Destination 4 will focus on the actions developing world-class technologies serving the needs of all types of European industries (e.g. manufacturing, healthcare, transport, agriculture, energy, construction), providing top-performing solutions that businesses will trust and adopt to maintain their competitiveness and maximise their contribution to environmental sustainability. These actions will support Europe’s strategic autonomy, and reinforce and regain European industry’s leaderships across the digital supply chain. It will direct investments to activities that will ensure a robust European industrial and technology presence in all key parts of a greener digital supply chain, from low-power components to advanced systems, future networks, new data technologies and platforms.

The topics under this destination are as follows:

  • Ultra-low power processors
  • European Innovation Leadership in Electronics
  • European Innovation Leadership in Photonics
  • 6G and foundational connectivity technologies
  • Innovation in AI, Data and Robotics
  • Tomorrow’s deployable Robots: efficient, robust, safe, adaptive and trusted
  • European leadership in Emerging Enabling Technologies
  • Flagship on Quantum Technologies: a Paradigm Shift
  • Graphene: Europe in the lead

The total call budget of Destination 4 for 2021 is 326.5 Million Euros.

AI, Data and Robotics

https://ai-data-robotics-partnership.eu/

Photonics

(Draft proposal for a European Partnership under Horizon Europe: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/research_and_innovation/funding/documents/ec_rtd_he-partnerships-for-photonics.pdf