Mission Innovation

Mission Innovation (MI) is a global initiative, launched in 2015, involving 23 countries around the world along with the European Commission, which aims to catalyse action and investment in research, development and demonstration to make clean energy affordable, attractive and accessible to all in this decade. These actions will accelerate progress towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the paths to climate neutrality by 2050.During the first 5 years MI followed an Action Plan that enabled countries to increase their investments in clean energy innovation, increase international collaboration and strengthen private sector participation.

On June 2, 2021, Mission Innovation 2.0 was launched, a second phase of the initiative to intensify collective action and cooperation. The formal accession of Spain to MI was announced within the framework of the Global Clean Energy Action Forum in the joint call of the 13th Clean Energy Ministerial and the 7th Mission Innovation in September 2022.

The Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU) leads Spanish participation in this initiative, in which it will work in coordination with other ministries and government institutions, such as the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, responsible for energy policy in Spain.

With participation in Mission Innovation 2.0, Spain will be able to share knowledge with other members by cooperating in areas where it has activity throughout the value chain and thus accelerate the climate and energy transition in a more cost-effective way, which would not be possible without the synergies offered by international cooperation.

The Missions are public-private innovation alliances to catalyse global action around ambitious innovation goals that can lead to tipping points in the cost and scaling of clean energy, leading to faster technology adoption. They are all co-led by countries that have agreed to drive them forward and bring together partnerships between countries, corporations, investors and research centers that set ambitious global goals and provide momentum to ensure that more innovation takes place and more quickly. There are currently 7 missions that guide their activities based on a Roadmap to 2030 and an Action Plan that identifies and prioritizes the innovation challenges in each one. Spain initially participates in three of these missions: Green Powered Future, Clean Hydrogen and Urban Transitions.

In order to adequately address the Spanish participation and contribution in MI, both the Centre for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMAT) and the Alliance for Energy Research and Innovation (ALINNE), which act as the Technical Secretariat of the Spanish participation (SecMI), promoting frequent and close communication with the technological platforms in the energy field, the national representatives in MI and acting as the focal point of the MCIU in the MI Secretariat, have been counted.