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HORIZON-CL4-2022-HUMAN-02-02
European Network of AI Excellence Centres: Expanding the European AI lighthouse (RIA)MOTIVATION Unify and reinforce the world-class European AI community on topics identified in HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-12.
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View on F&T portalProposal results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:
- Scientific and technology advances in the major robotics challenges hampering its deployment
- A strong and tightly networked European research community in robotics, making it a world-class powerhouse for robotics excellence.
To ensure European open strategic autonomy in robotics, with huge potential socio-economic impact, it is essential to reinforce and build on Europe’s assets, including its world-class research community. In order to stay at the forefront of technological developments, it is essential that researchers collaborate, share ideas and research outcomes. A strongly networked community focused on excellence will be better at addressing the major robotics challenges that block the domain’s further development and deployment.
As stated in the communication from the European Commission on Artificial Intelligence for Europe[1] and the coordinated action plan between the European Commission and the Member States and Associated Countries[2], while Europe has undeniable strengths with its many leading research centres, efforts are scattered. Therefore, joining forces will be crucial to international competitiveness. Europe must scale up existing research capacities and reach a critical mass through tighter networks of European robotics excellence centres. Proposals should develop mechanisms to reinforce and network excellence centres in AI-powered robotics[3], bringing the best scientists from academia and industry to join forces in addressing the major robotics challenges hampering its deployment, and to reinforce excellence in robotics throughout Europe via a network of collaboration that focuses research excellence on future industrial needs.
Such networks are expected to mobilise leading researchers to collaborate on key robotics topics, to reach critical mass and increase the impact of the funding in progressing faster in joined efforts rather than working in isolation, with fragmented and duplicated efforts.
Composition of the Network:
- Proposals should be driven by leading figures in robotics from major excellent robotics research centres, and industries, and bringing the best scientists distributed all over Europe, including also from promising research labs. They will bring on board the necessary level of expertise and variety of disciplines and profiles to achieve their objectives.
- Industrial participation will be ensured through inclusion of industrial organisations with research teams from multiple sectors that can bring into the network the expertise to identify important technological limitations hampering deployment in industry.
- Where relevant, representatives of civil society (e.g. social partners, citizen’s committees) bring in the ideas and needs of consumers/users and society, in order to obtain R&I results that are of practical relevance not only for industry/business but also for society.
Activities of the Network:
- In order to structure the activities, the proposals will focus on important scientific or technological challenges with industrial relevance and where Europe will make a difference, either in building on strengths, or strengthening knowledge to fill gaps critical for Europe.
- Based on these challenges, the proposals will develop and implement common research agendas. The main vision and roadmap with targets within the projects, as well as methodology to implement and monitor progress will have to be specified in the proposal and can be further developed during the project.
- Progress will be demonstrated in the context of use-cases, also helping to foster industry-academia collaboration
- Strong links will be developed among the members of the network, notably through collaborative projects, exchange programmes, workshops, or other mechanisms to be defined by the consortia.
- Proposals should develop mechanisms to foster excellence, to increase efficiency of collaboration, and to develop a vibrant Robotics network across Europe.
- The network will disseminate the latest and most advanced knowledge to all the academic and industrial Robotics laboratories in Europe and involve them in collaborative projects/exchange programmes. (This could involve projects defined initially or via financial support to third parties, for maximum 20% of the requested EU contribution, with a maximum of 60k€ per third party[4]).
- The network will develop strong interactions with industry, and where relevant, with trade unions, and civil society (inside the consortium and beyond), in view of triggering new scientific questions and fostering take-up of scientific advances.
- The network will develop collaboration with relevant Digital innovation Hubs, to disseminate knowledge and tools, understand their needs, and extend the industry-academia-civil society collaboration.
- The network should also foster innovation and include mechanisms to exploit new ideas coming out of the network’s work (for instance via incubators).
- Proposals should define mechanisms to become a virtual centre of excellence, offering access to knowledge and serve as a reference in robotics, including activities to ensure high visibility, usability and accessibility.
The proposals should
- Include mechanisms to spread the latest and most advanced knowledge to all the robotics-labs in Europe
- Develop synergies and cross-fertilization between industry, civil society, and academia
- Ensure that the network becomes a common resource and shared facility, as a virtual laboratory offering access to knowledge and expertise and a magnet for talents.
- Establish high visibility and accessibility, creating an easy entry point to robotics excellence in Europe where it is possible to access cutting edge ideas, research and expertise.
- Include sustainable access to the required resources and infrastructure to support R&D activities of the action, such as robotics equipment, support staff and engineers, and capacity to develop experiments that address the major future robotics challenges.
Proposals should define a number of major scientific and application challenges it will focus on and which will mobilise the community to join forces across Europe in addressing them. Continuous evaluation and demonstration of progress towards solving the targeted challenges will motivate the entire network and support publications and scientific career developments (providing reference benchmarks to publish comparative results, using the reference data, scenarios, etc.), and also showcase the technology in application contexts, to attract more user industries and eventually foster take-up and adoption of the technology. Scientific and technological progress will be monitored through qualitative and quantitative KPIs (including industry and service relevant KPIs), demonstrators, benchmarking and progress monitoring processes.
Activities are expected to achieve TRL 4-5 by the end of the project.
To address limitations of the use of robots due to human factors, an interdisciplinary approach involving both technical and SSH[5] researchers is encouraged to address issues such as interaction design, human factors, acceptability, non-discrimination and biases and trustworthiness, taking into account gender and intersectionality[6] aspects, as appropriate. Indeed, human-centred approaches in combination with multi-stakeholder co-design activities can contribute to sustainable development of new enabling technologies. Putting people at the forefront is expected to generate novel transformation pathways, which can remedy existing technology in novel ways, and propose feedback loop systems that engage human users in developing new sociotechnical learning situations and tools. Further, agile sociotechnical learning designs can remedy e.g. less efficient technologies, by emphasizing human aspects of technologies in any sector (industry, healthcare, smart homes, etc.). Where appropriate, special attention will be given to including users of diverse age, gender and background.
