Intelligent data acquisition and analysis of materials and products in existing built works (RIA)

PROPOSAL NUMBERS

Call HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-TWO-STAGE_stage2 has closed on the 5th of October 2023.

8 proposals have been submitted.

The breakdown per topic is:

• HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-11: 8 proposals

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in January 2024

GENERALISED FEEDBACK for successful applicants

after STAGE 1

HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-TWO-STAGE STAGE ONE

In order to best ensure equal treatment, successful stage 1 applicants do not receive the evaluation summary reports (ESRs) for their proposals, but this generalised feedback with information and tips for preparing the full proposal.

Information & tips

Main shortcomings found in the stage 1 evaluation:

Topic: HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-11

Excellence:

Clarity of project's objectives:

· Objectives' evaluation metrics are not sufficiently quantified.

· The maturity of the proposed work is insufficiently defined.

· Some objectives are generic and not fully measurable and verifiable.

· The transferability of the outcomes is sometimes questionable, especially across wide ranges of geographical locations, building types and regulatory contexts.

Ambition:

· The benefits of some approaches are overestimated and not sufficiently explained (e.g. the benefits of scan-to-BIM in terms of automation).

· Some objectives lack innovation.

· Objectives are defined to achieve incremental advances in various data-related areas rather than being ground-breaking.

The extent to which the proposed work is going beyond state-of-the-art:

· The progress beyond the state of the art is sometimes weakly described.

· The description of the synergy among techniques used is sometimes weak.

Methodology:

· Essential information about the used metrics is not noted.

· Risk of the consortium spreading themselves too thinly on the ground to deliver on many different areas.

· The data model is insufficiently described.

TRL:

· Some tools' start and end TRL levels and the proposed solutions are not sufficiently described.

· Current TRLs of the various technologies are not clearly stated or sufficiently elaborated, and some technologies are in lower TRL than expected.

Dissemination:

· It is not fully clear how the access to research outputs and tools/instruments for validating conclusions of scientific publications.

AI:

· The technical robustness of the proposed AI system is insufficiently detailed in terms of accuracy, reproducibility, reliability, explanation of decision-making, harm minimisation and social acceptance.

SSH:

· The inclusion of SSH, notably as part of R&I, is mentioned but lacks sufficient details.

Impact:

The target groups that would benefit from the project's effects are minimally identified.

The credibility of the pathways to achieve the expected outcomes and impacts:

· Unclear quantification of potential impact and expected outcomes.

· Insufficient details and analysis on pathways to achieve expected impacts.

· The baselines and assumptions used for quantifying the stated estimates of the project's effects are insufficiently defined and explained.

Scale and significance of the project's contributions:

· The likely scale and significance of the project's contributions to the expected outcomes and impacts are not sufficiently elaborated.

Relation to other EU initiatives:

· Not sufficiently clear whether the proposal is aiming to develop synergies with other relevant European initiatives, such as New European Bauhaus and the Built4People partnership under Horizon Europe

Technical-related barriers and mitigation actions are insufficiently identified.

In your stage 2 proposal, you have a chance to address or clarify these issues.

Please bear in mind that your full proposal will now be evaluated more in-depth and possibly by a new group of outside experts.

Please make sure that your full proposal is consistent with your short outline proposal. It may NOT differ substantially. The project must stay the same.

EVALUATION results

Published: 08/12/2022

Deadline: 07/03/2023

Available budget: EUR 12 million

In accordance with the call conditions General Annex F of the Work Programme, the evaluation of the first-stage proposals was made looking only at the criteria ‘Excellence’ and ‘Impact’. The threshold for both criteria was 4. The overall threshold (applying to the sum of the two individual scores) was set for each topic/type of action with separate call-budget-split at a level that allowed the total requested budget of proposals admitted to stage 2 be as close as possible to 3 times the available budget (and not below 2.5 times the budget):

Topic code

Topic short name

Type of Action

Budget (EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-11

Intelligent data acquisition and

analysis of materials and products in existing built works

RIA

12

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 17

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 9

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 52.850.845.00 million

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

For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.

PROPOSAL NUMBERS

Call HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-TWO-STAGE_stage 1 has closed on the 7th March 2023.

17 proposals have been submitted.

The breakdown per topic is:

• HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-11: 17 proposals

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in June 2023

Please be informed that Part A form in the submission system for this call reflects the Form A of single stage proposal.

The difference is that it includes sections 4 on Ethics and Security and 5 on Other questions as well as a budget table split per partner instead of requesting the total EC requested grant amount.

Please fill in Part A in the system with all sections as requested so that you proceed with the submission of your application.

The additional sections will not be taken into consideration in the evaluation for Stage 1.

Call HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-TWO-STAGE is a stage 1 call and will be evaluated through blind evaluation process.

However, please ensure that you duly fill in the budget table under Section 3. You can indicate the proposals total ec requested grand under the coordinator or indicate an EC requested grant amount per partner. What is important is that the total EC requested grand for your proposal is the desired one.

Section 3 Budget: Ensure that the total requested grant amount is the desired one by filling in the EC requested grant pre partner or include the entire proposal’s EC requested grant amount to the coordinator indicating 0 to the other partners.

Section 4 Ethics and security: is prefilled and you must confirm: “I confirm that I have taken into account all ethics issues above and that, if any ethics issues apply, I will complete the ethics self-assessment as described in the guidelines” .

Section 5 - Other questions: is Not applicable for this topic so you do not have to fill in anything.

Please be informed that Part A form in the submission system for this call reflects the Form A of single stage proposal.

The difference is that it includes sections 4 on Ethics and Security and 5 on Other questions as well as a budget table split per partner instead of requesting the total EC requested grant amount.

Please fill in Part A in the system with all sections as requested so that you proceed with the submission of your application.

The additional sections will not be taken into consideration in the evaluation for Stage 1.

Call HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-TWO-STAGE is a stage 1 call and will be evaluated through blind evaluation process.

However, please ensure that you duly fill in the budget table under Section 3. You can indicate the proposals total ec requested grand under the coordinator or indicate an EC requested grant amount per partner. What is important is that the total EC requested grand for your proposal is the desired one.

Section 3 Budget: Ensure that the total requested grant amount is the desired one by filling in the EC requested grant pre partner or include the entire proposal’s EC requested grant amount to the coordinator indicating 0 to the other partners.

Section 4 Ethics and security: is prefilled and you must confirm: “I confirm that I have taken into account all ethics issues above and that, if any ethics issues apply, I will complete the ethics self-assessment as described in the guidelines” .

Section 5 - Other questions: is Not applicable for this topic so you do not have to fill in anything.