Awareness inside
The mission of this portfolio is to strengthen the European position in the race for future Generative AI by exploring the possibility of enriching such systems with some or all the functions associated with consciousness/awareness in a way that is appropriately aligned with European values and ethics guidelines.
| Number of projects in portfolio | 8 |
| Projects | VALAWAI | SYMBIOTIK | SymAware | SUSTAIN | METATOOL | EMERGE | CAVAA | ASTOUND |
| Portfolio run-time | starting October 2022 up to 60 months |
| Total budget | €27 million |
| Responsible EIC Programme Manager | Hedi Karray |
| Portfolio outputs | Portfolio strategic plan Activity report for the 2nd year Website |
DNA-based digital data storage
The mission of this portfolio is to explore scalable and reliable high-throughput approaches for using DNA as a general data-storage medium.
| Number of projects in portfolio | 9 |
| Projects | PEARL-DNA | DiDAX | MI-DNA DISC | HYPERION | TextaDNA | NEO | DNAMIC | DURA-store | DISCO |
| Portfolio run-time | starting October 2023 for up to 60 months |
| Total budget | €29 million |
| Responsible EIC Programme Manager | Isabel Obieta |
| Portfolio output | Portfolio strategic plan |
Alternative approaches to quantum information processing, communication and sensing
The mission of this portfolio is to develop innovative approaches to encoding, manipulating, and storing information in quantum objects, and exploiting quantum phenomena for information processing, communication, and sensing in a way that differs from mainstream approaches currently being pursued in quantum research.
| Number of projects in portfolio | 8 |
| Projects | VeriQuB | HEISINGBERG | ARTEMIS | PANDA | IQARO | QuKiT | FERROMON | Q-One |
| Portfolio run-time | starting October 2023 for up to 60 months |
| Total budget | €31 million |
| Responsible EIC Programme Manager | Samira Nik |
| Portfolio output | Portfolio strategic plan |
In-space solar harvesting for innovative space applications
The In-space solar energy harvesting portfolio is about advancing concepts, methods and technologies for new types of antennas, rectennas, solar energy conversion and microwave or laser transmission and its use for in-space green propulsion.
| Number of projects in portfolio | 9 |
| Projects | RePowerSiC | APACE | ZEUS | Green SWaP | E.T.COMPACT | S4I2T | REMPOWER | POWERSAT | JUMP INTO SPACE |
| Portfolio run-time | starting September 2024 for up to 60 months |
| Total budget | €35 million |
| Responsible EIC Programme Manager | Stella Tkatchova |
Responsible Electronics
The mission of this portfolio is to contribute to the development of environmentally friendly electronic materials with new properties or replacing materials used in current electronic devices, to reduce the environmental impact and the need for critical raw materials and hazardous chemicals.
| Number of projects in portfolio | 9 |
| Projects | GRETA | ELEGANCE | HaloFreeEtch | DESIRE4EU | HiSOPE | GreenOMorph | RADIANT | STELEC | SUPERLASER | FIBRETRONICS |
| Portfolio run-time | starting September 2024 for up to 60 months |
| Total budget | €32 million |
| Responsible EIC Programme Manager | Isabel Obieta |
Nanoelectronics for energy-efficient smart edge devices
To explore solutions that will have a drastic impact on decreasing the energy consumption of any smart edge device, especially for edge processing and memories, edge sensing and imaging, edge communication and edge power management.
| Number of projects in portfolio | 6 |
| Projects | 2D-ADDICT | 2DFERROPLEX | CERBERUS | COOLBRAIN | SPARK-e | SpikeHERO |
| Portfolio run-time | Starting October 2025 until September 2029 |
| Total budget | €24 million |
| Responsible EIC Programme Manager | Isabel Obieta |
Strengthening the sustainability and resilience of EU space infrastructure
This portfolio addresses the emerging need for green, compact, interoperable and affordable de-orbiting solutions and in-space recycling of space debris.
| Number of projects in portfolio | 7 |
| Projects | ALBATOR | AstrAware | Dexter | gEICko | Spidar | STORM | STRATOLASER |
| Portfolio run-time | Starting October 2025 until September 2029 |
| Total budget | €23,5 million |
| Responsible EIC Programme Manager | Stella Tkatchova |