ECS IA Resilience 2026 – Market-Oriented Call on Photonics

Innovation Fund Denmark
Award EUR 50K–1.3M
Closing date 154 days left · Sep 17, 2026
Location Global
For Orgs, 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.

Who can apply

Applicant Types

organization, consortium

Organization Types

academic, for profit, nonprofit

Residency

🇩🇰 Denmark

Region

Denmark

Technology Readiness Level (TRL)

Level 7 - 9

How to apply

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