1st Stage deadline is 11th May, 2nd stage is 21st September 2017

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Industrial Leadership and the ECSEL Joint Undertaking invite proposals for their ECSEL-2017-1 innovation action call. This supports activities aiming at pilot lines and test beds, demonstrators, innovation pilots and zones of full-scale testing, to produce plans and arrangements or designs for new, altered or improved products, processes or services, and may include prototyping testing, demonstrating, piloting, large-scale product validation and market replication. Proposals may address the following:

•key applications, including smart mobility, smart society, smart energy, smart health and smart production;

•essential capabilities, including semiconductor manufacturing, technology, equipment and materials, design technologies, cyber-physical systems, smart integration systems, and safety and security.

Project outlines are invites from industrial consortia

that may consist of universities, institutes, SMEs and large

companies. A consortium must have at least three participants from different EU member states or associated countries.

The budget for this call is €92.5 million.