Dear IFA VIP.

There may be sections in the attached “Second draft Work Programme Horizon Europe - Digital Industry and Space” that are of relevance to your research (before printing, please notice that this is a 380 pages document!). I have marked in green below, which sections I believe could be of interest to some of you.

You are welcome to send your comments to the WP draft with track-changes to Knud Warming <warming@au.dk>. Text modifications should be followed by a justification in English.

The deadline for sending inputs is April 18 at 9am.

You are welcome to share the draft document with your AU colleagues, but you are not allowed to publish it or share it with colleagues outside Aarhus University.

This gives you a quick overview of the content of the work program:

Destination 1: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production (p. 11)

1.1                    Manufacturing Industry (p. 12)

1.2                    A New Way to Build, accelerating disruptive change in construction (p. 26)

1.3                    Energy Intensive Process Industries (p. 31)

Destination 2: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry (p. 70)

2.1                    Raw Materials for EU strategic autonomy and successful transition to a climate-neutral and circular economy (p. 70)

2.2                    Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) Chemicals and Materials (p. 97)

2.3                    Strategic Innovation Markets Driven by Advanced Materials (p. 113)

2.4                    Improving the resilience of EU businesses, especially SMEs and Startups (p. 131)

Destination 3: World-leading Data and Computing Technologies (p. 140)

3.1                    Data sharing and analytics capacity (p. 140)

Destination 4: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal (p. 154)

4.1                    Open Source for Cloud/Edge and Software Engineering Fundamentals to support Digital Autonomy (p. 154)

4.2                    European Innovation Leadership in Photonics (p. 157)

4.3                    AI, Data and Robotics (p. 167)

4.4                    Graphene and 2D materials: Europe in the lead (p. 182)

4.5                    Flagship on Quantum Technologies: a Paradigm Shift (p. 188)

4.6                    European Leadership in Emerging and Enabling Tech. (p. 207)

Destination 5: Open strategic autonomy in developing, deploying and using global space-based infrastructures, services, applications and data (p. 213)

5.1 Competitiveness (p. 213)

5.2 Access to Space (p. 223)

5.3 Copernicus services evolution (p. 234)

5.4 EGNSS and Copernicus Downstream (p. 250)

5.5 GOVSATCOM , Quantum, Space Weather (p. 265)

5.6 Space Other Actions (p. 276)

5.7 Cross-Cutting (p. 303)

Destination 6: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies (p. 313)

6.1                    Leadership in AI based on Trust (p. 313)

6.2                    An Internet of Trust (p. 330)

6.3                    eXtended Reality (XR) (p. 335)

6.4                    Systemic approaches for accelerating uptake of technology and innovation (p. 339)

6.5                    Research and Innovation for Industry 5.0 (p. 344)

6.6                    European standards for industrial competitiveness (p. 353)

6.7                    Digital Humanism (p. 366)

6.8                    Cross-cutting International (p. 369)

Best regards, Ulrik