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Journeying through the skies and to outer space

• Greener propulsion technologies
  -Improved fuel-efficiency, propulsion technologies using renewable energy, etc.
• Improved manufacturing & materials for the aerospace industry
  -Manufacturing & maintenance solutions
  -Advanced materials and innovative equipment
• Autonomous operations & other innovative systems for the benefit of pilots, traffic controllers and technicians
  -Including communication or security-enabling technologies
• Drones/UAV technologies
  -For transportation of cargo and/or people, monitoring or other innovative uses
• New solutions for better aircraft passenger experience
• Earth observation & connectivity
  -Micro- and nano-satellite constellations, etc.
  -Collection and analysis of data to map, monitor and track
• Satellite maintenance, deorbiting technologies and handling of space debris
• 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

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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, Generative 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

• 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
• Virtual & data-driven systems for industry
  • Modelization, simulation and automation systems to improve production, maintenance and security

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

• Zero-waste and low carbon construction
  • Energy-efficient and carbon-neutral architecture, infrastructure and construction techniques
  • Advanced or sustainable building materials with improved properties, or high resource efficiency
  • Transforming waste to recycled or upcycled construction materials
• Applied technologies to improve productivity
  • Robotics, digital twin, 3D printing, VR/AR etc.
  • Advanced data analytics and the application of digital technologies
• Protecting construction workers health and improving overall on site safety
• Breakthrough technologies and materials driving circularity and supply chain efficiency
  • Design for efficient disassembly, reuse and recycling
  • New materials with embedded traceability, recyclability or high material recoverability at end-of-life
    

Facilitating a low-carbon energy transition

• Clean and reliable forms of energy generation
  • Developing new means of generating low-carbon and renewable electricity
  • Providing alternative and low-carbon fuels
  • Fostering circularity of energy (waste heat, multiple energy harvesting)
• Energy storage & materials
  • From systems powering our day-to-day lives to large and long duration scale
• 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

Prevention, repair and mitigation of human impact & 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
• Preserving and restoring biodiversity
  • Ecosystem restoration including transforming marine and terrestrial biodiversity
  • The use of data, Earth observation imagery, or DNA-based tools, e.g. environmental DNA (eDNA), for inventory and monitoring

Feeding the Earth’s population while protecting our planet

• Precision agriculture and animal husbandry
  • Mobilizing data acquisition and analytics to monitor, understand, and act on farming and rearing
  • Empowering farmers for resources management
• Regenerative crops and farming
  • Improving soil health and overall biodiversity
  • Reducing GHG emissions through carbon sequestration and nitrogen management
  • Substituting/reducing the use of pesticides and other hazardous chemicals
  • Engineering crops for improved yield, pest resistance, and nutritional value
• Alternative food and feed production
  • Developing new ingredients to leverage for food and nutraceuticals (alternative proteins, functional foods…)
  • Developing modern ways of production with reduced carbon footprint (cellular agriculture, precision fermentation…)
• Food safety & supply chain
  • Improving food production, processing, distribution and quality
  • Limiting and upcycling food and agricultural waste
  • Ensuring transparency and traceability throughout the supply chain

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

• Cellular factories, cell-free manufacturing & products thereof
  • Organisms (natural or engineered) for the production of high-value materials, compounds & catalysts
  • Bio-based compounds and materials
  • The application of biocatalysts and enzymes
• Treating waste with recycling, circular or novel biodegradation technologies
  • Biological processes for recycling or upcycling waste streams
  • Bioremediation or biodegradation
• Developments conveying smart properties in materials
  • Metamaterials, quantum materials, nanotechnologies, etc.
  • Materials that are designed for recyclability, or ease of biodegradation
• Sustainable materials and use of resources
  • Creating renewable materials, improving existing production & recycling processes
  • New bio-based, 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
  • Data-driven healthcare e.g. the application of AI for machine-learning based diagnosis

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.
  • Novel delivery systems for drugs and therapies
  • New platforms (e.g. organisms, natural or engineered cells, devices) for the production of therapies and other 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