{"id":13072,"date":"2022-02-02T16:42:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=13072"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:42:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:42:57","slug":"eureka-clusters-sustainability-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2022\/02\/02\/eureka-clusters-sustainability-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Eureka Clusters Sustainability Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Eureka programme, launched in 1985, is a pan-European initiative for promoting near-market collaborative research in advanced technology. Eureka aims to improve Europe&#8217;s competitiveness in global markets for civil applications of new technology through its support to businesses, research centres and universities that carry out pan-European projects to develop innovative products, processes and services.<\/p>\n<p>Eureka &#8216;Clusters&#8217; are long-term, strategically significant research initiatives, focusing on specific fields of technology research, that aim to bring together large companies, SMEs, research institutes and universities &#8211; from countries participating in the Eureka programme and other international partner countries &#8211; in order to foster innovation to develop and commercially exploit new technologies to help European industry maintain a leading position in the world market.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the Eureka Clusters &#8211; CELTIC-NEXT, EUROGIA, ITEA, SMART and Xecs &#8211; and the Eureka Public Authorities of Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Turkey, and the UK have implemented a joint \u20ac25 million Call for RD&amp;I projects in support of Sustainable Industry.<\/p>\n<p>Proposals are invited from consortia including at least two companies from different Eureka participating countries. Research institutes and universities may form part of a consortium according to the regulations of the national funding agencies of the participating countries. Projects should involve the development of a new product, industrial process, industry standard or service that is innovative and involves a significant element of technological risk.<\/p>\n<p>Potential technical fields or strategic application domains that are of specific interest for the Eureka Clusters Sustainability Call include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Environmental monitoring and disaster management<\/li>\n<li>New approaches for the energy sector, e.g. storage technologies and materials<\/li>\n<li>Power electronics and power management<\/li>\n<li>High-performance engineering for personalised products<\/li>\n<li>Industry 4.0 for food production<\/li>\n<li>Environmental protection and measurement<\/li>\n<li>Decentralised technical intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Marine and agricultural robotics<\/li>\n<li>Digital twins for sustainable manufacturing<\/li>\n<li>AI assisted training and assistance systems<\/li>\n<li>Autonomous shipping<\/li>\n<li>Management systems for lifecycle monitoring and operations<\/li>\n<li>ICT architectures, platforms and standards for industry and logistics 4.0<\/li>\n<li>High-performance manufacturing systems<\/li>\n<li>Sustainable, secure and resilient interconnection of all stakeholders and systems<\/li>\n<li>Cyber-physical production and logistics systems<\/li>\n<li>Integrated sensor and secure communication systems<\/li>\n<li>Technologies supporting the balance of sustainable energy generation, consumption and storage<\/li>\n<li>Sustainable smart factories through future connectivity<\/li>\n<li>Utilisation and integration of various observation systems<\/li>\n<li>Components, systems and architectures for distributed intelligence and low power data transmission<\/li>\n<li>Space-earth-ocean sensing and data collection systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two target challenges of specific interest identified by the national funding bodies supporting the call include &#8216;Green ICT&#8217; and &#8216;space-earth-ocean integrated systems for better observation and data exploitation&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Following a successful project approval, project partners will submit applications to their respective national funding agencies with a recommendation for support through an appropriate programme or funding mechanism. National funding agencies may allocate a dedicated budget for approved projects, or operate fast-track application processes for projects approved through the EUREKA clusters mechanism, or administer approved project applications alongside other applications to the respective national funding programme. The various <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feureka-clusters.eu%2Fsustainability%2Ffunding.html&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cnubsdirectorofresearch%40newcastle.ac.uk%7C78ef0a47552142b9054808d9e645ff6c%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C637794010608772857%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=W0jVmeGe8SmJB1qubQ0MB44lGqPkKH8Z6vRngTOGnBU%3D&amp;reserved=0\">national funding agencies<\/a> participating in the Eureka Clusters Sustainability Call have outlined their potential budget contribution and any country-specific criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Applications should be submitted to the relevant cluster. The specific technological domains of the participating Eureka Clusters include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CELTIC-NEXT: next-generation telecommunications and ICT<\/li>\n<li>EUROGIA: low-carbon energy technologies<\/li>\n<li>ITEA: software innovation and digital transition<\/li>\n<li>SMART: advanced manufacturing and production technologies<\/li>\n<li>Xecs: electronic components and systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Sustainability Call website has a brokerage area to aid with sharing project ideas and finding project partners and a project area to allow approved consortium members to work on a project. The website will also host a brokerage event on 23 March for interested participants.<\/p>\n<p>Project outlines should be submitted by the deadline on <strong>2 May 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Full proposals for selected applicants must be submitted by 20 September 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eureka programme, launched in 1985, is a pan-European initiative for promoting near-market collaborative research in advanced technology. 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