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Journeying through the skies and to outer space

• Greener propulsion technologies
  • Improved fuel-efficiency, propulsion technologies using renewable energy, etc.
• Systems, equipment and maintenance technologies for aerospace
  • Autonomous operations & other innovative systems (e.g. communication or security-enabling technologies) for the benefit of pilots, traffic controllers and technicians
  • Satellite maintenance, deorbiting technologies and handling of space debris
• Drones/UAV technologies
  • For transportation of cargo and/or people, monitoring or other innovative uses
• Earth observation & connectivity
  • Micro- and nano-satellite constellations, etc.
  • Collection and analysis of data to map, monitor and track
• Space exploration & enabling life on the Moon and Mars
  • Manned and unmanned interplanetary spaceflight, near-earth asteroid mining, space research, air & water recycling and food production in low gravity

Bringing the best out of the binary world while anticipating the quantum revolution

• Hardware technologies supporting the sustainable development of the binary world
  • From new electronic components to energy-efficient data center systems
• Quantum systems
  • Building the bricks of quantum computing
• Electronics & photonics
  • Nano- and micro-technologies powering a faster and greener digital world
• New semiconductor materials or technologies that improve semiconductor manufacturing processes
  • Wide-band Gap Semiconductors, Thermal Interface materials, etc.
• Connectivity & communication systems and devices
  • Secure, energy-efficient and innovative communication systems and network technologies
• Data Science: storage, processing and analysis
  • Software and hardware technologies to collect, store and process data
• Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
  • Breakthrough AI models and AI specific hardware, Edge AI
• Cybersecurity & data privacy
  • Modern technologies to protect sensitive data & digital identity and fight cybercrime
• Electronic consumer devices of the future (e.g. AR/VR, wearables)

Harnessing the power of machines for sustainable growth

• Virtual & data-driven systems for industry
  • Modelization, simulation and automation systems to improve production, maintenance and security
• Green factories
  • Cleaner, safer, energy-efficient and effective manufacturing processes
• IIoT & ubiquitous sensing
  • IoT devices and technologies for industrial environments
• Symbiosis between humans & machines
  • Collaborative environments and improving human workers’ safety & efficiency
  • Human Machine Interfaces (AR/VR, holographic, haptic, etc.)
• Robotics designed to facilitate industrial environments or people’s everyday life
• Breakthrough solutions for the transportation of goods and people
  • Autonomous & connected solutions on land, water or below
• Improving safety and environmental footprint in the transport sector
  • Electric vehicles and other green mobility solutions
  • New ways of preventing accidents and protecting people

New materials and technologies to improve the sustainability, security and productivity of the construction & infrastructure industry

• Energy efficient and carbon-neutral infrastructure and construction techniques
• New and sustainable building materials with improved properties
• Applied technologies to improve productivity
  • Robotics, 3D printing, VR/AR, AI, etc.
• Protecting construction workers health and improving overall on site safety
• Breakthrough technologies driving circular economy and supply chain efficiency

Facilitating a low-carbon energy transition 

• Clean and reliable forms of energy generation
  • Developing new means of generating low-carbon, renewable energy
• Energy storage devices & new materials
  • From systems powering our day-to-day lives to larger networks
• Optimizing supply of key materials and consumption of energy
  • Providing smart and energy-efficient solutions to manage energy
  • Scaling recycling of key materials and systems
• Off-grid and microgrid solutions
  • Decentralized power generation and distribution

Reducing human impact on and regenerating the environment

• Water, waste and natural resources management
  • Monitor water quality, reduce water consumption & improve wastewater treatment
  • Treat and upcycle waste
  • Sustainable management of land and sea resources
• Mitigating pollution and restoring a healthy environment
  • Measure and monitor pollution levels and decontaminate polluted ecosystems
  • Regenerate soils and seas
• Tackling global environmental issues
  • Solutions for carbon capture and carbon removal
  • Valorization and utilization of CO2 and GHG as feedstocks for the bioeconomy
  • Mitigating climate change and restoring biodiversity

