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Programme Description
The Euratom Research and Training programme has the following specific objectives:
- improve and support nuclear safety, security, safeguards, radiation protection, safe spent fuel and radioactive waste management and decommissioning, including the safe and secure use of nuclear power and of non-power applications of ionising radiation
maintain and further develop expertise and competence in the nuclear field within the community - foster the development of fusion energy as a potential future energy source for electricity production and contribute to the implementation of the European fusion roadmap
- support the policy of the EU and its members on continuous improvement of nuclear safety, safeguards and security
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Summary
The SOFT Innovation Prize highlights and rewards excellence in innovation in fusion research as well as the quality of the researchers and industries involved.
Detailed Call Description
The SOFT Innovation Prize is named after the biennial Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT) during which the recipients of the prize are presented. The SOFT Innovation Prize highlights and rewards excellence in innovation in fusion research as well as the quality of the researchers and industries involved. Following the success of the previous editions, the European Commission is holding the contest again in association with the next Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT) in 2024.
There are no specific categories for this prize. Applicants are free to submit an application on any physics or technology innovation that has been developed in magnetic confinement fusion research and that has market potential or has been taken up (or recognised) by industry to be further developed for the market.
The European Commission will publish the specific rules of the contest in 2023. It will launch and manage the contest and award the prizes based on the decision of independent experts.
The complete application should include:
- a technical description of the innovation;
- a state-of-the-art assessment of the innovation;
- an account, in general terms, of the market potential for exploiting the innovation.
The Funding and Tenders Portal contains the Model Rules of Contest for prizes.
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Thematic Categories
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Legal Entities
- Natual person / Citizen / Individual
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants must:
- be legal entities (natural persons, public or private bodies)
- be researchers, research teams or industrial participants eligible for funding under the Euratom Research and Training Programme, researchers or research teams working for a national programme in an ITER partner country except Russia or in any non-EU country that has a bilateral fusion cooperation agreement with Euratom in force or industrial participants participating in ITER except from Russia.
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EU Contact Point
Euratom Research and Training Programme:
Please contact: RTD-FUSION@ec.europa.eu