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Joint innovations arise from strong partnerships.

Driving Innovation Together

Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) collaborates with companies, startups, SMEs, industry partners, and scientific institutions on national and international research and development projects to advance cutting-edge technologies.

This page lists current collaboration opportunities and open calls for proposals for joint research and innovation projects. We are seeking partners with specialized knowledge, technological expertise, and innovative ideas to address specific research topics.

In addition, you can submit your own project ideas or requests for collaboration to find suitable partners for future development projects.

In accordance with European state aid law, collaborative project proposals will be published anonymously on the website for a period of four weeks.

The open calls are aimed at startups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), industrial companies, and—where applicable—academic partners. The goal is to develop innovative technologies through strong research and development partnerships.

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Partner Call offen bis: End of 2026

Projekt­start: Q1 2027

CPO – Electronic Engine

The project focuses on developing integrated circuits for two key areas in CPO: scalable integrated electronics to control large MEMS mirrors for optical switches and an electronic engine for the photonic RF transceiver….

Partner Call offen bis: End of 2026

Projekt­start: Q1 2027

TFLN-OPTILINK

Develop a TFLN-based CPO platform for scale-up, scale-out and chip-to-chip optical links with direct-drive electronics, low-loss coupling and thermal management….

Partner Call offen bis: End of 2026

Projekt­start: January 2027

Heterogeneous Integration for CPO

The call focusses on the PACKAGING aspect of CPO (Co-Packaged Optics). The objective is to develop the processes required to fabricate the interposer and optical engine, enabling both 2.5D and 3D CPO integration….

Partner Call offen bis: January 31, 2027

Projekt­start: September 1, 2027

CPO – (Piezoelectric Micromirror for) Optical Switch

To develop an advanced on-chip sensor integrated MEMS mirror and MEMS mirror array for optical switch applications…

Partner Call offen bis: End of 2026

Projekt­start: Q1 2027

Massive Parallelization via Spatial Division Multiplexing

Develop fabricable and scaleable concepts and demonstrators for heavily parallelized data transmission using spatial division multiplexing. …

Partner Call offen bis: End of 2026

Projekt­start: Q1 2027

Magnetics for CPO

Integrating high-frequency magnetic passives into CPO packages which enables efficient local power conversion, higher power density, and improved power integrity….

Partner call open until: 31.12.2026

Start of the project: Q2/2027

AGROSEISMOLOGY

Entwicklung eines kostengünstigen Akustischer-Seismiksensornetzwerks samt Inversionssoftware zur zerstörungsfreien Kartierung von Bodenverdichtung und Bodenfeuchte….

Partner Call open until: 15.05.2026

Project Start: Q4 2026 – Q1 2027

Advanced Wet Etch for Emer­ging Mate­rials

Entwick­lung skalier­barer Batch-Nassätz­ver­fahren für neue Halb­lei­ter­ma­te­ria­lien, die eine hoch­gradig gleich­mä­ßige und scha­dens­arme Bear­bei­tung auf 200-mm-Wafern ermög­li­chen. …

Partner Call open until: May 8, 2026

Project Start: May 2026

Auto­mata Learning for Coverage, Heuris­tics, and Evalua­tion of Models (ALCHEM)

Verbes­se­rung moderner KI-basierter Test­frame­works durch die Inte­gra­tion einer formalen Schicht im Hinter­grund mithilfe von auto­ma­tisch gelernten Modellen….

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