GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposals shall cover along the lines of sustainability and recyclability:

• Develop innovative design and manufacturing methodologies for smart electronic systems, considering eco-design principles, including aspects related to life cycle, end-of life, standardisation, certification, easy repair and regulation compliance
• Accessible environmental data repository and exchange framework should also be taken into account.
• Demonstrate that reliability-by-design principles maximise the durability of the smart electronic systems proposed or else allow second life of electronic components, products or systems in future. Important factors are repair-friendly product designs, solution to enable predictive maintenance and availability of spare parts, implemented through new business models.
• Target more efficient recovery and recycling solutions or/and optimisation of the use of resources (i.e. reuse/repair/repurpose, recovery and recycling of waste and materials with a special attention to rare earth metals) over the lifetime of smart electronic systems (for example by appropriate packaging design). Specifications for equipment and systems for sorting, waste stream separation, recycling processes of such electronic components.

And along the lines of increased energy efficiency:

Innovative smart (AI Based) embedded software (intelligent firmware, energy-oriented OS support, power-aware resource management) capable to exploit the new energy characteristics and features of electronic components and their integration to deliver green embedded and cyber-physical systems that can be adopted in vertical domains (as for example mobility and industry) and result in significantly better energy usage.