Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking (KDT JU)

Summary

The joint undertakings have three general objectives, in accordance with Article 4 of the SBA:

  • strengthening and integrating the scientific, innovation and technological capacities and facilitating collaborative links,
  • securing sustainability-driven global leadership and resilience of Union value chains in key technologies and industries and on developing and
  • accelerating the uptake of innovative solutions throughout the Union addressing climate, environmental, health, digital and other global challenges.

Programme Description

The KDT JU has the following general objectives:

  • reinforce the Union’s strategic autonomy in electronic components and systems to support future needs of vertical industries and the economy at large. The overall target is to contribute towards doubling the value of the design and production of electronic components and systems in Europe by 2030, in line with the weight of the Union in products and services;
  • establish Union scientific excellence and innovation leadership in emerging components and systems technologies, including in activities related to lower TRLs; and promote the active involvement of SMEs, which shall represent at least one third of the total number of participants in indirect actions and at least 20% of public funding should go to them;
  • ensure that components and systems technologies address Europe’s societal and environmental challenges. The target is to align with the Union policy on energy efficiency and contribute towards the reduction of energy consumption by 32.5% in 2030.

Next to those general objectives, the KDT JU also has the following specific objectives:

  • support research and development for establishing design and production capabilities in Europe for strategic application areas;
  • launch a balanced portfolio of large and small projects supporting the fast transfer of technologies from the research to the industrial environment;
  • foster a dynamic Union-wide ecosystem based on digital value-chains with simplified access to newcomers;
  •  support research and development for enhancing component technologies that guarantee security, trust and energy-efficiency for critical infrastructures and sectors in Europe;
  • foster mobilisation of national resources and ensure coordination of Union and national research and innovation programmes in the field of electronic components and systems;
  • establish coherence between the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of the Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking and Union policies so that electronics components and systems technologies contribute efficiently

Total Budget

€ 317,7 million

Thematic Categories

  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation

Eligibility for Participation

  • Legal Entities
  • Private Bodies
  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions

Call Opening Date

01/01/2023

Call Closing Date

31/12/2027

EU Contact Point

Contact
Address:
White Atrium Building
Avenue de la Toison d’Or 56-60
1060 Βrussels
Belgium
Τelephone: 00 32 2 221 81 02
Email: enquiries@kdt-ju.europa.eu

 

Programme/Sub-programme/Plan Calls
  • Improving the global demand supply forecast of the semiconductor supply chain (IA)

    Closed

    Code: 27724 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-3-IA-Topic-1 | Programme name: Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking (KDT JU) | Start submission calls: 07/02/2023 | End submission calls: 03/05/2023

    The goal of this topic is to develop a platform to offer services to companies of the supply chain that will allow them to efficiently control their manufacturing planning thereby achieving an overall improvement of the efficiency of the whole supply chain and a better overall match between supply and demand without disrupting the competitiveness of the market.

  • Pan-European network for Advanced Packaging made in Europe (CSA)

    Closed

    Code: 27721 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-3-CSA-Topic-2 | Programme name: Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking (KDT JU) | Start submission calls: 07/02/2023 | End submission calls: 03/05/2023

    The major objective of this topic is to snapshot and map the current situation in Europe to define a strategy how SMEs and LE commonly could establish a PanEuropean ecosystem for advanced packaging made in Europe with RTOs or Academic support.

  • Coordination of the European software-defined vehicle platform (CSA)

    Closed

    Code: 27719 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-3-CSA-Topic-3 | Programme name: Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking (KDT JU) | Start submission calls: 07/02/2023 | End submission calls: 03/05/2023

    This topic is the first action supporting the emergence of an open European software-defined vehicle platform, which will be gradually rolled-out towards full operations by 2030. As part of a layer-based approach, the action will provide the basis for an software-defined vehicle (SDV) reference architecture, supported by development tools, facilitating prototyping and testing, with a focus on the hardware abstraction layer embedded in a holistic SDV architecture.

  • Focus topic on Integration of trustworthy Edge AI technologies in complex heterogeneous components and systems (IA)

    Closed

    Code: 27714 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-1-IA-Focus-Topic-3 | Programme name: Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking (KDT JU) | Start submission calls: 07/02/2023 | End submission calls: 19/09/2023

    This call focuses on large-scale integrated/integrable edge AI technologies at greater levels of energy efficiency, connectivity, collaboration, complexity and diversity.

  • General according to ECS-SRIA 2022 (IA)

    Closed

    Code: 27711 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-1-IA-Topic-1 | Programme name: Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking (KDT JU) | Start submission calls: 07/02/2023 | End submission calls: 19/09/2023

    A KDT Innovation Action (IA) primarily consists of activities aiming at technology or method introduction, pilot lines, test beds, demonstrators, innovation pilots and zones of full-scale testing.

  • Focus Topic on Electronic Control Systems (ECS) for management & control of decentralized energy supply & storage (IA)

    Closed

    Code: 27707 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-1-IA-Focus-Topic-4 | Programme name: Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking (KDT JU) | Start submission calls: 07/02/2023 | End submission calls: 19/09/2023

    Since monitoring and control of energy conversion and storage components requires domain specific know-how, research and innovation, proposals expected to work either at component level or system level of the DRES, and cover at least one of the following areas: electric, thermal and hydrogen.

  • Focus topic 6G Integrated Radio Front-End for TeraHertz Communications (IA)

    Closed

    Code: 27705 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-1-IA-Focus-Topic-2 | Programme name: Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking (KDT JU) | Start submission calls: 07/02/2023 | End submission calls: 19/09/2023

    The aim of this call is to reach integrated demonstrators supporting the upcoming standardisation efforts on 6G.

  • Global call according to SRIA 2023 (RIA)

    Closed

    Code: 27693 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-2-RIA-Topic-1 | Programme name: Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking (KDT JU) | Start submission calls: 07/02/2023 | End submission calls: 19/09/2023

    This topic is the RIA part of the bottom-up programming.

    A KDT Research and Innovation Action (RIA) primarily consists of activities aiming to establish new knowledge and/or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service, method, tool or solution. For this purpose they may include applied research, technology development and/or method/tool and integration, testing and validation on a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment.

     

  • Focus Topic on Hardware abstraction layer for a European Vehicle Operating System (RIA)

    Closed

    Code: 27691 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-2-RIA-Focus-Topic-2 | Programme name: Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking (KDT JU) | Start submission calls: 07/02/2023 | End submission calls: 19/09/2023

    Τhe action will provide the basis for an SDV reference architecture, supported by development tools, facilitating prototyping and testing, with a focus on the hardware abstraction layer embedded in a holistic SDV architecture.