11-12-2015
The aim here is to secure Europe’s leadership by stimulating investment and uptake in high added-value, competitive products and services across a range of sectors. Advanced materials with new functionalities and improved performance will be developed, leading to more competitive products by minimising environmental impacts and resource consumption. Advanced manufacturing and processing will move towards more knowledge-intensive, sustainable, trans-sectoral technologies, resulting in more innovative products, processes and services.
The Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (LEIT) part of Horizon 2020 will support the development of technologies underpinning innovation across a range of sectors. Horizon 2020 will have a strong focus on developing European industrial capabilities in Key Enabling Technologies (KETs).
This part of the programme covers different areas :
Activities of the work programme will address the whole innovation chain with technology readiness levels spanning the crucial range from medium levels to high levels preceding mass production, and helping to bridge the gaps ("valley of death") in this range. These activities will be based on research and innovation agendas defined by industry and business, together with the research community, and have a strong focus on leveraging private sector investment.
For the higher technology readiness levels, dedicated support will therefore be provided for larger-scale pilot lines and demonstrator projects to facilitate industrial take-up and commercialisation. There will be a strong focus on the contribution of Key Enabling Technologies to societal challenges.
