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Next Generation eXtended Reality (RIA)
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MOTIVATION HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-25 Focuses on telepresence applications using XR for enhanced virtual collaboration in diverse environments.
It aligns with HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-21's scope of improving XR systems for professional and social setups.

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Expected Outcome

Proposals are expected to contribute to the following outcome:

Establishing European industry leadership in eXtended collaborative telepresence solutions, while ensuring ethics, privacy, security and safety.

Scope

This topic aims to increase the European competitiveness and innovation capacity and foster the adoption of European eXtended collaborative telepresence technologies in both professional and private spheres, taking benefit of combining real and virtual environments to improve distant human-human interactions through wearables and computer mediated technologies.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions to the way we work and live. Physical distancing and global lockdown, as well as pressing climate and environmental concerns, have accelerated the need for development and adoption of telepresence technologies to sustain the productivity of remote and online contactless activities, as well as maintaining social bonds. With a worldwide CO2 emission reduction of more than 20%, the crisis has also revealed that teleworking and reduction of travel is an efficient mitigating solution. Tools supporting enhanced teleworking have become of primal importance.

However, existing collaborative telepresence tools and solutions raise concerns in terms of functionalities, interoperability, efficiency, versatility, openness, accessibility, security and privacy of personal data.

Proposals should leverage existing open standards and technologies in the domain of eXtended Reality, combining human-machine interactions and all real, mix, augmented and virtual environments, accessibility, networks, security and privacy to provide low-cost and widely available eXtended collaborative telepresence solutions.

To ensure wide take-up, proposals should demonstrate their capacity to scale up by involving high numbers of end-users in tests in real environments.

The proposals are expected to address several of the following points:

Support a wide range of networking bandwidth with adequate compression transmission of information so as to optimise end-to-end quality of service;
Overcome the limitations of the current technologies handling large number of simultaneous users;
Support different input and output modalities as the bandwidth capacities extend (text, speech, audio, video, AR/VR, 3D, holography);
Through open standards, support the integration of additional services such as recording and sharing meeting recording speech transcription, translation, anonymisation, summarisation, context-aware instant search;
Optimise the results of eXtended collaborative meetings through easy access, analysis and syntheses of recordings;
Ensure security and protect user privacy, through a mix of necessary technologies (encryption, blockchains, edge-processing, standardisation, …);
Develop, document and promote open standards based interfaces (such as APIs) which can be used by third parties to further enhance the project solutions and adapt them to other environments and user needs, avoiding vendor lock-in.
Provide systems to facilitate human-to-human and human-to-machine interaction, that allows real-time as well as offline communication;
Apply eXtended Reality technologies to support the communication and collaboration experience;
Apply eXtended Reality models to enhance the collaborative aspects of telepresence;
Apply haptics devices to further improve the intuitiveness and accessibility of the solutions;
Follow existing and propose new standards ensuring the privacy and security of the users to guarantee compliance with the European legal framework on personal data protection taking into account the complexity and particularities of eXtended Reality technologies;
Demonstrate clear and efficient integration paths for take-up by European industries;

To further extend the application domains, guarantee reproducibility and demonstrate the integration paths, proposals are expected to organise a number of competitive calls with financial support to third parties (FSTP). At least 50% of the funding should be dedicated to FSTP. To that end, the consortium will provide guidelines and technical support with expertise in engineering integration, testing and validation to support the development of such use-cases. The maximum amount of FSTP, distributed through a grant, is EUR 200 000 per third party for the entire duration of the action, but smaller amounts may also be justified.

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 6-7 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.

Cross-cutting Priorities:

Social sciences and humanitiesDigital AgendaArtificial Intelligence

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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.