Portfolio activities
Connecting with other projects for the Sustainability of Electronics in Europe
As DESIRE4EU is committed to advancing innovation in the electronic industry, we actively explore synergies and collaborations among the projects in the Responsible Electronics portfolio. By focusing on the strengths of the different initiatives, we aim to maximize the achievement of scientific results, the exploitation potentials, the outreach opportunities with key stakeholders, and the identification and overcoming of major barriers.
Strategic Plan and Activities
Our strategic plan highlights collaborative activities across sub-portfolios, focusing on shared goals that enhance our collective impact.
Outreach We prioritize sustainability-aware practices through targeted communication activities with policymakers, the lay public, and stakeholders. Joint dissemination efforts will amplify our reach and strengthen our message across different audiences.
Life Cycle Analysis
Sharing insights on life cycle analysis and life cycle thinking is fundamental to our mission. We are dedicated to developing novel/common metrics and benchmarking tools that would assess the environmental impact of our solutions.
Commercialization Strategies
Together, we will define common strategies for the commercialization and exploitation of our innovations. By aligning our efforts, we want to catalyze potential R&D opportunities, tackle barriers to investment, and enable market success.
Find more information about the Portfolio’s different projects:
ELEGANCE 
ELEGANCE develops a new, printable, and light-operated processing technology specialised for IoT edge computing applications. The project employs abundant and recyclable eco-friendly materials. The processor enables simultaneous IoT energy-efficient computing and visual sensing. The project will implement in-memory computing schemes, such as crossbar memristor arrays, by employing low-cost, industrially compatible sustainable printing techniques.
GRETA
GRETA will lay the foundation of the first green, printed and flexible organic wireless identification tag operating at Ultra-High Frequency (UHF, 300 MHz – 1 GHz). The long-term vision of the project is to enable remote powering and readout of tags up to meters of distance, as required in logistics and security, without the need for a battery and drastically reducing lifecycle impact and cost in comparison to any available passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology.
GreenOMorph
The project aims to reduce the environmental impact of electronics by addressing manufacturing, usage, and disposal and eliminating the need for critical raw materials in electronic devices. It uses neuromorphic computing instead of traditional Von Neumann computing, drastically reducing energy consumption during use. It will use organic electronics with eco-friendly materials and employ low-temperature additive manufacturing techniques for all organic artificial sensory neuron components designed to recognise tactile pressure patterns.
HaloFreeEtch
HaloFreeEtch aims to identify new, halogen-free and sustainable etching processes for sustainable semiconductor manufacturing, applied to deep etching of silicon and silicon oxide. The project will provide a novel model and data-based methodology for sustainability and life cycle analysis of plasma-etching to quantify the carbon-footprint of all novel etching processes. HaloFreeEtch combines lab-scale research on three innovative technological routes with computational screening of novel and promising etchants, a comprehensive multi-scale modeling approach to predict potential working points and a model-based life cycle and sustainability analysis.
HISOPE
HiSOPE focuses on novel fast and broadband organic optoelectronic materials, devices and systems, allowing high added-value applications such as optical data transmission and wireless optical communication. The project aims to develop organic semiconductor (OSC) materials and fabricate different organic devices like High-Speed Organic Light Emitting Diodes, High-Speed Organic PhotoDetectors, and electrically driven Short Pulse Organic Lasers, and integrate these into lab-scale waveguided and wireless data transmission demonstrators.
RADIANT
RADIANT aims to relieve the environmental burden of LED technology while also improving its competitiveness.
RADIANT incorporates the property of chirality into three emerging LED technologies: organic, perovskite, and quantum dot-based, significantly enhancing LED performance and reducing production costs
STELEC
STELEC develops circuit technologies for e-textiles using materials that are compatible with the lifecycle of conventional textiles and have minimal environmental impact, facilitating reuse within a circular economy. The project will use digital inkjet printing, 3D printing, and atmospheric plasma to create sustainable building blocks for textile electronics. The goal is to establish a new, environmentally friendly paradigm for e-textile development.
SUPERLASER
The project aims to develop low-cost, ultranarrow linewidth halide perovskite lasers. SUPERLASE aims to design halide perovskites as topological lasers without additional cavities, fabricate the first room-temperature, electrically pumped perovskite lasers, and ensure zero e-waste through recycling and reuse protocols.
