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Oct 14, 2020 4:22:44 PM
An overview of the evaluation results of topics DT-ICT-04-2020, is now available under section Topic conditions and documents - Additional documents.
Jul 6, 2020 2:11:28 PM
3 proposals were submitted under this topic by the closure date of 17th of June 2020.
Apr 8, 2020 9:28:55 AM
Please note that the submission deadline for this topic has been extended from 22 April to 17 June 2020. This extension is a response to the COVID-19 crisis that has severely affected many potential applicants of this topic, to allow more time for proposal preparation.
Nov 19, 2019 11:06:00
The submission session is now available for: DT-ICT-04-2020(IA)
Oct 3, 2019 11:42:49 AM
Please note that a Guide to ICT-related activities in H2020 work programme 2018-20 has been published in the Additional documents section in Topic conditions and documents of your topic page.
Specific proposal templates for topic DT-ICT-04-2020 are now available under Topic conditions and documents part of the respective topic.
Photonics Innovation Hubs
ID: DT-ICT-04-2020
Focus area: Digitising and transforming European industry and services (DT)
Type of action:
IA Innovation action
Deadline Model : single-stage
Planned opening date: 19 November 2019
Deadline: 22 April 2020 17:00:00 Brussels time
The challenge is to provide a sustainable ecosystem of research and innovation support for the benefit of SMEs facilitating a broad uptake and integration of photonics technologies. These Photonics Innovation Hubs will help speed up the uptake of photonics technologies in order to make European industry more competitive and foster new business and business models. Business cases must be industrially relevant and should include industrialisation steps to technology and market readiness levels of 7 - 8.
Scope:The focus is on the following theme
Open access to Photonics Innovation Hubs: One-stop-shop access, supported through a network of competence centres, to services and capabilities such as expertise, training, prototyping, design, engineering, business support, financing advice and pilot manufacturing for first users and early adopters enabling the wider up-take and deployment of photonic technologies in innovative products. Actions must build on relevant previous European initiatives and existing infrastructure at European and regional level, demonstrate a record of accomplishment in supporting industry, in particular SMEs. Actions should also address skills development as well as support to the development of new innovation hubs.
The Commission considers that either proposals covering a range of photonics technologies and requesting a contribution from the EU of up to EUR 9.5 million, or a single proposal requesting a contribution of the EU of up to EUR 19 million covering the greatest possible range of photonics technologies, would allow addressing the challenges appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. For this topic, proposals have to comply with the four requirements described in the introductory section 'Support to Hubs'. Proposals may envisage to use EU funding for financial support to third parties with a maximum amount of EUR 150.000[1] per third party.
Expected Impact:Proposals should describe how the proposed work would contribute to the listed corresponding expected impacts and metrics, the baseline and the targets to measure impact.
Contractual Public-Private Partnerships (cPPPs)
Photonics
[1]In line with Article 23 (7) of the Rules for Participation the amounts referred to in Article 204-205 of the Financial Regulation may be exceeded, and if this is the case proposals should explain why this is necessary to achieve the objectives of the action.
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