The proposals are expected to include mechanisms to share resources, knowledge, tools, modules, software, results, expertise, and make equipment/infrastructure available to scientists to optimise the scientific and technological progress. To that end, tools such as the AI-on-demand platform[7] and Digital Industrial Platform for Robotics[8] should also be exploited, enhanced and further developed by the network, to support the networking, quality assessment, benchmarking and sharing of resources, maximising re-use and up-take of results. Openness and interoperability of components are encouraged to develop synergies and cross-fertilization between different approaches and solutions (e.g. through modularity of components or open interfaces).
The proposals are also expected to include collaboration mechanisms among the best robotics teams, but also mechanisms to bring all European robotics teams to the highest level of excellence.
Proposals are expected to develop synergies:
- With other Networks of excellence centres in AI funded in H2020 or Horizon Europe, with a view of, all together, create vibrant European network of AI excellence centres. To that end, the activities should integrate with and complement the activities of the H2020-ICT-48 projects. The proposals are expected to dedicate tasks to ensure this coherence.
- With relevant activities in AI, Data and Robotics, primarily in destinations 3, 4 and 6, but also in other destinations and clusters, and share or exploit results where appropriate.
All proposals are expected to allocate tasks to cohesion activities with the PPP on AI, Data and Robotics and funded actions related to this partnership, including the CSA HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-02. Where relevant, synergies with other PPPs are encouraged.
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/communication-artificial-intelligence-europe
[2] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_18_6689
[3] Covering robots with certain level of intelligence/autonomy in their behaviour
[4] Maximum amount per third party, received from a given Action, over its entire duration
[5] Social Sciences and Humanities
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality - intersectional aspects could cover gender, age, social level, education, ethnic origin, etc.
[7] Initiated under the AI4EU project https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825619 and further developed in projects resulting from H2020-ICT-49-2020 call
[8] https://robmosys.eu/newsrobmosys-rosin-towards-an-eu-digital-industrial-platform-for-robotics/
News flashes
Call for proposals: HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01
Deadline: 21 October 2021
Available budget: EUR 311.900.000
Topic code
Type(s) of action
Budget
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-01
RIA
26,000,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-05
CSA
2,000,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-06
IA
26,000,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-07
RIA
39,000,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-09
IA
27,000,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-10
IA
22,000,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-11
RIA
44,500,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-12
RIA
11,500,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-13
CSA
2,500,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-14
RIA
17,000,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-21
RIA
13,500,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-23
RIA
4,000,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-26
CSA
3,000,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-27
RIA
22,500,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-30
RIA
10,000,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-31
RIA
35,000,000 €
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-32
CSA
6,400,000 €
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): 327
Number of inadmissible proposals: 1
Number of ineligible proposals: 0
Number of above-threshold proposals: 214
Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 918.632.416
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
Submissions to call HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01
A total of 327 proposals has been submitted to call HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-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-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-01 - Ultra-low-power, secure processors for edge computing (RIA)
17 proposals (indicative budget 26 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-05 - Open Source Hardware for ultra-low-power, secure processors (CSA)
2 proposals (indicative budget 2 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-06 - Advanced optical communication components (Photonics Partnership) (IA)
15 proposals (indicative budget 26 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-07 - Advanced Photonic Integrated Circuits (Photonics Partnership) (RIA)
43 proposals (indicative budget 39 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-09 - AI, Data and Robotics for the Green Deal (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (IA)
35 proposals (indicative budget 27 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-10 - AI, Data and Robotics at work (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (IA)
47 proposals (indicative budget 22 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-11 - Pushing the limit of robotics cognition (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA)
64 proposals (indicative budget 44,5 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-12 - European Network of Excellence Centres in Robotics (RIA)
2 proposals (indicative budget 11,5 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-13 - Academia-Industry Forum on Emerging Enabling Technologies (CSA)
6 proposals (indicative budget 2,5 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-14 - Advanced spintronics: Unleashing spin in the next generation ICs (RIA)
14 proposals (indicative budget 17 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-21 - Next generation quantum sensing technologies (RIA)
8 proposals (indicative budget 13,5 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-23 - International cooperation with Canada (RIA)
15 proposals (indicative budget 4 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-26 - Coordination of European Smart Network actions (CSA)
1 proposals (indicative budget 3 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-27 - Development of technologies/devices for bio-intelligent manufacturing (RIA)
7 proposals (indicative budget 22,5 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-30 - Investing in new emerging quantum computing technologies (RIA)
5 proposals (indicative budget 10 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-31 - Functional electronics for green and circular economy (RIA)
45 proposals (indicative budget 35 EUR million)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-32 - Support and coordination of the Quantum Technologies Flagship Initiative (CSA)
1 proposals (indicative budget 6,4 EUR million)
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HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-09 - AI, Data and Robotics for the Green Deal (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (IA)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-10 - AI, Data and Robotics at work (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (IA)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-12 - European Network of Excellence Centres in Robotics (RIA)
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Publication date: 2022-05-10 (2 years ago)
Opening date: 2021-06-22 (3 years ago)
Closing date: 2021-10-21 (3 years ago)
Procedure: single-stage
Budget: 11500000
Expected grants: 1
Contribution: 11500000 - 11500000
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There are 16 other topics in this call:
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-01
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-05
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-06
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-07
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-09
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-10
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-11
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-13
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-14
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-21
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-23
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-26
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-27
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-30
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-31
- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-32
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