Updates
Update 23rd March 2015: The ECSEL JU Work Plan 2014 has been updated with administrative agreement with Spain.
Update 12th September 2014:
- The ECSEL JU Work Plan 2014 has been updated with revised budget for Hungary (p10 and p17), clarification on the origin of national funding for Greece (p11 and p17), updated rules for Denmark (p35) and additional information for UK academic partners (p81).
- The ECSEL Guide for Applicants has been updated with additional information concerning linked third parties (p19).
Update 22th August 2014:
- The ECSEL JU Work Plan 2014 has been updated with information concerning the eligibility for funding of the legal entities established in the countries not listed at page 18 and international organizations - page 19
- The Guide for Applicants has been updated with information for the Participants from high income countries – pages 17-18 (v7.4)
Update 06th August 2014:
- The ECSEL JU Work Plan 2014 has been updated with information for the Polish participants (eligibility criteria and Part/Form C) – pages 62 – 63
- The Call 2014 webpage has been updated with the total indicative budget to be contributed in 2014 by the ECSEL Participating States (as per 06 August 2014)
Update 04th August 2014:
- The Part B Template (MSWord) has been updated with information for the Participants with "ESI Funding” – Table 3.4c page 14 (v2)
- The Guide for Applicants has been updated with information for the Participants with "ESI Funding” – pages 15-16 (v7.4)
Update 31th July 2014: The ECSEL JU Work Plan 2014 has been updated with information for the Polish participants (national budget) – pages 10 and 17
Update 29th July 2014:
- The ECSEL JU Work Plan 2014 has been updated with information for the Greek participants
- The 2014 Expression of Interest – Outcome Summary has been updated with information concerning the SICO proposal (document available under "Documents” menu)
Update 22th July 2014:
- The ECSEL JU Work Plan 2014 has been updated with information for Spanish and Israeli participants
- The ECSEL Guide for Applicants is now available
Update 14th July 2014: The ECSEL JU Work Plan 2014 has been updated with information for the French participants
General
ECSEL is a partnership between the private and the public sectors for advancing the state-of-the art in electronic components and systems.
The ECSEL Joint Undertaking is established within the meaning of Article 187 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union for the implementation of the Joint Technology Initiative on 'Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership' for a period up to 31 December 2024.
The ECSEL Joint Undertaking has legal personality: it is established by Council Regulation which can be downloaded here.
ECSEL JU opens two concurrent Calls in 2014
Full details of the topics open for proposals, terms and conditions for participation and funding budgets are available in the ECSEL JU Work Plan 2014.
The topics for all Calls are described in the ECSEL Multi-Annual Strategic Plan (MASP), document ECSEL-GB-2014.06. This can be downloaded here: ECSEL MASP 2014. (Note that the calls in 2014 do not address the "Excellence and competence centres” and the "Innovation support actions”).
Total indicative budget to be contributed by the ECSEL Participating States* in 2014: 126.01 M€ (view detailed budgets for: ECSEL-2014-1, ECSEL-2014-2).
Deadline
at 17:00:00 Brussels time on 17 September 2014
Reminder
USE the appropriate SEP link/system to submit the proposals
- The participants are strongly advised to carefully check the link before starting the submission process to make sure their proposal is submitted in the correct call: proposals for the "normal" call (i.e. TRL 2-5) in the Call ECSEL 2014-1 RIA and proposals for the "pilot lines" call (i.e. TRL 4-8) in the Call ECSEL 2014-2. It is not possible at any time to transfer proposals from one call to another and in case a proposal was submitted in the wrong call the whole submission process must be restarted from scratch in the correct call.
Password for the Part C
- The Part(s) C require en encryption/password provided by the ECSEL JU office. The participants are kindly reminded to email the ECSEL JU office to get the password ( ecsel-office@ecsel.europa.eu )
Budgets
The overall budget for ECSEL-2014-1 is:
- EU Estimated expenditure (1): 40 M€
- ECSEL Participating States Estimated expenditure:
| ECSEL Participating State | Estimated expenditure (M€) | ECSEL Participating State | Estimated expenditure (M€) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 6.0 (2) (7) | Latvia | 0.35 (2) |
| Belgium-Flanders region | 14.0 (2) | Lithuania | To be announced |
| Belgium-Brussels region | 0.5 (2) | Luxembourg | To be announced |
| Bulgaria | 2.5 (2) | Malta | To be announced |
| Czech republic | 2.5 (2) | Netherlands | 12.5 |
| Denmark | 1.3 (2) | Norway | 2.5 (2) |
| Estonia | 0.0 | Poland | 1.5 (2) |
| Finland | 5.0 (2)(4) | Portugal | 1.5 (2) |
| France | 5 | Romania | 0.46 (2) |
| Germany | 35.0 (2) (6) | Slovak republic | 0.8 (2) |
| Greece | 1.5 (2) (9) | Slovenia | To be announced |
| Hungary | 1.0 (2) | Spain | 10.0 (2) (3) |
|
Ireland |
2.0 (2) |
Sweden |
5.5 (2) (8) |
| Israel(*) | 3.0 (2) |
Turkey |
To be announced |
|
Italy |
4.0 (2)(5) | United Kingdom | 3.6 (2) |
(1) Pending the financing decision to be adopted by the European Commission
(2) Total budget to be distributed over all the ECSEL Calls of the year 2014.
