Identify the most relevant descriptors that correspond to your innovation.
In the preparation of your proposal, you are requested to select associated descriptors from a predefined list that contains disciplines (i.e. the four topics of the calls), sub-disciplines (dedicated per each topic) and descriptors. It is of the utmost importance that you analyse the relevant sub-disciplines that correspond to your proposal and select a minimum three and maximum six descriptors. By selecting the most appropriate descriptors you ensure that your proposal is attributed to expert-evaluators who have the most relevant thematic knowledge to adequately evaluate it. You will be requested to select these descriptors in the Funding & tenders (europa.eu)
Agricultural sciences
- Agricultural biotechnology and food biotechnology
- Agricultural engineering
- Animal and Dairy science
- Aquaculture, fisheries
- GM technology (crops and livestock), livestock cloning, marker assisted selection, diagnostics (DNA chips and biosensing devices for the early/accurate detection of diseases) biomass feedstock production technologies, biopharming
- Plant breeding and plant protection
- Soil science
- Urban agriculture
Biological sciences
- Applied genetic engineering, transgenic organisms, recombinant proteins, biosensors
- Biochemistry and molecular biology
- Bioinformatics, biocomputing, and DNA and molecular computation
- Biological engineering
- Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology
- Biomimetics
- Biophysics (e.g. transport mechanisms, bioenergetics, fluorescence)
- Cell biology, Microbiology
- Developmental biology
- Ecology
- Genetics and heredity
- Marine biology
- Virology
Chemical sciences
- Analytical chemistry
- Catalysis
- Colloid chemistry
- Electrochemistry, batteries and fuel cells
- Inorganic and nuclear chemistry
- Nanochemistry
- Organic chemistry
- Peptide chemistry
- Photochemistry
- Physical chemistry, Polymer science, Electrochemistry (dry cells, batteries, fuel cells, corrosion metals, electrolysis)
- Polymer chemistry
- Process Chemistry
- Spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques
- Surface chemistry
- Synthetic Organic chemistry
- Theoretical and computational chemistry
Computer and information sciences
- Artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, multi agent systems
- Communication networks, media, information society
- Computer graphics, computer vision, multi media, computer games
- Cryptology, security, privacy, quantum crypto
- E-learning, user modelling, collaborative systems
- Embedded computing
- High performance computing
- Human computer interaction and interface, visualization and natural language processing
- Interaction, Multimodal, Brain-Computer-Interfaces, Assistive Technologies
- Internet of Things
- Machine learning, statistical data processing and applications using signal processing (e.g. speech, image, video)
- Network technologies / Internetworking
- Networks (communication networks, sensor networks, networks of robots, etc.)
- Ontologies, neural networks, genetic programming, fuzzy logic
- Scientific computing, simulation and modelling tools
- Smart manufacturing
- Software engineering, operating systems, computer languages
- Translational bioinformatics
- Unconventional computing
- Web and information systems, database systems, information retrieval and digital libraries, data fusion
Earth and related environmental sciences
- Climatic research
- Environmental sciences
- Geochemistry and geophysics
- Geology
- Geosciences, multidisciplinary
- Hydrology
- Meteorology and atmospheric sciences
- Oceanography
- Physical geography
Engineering and technology
- Aeronautics
- Aerospace engineering
- Architecture, smart buildings, smart cities, urban engineering
- Artificial organs
- Audio engineering, reliability analysis
- Automation and control systems
- Big data
- Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
- Chemical engineering
- Civil engineering
- Communication engineering and systems telecommunications
- Computer architecture, pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing
- Cybersecurity Research Domains
- Diagnostic and implantable devices, environmental monitoring
- Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering
- Electrochemistry, electrodialysis, microfluidics, sensors
- Energy, fuels and petroleum engineering
- Environmental and geological engineering, geotechnics
- Environmental biotechnology
- Graphene, 2D materials
- Intelligent materials, self-assembled materials
- Marine engineering
- Materials engineering (biomaterials, metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, etc.)
- Mechanical engineering
- Medical engineering
- Micro (system) engineering
- Nanotechnology, nano-materials, nano engineering
- New materials: oxides, alloys, composite, organic-inorganic hybrid, nanoparticles
- Nuclear related engineering
- Organic electronics
- Photonics
- Robotic cognition
- Robotics
- Solid state materials
- Surface science and nanostructures
- Synthetic biology, chemical biology and new bio-engineering concepts
- Thermodynamics
- Transport engineering
- Industrial biotechnology
Mathematics
- Global Systems Science
- Pure mathematics, Applied mathematics
- Statistics and probability (This includes research on statistical methodologies, but excludes research on applied statistics which should be classified under the relevant field of application (e.g. Economics, Sociology, etc.)
