Cluster 4
Digital, Industry & Space
Progress in digital and industrial technologies, including in space, shape all sectors of the economy and society. They transform the way industry develops, create new products and services and are central to any sustainable future.
Your NCP contacts for this programme
Mark Antonissen
mark.antonissen@vlaio.be
+32 2 432 43 05
Nico Deblauwe
nico.deblauwe@vlaio.be
+32 2 432 43 00
About this programme
This cluster will try to stimulate European growth in the key areas of digital, industry & space and make sure most of its future production (entire value chain) will be happening in the EU so the member states become less dependent of third countries. Increased sustainability of the delivered products is at the heart of these efforts.
As a result, actions under this cluster will support key enabling technologies that are strategically important for Europe’s industrial future. They have selected 6 focus areas or destinations that reflect these strategic domains:
- Climate neutral circular and digitized production
- Increased autonomy in key strategic value chains for resilient industry
- World leading data and computing technologies
- Digital and emerging technologies for competitiveness and fit for the Green Deal
- Open strategic autonomy in developing, deploying and using global space-based infrastructures, services, applications and data
- A human-centered and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies.
Areas of activity
- Manufacturing technologies
- Advanced materials
- Next generation internet
- Circular industries
- Space, including Earth Observation
- Emerging enabling technologies
- Key digital technologies, including quantum technologies
- Artificial Intelligence and robotics
- Advanced computing and Big Data
- Low-carbon and clean industry
- Emerging enabling technologies
Latest news
Digital, Industry & Space Semiconductors
New Chips calls open: Pilot Line on Advanced Photonic Integrated Circuits
The Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) has opened a new set of three interrelated calls for the set-up of a Pilot Line on Advanced Photonic Integrated Circuits: Call for Expression of Interest for the selection of a Hosting Consortium Call for proposals for Set-up, integration and process development, funded under theHorizon Europe Program... read more
Digital, Industry & Space Semiconductors
Joint EU/Republic of Korea Chips Projects announced
The European Union and the Republic of Korea announce support for four jointly funded projects in semiconductors as a deliverable of the EU-Republic of Korea Digital Partnership. The projects will advance heterogeneous integration technologies i.e. technologies combining multiple components onto one chip as well as neuromorphic computing technolog... read more
Digital, Industry & Space HPC AI, data & cloud
Open call for SMEs and start-ups: experiments with supercomputers and scali...
The FFPlus project has opened the first out of six round of open calls to set up experiments with supercomputers and to scale up generative AI applications. FFplus is a European initiative highlighting and promoting the adoption of High-Performance Computing (HPC) by SMEs and start-ups across Europe, showing the business benefits and im... read more
Upcoming events
Digital, Industry & Space AI, data & cloud Deployment: Best use of technologies
SAVE THE DATE - Digital Archiving Futures 2024 event
Digital, Industry & Space AI, data & cloud
Synthetic Data for AI Conference
Digital, Industry & Space AI, data & cloud
Data for Innovation Conference
Digital, Industry & Space AI, data & cloud Deployment: Best use of technologies
ITEA PO Days 2024
Digital, Industry & Space Digital Europe
FIWARE Global Summit
Digital, Industry & Space Cybersecurity
QuantERA Strategic Conference 2024
Digital, Industry & Space HPC AI, data & cloud
AI-Friendly EuroHPC Systems
Digital, Industry & Space AI, data & cloud
Workshop: Semantic Interoperability in Data Spaces
Digital, Industry & Space Digital Europe
Big Data Value Forum 2024
RI Health Food Energy Transport
ESFRI Roadmap 2026 Info Day
RI Health Culture and society Security Digital, Industry & Space
SAVE THE DATE - Impact in Horizon Europe - training session
Security Digital, Industry & Space Cybersecurity Defence EDF
SAVE THE DATE - Brave new world: Building Europe’s capacities for defence a...
Security Digital, Industry & Space Cybersecurity
5G Techritory Forum
Digital, Industry & Space AI, data & cloud
SAVE THE DATE - AI, Data & Robotics Forum 2024
Health Culture and society Digital, Industry & Space Climate, Energy, Mobility Agro-Food, Environment
SAVE THE DATE - Horizon Europe Proposal Workshop - third edition
Digital, Industry & Space Semiconductors
SAVE THE DATE - EFECS 2024
Work Programme & Calls
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Testimonial
Luciad - Geospatial software for mission-critical operations
Founded in 1999, Luciad serves clients in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Though it recently was acquired by Hexagon Geospatial, they kept an agile SME mindset. Thousands of end users work directly with Luciad’s geospatial applications, and major systems integrators (think Airbus Defense and Space, Lufthansa Systems, NATO, Thales…) incorporate its software in their own products.
NCP Flanders went to Leuven to interview Frederic Houbie, the Research Projects Manager at Luciad, about how he sees Horizon 2020. Luciad is a partner in the MARISA project, which is a collaborative RIA project submitted to an ICT call topic.
