Calls H2020 Industrial Leadership open for applications

The European Commission has opened two calls under the 2014-2015 work programme Industrial Leadership (IL) of the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation - Horizon 2020. Deadline of the call ICT 2015 - Information and Communications Technologies (H2020-ICT-2015) is April 14, 2015. The call has a budget of € 561,000,000. Deadline of the call Eu-Brazil Research and Development Cooperation in Advanced Cyber Infrastructure (H2020-EUB-2015) is April 21 2014 and the budget € 7,000,00. For more detailed information and documents on the call ICT 2015 please click here and for the Eu-Brazil call please click here.

The first ICT-Leadership in Enabling and Indsutrial Technologies (LEIT) Work Programme under H2020 provides a balanced response to the main challenges faced by Europe in the field: firstly, the need to maintain a strong expertise in key technology value chains; secondly, the necessity to move quicker from research excellence to the market.

Six main activity lines have been identified in the ICT-LEIT part of the Work Programme:
1. A new generation of components and systems;
2. Advanced Computing;
3. Future Internet;
4. Content technologies and information management;
5. Robotics;
6. Micro- and nano-electronic technologies, Photonics.

In addition, the Work Programme features several cross-cutting topics addressing cyber-security, Internet of Things and research on a Human-centric Digital Age. All activities are complemented with support to innovation and take-up, international cooperation and a dedicated action for SMEs to propose bottom-up innovative ideas, using the SME instrument.