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HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-40

Quantum Photonic Integrated Circuit technologies (RIA) -

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Expected Outcome:

Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC) technologies on one side and quantum science on the other are the building blocks for development of Quantum PIC (QPIC) devices for quantum information processing, computation/simulation, communication, sensing or metrology. Photon-based approaches can address the huge challenge of implementing quantum processes in public infrastructures, challenging industry applications and compact everyday-life devices and products.

QPIC technology has great potentials to target several application fields, in particular, but not limited to, health care, communications, environment and security, and thus has high strategic significance and major implications for the European economy.

However, to implement QPICs, research challenges have to be faced throughout the value chain, going from materials, circuit design (including the support of EDA tools), manufacturing processes and technological platforms, to the realization and validation of reliable and robust demonstrators and prototypes, and their integration and packaging. Furthermore, quantum systems are typically large, complex and costly, hindering their scalability, and thus cannot be directly used in products.

QPIC technology can address these issues, paving the way for compact, high performance, reliable, cost-effective components, that will enable quantum technology to be introduced in the market.

Expected Outcome:

  • To improve over existing PIC technologies in terms of performance, functionality, manufacturing process efficiency and reliability, integration, and packaging in a manner that facilitates scalable manufacturing.
  • To demonstrate the technology capability in key enabling Quantum PIC technologies with high potential impact on the quantum technology Industry, including applications in quantum sensing, communications, computation and simulation,
  • Preparing QPIC technologies for future Pilot Lines and Photonics hubs and open testing and experimentation facilities,
  • Exploit the potential of QPICs for a digital, green and healthy future in Europe by providing critical components and systems for next generation applications, products and processes. Develop tools for efficient design and prototyping of QPICs.
  • Secure Technological Sovereignty for Europe by maintaining leadership in QPICs
  • Contribution to the objectives of Digital Transformation, Green Deal, Competitiveness and Economic Growth.

Scope:

Proposals will address technology (up to TRL 4-5) in key enabling PIC technology applied to market needs. Objectives include:

  • Enhancement of PIC performance, e.g. ultra-low loss; ultra-low laser linewidth; ultra-high extinction ratio modulators and switches , extending spectral and optical power coverage, optical coupling interfaces, packaging.
  • Incorporation of specific quantum functionality into PIC platforms, e.g. single photon and entangled photon pair generation, single photon and photon number detection , quantum memory elements, quantum processors.
  • Multi-technology integration, e.g. incorporation of ion/atomic traps and relevant control electronics, superconducting detectors, nonlinear elements, integration of photonic readout into quantum computing and sensing devices employing other technologies (e.g. electronic, spintronic), relevant passive and active linear optical elements (e.g. modulators, shifters, switches etc.) to underscore a strategy for modular QPIC design.
  • Development of PICs capable of operating at cryogenic temperatures, with low power dissipation and performance optimized in the context of the operating environment.
  • Development of the most promising methods for QPIC fabrication in monolithic, hybrid or heterogeneous integration techniques for different functionalities together with an identification of the most advantageous platform materials, (e.g. derived from “classical” PIC technologies such as Si, SiO2, Si3N4, InP, LiNbO3, Si-on-insulator, LiNbO3-on-insulator, Al2O3, AlN, hybrid platforms, etc. etc. etc.).
  • Assembly and packaging of PICs, taking the specific challenges of quantum systems (environment, temperature, stability, visible and ultraviolet wavelengths requirements, vacuum integration) into account and including integration of complementary and ancillary technologies (e.g. microelectronics) where required
  • Miniaturization of previously non-scalable quantum photonic systems by implementing them in PIC form.

Proposals should identify applications in quantum sensing, communication, computation and simulation. Proposals should test and evaluate the developed Quantum PIC technologies in the context of such specific applications though trials at systems level in a representative laboratory or an operational environment.

These technologies should be developed in a manner to facilitate scalable manufacturing. Proposals should address IP management strategy and collaboration with European industry and SMEs, in particular in the context of establishing relevant European industrial manufacturing capabilities.

Collaboration with the Quantum Flagship initiative and the photonics partnership is crucial to be able to merge knowledge and experience in photonic technologies and quantum science.

In this topic, the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content is not a mandatory requirement.

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Activities are expected to start at TRL 2-3 and achieve TRL 4-5 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.

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2023-07-31

 

EVALUATION results

Published: 07/12/2022

Deadline: 29/03/2023

Available budget: EUR 129 000 000

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 97

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 1

Number of above-threshold proposals: 75

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 316,536,982.98

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.

2023-07-31

 

EVALUATION results

Published: 07/12/2022

Deadline: 29/03/2023

Available budget: EUR 129 000 000

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 97

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 1

Number of above-threshold proposals: 75

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 316,536,982.98

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.

2023-03-31

Call HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-CNECT has closed on the 29 March 2023.

97 proposals have been submitted.

The breakdown per topic is:

  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-02: 11 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-11: 36 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-32: 4 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-33: 16 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-40: 9 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-41: 5 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-43: 2 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-50: 10 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-56: 4 proposals

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in July 2023.

