ENIAC JTI

The ENIAC Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) is a European public-private partnership on nanoelectronics. It was officially launched in Brussels on February 22nd 2008. The ENIAC JTI is officially called ENIAC and is not to be confused with the ENIAC European Technology Platform, with which it cooperates closely. The headquarters of the JTI is located in Brussels.

ENIAC combines for the first time efforts of industry, EU Member States (and associated states) and the European Commission in the field of nanoelectronics. Although other European initiatives, like the European Technology Platforms or the regular calls in the Framework Programmes have established cooperation between these three actors before, none of them bring all together at the same time to implement a focused research programme.

The ENIAC JTI has the legal form of a Joint Undertaking. Over its lifespan of 10 years, the JTI is expected to bring together 3 billion euros of which more than half will be provided by industry. The association AENEAS represents all industrial partners in the JTI. The ENIAC Joint Technology Initiative intends to subsidize strategic projects, for which the first proposals will arrive in the first half of 2008.

At the moment of the launch, Member States participating in ENIAC were Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

External links

[http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/nanoelectronics/eniac_en.html ENIAC JTI and ETP (European Commission website)]