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Overview of national and international funding opportunities
for R&D and innovation projects


Topics in this newsletter #49: AI; AgriFood; Blockchain; CleanTech; ClimaTech; Cloud; Cybersecurity; Data-Space; Defence; Digitalisation; Edge; FinTech; HealthTech; IoT; Machine-Learning; NGI; Sustainability; Twinning.
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H o r i z o n   E u r o p e

Towards a holistic support to children and adolescents’ health and care provisions in an increasingly digital society
Digitalisation poses risks but can also be a driving force for empowering young citizens, who are growing up in an increasingly digitised world, in taking an active role in the management of their own health conditions, mental and social well-being, and promote healthy lives and disease prevention, through innovative solutions, coordinated person-centred care models and better health literacy.
The topic encourages the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as of European, national and regional authorities and civil society, in order to strengthen the scientific and technological expertise of SMEs in the health and care domain to promote the uptake of innovative health and care solutions in Europe.
deadline: 19 September 2023
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Ocean & water and arts: the contribution of creative sectors to Mission Ocean and waters
Art and creative sectors can play an important role in the mobilisation of citizens, stakeholders and civil society actors, such as NGOs and the philanthropic community, for the protection and restoration of the ocean and inland waters, their biodiversity, aesthetic and cultural heritage. Creative activities can also play an important role in addressing the challenges of coastal areas, thus contributing to the New Bauhaus initiative. In this context, this action should bring together citizens, museums, aquaria, research institutions, engineers, architects, the civil society and citizens with artists and other creative sectors to foster interdisciplinary experimentation and entrepreneurship. Such undertakings should benefit from close cooperation with the scientific community and the philanthropists. Mobilisation, cooperation and coordination should be envisaged at interregional/transnational level. Proposals are encouraged to build synergies with relevant activities supported under the Creative Europe programme and with other New European Bauhaus projects, notably those based in coastal and maritime regions.
deadline: 20 September 2023
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Supporting the All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance and Declaration
The actions should aim at supporting a wider understanding of the opportunities and promoting a sustainable management of the Atlantic Ocean as a whole, through a large-scale basin effort involving both the northern and the southern parts of this ocean, and its interlinks with the adjacent polar areas. To achieve this, it will be necessary to bring together and systematically connect scientists, a wide range  of public and private stakeholders, including civil society and youth, with data, knowledge, expertise, capacities, infrastructures, and resources.
deadline: 21 September 2023
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Twinning Green Deal
The Twinning Green Deal will therefore focus on a defined area of research / innovation directly linked to at least one of the actions listed in the European Green Deal strategy, notably:
•    Climate research;
•    Green technologies;
•    Renewable energy;
•    Sustainable mobility;
•    Biodiversity research;
•    Sustainable use of natural resources (land, water, air).
To prevent further disparities, maximize investment in Research and Development and enhance economic growth, Horizon Europe is taking relevant actions under Widening participation and spreading excellence objective. Twinning actions are one of the main instruments of this objective.
deadline: 28 September 2023
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Pathways to Synergies
The main goal of the pathway a) is to move formerly single beneficiaries of regional funding programmes out of isolation via cross-border collaboration and to prepare them for successful participation in Horizon Europe calls by strengthening their competitiveness by means of a customised bunch of activities. Therefore, proposals should present a coherent and strategically convincing package of activities with a particular focus on internationalisation strategies and human resources development. The latter may include training and coaching on non-scientific skills such as management of international R&I projects, knowledge transfer and science communication. HR capacity building may be complemented by suitable study visits and short-term secondments to partners. Communication activities including social media should contribute to raising the reputation and visibility of the members of the core group. This may include advertising their technical infrastructure (funded under ERDF) to potential partners in future competitive calls. Early-stage co-operation with NCP organisations is strongly encouraged.
deadline: 28 September 2023
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Technologies and processes for maintenance, joining and repair through an innovation test hub
The specific objective of this topic is twofold. The first is the development of a new test environment for testing and the improvement of technologies up to certification level. The second is the creation of a cross-border defence innovation network that encompasses players that would otherwise not have the means to access EDF actions, thereby further enhancing innovation capacity and competitiveness of the European Defence Industrial and Technological Base.
The consortia responding to the call may include a large variety of entities, such as military or civil test centres, research institutes, universities, industry, certification authorities, accelerators or incubators as well as other organisations that can play a role in the establishment or certification of new technologies for repair, joining and maintenance or that can support the associated innovation support measures targeted towards third parties receiving financial support.
deadline: 22 November 2023
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Security of robust AI systems
Proposals received under this topic will address the security of AI systems, in the line with the following considerations. The availability of very large amounts of data, together with advances in computing capacity, has allowed the development of powerful Artificial Intelligence applications (in particular Machine Learning and Deep Learning). At the same time, concerns have been raised over the security, robustness of the AI algorithms (including AI at the edge), including the risks of adversarial machine learning and data poisoning. Thus, it is important to promote security-compliant AI algorithms, leading to possible certification schemes in the future. Proposals should demonstrate awareness of the EU approach on Artificial Intelligence[1], such as the proposed Artificial Intelligence Act.
deadline: 23 November 2023
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Secure Computing Continuum (IoT, Edge, Cloud, Dataspaces)
The evolution of our interconnected society brings multiple layers of cloud, edge computing, and IoT platforms that continuously interact with each other. Yet this always-connected ecosystem populated with potentially vulnerable entities requires advanced, smart and agile protection mechanisms to manage the security and privacy of individual components throughout their lifecycle and of overall systems. The complexity of such interconnected environments underlines the need for the proactive and automated detection, analysis, and mitigation of cybersecurity attacks in cloud, at the edge, for OT, IoT deployments, and in application domains such as, for example, smart cities. Integrating end-to-end security and user-centric privacy in complex distributed platforms requires work to address security threats and vulnerabilities over the entire platform ecosystem.
deadline: 23 November 2023
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Design of crisis prevention and preparedness actions in case of digital breakdown (internet, electricity etc.)
Assessment of the consequences of possible digital breakdown (internet, electricity etc.) considering also actions under pandemic situations would require focused research in order to design appropriate crisis prevention and preparedness actions, including civil protection plans, taking into account cascading effects. This includes analysis of interdependencies between different critical infrastructures, the assessment of different scenarios and conditions like duration and extent of the digital breakdown as well as possible cascading effects. This topic requires the effective contribution of SSH disciplines and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH expertise, in order to produce meaningful and significant effects enhancing the societal impact of the related research/innovation activities.
deadline: 23 November 2023


