25 August 2021
Horizon 2020 – ECSEL Joint Undertaking – RIA 2 – 2020
Grants for projects which aim to establish public private partnerships in the field of technologies that are strategic for the economic growth in the European Union.
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Grants for projects which aim to establish public private partnerships in the field of technologies that are strategic for the economic growth in the European Union.
Eligible countries : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Isreal, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom.
Objectives
* Applied research, technology development and/or method/tool and integration, testing and validation on a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment
Priorities
* Transport & Smart Mobility
– Major Challenge 1: developing clean, affordable and sustainable propulsion;
– Major Challenge 2: ensuring secure connected, cooperative and automated mobility and transportation;
– Major Challenge 3: managing interaction between humans and vehicles;
– Major Challenge 4: implementing infrastructure and services for smart personal mobility and logist
* Health and Well-being
– Moving healthcare from hospitals into our homes and daily life requiring preventive and patient centric care;
– Restructuring healthcare delivery systems, from supply-driven to patient-oriented;
– Engaging individuals more actively in their own health and wellbeing;
– Ensuring affordable healthcare for the growing amount of chronic, lifestyle related diseases and an ageing population;
– Developing platforms for wearables/implants, data analytics, artificial intelligence for precision medicine and personalised healthcare and well-being;
* Energy
– Major Challenge 1: ensuring sustainable power generation and energy conversion;
– Major Challenge 2: achieving efficient community energy management;
– Major Challenge 3: reducing energy consumption
* Digital Industry
– Major Challenge 1: developing digital twins, simulation models for the evaluation of industrial assets at all factory levels and over system or product life-cycles;
– Major Challenge 2: AI-enabled cognitive, resilient, adaptable manufacturing;
– Major challenge 3: developing digital platforms, application development frameworks that integrate sensors/actuators and systems;
– Major Challenge 4: human-centred manufacturing;
– Major Challenge 5: sustainable manufacturing in a circular economy;
* Digital Life
– Major Challenge 1: ensuring safe and secure spaces;
– Major Challenge 2: ensuring healthy and comfortable spaces;
– Major Challenge 3: ensuring anticipating spaces;
– Major Challenge 4: ensuring sustainable spaces
* Systems and Components: architecture, Design and Integration
– Major Challenge 1: managing critical, autonomous, cooperating, evolvable systems;
– Major Challenge 2: managing Complexity;
– Major Challenge 3: managing Diversity;
– Major Challenge 4: managing Multiple Constraint;
– Major Challenge 5: integrating features of various technologies and materials into miniaturised smart components;
– Major Challenge 6: effectively integrating modules for highly demanding environments;
– Major Challenge 7: increasing compactness and capabilities by functional and physical systems integration
* Connectivity and Interoperability
– Major Challenge 1: strengthening the EU position on differentiated technologies and enabling it to capture higher value by moving to system/module level;
– Major Challenge 2: autonomous interoperability translation for communication protocol, data encoding, security and information semantics;
– Major Challenge 3: architectures and reference implementations of interoperable, secure, scalable, smart and evolvable IoT and SoS connectivity
* Safety, Security and Reliability
– Major Challenge 1: safety, security and privacy by design;
– Major Challenge 2: reliability and Functional Safety;
– Major Challenge 3: secure, safe and trustable connectivity and infrastructure;
– Major Challenge 4: privacy, data protection and human interaction
* Computing and Storage
– Increasing performance at acceptable costs;
– Making computing systems more integrated with the real world;
– Making “intelligent” machines;
– Developing new disruptive technologies
* Process Technology, Equipment, Materials and Manufacturing for Electronic Components & Systems
– Major Challenge 1: develop advanced logic and memory technology for nanoscale integration and application-driven performance;
– Major Challenge 2: develop Technology for Heterogeneous System-on-Chip (SoC) Integration;
– Major Challenge 3: develop technology for Advanced Packaging and Heterogeneous System-in-Package (SiP) integration;
– Major Challenge 4: extend world leadership in Semiconductor Equipment, Materials and Manufacturing solutions
* Long-term vision
– New computing paradigms (‘Beyond CMOS’);
– Process technology, equipment and materials;
– Systems and components: architecture, design and integration;
– Health & wellbeing;
– Energy;
– Digital Industry;
– Transport and smart mobility;
– Connectivity and interoperability;
– Data science and Artificial Intelligence
Among financed actions
* Activities with a TRL 3-4
Additional information
* This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
* Initial duration of the project : up to 3 years
* Eligibility:
– Be a consortium composed of at least three legal entities: SMEs, Companies and Universities
– Each of the three must be established in a different Member State or associated country
– All three legal entities must be independent of each other
* Actions must take place in an eligible country
* Amount of the grant: up to 12 million euro
* Cofinancing rate:
– Large Enterprise (for profit non SME): 25 %
– SME (for profit SME): 30 %
– University/Other (not for profit): 35 %
25 August 2021