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Programme Description
The Euratom Research and Training programme has the following specific objectives:
- improve and support nuclear safety, security, safeguards, radiation protection, safe spent fuel and radioactive waste management and decommissioning, including the safe and secure use of nuclear power and of non-power applications of ionising radiation
maintain and further develop expertise and competence in the nuclear field within the community - foster the development of fusion energy as a potential future energy source for electricity production and contribute to the implementation of the European fusion roadmap
- support the policy of the EU and its members on continuous improvement of nuclear safety, safeguards and security
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Summary
The Nuclear Innovation Prize highlights and rewards excellence in nuclear innovation in this field of research as well as the quality of the talented researchers and companies involved. The second contest will be awarded at the next Euratom Research and Training Conference(s) in Safety of Reactor Systems and Radioactive Waste Management (FISA 2025 – EURADWASTE’25).
There are three specific categories:
Detailed Call Description
Participants are free to submit an application(s) on any technological innovation in the areas of application of fission safety that encompass radioactive waste management, reactor systems and radiation protection science and technology and have been developed within fields covered in Annex I4 of the Euratom Research and Training Programme 2021-2025. These applications should have a market potential or should have been taken up (or recognised) by industry, safety or radiation protection stakeholders to be further developed for the market or for use by regulators.
By awarding the Nuclear Innovation Prize, the Commission will showcase at both FISA and EURADWASTE conference innovations in this research sector. This will give visibility to the most dynamic, forward-looking and innovative researchers, research teams or industrial participants. This visibility will provide greater potential for valorising research, and the contest will stimulate nuclear research in the EU to develop a stronger innovation and entrepreneurial culture in line with the Commission’s industrial strategy.
The Commission applies an equal opportunities policy. With a view to promoting gender balance in the nuclear field, the Commission would particularly welcome applications from women.
Prize:
- Nuclear Innovation Prize in safety of reactor systems:
1st prize: €50.000, 2nd prize: €30.000, 3rd prize: €20.000.
- Nuclear Innovation Prize in safety of radioactive waste management:
1st prize: €50.000, 2nd prize: €30.000, 3rd prize: €20.000.
- Nuclear Innovation Prize in radiation protection:
1st prize: €50.000, 2nd prize: €30.000, 3rd prize: €20.000.
Thematic Categories
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Legal Entities
- Natual person / Citizen / Individual
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants must be legal entities (natural persons, public or private bodies), be researchers, research teams or industrial participants eligible for funding under the Euratom Research and Training Programme 2021-2025, established in EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs) or third countries associated to the Euratom Programme.
The researcher, research team or industrial participant must obtain permission from the owner of the intellectual property rights to submit an application and provide supporting documentation.
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Call Closing Date
EU Contact Point
Related questions should be sent to the following email address RTD-FISSION@ec.europa.eu.