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Expected Outcome

Proposal results are expected to contribute to the following expected outcomes:

Empowered citizens and companies able to search and discover information, data, smart objects, resources and people online, with increased security, accuracy, diversity and transparency in search results while preserving the privacy of the end-users.
Increased European competitiveness and sovereignty in future search and discovery systems with a strong focus on serving end-users’ needs (including privacy), providing trustworthy and pluralistic recommendations and increasing public trust in search results.
A European ecosystem of top internet and social media innovators, with the capacity to set the course of the Internet evolution and the search ecosystem according to a human-centric approach.
New business and sustainability models based on improved access to online data, smart objects and resources and on open source.

Scope

The objective of this topic is to develop technologies and solutions enabling new and trustworthy ways of searching and discovering information on the internet across a variety of resources such as personal, scientific, industrial and environmental data, connected devices and smart objects, services, multimedia content, intranets and other IT resources, both public and private. It is also to empower end-users, including through agents acting on their behalf, to share and discover more data and reliable information sources, while preserving their privacy and increasing public trust in search results.

Proposals should focus on advancing the state-of-the-art in one of the two research areas below:

Advanced methods of search and discovery such as voice-based search or cognitive search combining technologies for natural language processing, semantic analysis, AI-based taxonomies, network analysis, social computing and data visualisation, enabling new ways of discovering and accessing information, in an energy-efficient way.Proposals under this research area will support third party projects from outstanding open source innovators, academic research groups, high-tech startups, SMEs, social innovators, and other multidisciplinary actors, so that multiple actors are funded and collectively contribute to building a more open, trustworthy and user-centric search and discovery ecosystem. As the primary purpose of this research area is to support and mobilise internet and social media innovators, a minimum of 80% of the total requested EU contribution should be allocated to financial support to third parties, selected through open calls. Beneficiaries should make explicit the intervention logic for the area, their capacity to attract internet talents, to deliver value-added services to the third-party projects, as well as their expertise and capacity in managing the full life-cycle of the open calls transparently and efficiently (a minimum of five open calls during the lifetime of the project). They should explore synergies with other research and innovation actions, supported at regional, national or European level, to increase the overall impact.

Improving search and discovery infrastructures, with a view to increasing European sovereignty in future search, discovery and recommendation systems. Projects could notably design and pilot distributed search infrastructures, with a strong focus on sustainability, security, reliability, interoperability and trust.Proposals under this research area will incorporate third party contributions from outstanding open source innovators, academic research groups, high-tech startups, SMEs, and other multidisciplinary actors. A minimum of 15% of the total requested EU contribution should be allocated to financial support to third parties, selected through open calls.

Proposals should clearly identify the research area they are addressing.

The projects should support open source software and open hardware design, open access to data, standardisation activities, as well as an IPR regime ensuring lasting impact and reusability of results. The focus of this topic is on advanced research; apps and services that innovate without a research component are not covered by this topic. A scientific understanding of collective intelligence methodologies will be important to innovate beyond the current state of the art in search and recommendation systems and contribute to a better governance of social networks.

This topic contributes to the Media Action Plan (MAP), which aims to support the digital transformation of, and collaboration within, the social media industry.

Financial support to third parties

The consortium should provide the programme logic 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, including in terms of standardisation. These tasks cannot be implemented using the budget earmarked for the financial support to third parties.

The Commission considers that proposals with an overall duration of typically 36 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 will be funded through projects typically in the EUR 50 000 to 150 000 range per project, with indicative duration of 9 to 12 months.

Specific Topic Conditions:

N.A. (not applicable)

Cross-cutting Priorities:

Digital AgendaArtificial Intelligence

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.