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Eureka & AAI Funding for international R&D Projects 23.05.2022 | Vienna
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AGENDA
• Introduction to Eureka & AAI (FFG) Speakers
• E-commerce Case Study from Industry (IKANGAI)
• Nadja Rohrbach
• Eureka Clusters for AAI Projects (ITEA & Xecs) AENEAS, Xecs Director
• Funding for Eureka Cluster Projects (FFG) • Zeynep Sarilar
ITEA Chairwoman
• Q&A • Martin Treiber
IKANGAI GmbH
• Michael Walch
FFG
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EUREKA & AAI
Michael Walch
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AAI IS DRIVING THE FUTURE OF HARDWARE AND
SOFTWARE
E.g., Easy to scale, low latency, power E.g., 12-billion parameter GPT-3 Transformer
efficient exascale computing model generating images for text prompts
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
(https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/)
D1-Chip used in Tesla‘s Dojo-Supercomputer
(https://youtu.be/j0z4FweCy4M)
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AAI INNOVATION MANIFESTS IN INDUSTRY PROJECTS
• Eureka Cluster Project AI-SEE: Safe driving under
poor weather and low visibility conditions
• The all weather multi-sensor suite will include
the development of:
• a gated SWIR-camera that will enable a post-
processing pixel-level depth estimation
• a short-wave infrared (SWIR) Lidar with a
novel SPAD receiver architecture
• a PolCAM- active polarimetric imager with
congruent LIDAR data
• a high resolution 4D MIMO Radar prototype
with a dense point cloud (https://www.ai-see.eu/)
• a high definition dynamic map to suppport
environment perception
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EUREKA IS …
Leading Intergovernmental Supporting Facilitating
platform for network market-oriented access to
international R&D finance
cooperation projects
International cooperation in National Funding Bodies: Research and development projects close National funding of the
R&D projects is supported with in Austria this is the Research to the market, i.e. product/process/ national share of transnational
several tools! Promotion Agency FFG service that is developed is ready for the research and development
market in 2-3 years projects
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© Eureka Association 2022
EUREKA NETWORK
Full members 41 full members
(40 countries + European Commission)
National information points
(Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Partner countries
(South Korea)
Associated countries
(Argentina, Canada, Chile, South
Africa, Singapore)
International cooperation
EUREKA is a pan-European network for market-oriented, industrial R&D&I
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© Eureka Association 2022
EUREKA INSTRUMENTE
Network
projects Eurostars
projects
Cluster
projects
Globalstars
projects
© FFG 2022 | Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft | www.ffg.at > 45 countries 9
© Eureka Association 2022
EUREKA CLUSTER CALLS ON AAI
Eureka Clusters AI Call 2020 Eureka Clusters AI Call 2021
3 2023 ITEA4 Call 9
…
FFG General Programmes FFG Thematic Programmes
FFG Funding for Austrian Companies
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E-COMMERCE CASE STUDY FROM INDUSTRY
EXPERIENCE REPORT FROM A EUREKA CLUSTER
PROJECT
MARTIN TREIBER
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ITEA
ZEYNEP SARILAR
© FFG 2022 | Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft | www.ffg.at 24ITEA FOSTERING INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE INNOVATION AAIC 2022, Austria Zeynep Sarılar, ITEA Chairwoman
ITEA
THE EUREKA CLUSTER ON SOFTWARE INNOVATION
ITEA stimulates transnational and industry-driven R&D&I in the domain
of software innovation. ITEA enables a large international community to
collaborate in funded projects that turn innovative ideas into new
businesses, jobs, economic growth and benefits for society.
