Objectives The ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal. Size of ERC Starting Grants Starting Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 1 500 000 for a period of 5 years. The maximum size of the grants is reduced pro rata temporis for projects of a shorter duration. (This does not apply to ongoing projects). Additional funding up to EUR 1 000 000.can be requested in the proposal to cover the following eligible costs when these are necessary to carry out the proposed work: (a) "start-up" costs for Principal Investigators moving to the EU or an Associated Country from elsewhere as a consequence of receiving the ERC grant and/or (b) the purchase of major equipment and/or (...

DigiFed is designed to drive innovation across European industry via large scale adoption of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) & Embedded Systems*. DigiFed wants to help European medium to large companies digitally transform their operations, products and service offerings by collaborating with new age Startups and SMEs to prototype a potential solution. By offering match funding opportunities, DigiFed is looking to identify real market needs and accelerate the development and adoption of advanced digital technologies to solve industry challenges. What is a Digital Challenge? A Digital Challenge is a 9-12 months project where the selected innovator (a Startup or SME) develops a solution/product/service for which no Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) or embedded system solution has been identified in the market yet by a Digital Challenge Owner. The expected outcome of our Digital Challenge is an innovative solution with a high technology readiness level (TRL) which may also be...

1 Background and Introduction The purpose of this document is to provide interested parties with information on the 27th IraSME call for R&D proposals. It is targeted at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and research and technology organisations (RTOs) which jointly conduct international research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) projects. The main objective of IraSME is to strengthen the competitive capacity of SMEs by: -  increasing collaboration between SMEs from different countries, -  increasing cooperation between SMEs and RTOs, -  increasing cooperative and competitive capabilities of SMEs to work in international R&D networks, -  supporting them in developing new products, processes or technical services that exceed the existing state of the art and have good market opportunities by lowering the economical risks. IraSME is a follow-up initiative of a former ERA-NET by ministries and ...