Within the Strategic Programme scheme, Holland High Tech creates the opportunity for knowledge institutes to develop concrete projects in multi-year research lines with partners from industry, with a high probability that a subsidy will be granted by Holland High Tech. This helps the knowledge institutes to establish and expand (strategic) relationships with industry, something that is indispensable for innovations in the high-tech sector. See all strategic programmes below.
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Advanced Instrumentation
The strategic program Advanced Instrumentation stimulates collaborations between knowledge institutions (NWO-I, TNO, NOVA and HFML-Felix) and Dutch high-tech companies for the development of advanced instrumentation.
Battery Integration
Battery energy storage plays a crucial role in the energy transition. It is a critical technology for integrating renewable energy, stabilizing the grid, managing peak loads, enabling energy time shifting, supporting electrification of transportation and other energy-intensive sectors, and promoting the development of distributed energy systems. Strategic program “Battery integration” addresses except the battery chemistry four crucial aspects: innovative battery designs, intelligent application and systems, life cycle analysis, second life and recycling and battery materials and design.
High Tech Materials
This program describes the importance of materials research and innovation that is required to build a more sustainable society and industry and identifies focus areas. Aspects like energy transition, sustainability, circular economy, critical raw materials and digitalisation are dominant themes in the future research in the materials domain.
Medical Technology
The Medical Technology (MedTech) programme stimulates, through public-private partnerships, the development of imaging and sensor & actuator key enabling technologies and their integration into new healthcare products and services.
Microelectronics
Microelectronics has become ubiquitous and pervasive in all aspects of society. Its importance to our economy and society has become evident as global supply lines became unreliable and chips became a force to influence international politics. The Netherlands needs smaller, safer, faster and ‘cooler’ chip technologies to enhance the export position of Dutch manufacturers, decrease its dependency on foreign suppliers, enhance national security, further digitalise our society, and drive innovations in energy-efficient technologies.
Photonics and Optical Technologies
Photonics and optical technologies are all around us and are a key enabler for societal megatrends as a fundamental element of new technologies and applications.
Quantum Technologies
The quantum technologies (computing, communication and sensing) are in their early stages of development, and faces significant technical challenges, though as they advance, the applications in various sectors will become more tangible and transformative. The objective of this program is to propel the demand-driven research and development cycle of quantum technologies. The Netherlands is a forerunner in attaining numerous scientific breakthroughs in quantum technologies. The Dutch quantum ecosystem is thriving with its solid knowledge-base and growing start-up base. However it needs sustenance.
Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment
Continuously improving semiconductor manufacturing equipment is essential for producing advanced chips as well as for improving chips along the lines of Moore’s Law. The Netherlands is an important player in this continuous development of material processing technologies, lithography technology, and process- and metrology instrumentation. The present strategic programme connects knowledge institutes with industries in the crucial phase of developing innovative technologies to secure future industrial roadmaps.
Space
The Dutch space sector, a strong national ecosystem, contributes to solving important societal challenges. This concerns, for example, safety, weather and climate and defense. The Netherlands, the EU and NATO recognize the critical nature of this infrastructure and space activities are booming worldwide. This automatically creates new challenges and opportunities for the Netherlands.
In line with the long-term space agenda (LTR), the sector wants to focus on 4 application fields, namely laser satellite communication, space situational awareness, “Position, navigation and timing (PNT)” and earth observation. To achieve this it is necessary to improve space infrastructure. In particular platforms, launchers and data usage.
Systems Engineering for Hightech Systems
The Dutch high-tech (equipment) industry is a crucial pillar in supporting the innovative strength of the Dutch economy. The strategic programme Systems Engineering for Hightech Systems, conducted by the consortium, focuses on researching systems engineering methodologies. Five programme lines have been identified: design for system qualities, design for life cycle excellence, system evolution and system diversity, integration of systems into systems-of-systems and systems architecting.