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BCO
08/10/2024
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08/10/2024

EU Regions Week: Bridging the digital divide by supporting digital infrastructure for smart and sustainable regions

On the theme of ‘smart and sustainable growth for regions’, this workshop addresses the critical issue of the digital divide, examining its repercussions on social cohesion and overall growth in the European Union.

EU Regions Week: Bridging the digital divide by supporting digital infrastructure for smart and sustainable regions
The European Broadband Competence Offices Network Support Facility

Regions of Europe face challenges of low dynamism, lack of opportunities, and demographic shifts, including shrinking and ageing populations. This contributes to economic stagnation, a cycle of poverty, and limited well-being, particularly affecting career opportunities for women and access for people with disabilities. Rural and declining areas are notably affected by insufficient access to essential services such as education, healthcare, and digital infrastructure. Despite Cohesion Policy funds aiming to address these disparities, significant regional differences persist, undermining the EU's economic performance and societal cohesion.

The digital divide, particularly in digital resilience, is becoming more pronounced, with a distinct gap between larger urban centers and smaller local public authorities (such as towns and villages). By 2025, while the majority of regional public authorities and larger urban areas are expected to be digitally resilient, smaller municipalities will likely lag behind due to inadequate connectivity infrastructure, such as 5G. This divide is projected to continue into 2030, although improvements are anticipated thanks to investments in broadband and funding for digital transformation.

In this context, this workshop intends to discuss the future direction of EU Cohesion Policy as well as focusing on how to leverage investment in digital infrastructure for resilient and sustainable regions. Additionally, it will take stock of the progress so far and highlight exemplary practices at local and regional level from LORDIMAS.

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1st CEF
17/10/2024
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17/10/2024

1st CEF Digital Community Event

The European Commission, in close collaboration with the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA), is organising the first Connecting Europe Facility - CEF Digital - community event.

1st Connecting Europe Facility Digital community event
The event will gather all the projects funded under the CEF Digital programme and players from all segments of the connectivity value chain in order to share experience, identify collaboration needs, strengthen synergies and contribute to maximising the programme’s impact on policy goals.

By engaging in discussions and exchanges of ideas, the CEF Digital community will bring new insights into the reflections on future connectivity policies and investments as outlined in the White Paper.

The morning will be dedicated to a presentation of the projects’ common objectives, with a focus on the identification of possible future synergies, while in the afternoon, the attention will shift to exploring financing options for connectivity infrastructures.

The registration for this event will open soon. We invite you to monitor the official page for further information. 

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event
24/09/2024
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25/09/2024

European Manufacturing Conference 2024

The European Manufacturing Conference is a biennial event that brings together key players in the European manufacturing industry, including policymakers, industry representatives, as well as academia, research & technology organisations, startups, scaleups and innovators.

The three organisers EFFRA, EIT Manufacturing and ManuFuture share a common vision that cooperation is key in creating an enabling environment to address the most pressing challenges faced by the European industry and society today and tomorrow.  

 In 2022, the conference programme reflected, among others, the topics human centricity, green and circular manufacturing, connectivity and resilience.

 

More details here.

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horizon europe
17/10/2024
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17/10/2024

Lump Sum Funding in Horizon Europe: How does it work? How to write a proposal?

On 17 October 2024, the European Commission is hosting an online webinar to share detailed information on lump sum funding in Horizon Europe. The webinar will focus on how to write on lump sum proposal and provide  hands-on experience with lump sum grants. The link to the webinar and slido can be found here.  No prior registration is needed.

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The ERC is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. It funds creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based across Europe.

Find below open calls for 2024:

 

ERC Starting Grants

Open: 10 July 2024

Deadline: 15 Oct. 2024

 

ERC Advanced Grants

Open: 29 May 2024

Deadline: 29 Aug. 2024

 

ERC Proof of Concept Grants

Open: 16 Nov. 2023

Deadline: 17 Sep. 2024

 

ERC Synergy Grants

Open: 11 July 2024

Deadline: 06 Nov. 2024

What is a cascading call?

A cascading call is a funding mechanism where a larger project, already funded by Horizon Europe or other funding programme, distributes part of its funds to smaller projects through its own call for proposals. As an applicant to a cascading call, you would be applying to receive a portion of the funding managed by this larger project.

Why is it noteworthy?

A key benefit of this process involves finding a cascading call that aligns with your project's goals and submitting a proposal to the organization responsible for the larger project. If your proposal is successful, you'll receive funding to support your research or innovation activities. This approach allows Horizon Europe to efficiently distribute funds to a wider array of smaller projects, encouraging diverse and innovative contributions to the overarching goals of the program. Fundamentally, you're benefiting from a secondary layer of funding opportunities, making it easier for smaller or more niche projects to access financial support.

  • CORTEX2 - Will finance a minimum of one single entity (tech startup/SME/research organization) and a maximum of two entities representing technology developers, with emphasis on XR, AR, and AI. The inclusion of the second entity must be justified. Deadline: 15th August 2024.

