Horizon Prize - Breaking the optical transmission barriers
Call text (as on F&T portal)
View on F&T portalScope
The Horizon Prize for breaking the optical transmission barriers is a €500 000 challenge prize. It will be awarded to a solution that maximises the fibre capacity per channel, spectrum range and/or spectral efficiency and reach. It should also be energy efficient, economically viable, and easy to install and deploy. The solution should have a strong potential to be adopted in future generations of optical-system products. The feasibility of the approach will have to be demonstrated through clear experimental results.
OBJECTIVES
The objectives are:
• To overcome the current limitations of long-distance, optical transmission systems;
• To meet the bandwidth demand explosion;
• To provide the resources for future applications;
• To address the aspects of energy efficiency and economic viability of such optical breakthrough systems;
• To stimulate creative thinking across established SMEs, industrial and academic research organisations, but also to seed new industry to address the key component and system related questions, resulting in breakthrough solutions that can drive the European industry forward.
EXPECTED RESULTS
This prize will lead to a significant amount of research and potentially significant breakthroughs in the field of optical transmission which will ultimately find their way into the future optical networks.
It will help foster European leadership in optical transmission, by further capitalizing on the awarded results, and to the international visibility of Europe’s excellence in this area.
The research produced will assist in supporting networks that deliver the insatiable demand for bandwidth, and in providing the resources for future applications that haven’t been conceived of yet.
News flashes
A total of 6 entries were submitted in response to this call
A total of 6 entries were submitted in response to this call
Opening of registration and entry submission is postponed to 2nd of July 2015,aligned with the cornerstone Event on network technologies "European Conference on Networks and Communications 2015" (http://www.eucnc.eu/ ),so thata stronger outreach to the research constituency is achieved.
Opening date: 2015-05-28 (11 years ago)
Closing date: 2016-03-15 (10 years ago)
Procedure: single-stage
Budget: 500,000
Expected grants: not specified
This call topic has been appended 4 times by the EC with news.
-
2016-04-11
a total of 6 entries were submitted in r... -
2016-03-15
a total of 6 entries were submitted in r... -
2015-07-02
the submission session is now available... -
2015-06-03
opening of registration and entry submis...
H2020-OpticalPrize-2015
Call topics are often grouped together in a call. Sometimes this is for a thematic reason, but often it is also for practical reasons.
There are 0 other topics in this call:
Showing the latest information. Found 1 version of this call topic in the F&T portal.
Information from
- 2024-03-30_14-24-17
Annotations
Events
Hand-picked events relevant to this call topic.
No events yet
There are currently no events linked to this call topic.
Timeline
Call published · 30 Sep 2024 (2 years ago)
All expected milestones for this call have passed.
Work programme published
13 Jan 2015 · est.
Call opens
28 May 2015
Call closes
15 Mar 2016
Outcome expected
15 Aug 2016 · est.
Grant agreement signed
15 Nov 2016 · est.
Call published
30 Sep 2024
-
Work programme published Estimated
13 Jan 2015 · 11 years ago
Topics are listed in the Work Programme before the call opens. Spotting this early gives you a head start on partner search and proposal planning.
-
Call opens
28 May 2015 · 11 years ago
Submissions can be made from this date.
-
Call closes
15 Mar 2016 · 10 years ago
Deadline to submit a proposal.
-
Outcome expected Estimated
15 Aug 2016 · 10 years ago
The maximum time to inform applicants of the evaluation outcome is five months after the call closes.
-
Grant agreement signed Estimated
15 Nov 2016 · 9 years ago
The maximum time to sign the grant agreement is three months after applicants are informed of the outcome.
-
Call published
30 Sep 2024 · 2 years ago
This topic was first published in TopicTree.
Funded Projects
Loading...
Project information comes from CORDIS (for Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe) and will be sourced from F&T Portal (for Digital Europe projects)
Ecosystem bubbles
This call topic is part of the following thematic bubbles.
Not part of a bubble yet
This call topic has not been grouped into an ecosystem bubble.