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 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