  • StandICT.eu - supports contributions to ICT standardization activities. Deadline: 23rd August 2024

  • INDUSAC - Supports short-term research collaborations between academia (students, researchers) and industry in solving company challenges. Funding up to: €1,000 per student / €3,000 per team. Deadline: See cut-off dates in call
  • NEMO -Supports IoT developers to extend the NEMO use cases and implement innovative IoT apps and services that use heterogeneous IoT and NEMO components to offer new services. Funding up to: €90,000. Deadline: 31st August 2024
  • DS4SSCC-DE - The European Data Space for Smart Communities opened early June and is for pilots for local public administrations and other entities working with them (companies, academia, NGOs) addressing Green Deal sectors and New European Bauhaus domains. This is the first round of calls for pilots, 2 more rounds are foreseen to open in September and December. - Funding up to: €1.5M. Deadline: 31st August 2024

  • XR2Industry - supports hardware enablers and will select up to 7 developers of XR components (MidCaps or SMEs) aimed at integrating emerging technologies (such as 5G/6G, IoT, data, artificial intelligence, edge and cloud computing, and microelectronics) to enable possibilities of XR experiences. Funding up to: €500,000. Deadline: 17th September 2024

  • NGI Zero Core - Supports upgrading the open internet architecture with building blocks that prioritize reliability, confidentiality, integrity, security, and resource efficiency. Funding up to: €50,000. Deadline: 1st October 2024

  • NGI Zero Commons - Funds R&D on technology commons that improve openness, trustworthiness, resilience, and user autonomy, making these available as free/libre/open-source software and hardware. Funding range: €5,000 - €50,000. Deadline: 1st October 2024

  • NGI Taler - Supports the development of technology commons that empower users and establish a new generation of privacy-friendly digital payment systems. Funding range: €5,000 - €50,000. Deadline: 1st October 2024

  • NGI Mobifree - Supports solutions for an open mobile ecosystem. Funding range: €5,000 - €50,000. Deadline: 1st October 2024

  • NGI Fediversity -Aims to bring easy-to-use, hosted cloud services with service portability and personal freedom at their core to everyone. Funding range: €5,000 - €50,000. Deadline: 1st October 2024

 

 

The network of National Contact Points (NCPs) for Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area under Horizon Europe (NCP_WIDERA.NET) now offers a proposal pre-check service for applicants to Joint Transnational Calls (JTCs) of Institutionalised European Partnerships.

The proposal pre-check service will be implemented through the free-of-charge wideraexperts.eu portal. The coordinator or one of the work package leads must be based in a widening country.

This service is offered to the following Institutionalized European Partnerships under Pillar II:

  • European Partnership for Global Health (EDCTP 3)
  • Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking
  • European Partnership for Key Digital Technologies
  • European Partnership for Smart Networks and Services
  • European Partnership for High Performance Computing
  • European Partnership on Metrology
  • European Partnership on Clean Hydrogen
  • European Partnership for Clean Aviation
  • SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking
  • European Partnership for transforming Europe’s rail system
  • Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking

More details here.

On 15 April, the European Commission launched a feedback opportunity for Horizon Europe work programme 2025.

This survey gives you the opportunity to provide input for the development of the Horizon Europe ‘main’ work programme 2025. The replies collected will contribute to the co-creation process of the topics in the work programme.

You can provide feedback for one or multiple sections / (sub)domains, according to what is most relevant to you. The feedback is collected for all six Horizone Europe clusters (Health; Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society; Civil Security for Society; Digital, Industry and Space; Climate, Energy and Mobility; Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment), research infrastructures, European innovation ecosystems, the 5 EU Missions and the New European Bauhaus facility.

Deadline to fill in the survey is 6 May 2024.

Inițiativa EIT Deep Tech Talent a lansat apelul de propuneri de formare pentru organizațiile care doresc să creeze noi programe pentru a forma un milion de persoane în domeniul deep tech în Europa.

Prin intermediul acestui apel, Inițiativa va finanța până la 20 de proiecte angajate să deschidă calea viitorului educației și dezvoltării competențelor deep tech în Europa.

Solicitanții trebuie să demonstreze în mod clar că propunerile lor vor duce la crearea unui nou curs, program de formare sau de dezvoltare a competențelor.

Propunerile trebuie să implice un consorțiu format din cel puțin două entități. Organizațiile din țările asociate la Orizont Europa sunt eligibile să aplice (inclusiv Moldova).

 

Info Session: 15 aprilie 2024, 14:30 CEST
Data limită: 20 iunie 2024 ora 17:00 CEST

 

Detalii aici.

Highlights

A new way to bring concrete solutions to some of the EU greatest challenges with ambitious goals to deliver concrete results by 2030.

