【Pre-Announcement】ASPIRE 2025 Joint Call “Japan-Netherlands research collaborations”

(Last updated 6 Sep 2024)

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6 Sep 2024:

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The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) will launch the ASPIRE 2025 Joint Call with the Netherlands as follows:

Goal of the call

Japan and the Netherlands have a long history of relations in the fields of trade, medicine, literature and science. Both countries play a world-leading role in the high-tech sector. To further strengthen the relationship in the high-tech field and stimulate the formation of new transnational networks, JST and NWO will launch a joint research program in the field of semiconductors, photonics, quantum and neuromorphic technologies.
Computer manufacturers are pushing the boundaries of what is feasible in e.g. clock speed, chip-size and -packaging, bandwidth, and latency to meet social demand and industrial needs in processing power, data crunching, and data transmission. At the same time, high-tech devices and facilities, such as smartphones, computers and datacenters, consume a huge amount of power and scarce materials causing a major impact on the environment.
JST and NWO believe that new materials and building blocks for unconventional information processing technologies need to be developed that contribute to the ever-increasing need for processing speed and power, with a keen eye for the challenges in energy consumption, substitutes for rare materials and the environmental footprint. We invite researchers from Japan and the Netherlands to develop new, unconventional research ideas that address the above bottlenecks such as computational speed-up, energy consumption, environmental footprint, latency times, etc.
Research projects submitted to this call should aim to solve bottlenecks by creating competitive alternatives to conventional information processing hardware. This program focuses on the semiconductor field with extensions to (integrated) photonics, quantum and neuromorphic computing.

Outline

• Call theme: Unconventional information processing technologies - research collaborations between Japan and the Netherlands (tentative)
• Research field：Semiconductor・Quantum
• Partner country：The Netherlands
• Partner funding agency：The Dutch Research Council（NWO）
• Support scale: Up to 250 million yen per project/ 4 years（including indirect costs which are 30% of direct costs）
• Call Opening: Spring 2025（tentative）

Note

• This is a pre-announcement and the information may change.
• Online matching event will be held in Autumn 2024 to connect researchers from Japan and the Netherlands.
• Details including event information will be available on this page in due course.

Inquiries for Japan based Applicants

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
Department of International Affairs

ASPIRE Coordination Group

aspire-nl(at)jst.go.jp (replace (at) with @)