ECSEL 2020 Call information

The Joint Undertaking ECSEL (‘Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership’ JU) initiative supports market-oriented joint R&D in the nanoelectronics and embedded computer systems segment between partners in European industry (including SMEs) and universities of applied science

ECSEL is a partnership between the private and the public sectors for advancing the state-of-the art in electronic components and systems. Switzerland is part of this Joint Undertaking und contributes to the call budget with co-funding from Innosuisse.

ECSEL JU opens following two concurrent cofinanced Calls:

• H2020-ECSEL-2020-1-IA-two-stage - Innovation Actions (ECSEL-IA)
• H2020-ECSEL-2020-2-RIA-two-stage - Research and Innovation Actions (ECSEL-RIA)

Both are two-stage Calls. Therefore, the submission of a Project Outline (stage 1) is mandatory. Only proposals having submitted a Project Outline and successfully passed this first stage evaluation (scored above threshold) will be allowed to submit a Full Project Proposal.

Participation

The annual calls for project proposals are aimed at SMEs, large companies, universities of applied sciences and research institutions.

Funding as % of costs:

SMEs: 50-60%

Large companies: 30-35%

Public Research Institutions: 70%

Submission process

• Interested Swiss parties are advised to get in touch with the Innosuisse ECSEL contact for Switzerland: Roland Bühler, Tel: +41 58 466 77 03, Email: roland.buehler@innosuisse.ch
• Projects should be submitted via the ECSEL programme’s central website

Deadlines

• Deadline for submission of IA and RIAPre-proposal: 5^th May 2020 (17:00:00 Brussels time (CET)
• Deadline for submission of IA and RIAFull proposals: 16^th September, 2020 (17:00:00 Brussels time (CET)
• Communication of the results: December 2020/January 2021

Call documents

• Official ECSEL Call 2020 announcement, description, topics and guidelines
• Conditions for participation for Swiss applicants
• Factsheet on independence between Swiss university and company partners

Swiss applicants must include the following information in "Part C" of the Pre-/Full proposal to be submitted:

• Budget template for Swiss applicants
• Brief description of institution/company for the assessment of suitability
• For companies/private institutions only: Submission of their most recent annual report

Support in the search for partners

• Enterprise Europe Network Switzerland
• ECS Collaboration Tool

Sources:

• Innosuisse ECSEL webpage
• ECSEL home page

The EPFL Research Office (research@epfl.ch) is available to help with your application and all the questions you may have.