ITEA is:
Global and trusted cooperation in an industrial community
Project financing through national public and private funding
Commercialisation of research results
Focus on high-quality process and support
26ITEA KEY CHALLENGES
Smart city Smart mobility
Smart communities Smart industry
Smart health Smart energy
Safety and security Smart engineering
27ITEA GOVERNANCE
TRUSTFUL RELATIONSHIP
ITEA is an association, with industry board members:
Public Authorities assigning budgets to ITEA projects are:
28ITEA FACTS AND FIGURES
Total number of projects
310
Incl. Canada, South
Total person years
34,074 Korea, Singapore and
-------------------------------------------------------
others
ITEA (Call 1-8):
545 unique partners
228 SMEs
ITEA 2 (Call 1-8):
972 unique partners
482 SMEs
ITEA 3 (Call 1-7 + AI Call 2020):
907 unique partners
489 SMEs
ITEA 4 (Call 2021 + AI Call 2021):
295 unique partners
146 SMEs
29ITEA BOTTOM-UP CALLS
YEARLY CALL PROCESS
1. ITEA Project Outline Days event - September
Consortium building / idea generation
2. Submit a Project Outline (PO) - End of Oct / Beginning of Nov
Short project overview
3. Submit a Full Project Proposal (FPP) - Mid-February
Description of project plan, management and execution
4. Funding & Project Start-up – From July
Apply for funding at national level
30ITEA BOTTOM-UP CALL TOPIC LANDSCAPE
STRONG AI FOCUS IN ITEA
Since several years, many ITEA projects apply AI technologies to solve
challenges defined by (business) needs. This focus is getting stronger and
stronger.
31SUCCESSFUL ITEA PROJECT APPLYING AI
REFLEXION
Reflexion assisted high-tech systems companies in using operational data to improve the development lifecycles,
maintenance and troubleshooting of products. Using open-source frameworks, self-learning and data-analysing
systems were developed that accumulate useful knowledge during a product’s lifetime, resulting in a faster time-
to-market, lower costs and greater competitiveness.
Start date: September 2015
End date: February 2019
Reflexion webpages
https://itea4.org/project/reflexion.html
https://itea4.org/project/impact-stream/reflexion-
impact-story.html
32REFLEXION
IMPACT HIGHLIGHTS
All project partners have improved their data pipelines to the point of returning only useful information: the
gathered information can now be used to automatically enhance future product design
Océ (now Canon) has improved their mean time to repair (MTTR) for all new machines by 50%, while another
partner saw a 30% reduction in time spent troubleshooting
For partners Barco and TNO, new business models are expected to already be worth 20 million € in the next 5
years
25 data science jobs have been created within the Reflexion project partners
Siemens Industry Software developed a potential service model based around simulated failures, which can
predict future issues even in the absence of ‘real’ data
Philips and Barco can now create medical equipment with a higher uptime, meaning the possibility to diagnose
or operate on more patients per day
SynerScope’s visual-analytical tooling enabled their customer Stedin to plan in the end with a 99,5% accuracy
first-time-right smart meter installation visits, saving an effective 40 FTE in the smart meter rollout for the
Netherlands
33ITEA PO DAYS
A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS!
ITEA PO Days in September each year:
‐ 300+ participants, 15+ countries
‐ 50-70 ideas uploaded in the project idea tool, 50+ project ideas
presented as a poster and 40+ ideas pitches
Generally, more than 75% of the submitted POs are initially
presented at the preceding ITEA PO Days.
“The PO Days event is an opportunity to do what I call a mix between speed
dating and a hackathon at the same time, to come up with an idea that we
Save the Date!
wouldn’t be able to come up with ourselves.”
ITEA PO Days 2022
13 & 14 September,
Helsinki
Start your preparations 34
from May in the projectEUREKA CLUSTERS JOINT AI CALLS
AISSI PROJECT - STRONG SYNERGY BETWEEN
SEMICONDUCTOR AND SOFTWARE INDUSTRY
Digitalisation is driving increased demand for microchips and shortening the product lifecycle and the high variety
of customer specific devices leads to a growing need for high-mix low-volume (HMLV) semiconductor production.
The project AISSI - Autonomous Integrated Scheduling for Semiconductor Industry - proposes to source and
develop, integrate and apply novel AI-based approaches.
Start date: March 2021
End date: May 2024
AISSI webpage
https://itea4.org/project/aissi.html
35Thank you
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XECS
NADJA ROHRBACH
© FFG 2022 | Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft | www.ffg.at 38AAIC Vienna, Austria
24 May 2022
Nadja Rohrbach, Xecs Programme Director
For more information:
www.eureka-xecs.com
Follow usXecs - A Eureka Cluster
A Eureka Cluster supporting:
RD&I in the field of Electronic
Components & Systems
Public authorities
Xecs is managed and operated by
the AENEAS Industry Association,
benefiting from:
Private Complementary activities within the
• Large enterprises, KDT Joint Undertaking
• SMEs, Direct experience from Catrene,
• Universities, Euripides² and Penta Clusters
• RTOs Supported also by EPoSS and
Transnational
RD&I consortia Inside Industry Associations
40Who is AENEAS?
