ECS-SRIA workshops

Green ECS and Decarbonisation

Rationale

The goal of this workshop is to collect, align and discuss inputs to the definition of priority-topics as a basis for the discussion on priorities in the Work Programme for the first call of the Institutionalized Partnership “Key Digital Technologies” (KDT). This workshop specifically addresses the Green Deal objectives identified by the ECS community, and described in the various sections of the ECS SRIA 2021. The scene will be set by the European Commission, the ECSEL-JU and the ECS community. Inputs on priorities in this field will be provided by the member states, dedicated experts for “green ECS” and decarbonization, and the stakeholder community attending the event.

Background

On one hand, electronic components and systems (ECS) are essential elements to enable other sectors to mitigate climate change and to reduce environmental impacts. Elements of the European Green Deal such as the supply of clean, affordable and secure energy, resource-efficient buildings, sustainable and smart mobility, as well as a healthy and environment-friendly food supply chains will all rely on ECS to achieve their ambitions. It is estimated that digital technologies have the potential to save almost 10 times more emissions than they produce by 2030. In other words, KDT will allow to decouple economic growth from resource use, which is a key target of the European Green Deal.

On the other hand, the ECS sector itself needs to use its own potential to improve the energy performance and disposability of electronic components themselves and to reduce their environmental footprint by means of cleaner and greener production processes, more circularity and less energy and material consumption. 

Main research priorities to reach these goals, have been described in the ECS-SRIA 2021 and the main challenges to be addressed are summarized in the Annex of the ECS-SRIA on page 464-465 in column 3 entitled Sustainability & Green Deal.  
https://www.smart-systems-integration.org/system/files/document/2021-01-15_ECS-SRIA2021_final.pdf

For the documentation of the workshop, inputs on draft topic priorities will be collected interactively during the workshop, and a rapporteur has been hired to write a report to be made available to the participants of the shadow KDT Governing Board meeting by end of June 2021.

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