cenit, the €45billion program for national strategic consortia in technical research, and to the EU’s 7th Framework Program for research and technological development (FP7), which will award grants of around €50.521 billion across the EU between 2007 and 2013. Last year, €230 million of FP7 funding went to Spain.