2023-03-31

Call HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-CNECT has closed on the 29 March 2023.

97 proposals have been submitted.

The breakdown per topic is:

  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-02: 11 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-11: 36 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-32: 4 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-33: 16 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-40: 9 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-41: 5 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-43: 2 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-50: 10 proposals
  • HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-56: 4 proposals

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in July 2023.

2023-03-21

Following the Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2506, as of 16th December 2022, no legal commitments (including the grant agreement itself as well as subcontracts, purchase contracts, financial support to third parties etc.) can be signed with Hungarian public interest trusts established under Hungarian Act IX of 2021 or any entity they maintain.

Affected entities may continue to apply to calls for proposals. However, in case the Council measures are not lifted, such entities are not eligible to participate in any funded role (beneficiaries, affiliated entities, subcontractors, recipients of financial support to third parties). In this case, co-applicants will be invited to remove or replace that entity /or to change its status into associated partner. Tasks and budget may be redistributed accordingly.

2023-03-21

Following the Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2506, as of 16th December 2022, no legal commitments (including the grant agreement itself as well as subcontracts, purchase contracts, financial support to third parties etc.) can be signed with Hungarian public interest trusts established under Hungarian Act IX of 2021 or any entity they maintain.

Affected entities may continue to apply to calls for proposals. However, in case the Council measures are not lifted, such entities are not eligible to participate in any funded role (beneficiaries, affiliated entities, subcontractors, recipients of financial support to third parties). In this case, co-applicants will be invited to remove or replace that entity /or to change its status into associated partner. Tasks and budget may be redistributed accordingly.

2023-01-24

 Dear applicant, 

We would like to draw your attention to an update of the “Detailed Budget Table”  Excel template. A new template has been republished for your kind consideration and use.

An additional paragraph has been added to the instructions tab, explaining how to save the detailed budget table and how to upload it in the submission system.

The following instructions have been added:

“After you completed this Excel workbook, you must also complete the table ‘Budget for the proposal’ in Part A of the proposal, entering the requested EU contribution for each participant. Fill the Part A budget table using the total for each participant from the sheet ‘Lump sum breakdown’ in this Excel workbook.

The format of this Excel workbook is .xlsm because it uses macros to generate sheets and make calculations automatically. Always save it as .xlsm.However, this format cannot be uploaded to the submission system for security reasons.Therefore, to submit the completed workbook, save a copy as an .xlsx or .xls document (and not as .xlsm) and upload it to the proposal submission tool at Step 5 of the submission process. Always keep a copy of the original .xlsm file.To save the workbook as .xlsx document, use the action button in the sheet “Instructions”. Alternatively, click on “File” and then “Save as”; in the “Save as” dialog box, choose “.xlsx” or “.xls” from the “Save as type” dropdown list.”

You can still use the template initially available in the submission system if you wish to, but please be aware of the instructions on how to upload and save the file.

 

 

 

 

2023-01-24

 Dear applicant, 

We would like to draw your attention to an update of the “Detailed Budget Table”  Excel template. A new template has been republished for your kind consideration and use.

An additional paragraph has been added to the instructions tab, explaining how to save the detailed budget table and how to upload it in the submission system.

The following instructions have been added:

“After you completed this Excel workbook, you must also complete the table ‘Budget for the proposal’ in Part A of the proposal, entering the requested EU contribution for each participant. Fill the Part A budget table using the total for each participant from the sheet ‘Lump sum breakdown’ in this Excel workbook.

The format of this Excel workbook is .xlsm because it uses macros to generate sheets and make calculations automatically. Always save it as .xlsm.However, this format cannot be uploaded to the submission system for security reasons.Therefore, to submit the completed workbook, save a copy as an .xlsx or .xls document (and not as .xlsm) and upload it to the proposal submission tool at Step 5 of the submission process. Always keep a copy of the original .xlsm file.To save the workbook as .xlsx document, use the action button in the sheet “Instructions”. Alternatively, click on “File” and then “Save as”; in the “Save as” dialog box, choose “.xlsx” or “.xls” from the “Save as type” dropdown list.”

You can still use the template initially available in the submission system if you wish to, but please be aware of the instructions on how to upload and save the file.

 

 

 

 

2022-12-08
The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-43(HORIZON-FPA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-41(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-40(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-50(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-02(HORIZON-IA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-11(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-33(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-56(HORIZON-CSA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-32(HORIZON-RIA)
2022-12-08
The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-43(HORIZON-FPA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-41(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-40(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-50(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-02(HORIZON-IA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-11(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-33(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-56(HORIZON-CSA), HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-32(HORIZON-RIA)
call topic details
Call status: Closed
Opening date: 2022-12-08 (3 years ago)
Closing date: 2023-03-29 (3 years ago)
Procedure: single-stage

Budget: 12,000,000
Expected grants: 2
Contribution: 4,000,000 - 6,000,000
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