Together with its partners, AENEAS shapes the sustainable digital future of Europe and co-defines the RD&I Electronic Components and Systems (ECS) strategy. Initiated by three European Industry Associations AENEAS, Inside and EPoSS, the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda for Electronic Components and Systems (ECS-SRIA) is a document created by over 300 European technology experts which contains a technology roadmap for a digital Europe, as envisaged by industry, covering the key application areas, the RD&I challenges and potential solutions along the entire value chain.
A radical, digital transformation is going on and strongly influencing how we live and how we work. The innovations that lie at the heart of this transformation are founded on the rapid developments of Electronic Components and Systems (ECS) based applications. This prompted the three Industry Associations that represent their members along the ECS value chain to co-organise a joint ECS Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA).
Since 2018 the ECS-SRIA is updated each year and sets the strategic priorities and technical pathways to enable European industry to become stronger and more competitive, and to have a significant and beneficial impact on society and the economy. It addresses the emergence of new business models with shorter innovation cycles and new transaction mechanisms for improved trust and security. It captures the game changers that have led to a smart economy and society (smart mobility, smart health, smart energy, smart industry and smart life). In the future, new integration technologies and closer interaction with neighbouring evolving technology domains like integrated photonics, bioelectronics and flexible electronics will open up new opportunities and application fields for the European ECS industry.
The ECS-SRIA acts as a tool to realise the industry-driven, long-term vision of an ECS ecosystem. By focusing on strategic priorities, it aims to align and coordinate research policies in Europe as well as match the allocation of programmes and resources to different technology and policy challenges. It provides continuous guidance to collaborative RD&I projects and public-private partnerships throughout the Electronic Components and systems ecosystem.
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The ECS-SRIA now serves as a basis for the Chips Multiannual Strategic Plan and for the European Commission strategic agenda
As a co-organiser of the ECS-SRIA, AENEAS delivers the roadmaps which have served as input for the European Commission strategic agenda and as the basis of the Chips multi-annual strategic plan (MASP). The roadmaps now serve as a basis to the Chips Multi-Annual Strategic Plan and for the European Commission strategic agenda and more operationally, for the Chips JU Calls for Proposals based on the Work Programme.
During the development phase of the annual version of the SRIA, AENEAS consults its members to drive the next release. AENEAS also gathers feedback from its members as well as from the overall ECS community to integrate it into the new annual version of the ECS-SRIA during ECS and Chips JU events.
Your interests are represented at the highest level of the European Commission and participating Members States in the Chips JU Governing Board in which AENEAS, has voting rights as one of the representative of the Private Members Board.
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The ECS-SRIA serves as the strategic research agenda of the EUREKA Clusters Xecs, PENTA and EURIPIDES²
The ECS-SRIA serves as the basis for the EUREKA Xecs, PENTA and EURIPIDES² Clusters of their Calls for Proposals. For the Xecs Calls, projects can be and are submitted in all areas of the SRIA.