• AENEAS is a not-for-profit Industrial Association,
with members from Large industries, Small and
Medium Enterprises, Research institutes, academia,
that catalyses RD&I collaborative activity in the
Electronic Components & Systems value chain
supporting the development of the digital economy
• AENEAS membership is free of charge
41AENEAS members are key industrial players
Kurt Sievers, President and CEO of NXP Semiconductors, is AENEAS President
450+
42Adressing all ECS-SRIA domains
Strategic directions from the AENEAS, EPoSS and Inside Industry Associations
43 Source ECS SRIA 2022Xecs and AI
Cross-sectional technology
Edge computing and Embedded Artificial Intelligence
Embedding data analytics and Artificial Intelligence
One mainstream use for AI is to allow a better interface between the real world
(physical world) and computing infrastructure (digital world) by interpreting naturally
unstructured data, such as image files, audio files and physical sensor data, where
analytic methods are inefficient or inexistent
AI techniques also allow to leverage the increasing availability of data to enrich the
electronics devices with decision-making capabilities, which can be adaptative over
time thanks to machine learning approaches
One key trend is to perform AI-based tasks as close as possible to the raw data source
(“edge computing”), thus identifying the insight data as early as possible and bringing
several benefits such as reduced latency, bandwidth, power consumption, memory
footprint, and better security and data protection
44Xecs and AI
AI-SEE Project example
How can we ensure that automated vehicles drive reliably even in adverse
weather conditions?
AI-SEE is developing an AI-supported solution to enable automated
travel in varied traffic, lighting and weather conditions by increasing the
environmental and situational awareness of vehicles. Its goal is to introduce
reliable, secure, trustable sensors and software by implementing self-
diagnosis, adaptation and robustness.
45Funding instrument landscape
Positioning Xecs in the European Funding Landscape
NATIONAL CROSS BORDER COOPERATION
KD
T
NATIONAL EUREKA KDT / ECSEL-JU HORIZON EUROPE
Develop & Maintain Trans-National Programmes ECS Programmes Innovation & Infrastructure
Critical Mass National Priorities National & European Priorities European Priorities
National contract National funding EC contract & National contract EC contract
NATIONAL FUNDING EUROPEAN FUNDING
46Why participate?
To take advantage of trans-national RD&I cooperation
and related national funding in a broad range of countries
To benefit from multiple and diversified partnership opportunities
from the ECS community, from the research to the end
applications and create impactful collaborative ecosystems
To boost competitiveness, accelerate growth and shorten time to
market
To access expertise and get professional guidance coaching
and mentoring from industrial experts and the Xecs team
47How Xecs work?
Idea Generation Two step review process Change Request Process
Brokerage Full Project Proposal Project Start
submission Project Monitoring
Consortium Building
Labelling & Funding Final Review
Project Outline submission
decisions
Long-term impact analysis
48Xecs Call 2 timeline 49
Xecs typical project
01 02
4 to 15 participants 3 to 5 EUREKA
members countries
SMEs
Large companies 01 02 Minimum 2
countries
Research Institutes
Academia
04 03
2 to 30M€ 04 03 ECS Value chain
project costs ECS SRIA
Duration: max. 36
months
50Building on the legacy of Penta and
Euripides²
Funding Public - Private
Success rate Joint investments
32%** 385 M€
RTO/
Academia participation Eureka Countries
SME participation involved
40%* 29%* 24
* by number of partners PENTA call 1,2,3, PENTA and EURIPIDES² Call 2019,
51 ** number of POs
submitted and finally
2020, 2021, AI call 2020, 2021Supporting countries
21 countries active in Xecs project submissions
␥ Austria ␥ Belgium ␥ Canada ␥ Czech Republic ␥ Finland ␥ France
␥ Germany ␥ Hungary ␥ Ireland ␥ Israel ␥ Latvia ␥ Luxembourg
␥ Malta ␥ Poland ␥ Portugal ␥ South Korea ␥ Spain ␥ Sweden
␥ Switzerland ␥ The Netherlands ␥ Turkey
52Project presentation opportunities
3
EFECS 2022 ECS Brokerage 2023
24th – 25th November 2022 TBC- More to come
Project ideas (pitch and posters) Project ideas (pitch and posters)
Project results (posters) Project results (posters)
53Follow us!
