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Expected Outcome

Prototyping of advanced solutions for the creation, distribution and consumption of new immersive and innovative products for media. Support innovation in media, including XR innovation, through interdisciplinary cooperation, involving various professional groups (including artists, designers, journalists and media professionals, filmmakers, game designers, programmers or academic researchers). The two priorities are:

Foster the development of advanced solutions for the creation, distribution and consumption of new media products, including eXtended Reality.
Foster the creation of a European VR MediaLab.

Scope

The Media Action Plan, aimed at supporting media industry recovery, has three areas: Recovery, transformation, and enabling and empowerment. Transformation foresees innovation actions to support transformation of media industry, and the creation of a European Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) Industrial Coalition[1].

Two key ingredients of such transformation are, among others, on the one hand, data know-how and innovation in modular open-source media components, and on the other hand, the development of immersive technologies. Both entertainment and news media have great opportunities for ground-breaking innovations and inventive business models building on the potential of new technologies, including XR.

Two types of innovation proposals are expected:

i. The development of new modular tools, components and/or services addressing technical, organisational, commercial and legal aspects of data management and usage for new media applications. The innovative solutions should be proven useful for the creation and distribution of new formats, in particular of formats that use XR technologies and that could be expandable or applicable, in addition to news media, to the media industry at large and have a potential to be consumed in new environments (e.g. self-driving cars, intermodal transport and tourism). To this end, cooperation within the media sector and across different industrial sectors will be beneficial for the creation of synergies based on the use of data applications.

Collaboration with the media data space will be encouraged already at its initiation phase, and full interoperability with and deployability on it are highly recommended. Once it will be operational, the Media Data Space deployed under the Digital Europe programme will offer the opportunity to the proposals supported by this Call to test and pilot their innovative solutions.

ii. The launch of a dedicated VR Media Lab to foster innovation and new solutions in the field of VR/AR Media. The Lab will develop and prototype advanced solutions for the creation, distribution and consumption of new immersive VR/AR media products and foster innovation by exploring a range of uses for VR/AR technologies, and bring together skills from a variety of disciplines, including technology and the creative sector, to develop new solutions for consumers, business and society.

The VR Media Lab will support creative cooperation on projects that focus on new ways of storytelling and interacting through immersive media. The funded third party projects will focus on content for entertainment, culture and news, as well as virtual and augmented reality applications in other industries, such as tourism, and fields such as education. Solutions developed as part of the VR Media Lab could result in new business models, technological solutions, spinoff companies or partnerships.

At least 1 proposal will be funded for the innovation type i (Max Contribution of EUR 9 million).

One proposal will be funded for type ii (Max Contribution of EUR 8 million).

Financial support to third parties

For grants awarded under the type ii Innovation actions, beneficiaries should provide support to third parties. The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. Each IA for type ii will support third party projects from outstanding media innovators, SMEs and other multidisciplinary actors, so that multiple third parties will be funded in collectively contributing to the innovation area. The consortium will provide the programme logic and vision for the third-party projects, ensure the coherence and coordination of these projects, and provide the necessary technical support, as well as coaching and mentoring, in order to ensure that the collection of third party projects contributes to a significant advancement and impact in the research and innovation domain. These tasks cannot be implemented using the budget earmarked for the financial support to third parties.

Beneficiaries should make explicit the intervention logic for the area, their capacity to attract relevant top talents, to deliver a solid value-adding services to the third-party projects, as well as their expertise and capacity in managing the full life-cycle of the open calls transparently. As support and mobilising of media innovators is key to the type ii IA of this topic, a minimum of 70% of the total requested EU contribution should be allocated to financial support to the third parties.

The Commission considers that proposals with an overall duration of typically 30 months would allow these outcomes to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other durations. For ensuring focused effort, third parties in type ii will be funded through projects typically in the EUR 250 000 to 500 000 range per project, with indicative duration of 12 to 15 months.

In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content is not a mandatory requirement.

Specific Topic Conditions:

Activities are expected to start at TRL 4 and achieve TRL 8 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.

Cross-cutting Priorities:

Artificial IntelligenceSocial sciences and humanitiesDigital Agenda

[1]https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52020DC0784

News flashes

2022-03-30

Call for proposals: HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01

Deadline: 21 October 2021

Available budget: EUR 206.000.000

Topic code

Type(s) of action

Budget

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-01

RIA

36,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-02

CSA

13,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-03

RIA

9,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-04

RIA

12,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-05

RIA

17,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-06

IA

26,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-07

CSA

2,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-08

CSA

2,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-09

CSA

1,500,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-13

RIA

14,500,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-14

RIA

6,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-17

CSA

1,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-18

CSA

1,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-19

CSA

5,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-20

CSA

2,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-21

RIA

8,500,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-24

RIA

10,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-25

IA

14,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-26

RIA

5,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-27

RIA

13,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-28

CSA

2,500,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-29

CSA

2,500,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-30

CSA

1,500,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-31

CSA

1,000,000 €

The Commission has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned call.

