Space Critical EEE Components for EU non-dependence – RISC-V Microprocessor on 7nm
Horizon Europe Cluster 4 Work Programme Destination 5: Open strategic autonomy in developing, deploying and using global space-based infrastructures, services, applications and data
€4.5M - €5.0M
25/09/2025
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution
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What is the Space Critical EEE Components for EU non-dependence – RISC-V Microprocessor on 7nm Call?
Expected Outcomes
• Unrestricted access for EU space missions to critical space EEE components and related technologies.
• Regained capacity for independent space operations via resilient, EU-based or trustable supply chains unaffected by non-EU export controls.
• Enhanced EU competitiveness through development of products with performance equivalent or superior to non-EU alternatives, enabling global market competition.
• New opportunities for European manufacturers by reducing reliance on non-EU export-restricted technologies.
Scope Requirements
• Establish a sustainable supply chain, preferably fully within the EU; if partially outside, use trustable non-EU services subject to granting authority approval.
• Demonstrate that supply chain and final product are free of legal export restrictions (ITAR, EAR, etc.) or clearly report any EAR-99 dependencies.
• Provide a high-level breakdown of technology processes and the full supply chain.
• Include a list of applicable formal space standards and, if aiming for formal qualification, deliver the full qualification data pack marked sensitive to DG-DEFIS and HaDEA.
• Integrate specific work‐plan tasks to: analyse the supply chain; describe industrial roadmap and business plan; report all relevant extra-territorial export controls; and perform a literature review with gap analysis.
• Enhance complementarity with relevant national/EU initiatives and document how overlap is managed.
• Adhere to the 80-page limit and general admissibility conditions in Annex A/E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme.
Special Conditions
• Entities controlled by non-eligible countries may participate only with positively assessed guarantees ensuring no negative impact on EU strategic interests.
• High-risk telecom equipment suppliers (and their affiliates) are barred from participation.
• If satellite EO or PNT data is used, beneficiaries must use Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS.
• Gender dimension is not relevant for this topic.
• Confidential deliverables on supply-chain analysis, export-control reporting, roadmap and literature review to be provided to DG-DEFIS and HaDEA within six months of project start.
• Beneficiaries must guarantee supply and availability of developed products/processes to any EU entity at fair market conditions for up to four years post-project.
• Any intended transfer of ownership or exclusive licensing of results must be notified to and may be objected by DG-DEFIS and HaDEA up to four years after project end.
Open from: 22/05/2025
Deadline:25/09/2025
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