On twitter and Linkedin
@xecs_eureka Xecs
Follow us on
Twitter
54Xecs Team
XXXX
Shéhérazade AZIZI Patrick COGEZ Nadja ROHRBACH
azizi@aeneas-office.org cogez@aeneas-office.org rohrbach@aeneas-office.org
55For more information: www.eureka-xecs.com Follow us
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EUREKA CLUSTER FUNDING IN AUSTRIA
Michael Walch
© FFG 2022 | Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft | www.ffg.at 58GENERAL PROGRAMMES – BOTTOM UP STANDS FOR
THEMATIC AND TECHNOLOGY OPENNESS
• Support in every project phase – as from project preparation to market entry
• Open for all topics, industries and technology fields
• Open to all company and project sizes
• Qualitative "single firm" projects (experimental development and industrial
research)
• Besides company projects also cooperative projects possible
• Ongoing submission
• Regular funding decisions (either on an ongoing basis for micro grants
or in 7 advisory board meetings for corporate projects)
© FFG 2022 | Austrian Research Promotion Agency | www.ffg.at 59FUNDING OUTLOOK
AUSTRIA
• General Programme: “Basisprogramm“
• SME: grant of up to 60% of eligible costs (60% for small companies - 50% for medium
sized companies)
• Large Company: mixed funding of up to 50% (funding is composed of a grant and a loan
part)
• Universities and research organisations may be subcontracted
© FFG I Austrian Research Promotion Agency I www.ffg.at © FFG I Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft I www.ffg.atPROJECT SCORING SYSTEM
Main criterion Subcriterion 1 Subcriterion 2 Subcriterion 3 Subcriterion 4
Novelty and Climate and
Quality of the project R&D-risk Partical value results
innovation environment
Economic potential
Capability to
and commercial Market potential Market experience
commercialize R&D
exploitation
Management and
Suitability of applicants Technical feasibility Financial feasibility company
organisation
Relevance of the Additionalility on
Additionality on the
project in relation to company level (gain of Economic effects Social aspects
project level
the program know-how)
© FFG 2022 | Austrian Research Promotion Agency | www.ffg.at 61TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL
• Funding is provided for bottom-up, market-
oriented research, specifically "experimental
development"
• Technology Readiness Level 5-7
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PROJEKT.START
Features: attractive funding instrument for start-ups and
SME to get support for preperation work for a concrete
research project
• Definition of project aims
• Assessment of the state of the art and literature and
patent research and technical risks
• Execution of well-founded market and competitor
analyses
• Preperation of the project organization an project
partners and cost plan with obtainment of offers
© FFG 2022 | Austrian Research Promotion Agency | www.ffg.at 63THEMED PROGRAMMES
• National calls with thematic focus
• Production of the Future
• Mobility of the Future
• Information and Communication technology of the Future
• …
• For Austrian sub-consortia in Eureka Cluster projects
• Industrial Research and Experimental Development
• Strenghten your national application by embedding it into an international Eureka Cluster application
More Information: https://www.ffg.at/thematische-programme
© FFG 2020 | Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft | www.ffg.at 64FINDING A PARTNER (FROM
AUSTRIA)
1. Via the ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA offices
2. EEN is one of the largest online database for
collaboration opportunities
Find a partner via EEN in three steps:
• Search the global partnership database based
on your criteria
• Express your interest by telling your EEN
representative about your company, project
idea, and the type of partner you are looking for
• The EEN representatives put interested partners
in touch
© FFG I Austrian Research Promotion Agency I www.ffg.at 65ANSPRECHPARTNER FÜR IHR EUREKA PROJEKT
Eureka: FFG Basisprogramme:
Ines Marinkovic, +43 5 7755 4706 Stefanie Kurasch, +43 5 7755 1515
ines.marinkovic@ffg.at stefanie.kurasch@ffg.at
Michael Walch, +43 5 7755 4901 Martina Hörhan, +43 5 7755 1220
michael.walch@ffg.at martina.hoerhan@ffg.at
© FFG 2022 | Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft | www.ffg.at 66QUESTIONS
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VIELEN DANK FÜR IHRE AUFMERKSAMKEIT! Dr Michael Walch Eureka NPC Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft Sensengasse 1, A-1090 Wien T +43 (0) 5 77 55 – 4901 M +43 (0) 664 88388 46 michael.walch@ffg.at www.ffg.at
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