Feeding the Earth’s population while protecting our planet

• Precision agriculture
  • Mobilizing sensors, drones and information services to monitor, understand, and act on crops
  • Empowering farmers for resources management
• Improved crops and farming
  • Substituting/reducing the use of pesticides and other hazardous chemicals
  • Reducing GHG emissions through carbon sequestration and nitrogen management
  • Improving soil health and overall biodiversity
  • Engineering crops for improved yield, pest resistance, and nutritional value
• Increasing livestock productivity sustainably
  • Using sensors and automated devices for herd monitoring
  • Developing novel animal feed for better health and yield
• Alternative food production
  • Developing new ingredients to leverage in human foods and diets (alternative proteins, functional foods…)
  • Developing modern ways of production with reduced carbon footprint (cellular agriculture, microbial cell factories…)
• Food safety & supply chain
  • Improving food production, processing, distribution and quality
  • Limiting and upcycling waste
  • Ensuring transparency and traceability throughout the supply chain

Designing renewable and advanced materials, compounds and catalysts that benefit our industries & society with sustainable processes

• Cellular factories & products thereof
  • Organisms (natural or engineered) for the production of materials, compounds & catalysts
  • Bio-based compounds, materials, and catalysts
  • Enzymes and Cell free manufacturing
• Repurposing waste with recycling or circular technologies
  • Biological processes for recycling / upcycling waste streams
  • Bioremediation / Biodegradation
• Developments conveying smart properties in materials
  • Metamaterials, quantum materials, nanotechnologies, etc.
  • Designed for recyclability
• Sustainable materials and use of resources
  • Creating renewable materials and improving existing production & recycling processes
  • New bio or circular feedstocks and ingredients
• High-performance materials & coatings
  • Better physical, chemical, mechanical and manufacturing properties
  • Innovative coating and industrial processing

Harnessing digital technologies and engineering for better patient care and outcomes

• Medical devices to diagnose, manage diseases, and treat patients 
  • (Neuro-)prosthetics and medical implants, as well as patient-centered diagnostics, disease management, and therapeutic devices
  • Connected devices such as wearable technologies and sensors to prevent, diagnose, monitor or treat diseases
  • Brain-computer interfaces
• Digital applications for diagnosis, disease management and treatment 
  • Clinical decision support systems, AR/VR interfaces, and innovative processes
  • Digital therapeutics – DTx
  • Digital patient twins for point of care diagnostics and accelerated/improved clinical trials

Biotechnologies and chemistries enabling the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases

• Biologics for disease prevention and therapeutic & diagnostic purposes
  • Organ substitutes, cell therapies, gene editing solutions, vaccines, antibodies, etc.
  • Organisms, cells (natural or engineered) and devices for the production of medically relevant compounds
• Lab-based solutions improving the R&D processes for diagnostics & therapeutics 
  • New drug or biomarker discovery platforms, DNA & protein-engineering solutions, new approaches to ease the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, etc.
  • Organ on chip technologies to mimic physiological conditions for rapid diagnosing, drug discovery and accelerated clinical decisions/trials
  • Microfluidic based approaches to diagnose and characterize diseases 
• In-silico drug discovery & design solutions
  • New in-silico drug discovery methods & software-aided drug design tools

• Pharmaceuticals for diagnosing, preventing & treating diseases 
  • First-in-class drugs and potent derivatives of existing drugs
  • Synthetic molecules essential to new/enhancing diagnostics or improving the pharmacological properties of drugs
  • Novel antibiotic molecules and molecules/technologies/therapies replacing current antibiotics to counter widespread antibiotic resistance

Solutions that contribute to building a circular economy applied to managing CO2 emissions, removing excess carbon and converting it into valuable products:

• CO2 capture solutions
• CO2 valorization solutions
  • Using CO2 to contribute to future net-zero/negative emission energy systems
  • CO2 reuse as input for feedstocks, fuels, materials
  • New CO2 conversion processes for the production of valuable materials
• CO2 regeneration
  • Recycle carbon through the natural carbon cycle with bioenergy and store it