GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

A ‘technology or method introduction’ aims at the development, testing, and implementation of new technologies, tools or methods, which are a critical element of innovative products, which will be created in subsequent projects.

A ‘demonstration or pilot’ aims to validate the technical and economic viability of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution in an operational (or nearly operational) environment, whether industrial or otherwise, involving, where appropriate, a larger scale prototype or demonstrator.

A ‘market replication’ aims to support the first application/deployment in the market of an innovation that has already been demonstrated but not yet applied/deployed in the market due to market failures/barriers to uptake. ‘Market replication’ does not cover multiple applications in the market of an innovation that has already been applied successfully once in the market. ‘First’ means new at least to Europe or new at least to the application sector in question.

An IA proposal in KDT JU is characterized by one or more of the following:

• Execution by an industrial consortium that may consist of large enterprises and SMEs but also including universities, institutes, public organizations
• Using innovative technology
•  Establishment of a new and realistic innovation environment connected with an industrial environment, such as:
  • a pilot line facility capable of manufacturing
  • a zone of full-scale testing
  •  a development of new processes or tools and their introduction in several domains the development of frameworks or platforms together with the usage of these frameworks or platforms in innovative products.
• Having a deployment plan leading to short to midterm economic value creation in Europe.