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International collaboration EU and Japan on semiconductors

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Next cut-off
24 Sept '26
in 18 days
Per grant
€2.5M
the call's own average
Grants expected
2
projects that will be funded
Funding rate
,
not published, read the conditions

In context of Digital Europe Programme

This grant€2.5M
The track runs to the largest grant in Digital Europe Programme (€70M). The median across the 23 calls we publish is €4.0M, this one is below it.

What this call funds

Expected Outcome:

Projects are expected to contribute to the following expected outcomes:

  • Advanced heterogeneous integration, particularly in 2.5D and 3D packaging and integrated photonics, to support AI functionalities.
  • Standardised chiplet interfaces, enabling interoperability and fostering a dynamic chiplet ecosystem

Expected outcomes should have direct and immediate impact on European industry.

Furthermore, proposed projects should demonstrate solutions across laboratory and pilot environments, with verification in semiconductor manufacturing use cases. The centre of gravity of envisaged work should address Technology Readiness Levels 5-7. Proposals also need to facilitate knowledge transfer and promote stakeholder engagement through industry workshops, publications, and networking events.

What applying costs you

ItemEstimateNote
Drafting effort3–4 weekssingle submission
Time to first payment6–9 monthscut-off → evaluation → grant agreement

These are Bemzu's estimates from the call's structure (the number of stages and whether a consortium is required) not figures published by the Commission. Only the co-financing share is read from the call itself.

Where these conditions come from

Two kinds of row. Most are the sentence we read the condition from, quoted out of the call itself. Some say plainly that they are not a quotation but the programme's own rule for this type of action, the EU portal publishes a table of contents where the conditions should be, so for a Research and Innovation Action the rate comes from the rulebook rather than from the fiche.

ConditionQuoted from the call, or the rule behind it
MaturityThe centre of gravity of envisaged work should address Technology Readiness Levels 5-7.

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