(3) Pending the relevant National Ministerial authorization, subject to final approval by the Financial Authorities.
(4) Universities/RTO’s 3M€ grants and SME/Industry 2M€ grants and 5 M€ loans.
(5) Also 8M€ in loans available
(6) The pre-commitment is divided as follows: BMBF electronics and smart systems RIA 12 M€ + IA 6 M€ (funding left over from RIA is available for IA), BMBF software-intensive cyber-physical systems RIA + IA 6 M€, indicative budget for Saxony RIA + IA 11 M€ (for participants from Saxony only).
(7) Subject to the final approval by the National Financial Authorities
(8) Maximum 1.7M€ for RIA
(9) Budget comes from ESI funds (Structural funds)
(*) Israel intends to be a participating state of the ECSEL JU – the information in this section is preliminary pending Israel's formal membership notification
The overall budget for ECSEL-2014-2 is:
- EU Estimated expenditure (2): 95 M€
- ECSEL Participating States Estimated expenditure:
| ECSEL Participating State | Estimated expenditure (M€) | ECSEL Participating State | Estimated expenditure (M€) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 6.0 (2) (7) | Latvia | 0.35 (2) |
| Belgium-Flanders region | 14.0 (2) | Lithuania | To be announced |
| Belgium-Brussels region | 0.5 (2) | Luxembourg | To be announced |
| Bulgaria | 2.5 (2) | Malta | To be announced |
| Czech republic | 2.5 (2) | Netherlands | 12.5 |
| Denmark | 1.3 (2) | Norway | 2.5 (2) |
| Estonia | 0.0 | Poland | 1.5 (2) |
| Finland | 5.0 (2)(4) | Portugal | 1.5 (2) |
| France | 30 | Romania | 0.46 (2) |
| Germany | 35.0 (2) (6) | Slovak republic | 0.8 (2) |
| Greece | 1.5 (2) (9) | Slovenia | To be announced |
| Hungary | 1.0 (2) | Spain | 10.0 (2) (3) |
|
Ireland |
2.0 (2) |
Sweden |
5.5 (2) (8) |
| Israel(*) | 3.0 (2) |
Turkey |
To be announced |
|
Italy |
4.0 (2)(5) | United Kingdom | 3.6 (2) |
(1) Pending the financing decision to be adopted by the European Commission
(2) Total budget to be distributed over all the ECSEL Calls of the year 2014.
(3) Pending the relevant National Ministerial authorization, subject to final approval by the Financial Authorities.
(4) Universities/RTO’s 3M€ grants and SME/Industry 2M€ grants and 5 M€ loans.
(5) Also 8M€ in loans available
(6) The pre-commitment is divided as follows: BMBF electronics and smart systems RIA 12 M€ + IA 6 M€ (funding left over from RIA is available for IA), BMBF software-intensive cyber-physical systems RIA + IA 6 M€, indicative budget for Saxony RIA + IA 11 M€ (for participants from Saxony only).
(7) Subject to the final approval by the National Financial Authorities
(8) Maximum 1.7M€ for RIA
(9) Budget comes from ESI funds (Structural funds)
(*) Israel intends to be a participating state of the ECSEL JU – the information in this section is preliminary pending Israel's formal membership notification
Guidelines
Proposers must refer to ECSEL JU Work Plan 2014 and ECSEL MASP 2014 in their proposals and must describe their proposal using the Part B template (MSWord) of ECSEL-JU.
RIA differs from the IA in the technology readiness level focus and, therefore, in the applicable reimbursement rates. For funding rates of the RIA and IA but also for the national contribution please refer to the ECSEL JU Work Plan 2014.
ECSEL JU will accept proposals containing cost items contributing towards the milestones and deliverables of the Action that are independently funded by other European sources.
Proposers must contact the National Funding Authorities (refer to the National contact points for the ECSEL programme in Annex G of the Work Plan) in their own countries before submitting the proposals to check their eligibility and conditions for receiving national funding.
In order to submit a project proposal, proposers must use the on-line tools provided for this purpose by the European Commission through its "Participant Portal”, which can be accessed through the Call pages: ECSEL-2014-1 or ECSEL-2014- 2.
Contact Us
Email: ecsel-office@ecsel.europa.eu