Key Digital Technologies: accelerating the transition to a green and digital Europe

The Key Digital Technologies (KDT) partnership aims to accelerate the production of high-quality microelectronic components to support the transition to a green and digital Europe.

This programme is aimed at:

• SMEs, large companies and research institutions.

There will no longer be any calls for projects for the Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking (KDT) programme with financial support from Innosuisse. The successor programme to KDT is Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU). It will be managed by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). For funding enquires please contact Euresearch.

As Innosuisse is still managing the ongoing projects from the KDT project calls for 2021, 2022 and 2023, you can contact us via this e-mail address if you have any questions: [e-mail].

1. Submit application, evaluation and decision

The KDT JU is a joint programme of European countries and the European Union. The evaluation of the applications is carried out centrally in Brussels by the KDT JU for all participating countries. Innosuisse and SERI are responsible for issuing the contracts, paying the funding contribution and for the financial reporting in Switzerland.

Due to ongoing negotiations with the European Commission for the association of Switzerland to Horizon Europe, Switzerland is at present not a full member of the KDT JU. As a transitional measure, Innosuisse and SERI will fund Swiss partners of approved KDT projects directly.

• Amount of funding for your KDT project

  SERI will cover the EU Co-funding through the transitional measures for Horizon Europe.

  The rates differ in percentage as follows:

  Innosuisse will cover the national contribution as follows:

• Evaluation and decision

  The evaluation and decision process is managed and conducted by the KDT JU without the involvement of neither Innosuisse nor SERI. This is related to the current non-associated third country status of Switzerland to Horizon Europe. More information on the evaluation procedure are to be found on the KDT website. Questions can be coordinated through the KDT coordinator of the respective application.

2. Project reporting

Two years after the project starts, you must submit a financial report to the SERI. All Swiss partners of the KDT project are requested to follow the SERI's instructions, as well as the guidelines for submitting a financial report for Horizon Europe projects.

Please send any questions about submitting the financial report directly to SERI at the following address: [e-mail].

• Financial reports during your project: midterm report

  At the halfway point of the project, you must submit a financial report to Innosuisse. Innosuisse will actively request the report from the Swiss partners, will send you the template and inform you of the supporting documents to be submitted for project expenditure. 

3. Conclude project and submit final report

At the end of your KDT project, you must submit a final report and a final financial report.

• Final financial report to Innosuisse

  At the end of the project period, a final financial report must be submitted to SERI by the Swiss project partners. All Swiss KDT project partners should follow the SERI instructions and guidelines for submitting a financial report for Horizon Europe projects.

  The submission of the final report is a prerequisite for the final payment. Once Innosuisse has approved the final financial report, the agency will request the project partners to submit the final invoice for the remaining support contribution. This invoice will include the actual costs incurred according to the final financial report.

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