Medical and health sciences
- Biomaterials (as related to medical implants, devices, sensors)
- Biomedical engineering
- Brain research
- Brain simulation and modeling
- Cardiac and Cardiovascular systems
- Critical care medicine and Emergency medicine
- Endocrinology and metabolism (including diabetes, hormones)
- Epidemiology
- Gene therapy, cell therapy, regenerative medicine
- Health-related biotechnology
- Immunology
- Microbiology
- Molecular and cellular neuroscience
- Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology
- Neurodegenerative disorders
- Neuroimaging and computational neuroscience
- Neuroinformatics
- Neurological disorders (e.g. Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease)
- Neurosciences (including psychophysiology)
- Neurosurgery
- Nutrition, Dietetics
- Oncology
- Organ physiology and pathophysiology
- Pharmacology and pharmacy
- Physiology (including cytology)
- Radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging
- Regenerative medicine
- Respiratory system
- Sensory systems (e.g. visual system, auditory system)
- Tissue engineering
- Transplantation
Physical sciences
- Acoustics
- Astronomy (including astrophysics, space science)
- Atomic, molecular physics
- Chemical physics
- Electromagnetism
- Electronic properties of materials, surfaces, interfaces, nanostructures, etc
- Fluid dynamics
- Gas and plasma physics
- Metrology and measurement
- Molecular electronics
- Nanophysics: nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, nanomagnetism, nanoelectromechanics, etc.
- Nuclear physics
- Optical engineering, photonics, lasers
- Optics, non-linear optics and nano-optics
- Particles and fields physics
- Quantum optics and quantum information
- Semiconductors and insulators: material growth, physical properties
- Spintronics
- Superconductivity
Business and Innovation
- Circular economy
- Financial & Investment management
- Technology commercialisation
- Energy efficient products
Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering
- Networks (communication networks, sensor networks, networks of robots, etc.)
- Systems engineering, sensorics, actorics, automation
- Embedded systems
- Internet of Things
- Wireless communications, communication, high frequency, mobile technology
- Computer architecture, pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing
- Electrical and electronic engineering: semiconductors, components, systems
- Electronics, photonics
- Intelligent robotics, cybernetics
- Organic electronics
- Photonics
- Optoelectronics
- Semiconductor lasers
Environmental engineering
- Energy efficiency - general
- Sustainable design (for recycling, for environment, eco-design)
Materials engineering
- Materials engineering (biomaterials, metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, etc.)
- Nanotechnology, nano-materials, nano engineering
Engineering and technology
- Environmentally Friendly Factory Processes
- Artificial Intelligence & Decision support
- Biotechnology
- Electronic components
- Opto-electronics: Laser, optics and related devices
- Photonic/Optical Materials and Device Technology
- Environmental and Green Technologies
- MEMS / Microsystems technologies
- Semiconductors, components, systems
- Physical chemistry, Polymer science, Electrochemistry (dry cells, batteries, fuel cells, corrosion metals, electrolysis)
Physical sciences
- Quantum optics and quantum information
- Molecular electronics
- Nanophysics: nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, nanomagnetism, nanoelectromechanics, etc.
