GRUPO SPRI - Renove Smart Industry 2024
August 19, 2024 09:51Up to €75,000 per company to finance the purchase of advanced machinery and equipment to promote Industry 4.0 projects. The Renove Smart Industry programme seeks to promote investment in new machinery and advanced equipment for industrial companies to implement Industry 4.0 projects with the aim of applying technologies within the scope of Smart Industry. The aim of this programme is clear: to have a better industry in the Basque Country, with more competitive companies that take advantage of the potential of technology in the production process. Take advantage of the opportunity to finance the investment in Hardware and Software and have the expert support of the consultancy or engineering services associated with the Industry 4.0 project.
EUREKA - European Partnership on Innovative SMEs / Eurostars
August 26, 2024 11:18Eurostars is part of the European Partnership on Innovative SMEs. The partnership is co-funded by the European Union through Horizon Europe. Eurostars is a funding instrument that supports innovative SMEs and project partners (large companies, universities, research organisations and other types of organisations) by funding international collaborative R&D and innovation projects. By participating, organisations can access public funding for international collaborative R&D projects in all fields. To have a successful Eurostars application you must: Define your project idea. Collaborate internationally, sharing expertise. Develop products, processes or services that can be easily commercialised. You can submit your R&D and innovation project application between 12 July 2024 to 12 September 2024 at 14:00 CEST (Brussels time) using our project platform (myeurekaproject.org). Your project consortium must have an innovative SME in the leading role, but it can also include other types of organisations like large companies, universities, research organisations and more.
EUREKA - Lightweight Technology
August 26, 2024 13:42The national funding bodies from Austria, Belgium (Flanders & Wallonia), Canada, Chile, Estonia, France, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, South Korea, Spain and Türkiye have allocated funding for organisations collaborating on international R&D projects in the field of lightweighting. You can submit your lightweighting R&D project application for this call for projects between 29 May 2024 and 25 September 2024 at 17:00 CEST. Your project consortium must include organisations based in a minimum of two of the countries/regions listed in this call.
EC - Optimising multimodal network and traffic management, harnessing data from infrastructures, mobility of passengers and freight transport
August 27, 2024 10:14Optimised multimodal network and traffic management is essential for an efficient transport network and seamless door-to-door mobility of passengers and freight. Such advanced capabilities need to be supported by harnessing data from physical and digital infrastructures, as well as from the mobility of passengers and freight, involving different types of vehicles, rolling stock, aircraft and vessels (including zero-emission, connected and automated), technologies and the use of innovative services. At the same time, novel forms of mobility (e.g. shared, micro-mobility or even hyperloop) and new services (e.g. Mobility as a Service) present new challenges, but also great opportunities for enhanced management and optimisation of the transport network. This includes advances to fully utilise dynamic and interoperable data exchange from multiple actors and transport modes, for well-tested and validated systems and operations, with appropriate governance arrangements in place.
EC - Call for Pilots within the European data space for smart communities (Submission round 1)
August 27, 2024 10:43The European data space for smart communities (DS4SSCC-DEP) action launches three rounds of Calls for Pilots to validate an EU-wide cross-sectorial data space in practice and to advance its development and implementation to support policy priorities of cities and communities within the European Union, including the green-digital transformation based on secure and sovereign data infrastructure. The pilots are set to build on and evolve the governance and technical blueprint established by the cross-sectorial data space preparatory action (DS4SSCC action), which comes out of the joint efforts of the Living-in.EU movement and which represents all local governments in the EU through relevant networks and EU institutions. The scope of the Data Space for Smart Communities includes alignment with the overall “2030 Digital Decade'' EU policy initiative and related specific legislative initiatives, such as the Interoperable Europe Act. It is one of the Common European Data Spaces envisioned by the EU Data Strategy and works closely with the Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC), especially on cross-sectorial aspects such as minimal interoperability. The pilots will provide feedback from practice as more firm guidance is put into regulatory instruments, such as requirements for procurement, operation, and reporting, starting from a baseline of high-value datasets to add value by using data from different domains and models. This initiative aims to foster innovation towards a more resilient Europe, supporting local businesses and ecosystems, and emphasising ethical considerations and AI-enabled local solutions, thereby enhancing the conditions for citizens and communities across Europe.
OPEN CALL - EIT Urban Mobility - Regional Innovation Scheme Urban Mobility Specialists (RISUMS)
August 27, 2024 11:03This Call for Proposals aims to select the strongest proposals that will deliver activities to support our RIS strategy in the selected regions and countries in all fields of activity, such as enlarging the network, scouting and supporting new talents or startups, and deploying new mobility solutions. More particularly, the selected RIS Urban Mobility Specialists (RISUMS) proposals will foster close interactions between local innovation actors and link local innovation ecosystems to the KIC’s pan-European innovation ecosystem. They will also help integrate potential new partners and participants from the local innovation ecosystem in KIC activities. Integrating RISUMS into the EIT Community RIS Hubs is also a top priority. The RISUMS will work in close cooperation with the EIT Community RIS Hub, which represents all the EIT KICs in the country through an EIT Community Officer (ECO). Cooperation will involve information exchange, data sharing, alignment on events, stakeholder meetings, etc.
