Strategies

The Spanish Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy (EECTI) is the multi-annual framework for promoting scientific, technical and innovation research that sets the objectives shared by all Public Administrations.

Specifically, the EECTI 2021-2027 is specifically designed to facilitate the coordination of our R&D&I policy with European Union policies so that we can thus make the best possible use of synergies between programmes. In this regard, the strategy adds elements that also aim to promote maximum coordination between state and regional planning and programming. The Strategy prioritises and responds to the challenges of the national strategic sectors in specific fields that are key to the transfer of knowledge and the promotion of R&D&I.

The Science and Innovation Pact is a document signed by organisations representing science, universities, companies and workers. This document, which reflects the civil society agreement on the role of science and innovation in Spain, includes a series of specific commitments with regard to the sustainable increase in resources, the improvement of the conditions of scientific and technical personnel and the strengthening of the autonomy and coordination of R&D&I funding entities. To define the Pact, the Congress of Deputies approved the creation of a subcommittee, which has already started work.

The Spanish Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy (EECTI) is in addition to the sectoral strategies in which R&D&I plays a fundamental role, particularly the Spanish Strategy on R&D&I in Artificial Intelligence, in which the current General Secretariat for Research was key to its development.

Spain's strategy for AI in R&D&I sets priorities that fall within the EECTI and that should be developed in initiatives and activities defined and funded through the State Plans for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation (PEICTI). At this time, AI is one of the disciplines that may most influence the rapid transition towards a new society. It is a technological revolution, so Spain must be involved in developing a research, technological development and innovation strategy that contributes to generating economic and social benefits.