Spain: AEI
Name of Funding agency |
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) |
Geographical coverage (national/regional) |
National |
Name of the programme/initiative |
Proyectos de Colaboración Internacional (PCI) |
Programme website |
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Programme owner |
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación |
Program manager (executing funding organisation) |
AEI |
Contact person(s) (e-mail, tel.) |
Representative: Name: Beatriz Gómez Miguel E‐mail: beatriz.gomez@aei.gob.es Name: Severina Falcón Morales E-mail: severino.falcon@aei.gob.es
Administrative and technical issues: Name: Jorge Sotelo Santos E-mail: era-mat@aei.gob.es
Scientific Issues: Name: Dr. Roberto Pacios |
Funding Commitment |
€1,000,000 |
Anticipated number of fundable research partners |
N/A |
Maximum funding per grant awarded to a partner |
The following funding limits are considered eligibility criteria. Proposals not respecting these limits could be declared non eligible.
IMPORTANT: a maximum of two Spanish Partners requesting funding to the AEI in the same Proposal are allowed.
Maximum direct costs per proposal (overheads can be added to these amounts):
Maximum amount per Proposal NOT coordinated by a Spanish partner funded by AEI:
If the Consortium is led by a Spanish Coordinator funded by AEI, the maximum funding amounts per proposal are the following:
Centers formed by different Spanish legal entities will be considered as a unique entity, and thus the maximum funding should not exceed the limits per proposal established above (for example, mixed centers). |
Type of research eligible for funding: eligible TRL range |
Fundamental/Basic Research, Applied Research, Experimental Research. All TRLs. |
Funding rates (approx.) |
100% of eligible costs |
Major eligibility criteria |
The eligible entities for the AEI funding are: Non-profit research organizations (such as universities, public research institutions, technological centres and other private non-profit institutions performing RDI activities in Spain), as per PCI call (or equivalent).
MANDATORY: The Spanish Principal Investigators (PIs) must be eligible as per PCI call (or equivalent) and must have experience as investigators in projects funded by the Plan Nacional I+D+i 2008-2011, the Plan Estatal I+D+i 2013-2016, the Plan Estatal I+D+i 2017-2020, ERC Grants, European Framework Programmes or other relevant international programmes.
Incompatibilities (these must be taken into account when participating in different ERA-NETs or other international initiatives):
Please consult the specific document on eligibility for PCI calls. The AEI will avoid double funding and will not grant projects or parts of projects already funded through other national or EU calls.
Eligible costs:
Prioritisation criteria: In the case two or more projects are considered equal with respect to their scientific merits, the AEI will prioritise funding projects that comply with more of the following criteria:
Mandatory acknowledgement: Any publication or dissemination activity resulting from the granted projects must acknowledge funding by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación: “Project (reference nº XX) funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación through the PCI XX call (or its equivalent)”. |
Submission of the proposal at national/regional level (schedule, cut-off dates, deadlines, etc.) |
Only for selected projects. Please consult PCI 2022-1 for specific details of the procedure, since requirements will be similar. |
Submission of financial and scientific reports at the national/regional level |
Yes |
Further guidance |
Instrument for funding the Spanish groups: The instrument for funding Spanish groups is the Spanish call on RDI projects “Programación Conjunta Internacional (PCI)”, applicants are encouraged to consult the call PCI2022-1 since the requirements will be similar.
Funding Programme: The framework for this funding action is the Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica, Técnica e Innovación 2021-2023. On a national level, the Call will be managed by the Subdivisión de Programas Científico-Técnicos Transversales, Fortalecimiento y Excelencia of the AEI. Subdivisión de Programas Científico-Técnicos Transversales, Fortalecimiento y Excelencia of the AEI
Do No Significant Harm principle (DNSH) The projects granted under this call are encouraged to comply with the DNSH criteria (do not significant harm) and state it so in the proposal (see article 6.3 RC-PCI2022-1)
Data Protection: By submitting a grant application to the AEI, the applicants consent to communication of the data contained in the application to other public administrations, with the aim of further processing of the data for historical, statistical or scientific purposes, within the framework of the Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on Personal Data Protection and Guarantee of Digital Rights. |