  • EU Missions will deliver impact by putting research and innovation into a new role in combination with new forms of governance and collaboration, as well as citizen  engagement.
  • EU Missions are a coordinated effort by the Commission to pool the necessary resources in terms of funding programmes, policies and regulations, as well as other activities. They aim to mobilise and activate public and private actors, such as EU Member States, regional and local authorities, research institutes, farmers and land managers, entrepreneurs and investors to create a real and lasting impact.
  • EU Missions will support Europe’s transformation into a greener, healthier, more inclusive and resilient continent. 

Mission Starfish 2030: Restore our Ocean and Waters

Targets by 2030: cleaning marine and fresh waters, restoring degraded ecosystems and habitats, decarbonising the blue economy in order to sustainably harness the essential goods and services they provide.

Caring for Soil is Caring for Life

Targets by 2030: at least 75% of all soils in the EU are healthy for food, people, nature and climate. The proposed mission combines research and innovation, education and training, investments and the demonstration of good practices using “Living labs” (experiments and innovation in a laboratory on the ground) and “Lighthouses” (places to showcase good practices).

Conquering Cancer: Mission Possible

Targets by 2030: more than 3 million more lives saved, living longer and better, achieve a thorough understanding of cancer, prevent what is preventable, optimise diagnosis and treatment, support the quality of life of all people exposed to cancer, and ensure equitable access to the above across Europe.

A Climate Resilient Europe - Adaptation to Climate change

Targets by 2030: prepare Europe to deal with climate disruptions, accelerate the transition to a healthy and prosperous future within safe planetary boundaries and scale up solutions for resilience that will trigger transformations in society.

100 Climate-Neutral Cities by 2030 - by and for the citizens

Targets by 2030: support, promote and showcase 100 European cities in their systemic transformation towards climate neutrality by 2030 and turn these cities into innovation hubs for all cities, benefiting quality of life and sustainability in Europe.

European Partnerships bring the European Commission and private and/or public partners together to address additional challenges through concerted research and innovation initiatives, on top of the challenges addressed by Horizon Europe. They are a key implementation tool of Horizon Europe, and contribute significantly to achieving the EU’s political priorities.

By bringing private and public partners together, European Partnerships help to avoid the duplication of investments and contribute to reducing the fragmentation of the research and innovation landscape in the EU.

Find out more about European Partnerships in the Commission’s infographic.

Identifying partnerships

The Commission carried out impact assessments that helped identify the candidates for partnerships.

The portfolio of European Partnerships includes 49 candidates  which have now been taken into the next step of preparations.

The partnership candidates are collected across 5 areas. 

Full details of candidates, draft proposal documents and contact details please see below.

The current list of candidate European Partnerships is found in Annex 7 of the Orientations towards the first Strategic Plan for Horizon Europe.

Results from the structured consultation of EU countries are summarised in the report European Partnerships under Horizon Europe: results of the structured consultation of Member States.

Types of partnership

The Horizon Europe proposal lays down the conditions and principles for establishing European Partnerships. There are 3 types.

Co-programmed European Partnerships
These are partnerships between the Commission and private and/or public partners. They are based on memoranda of understanding and/or contractual arrangements.

Co-funded European Partnerships using a programme co-fund action
Partnerships involving EU countries, with research funders and other public authorities at the core of the consortium.

Institutionalised European Partnerships
These are partnerships where the EU participates in research and innovation funding programmes that are undertaken by EU countries.

These partnerships require legislative proposals from the Commission and are based on a Council Regulation (Article 187) or a Decision by the European Parliament and Council (Article 185). They are implemented by dedicated structures created for that purpose.

Institutionalised partnerships will only be implemented where other parts of the Horizon Europe programme, including other types of partnership, would not achieve the desired objectives or expected impacts.

Documents

Horizon Europe’s next generation European partnerships (PDF File)

Source:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/horizon-europe/european-partnerships-horizon-europe_en

WIDERA NCPs is an umbrella name for the transnational network of National Contact Points (NCPs) for Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area under Horizon Europe.

NCP_WIDERA.NET Project is a 3 years Coordination and Support Action financed by the European Commission and established with the aim to empower the network of National Contact Points (NCP) for WIDERA under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme.

The check-list was developed as a tool for NCPs to help them to review the project proposals in order to help the applicants to develop their project proposals in higher quality. There are included all the conditions / questions published in the WP General Annexes, Application form and Evaluation form

Following a workshop activity which took place in May in Dublin, the report summarises delegates' input on opportunities, barriers and useful support.

In a nutshell, the main conclusions are:

  • From engaging in Horizon Europe, SSH researchers can gain funding, prestige, expansion of networks and opportunity for impact.
  • Social science and arts & humanities should not be understood as a monolith.
  • Reliable partners are a huge resource. Being included in networks might be challenging for newcomers.
  • Early career researchers can benefit from participation in Horizon Europe projects. However, provisions for their inclusion and career-development are not explicitly required nor rewarded by the funder.
  • There are considerable differences among institutions in terms of in-house, opportunities for peer-learning, expertise, capacities and contractual conditions