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 206

Number of inadmissible proposals: 4

Number of ineligible proposals: 9

Number of above-threshold proposals: 137

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 673.341.542

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

It is expected that the first grant agreements will be signed by June 2022.

Information on the selected projects will be published on CORDIS [1] after that date.

Please note that the number of proposals that can finally be funded will depend on the finally available budget and the formal selection by the Commission.

For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service [2].

[1] Available at http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/home_en.html

[2] Available at http://ec.europa.eu/research/enquiries

2021-11-05

Submissions to call HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01

A total of 206 proposals has been submitted to call HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01, which closed on 21 October 2021. These proposals, of which the evaluation will be organized over the coming weeks and months, were submitted to the following topics:

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-01 - Verifiable robustness, energy efficiency and transparency for Trustworthy AI: Scientific excellence boosting industrial competitiveness (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA)

38 proposals (indicative budget 36 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-02 - European coordination, awareness, standardisation & adoption of trustworthy European AI, Data and Robotics (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (CSA)

3 proposals (indicative budget 13 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-03 - European Network of AI Excellence Centres: Pillars of the European AI lighthouse (RIA)

2 proposals (indicative budget 9 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-04 - Trust & data sovereignty on the Internet (RIA)

7 proposals (indicative budget 12 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-05 - Trustworthy open search and discovery (RIA)

7 proposals (indicative budget 17 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-06 - Innovation for Media, including eXtended Reality (IA)

15 proposals (indicative budget 26 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-07 - Next Generation Internet community-building and outreach (CSA)

7 proposals (indicative budget 2 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-08 - NGI International Collaboration - Transatlantic fellowship programme (CSA)

2 proposals (indicative budget 2 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-09 - NGI Tech Review (CSA)

1 proposals (indicative budget 1,5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-13 - eXtended Reality Modelling (RIA)

18 proposals (indicative budget 14,5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-14 - eXtended Reality for All – Haptics (RIA)

3 proposals (indicative budget 6 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-17 - Awareness raising on Intellectual property (IP) management for European R&I (CSA)

5 proposals (indicative budget 1 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-18 - Fostering standardisation to boost European industry's competitiveness (CSA)

4 proposals (indicative budget 1 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-19 - Testing innovative solutions on local communities’ demand (CSA)

6 proposals (indicative budget 5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-20 - Piloting a new industry-academia knowledge exchange focussing on companies’ needs (CSA)

6 proposals (indicative budget 2 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-21 - Art-driven use experiments and design (RIA)

13 proposals (indicative budget 8,5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-24 - Tackling gender, race and other biases in AI (RIA)

24 proposals (indicative budget 10 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-25 - eXtended Collaborative Telepresence (IA)

6 proposals (indicative budget 14 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-26 - Workforce skills for industry 5.0 (RIA)

12 proposals (indicative budget 5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01- 27 - AI to fight disinformation (RIA)

22 proposals (indicative budget 13 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01- 28 - eXtended Reality Ethics, Interoperability and Impact (CSA)

2 proposals (indicative budget 2,5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-29 - Support for transnational activities of National Contact Points in the thematic area of Digital (CSA)

1 proposals (indicative budget 2,5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-30 - Support for transnational activities of National Contact Points in the thematic area of Industry (CSA)

1 proposals (indicative budget 1,5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-31 - Support for transnational activities of National Contact Points in the thematic area of Space (CSA)

1 proposals (indicative budget 1 EUR million)

2021-10-12

Please note that the 'Other annexes' box has been added in the submission system to allow the upload of an Annex with the description of the use of financial support to third parties. The description of the content of this annex is described in the Part B of the Application Form.

This annex should only be uploaded for topics:

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-03 - European Network of AI Excellence Centres: Pillars of the European AI lighthouse (RIA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-04 -Trust & data sovereignty on the Internet (RIA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-05 -Trustworthy open search and discovery (RIA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-06 -Innovation for Media, including eXtended Reality (IA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-08 -NGI International Collaboration - Transatlantic fellowship programme (CSA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-13 -eXtended Reality Modelling (RIA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-19 - eXtended Reality Learning - Engage and Interact (IA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-20 -Piloting a new industry-academia knowledge exchange focusing on companies' needs (CSA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-21 -Art-driven use experiments and design (RIA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-25 -eXtended Collaborative Telepresence (IA)

Please do not use it for any other topic, the information will be disregarded.

Please note that, by mistake, topicHORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-19 was not listed in the previous update

2021-10-04

Please note that the 'Other annexes' box has been added in the submission system to allow the upload of an Annex with the description of the use of financial support to third parties.

The description of the content of this annex is described in the Part B of the Application Form.