What this call funds
Expected Outcome
Projects funded under this call are expected to deliver the following outcomes, which together constitute a complete and durable impact monitoring and assessment framework:
- Complete Indicator Framework: A validated indicator framework of short-term actions, outcomes and long-term impacts, for both the ECS programme and the Chips for Europe Initiative, integrating Horizon Europe indicators, common JU indicators, and Chips JU-specific indicators.
- Data Collection and Exploitation Monitoring Platform: A standardised, multi-user platform for the systematic collection of programme-level monitoring data from all Chips JU projects and key external stakeholders, covering both the periodic tracking of programme indicators and the continuous monitoring of exploitation and commercialisation progress across all active and recently closed projects.
- Scalable Impact Assessment Methodology: A documented, scalable and auditable methodology for conducting structured periodic impact assessments of the full Chips JU programme, providing the analytical framework for interpreting programme monitoring data and producing credible, comparable and externally auditable assessments of programme performance across all relevant impact dimensions.
- Governance Architecture and Operational Handover: A governance architecture for the IMAF defining the roles, responsibilities, oversight mechanisms and data management protocols that ensure the infrastructure operates with appropriate independence, credibility and institutional continuity. This shall include a full operational handover to the Chips JU office at action end.
Eligibility & conditions+
General conditions
1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
Proposal page limits and layout: detailed in Part B of the Application Form, which you can access from the Call documents section on the Chips JU website's Call page
The following information are all described in the Appendix 7 of the Chips JU Workprogramme
2. Eligible countries
3. Other Eligibility Conditions
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Specific conditions
Please refer to Appendix 7 of the Chips JU Workprogramme
General Call Documents
Chips JU Multiannual Work Programme
Appendix 7 to the Work Programme - Electronic Components and Systems (ECS) - 2026
PAB decision on the evaluation and selection procedures related to Calls for Proposals
ECS Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
Rules for legal entity validation, LEAR appointment, financial capacity and ownership control assessment
Annotated Model Grant Agreement for EU Funding Programmes 2021-2027
Specific Call Documents
Guide for Applicants HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2026-IMAF-CSA
Template of Application Form HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2026-IMAF-CSA
Template of Evaluation Form HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2026-IMAF-CSA
Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA):
Application form templates
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
HE MGA
Call-specific instructions
Information on financial support to third parties (HE)
Information on clinical studies (HE)
Additional documents:
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
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