The four IPCEI candidate topics and what it takes for the State Aid approval

IPCEIs, as a specific EU State aid instrument, may significantly contribute to economic growth, jobs, the green and digital transition, and competitiveness for the EU industry and economy.

During the last meeting, the Joint European Forum for IPCEI endorsed the proposal of participating Member States to start working on the design of the following four IPCEI candidates, as described in the adopted endorsement letters.

• Circular Advanced Materials for Clean Technologies
• Federated and Distributed Artificial Intelligence Services
• Advanced Semiconductor Technologies
• Large-scale Federated Edge Computing Infrastructure

In addition, subsequent IPCEIs are envisaged in the areas of biotechnologies, critical raw materials and clean, connected and autonomous vehicles.

An IPCEI can be a single or an integrated project, i.e. a group of single projects inserted in a common program aiming at the same objective.  In the latter case, a long pre-notification phase of approximately six to ten months, is in practise envisaged.

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