HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-04

Intelligent work piece handling in a full production line (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA) -

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Expected Outcome

Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

  • Develop highly flexible, resilient, reconfigurable and agile production lines able to handle a variety of different products and materials with high precision;
  • Deploy easy to program advanced control systems capable of intelligent handling of complex products in terms of shape, size, material and stiffness;
  • Increase productivity by enabling fast and accurate movement of work pieces through the production line, ensuring just-in-time delivery and reducing downtime.

Scope

The global trends towards product customization have increased production complexity. To maintain global leadership and competitiveness of European manufacturing industry, there is a strong need for efficient, flexible, reconfigurable and data-driven agile factories. The recent pandemic crisis highlighted even further the need of manufacturing lines that can switch production within a matter of hours.

Products and component handling is an integral part of the manufacturing industry and its optimization increases productivity while minimizing production costs and time. However, the increasing complexity and customization of products coupled to the paradigm shift towards circular economy requires new assembly and disassembly lines able to handle a high variety of work pieces which might be available as 3D models or just as physical artefacts. Therefore, there is an increasing demand for innovative smart automated handling systems.

Multidisciplinary research activities should include SSH and cover:

  • Development of innovative, efficient and low consumption systems for storage, retrieval, conveying and pick-and-place using a multi-disciplinary approach combining technologies such as collaborative/autonomous assembly and logistics, smart conveyor belts, advanced robotics, lightweight, flexible and versatile grippers, IoT, integrated physical and biochemical sensors (e.g. mechanical, magnetic, optical, electrochemical), image processing, simulation, modelling, data acquisition, data storage/sharing, data interoperability, data analytics, automated planning and machine learning;
  • Development of advanced and robust handling devices and systems, for efficient manipulation and manufacturing process execution. Integrate advanced control of individual handling devices exploiting advances in AI;
  • Achieve a high degree of flexibility and reconfigurability by ensuring interoperability and user-friendliness of both hardware and software;
  • The solutions proposed should be able to handle autonomously different objects with a significant variety of shape, size and material properties;
  • Demonstrate benefits for workers by reducing their involvement in unsafe and unhealthy tasks, improving their working conditions and increasing trust and acceptance towards technology;
  • Deploy innovative technologies in at least three manufacturing lines targeting different manufacturing processes and sectors, e.g. food & beverage preparation and packaging, metalworking, product assembly, textile processing and production, etc.

Proposals submitted under this topic should include a business case and exploitation strategy, as outlined in the introduction to this Destination.

Research must build on existing standards or contribute to standardisation. Interoperability for data sharing should be addressed. Additionally, a strategy for skills development should be presented, associating social partners when relevant.

All projects should build on or seek collaboration with existing projects and develop synergies with other relevant European, national or regional initiatives, funding programmes and platforms.

In order to achieve the expected outcomes, international cooperation is encouraged, in particular with Japan or South Korea.

This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership Made in Europe.

Specific Topic Conditions:

Activities are expected to start at TRL 4 and achieve TRL 6 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.

Cross-cutting Priorities:

International CooperationArtificial IntelligenceCo-programmed European PartnershipsDigital AgendaSocial sciences and humanities

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2022-08-03

Call for proposals: HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01

Single-stage topics

Deadline: 30 March 2022

Available budget: EUR 334,500,000.00

Topic code

Type(s) of action

Budget

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-01

IA

27.50

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-02

RIA

21.50

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-03

RIA

21.50

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-04

RIA

21.50

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-06

IA

30.00

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-07

RIA

22.00

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-09

IA

9.00

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-10

IA

42.50

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-11

IA

42.50

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-13

IA

14.00

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-15

RIA

30.00

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-16

IA

10.00

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-17

IA

42.50

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): 249

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 8

Number of above-threshold proposals: 155

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 1,084,354,325.00

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

It is expected that the first grant agreements will be signed by November 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

2022-04-05

Deadline HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01: 30.03.2022

A total of 252 proposals were submitted in response to this call.The number of proposals for each topic is shown below:

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-01 : 17

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-02 : 42

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-03 : 19

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-04 : 23

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-06 : 18

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-07 : 48

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-09 : 22

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-10 : 16

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-11 : 10

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-13 : 3

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-15 : 15

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-16 : 4

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-17 : 15

2022-03-03

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 topic:

HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-06 - ICT Innovation for Manufacturing Sustainability in SMEs (I4MS2) (Made in Europe Partnership) (IA)

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

2021-10-12
The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-04(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-15(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-10(HORIZON-IA), HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-01(HORIZON-IA), HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-11(HORIZON-IA), HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-17(HORIZON-IA), HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-06(HORIZON-IA), HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-09(HORIZON-IA), HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-16(HORIZON-IA), HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-13(HORIZON-IA), HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-03(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-02(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-07(HORIZON-RIA)
call topic details
Call status: Closed
Publication date: 2021-06-16 (4 years ago)
Opening date: 2021-10-12 (3 years ago)
Closing date: 2022-03-30 (3 years ago)
Procedure: single-stage

Budget: 21500000
Expected grants: not specified
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This call topic has been appended 4 times by the EC with news.

  • 2022-08-03
    call for proposals: horizon-cl4-2022-twi...
  • 2022-04-05
    deadline horizon-cl4-2022-twin-transitio...
  • 2022-03-03
    please note that the 'other annexes' box...
  • 2021-10-12
    the submission session is now available...
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