Project Call

Sustainable Ecosystem For The Adoption, Ramp-up And Transfer Of Emerging Electronics Solutions

Call identifier: SmartEEs203-2020 call

Project acronym: SmartEEs2

Project full name: SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEM FOR THE ADOPTION, RAMP-UP AND TRANSFER OF EMERGING ELECTRONICS SOLUTIONS

Project grant agreement number: 872076

SmartEEs2, a European acceleration program, is organizing an open Call for Application Experiments with the objective of providing support to Innovative Companies to digitalise their businesses and access new markets by integrating Flexible and Wearable Electronics technologies (FWE) into advanced products / series of products and services.

Interested companies can apply to one of the following two topics:

  1. Experimenting and testing end-product ideas with FWE technologies
  2. Support to manufacturing of FWE based end-products including upscaling

Important notice for applicants applying to both topics:

  • Applicants are requested to contact Helpdesk prior to applying to the Call for AEs in order to check technical and business feasibility / scope of their ideas. The feasibility check will be performed by SmartEEs2 technical and business experts.
  • SmartEEs2 project would like to directly contribute to reducing spread of COVID – 19 and other viruses with flexible & wearable electronics as solutions in the field of prevention, diagnostics, therapy, etc. Therefore, SmartEEs2 will preferentially support 2 application experiment proposals related to this thematic particularly under the 1st cut-off date.
  1. Experimenting and testing end-product ideas with FWE technologies

The types of activities that qualify for receiving support have to be related to industrial and societal adoption of new digital products, services and business models enabled by Flexible and Wearable electronics (visit Marketplace for technology details):

  • OLED lighting
  • Organic photovoltaics
  • Flexible displays
  • Electronics and components
  • Integrated smart systems
  • Smart textiles
  • Structural electronics

Specifically, the aims of Application Experiments for this topic will be:

  • The transformation of a product idea into a functional product demonstrator;
  • The creation of an exploitation plan.

Please take careful note of the following:

  • A supported product idea must focus on an end-product application;
  • SmartEEs2 supports the fabrication and commercialization of only one product demonstrator;
  • Limited number of functionalities is available for integration (limited resources, integrable in 9-12 months);
  • Only validated technologies will be made available for fabrication and integration into product demonstrator;
  • The research activity and development of new technologies (including materials, processes and components) will not be supported by SmartEEs (including proprietary solutions);
  1. Support to manufacturing of FWE based end-products including upscaling

The types of activities that qualify for receiving support have to be related to the following manufacturing technologies (visit Marketplace for manufacturing technologies):

  • Electronics Printing
  • High volume component assembly
  • Post-processing / Finishing
  • Structural electronics

This topic is open for companies which already have a Flexible and Wearable Electronics demonstrator but do not have the necessary manufacturing capacity to transform the existing demonstrator into production demonstrator for volume manufacturing. Examples of typical applicants are given below:

  • I would like to produce samples on large quantity and at good quality;
  • I have a product demo and want to do clinical trials;
  • I want to show the potential of my products to a large set of potential customers;
  • I have a large size product;
  • I want to validate “state of the art” production methods;
  • I want to validate technology close to implementation.

Specifically, the aims of application experiments for this topic will be:

  • Small series of demonstrators;
  • Advancement and validation of the exploitation plan (e.g. cost calculation, supply chain, market expansion).

Please take careful note of the following:

  • You have a Flexible and Wearable Electronics demonstrator;
  • You are planning to do validation experiments;
  • Work is focused on TRL 7;
  • You want to set up a manufacturing value chain;
  • The demonstrator may be originated from other European projects.

For more information: https://smartees.eu/open-call-smartees2/

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