- Semiconductors and insulators: material growth, physical properties
- Spintronics
Optical engineering, photonics, lasers
- Biophotonics and medical applications
- Displays
- Imaging, image and data processing
- Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology
- Lighting, solid-state lighting, LEDs, OLEDs
- Manufacturing technologies for photonic devices
- Optoelectronics, semiconductor photonics and photonic integration
- Photonics in computing, interconnects, data storage
- Flexible electronics and displays
Computer and information sciences
- Computing for servers, data centres
- Embedded computing
- High performance computing
- Artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, multi agent systems
- Cloud computing
- Mobile Sensor devices
- Complexity and cryptography, electronic security, privacy, biometrics
- Mobile devices
- Wearable technologies
- Interaction, Multimodal, Brain-Computer-Interfaces, Assistive Technologies
- Machine learning, statistical data processing and applications using signal processing (e.g. speech, image, video)
- Neuroimaging and computational neuroscience
- Ontologies, neural networks, genetic programming, fuzzy logic
- Software engineering, operating systems, computer languages
- Unconventional computing
- Bioinformatics, biocomputing, and DNA and molecular computation
Earth and related environmental sciences
- Environment, resources and sustainability
- Waste management
- Waste recycling
Energy
- Energy management in buildings
- Low/nearly zero &-energy positive buildings
- Energy efficient products
- Energy collection, conversion and storage, renewable energy
- Energy efficiency - general
- Integration of renewables
- Energy efficient industry
- Ecodesign, Life Cycle Analysis
- Energy end-use efficiency and energy services
- Energy storage
- Electricity storage
- Intra-day electricity storage
- Heat storage
- Energy systems, smart energy, smart grids, wireless energy transfer
- Concentrated Solar Power
- Geothermal
- Hydro
- Ocean energy
- Photovoltaics
- Wind
- Renewable heating & cooling
- Solar cooling
- Solar Heating & Cooling
- Solar Thermal
- Heat pumps
- Sustainable energy communities
- Local sustainable energy supply
- Low/zero carbon communities
- Second Generation Biofuels
- District Heating & Cooling
- Energy Management Systems
- Supply chain
- Energy generation storage & distribution
Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering
- Systems engineering, sensorics, actorics, automation
- Electrical and electronic engineering
- System of systems
- Electronics, photonics
- Power supply
- System engineering
- System integration
Materials engineering
- Materials engineering
- Biomaterials, biomaterials synthesis
Mechanical engineering
- Applied mechanics
- Mechanical engineering
- Electromechanical engineering
- Thermodynamics
Nano-technology
- Nano-materials (production and properties)
Security
- Automation of industrial processes
- Mechanical, Thermal and Fluid-Related
- Process Control Technology
- Systems Engineering and Design Management
- Concurrent Engineering and Reduced Design Cycle
- Systems Engineering and Integrated Systems Design
- Power management of systems
- Integrated systems of systems
Chemical sciences
- Chemical reactions: mechanisms, dynamics, kinetics and catalytic reactions
- Applied and industrial chemistry
- Electrochemistry, batteries and fuel cells
- Nanochemistry
Engineering and technology
- Microfluidics
- Synthetic biology, chemical biology and new bio-engineering concepts
- Medical engineering, biomedical engineering and technology
- Medical laboratory technology (including laboratory samples analysis diagnostic technologies)
- Diagnostic tools (e.g. genetic, imaging)
- Biotechnology
Human genetics
- DNA therapy
- Epigenetics and gene regulation
- Gene therapy, cell therapy, regenerative medicine
- Genomics, comparative genomics, functional genomics
- Molecular genetics, reverse genetics and RNAi
- Immunology
- Immunogenetics
Pharmacology and pharmacy
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Clinical targets
- Patient stratification
- Drug development, clinical phases
- Pharmacodynamics
- Pharmacokinetics
- Pharmacology, pharmacogenomics, drug discovery and design, drug therapy
- Translational medicine
Clinical medicine
- Cardiac and Cardiovascular systems
- Prevention
- Risk factors
- Neurodegenerative disorders
- Neuroinflammatory disorders
- Oncology
- Anticancer therapy
- Ophthalmology
- Non-communicable diseases (except for neural/psychiatric and immunity-related)
- Personalised medicine
- Chronic diseases
- Degenerative diseases
- Diagnostic technology
- Rare diseases
Medical biotechnology
- Technologies involving identifying the functioning of DNA, proteins and enzymes and how they influence the onset of disease and maintenance of well-being (gene-based diagnostics and therapeutic interventions (pharmacogenomics, gene-based
- Biomarkers
- Diagnostics
- Pharmacogenomics
- Technologies involving the manipulation of cells, tissues, organs or the whole organism (assisted reproduction)
- Biomaterial engineering
- Biomedical engineering
- Imaging, image and data processing
- Regenerative medicine
- Stem cell therapy
- Tissue engineering
- Biomaterials (as related to medical implants, devices, sensors)
Biochemistry and molecular biology
- Biochemistry
- Enzymology
- Biological chemistry
- DNA synthesis, modification, repair, recombination, degradation
- Molecular biology
- Protein synthesis, modification and turnover
- Proteomics
- RNA synthesis, processing, modification and degradation
- Transcriptomics
- Computational biology
- Systems biology
- Bioinformatics, biocomputing, and DNA and molecular computation
Cell biology, Microbiology
- Cell biology and molecular transport mechanisms
- Organelle biology
- Stem cell biology
- Tissue culture
Genetics and heredity
- Cell genetics
- Gene therapy
- Genomics
- Medical genetics
Chemical sciences
- Analytical chemistry
- Enzymes