Track 1 Key Enablers for Next Generation Smart Systems 

New discoveries & inventions of functional principles for Smart Systems and artificial intelligence at the edge & in the cloud:

▪ Novel concepts for smart sensing, actuation, energy supply, data processing, storage, AI and communication
▪ Design & design verification methods for Smart Systems
▪ Material innovations, new fabrication tools & processes
▪ Advanced micro / nano and smart power technologies
▪ Heterogeneous integration for Smart Systems with AI
▪ Methodologies and concepts for reliability, safety, and security to be inherently built into components and systems

Track 2 Key Technologies for Smart Systems

Hardware and software building blocks of Smart Systems, their design, fabrication, and test methods at device, wafer, component, module, and system levels:

▪ System Integration
▪ Embedded intelligence and cognition at the device level
▪ Fabrication of micro/nano systems & smart power systems
▪ Smart low-cost approaches including roll-to-roll technologies and printed functionalities
▪ High volume components at Euro cents for billions of infection or immunity tests

Track 3 Application Domains: Mobility, Energy, Industry

AI based smart sensor systems and networks, control units and drives incl. aspects such as power electronics, packaging and further system integration as well as communication systems for the fields of (auto)mobility, energy, and automation like:

▪ E-mobility (land, air and sea) and its infrastructure
▪ Highly automated and connected vehicles
▪ Secure, reliable, decentralized, multi-modal energy systems with a high level of renewable sources
▪ Highly automated distribution grids coupling the energy sector with mobility, industry & domestic use
▪ Ultra-flexible, high-performing, energy and resource efficient, and collaborative production facilities
▪ Digital twins supporting from design to customer service

Track 4 Application Domains: Food, Biomedical, Healthy Living

Disruptive innovation of Smart Systems in terms of accuracy, autonomy, automation, cost, size, etc. for applications like

▪ Digitising agriculture for sustainable production
▪ Food safety, security, and monitoring from field to fork
▪ Inexpensive real-time disease detection, e.g. COVID-19
▪ Connected life - Enabling the work-life balance
▪ Combined wearable / implants systems
▪ Enabling healthy lifestyles to prevent disease and to promote autonomous living

Track 5 Strategy and Business Creation

Instruments of support addressing aspects of strategy and business creation:

▪ Global market dynamics and the stability of value chains
▪ The competitive advantages of European ecosystems
▪ Political framework and support programmes
▪ From research to business: start-up and SME support
▪ Global co-operation and Joint venture strategies
▪ Opportunities and challenges of networking at European and regional level
▪ Standardisation
▪ Highlights from digital innovation hubs in action