EC - Post-Li-ion technologies and relevant manufacturing techniques for mobility applications (Generation 5) (Batt4EU Partnership)
August 27, 2024 11:20This topic aims at developing: - Generation 5 technologies for mobility applications; - the relevant manufacturing techniques which are affecting performance, safety and costs; - Cell designs which will allow for full and easy recyclability at the end of their life. This topic also aims at evaluating the possible manufacturing compatibility with existing lithium-ion production infrastructure. Projects are expected to contribute to at least one of the following outcomes: - Conversion systems based on metallic anodes with enhanced safety, delivering on cost, performance, sustainability and recyclability, with clear prospects for the feasibility of the scale-up of the manufacturing processes. - Metallic anode protection and/or activation for conversion systems (polymer, ceramic and hybrid electrolytes) with increased safety, cycle life and low cost. - Post lithium-ion cells based on cations other than lithium with long cycle-life (Sodium-ion is excluded and covered by topic HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-01-02 ). In addition, projects are expected to contribute to creating rechargeable batteries that will work in realistic environments, are recyclable and with low environmental impact, and have safe manufacturing processes. To the extent possible the safety and sustainability of developed materials should be assessed in alignment with the Commission Recommendation on safe and sustainable by design chemicals and materials.
EC - Explainable and Robust AI (AI Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA)
August 27, 2024 11:56The need for transparent and robust AI systems has become more pressing with the rapid growth and commercialisation of generative AI systems based on foundation models. Despite their impressive capabilities, trustworthiness remains an unresolved, fundamental scientific challenge. Due to the intricate nature of generative AI systems, understanding or explaining the rationale behind their outputs is normally not possible with current explainable AI methods. Moreover, these models occasionally tend to 'hallucinate', generating non-factual or inaccurate information, further compromising their reliability. To achieve robust and reliable AI, novel approaches are needed to develop methods and solutions that work under other than model-ideal circumstances, while also having an awareness when these conditions break down. To achieve trustworthiness, AI system should be sufficiently transparent and capable of explaining how the system has reached a conclusion in a way that it is meaningful to the user, enabling safe and secure human-machine interaction, while also indicating when the limits of operation have been reached. The purpose is to advance AI-algorithms and innovations based on them that can perform safely under a common variety of circumstances, reliably in real-world conditions and predict when these operational circumstances are no longer valid. The research should aim at advancing robustness and explainability for a generality of solutions, while leading to an acceptable loss in accuracy and efficiency, and with known verifiability and reproducibility. The focus is on extending the general applicability of explainability and robustness of AI-systems by foundational AI and machine learning research.
EC - Effects of disruptive changes in transport: towards resilient, safe and energy efficient mobility
August 27, 2024 12:11The importance of a robust transport systems becomes highly evident in times of rapid, changes that are neither planned, scheduled nor predicted. Digital tools/services and new transport means (e.g. urban air mobility and micro mobility), new ways how to use the infrastructure (e.g. even more shared spaces with different types of vehicles, both highly automated and manually controlled) in a more energy efficient manner and new behaviour should be included in the research. In order to provide safe and resilient transport for all, many aspects are expected to be considered in a clearly multidisciplinary approach. This Destination includes activities addressing safe and smart mobility services for passengers and goods. Europe needs to manage the transformation of supply-based transport into safe, resilient and sustainable transport and demand-driven, smart mobility services for passengers and goods. Suitable research and innovation will enable significant safety, environmental, economic and social benefits by reducing accidents caused by human error, decreasing traffic congestion, reducing energy consumption and emissions of vehicles, increasing efficiency and productivity of freight transport operations. To succeed in this transformation, Europe’s ageing (and not always sustainable) transport infrastructure needs to be prepared for enabling cleaner and smarter operations. Europe needs also to maintain a high-level of transport safety for its citizens. Resilience should be built in the transport systems to prevent, mitigate and recover from disruptions. Research and innovation will underpin the three safety pillars: technologies, regulations and human factors.
EC - Policies and governance shaping the future transport and mobility systems
August 27, 2024 14:01Governance, policies and incentives play an important role in shaping transport and mobility systems and influence the development and implementation of different technologies and modes of transport (e.g. walking, cycling, public transport and rail). It is therefore important to study how policies and regulations could be best used to govern transport and mobility systems in desired directions, so that they become more sustainable and just, for instance with regard to gender, place, or low-income households, as well as their fiscal impacts. In addition, the COVID-19 crisis has significantly altered commuting habits; remote and telework have become widespread together with other flexible work arrangements. The true impact of these changes on gas emissions and on the well-being of people as well as on the real-estate market (offices) are not known. This is now an opportunity to leverage on an ongoing change in habits that could result in significant GHG reduction.