Deadline: 31-May-23
The Silicon Europe Eurocluster project launches the call for proposals to fund demonstration projects with microelectronics systems.
Scope and expectations: Challenge-driven innovation
Innovation and collaboration are more important than ever, and necessary to achieve a sustainable society. That’s why Silicon Europe will ask the applicants in this call for applications incorporate the sustainability goals in Agenda 2030. The challenges and proposed solutions should describe how to improve resource efficiency, support green entrepreneurship, and facilitate market access for SMEs offering green products and services.
- Silicon Europe will finance small and market-oriented projects involving SMEs, consisting of the integration and use of technologies.
In the call for applications, projects not aiming at demonstrating a complete solution to the challenge will not be considered. Textual/graphical presentation/drawings alone of the solution do not qualify as demonstrating a complete solution.
Technologies
The proposed solution shall consist of a microelectronics system with Technology Readiness Level 6 (technology demonstration) that includes one or several of the below listed technology priority areas:
- Radio communications.
- Cyber security.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Energy harvesting.
- Photonics.
- Sensors.
Funding Information
The awarded project consortium will be able to receive up to EUR 80 000, but contributions received by each individual SME taking part in the call for application cannot be higher than EUR 60 000. Please note that only 30% of the contribution can be used for subcontracting.
Eligible Projects Shall
- Support an innovative and efficient way to improve an existing business process, or the implementation of a novel business process, by means of digitalisation;
- Prepare and help less digitalised SMEs to adopt advanced technologies;
- Engage and involve the end customers, users, and other relevant claimants;
- Establish strategic collaboration between tech-savvy companies and less digitalized businesses;
- Be carried out in an equal manner by considering the gender distribution and the distribution of power and influence between women and men;
- Promote technology adoption within and across specific industrial ecosystems;
- Have a clear European dimension;
- Have a clear industrial application;
- Contribute to the green transition and demonstrate how the solution addresses sustainability improvements (greening) e.g., energy efficiency, less waste etc.
Eligible activities include:
- Investigation of technical and design requirements.
- Development of prototypes or demonstration versions of products or services. This may also include pilot work, testing and validation.
- Planning and carrying out studies/testing to verify an innovation.
- Investigation of market conditions, such as identifying customers, customer needs, potential partners, and competitors.
Eligibility Criteria
- Silicon Europe is looking for a consortium of at least 2 SMEs [registered legal persons], established in EEA countries, and countries associated with the COSME part of the Single Market Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.
- At least one SME in the consortium should be a technology solution provider. Applicants should complement each other in any part of a coherent value chain. By value chain Silicon Europe means all the steps that gradually refine an idea from raw materials and components to a final product, finished good or service that is offered on a market.
- All SMEs applying as one consortium should be autonomous to one another (without ownership, capital, or personal links).
- The Silicon Eurocluster partners or their employees, are NOT considered as eligible applicants and can NOT apply for funding.
- Applicants from the EU-13 countries which have joined the EU the latest are encouraged to apply.
For more information, visit Silicon Europe.