ECS IA Resilience 2026 – Market-Oriented Call on Photonics

Innovation Fund Denmark Original Source
Award

€50,000 - €1,300,000

Deadline

Sep 17, 2026

Due in 199 days
Location

Denmark

Applicants

organization, consortium

About This Opportunity

The objective of this topic is to support the industrial scale-up of advanced photonic technologies. The call targets actions that accelerate the uptake of high-performance photonic platforms by bridging from research and prototyping to pre-commercial production. Projects funded under this call should aim to deliver industrial-grade demonstrators of advanced photonic technologies, representative of future market products, showing scalability, reliability, and integration-readiness at TRL 7-8. Innovation Fund Denmark offers co-funding to Danish participants in projects successful in this call through the Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) initiative.

TRL 7 - 9

Who Can Apply

Region
Denmark
Residency
Denmark
Applicants
organization, consortium
Organizations
academic, for profit, nonprofit

Application Details

Matching funds

Stages

  1. 1 single_stage

Required documents

budget research_proposal

Review process

International evaluation by Chips JU secretariat followed by national co-funding approval from Innovation Fund Denmark

Additional benefits

  • networking

Restrictions

  • reporting_requirements

Post-award obligations

  • final_report
  • acknowledge_funder