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International and other EU Programmes

Feasibility studies for Artificial Intelligence solutions
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £5 million in innovation projects. Funding for this opportunity is subject to business case approval by the Department for Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and HM Treasury. These will be to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) driven solutions that address a business challenge or opportunity in target industry sectors:
•    construction
•    transport, including logistics and warehousing
•    creative industries (excluding marketing and advertising)
•    agriculture and food processing
deadline: 24 May 2023
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EPICENTRE call for proposals (cascade funding)
It aims to create new cross-sectoral value chains, from Digital and Fintech to Health and Agri-food. Their dynamic and challenging business support program aims at facilitating the adoption of new processes and technologies by SMEs and comprises 3-phases:  LAUNCH-SUSTAIN-DRIVE.
deadline: 29 May 2023
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First call of the SUAVE project (cascade funding)
It will financially support European SMEs operating in the field of Urban Agriculture so that they can benefit from different types of services, allowing them to improve their resilience and business models, innovate to develop new solutions, accelerate their twin transition and expand internationally.
deadline: 30 May 2023
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MedBAN - Mediterranean Blue Acceleration Network (cascade funding)
MedBAN is deploying two simultaneous but separate open calls for EU Blue Economy SMEs, awarding financial support that will fund two different sets of services: one for innovation, training and twin transformation of businesses and one for internationalisation actions. The services will be provided by a bank of suppliers that expert entities could integrate.
deadline: 31 May 2023
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ProposalsforNGOs Small Grant Opportunity 2023
ProposalsforNGOs and Philantropia have launched a “Small Grant Opportunity 2023” open call for proposals for NGOs around the world to pitch their project ideas. You can participate with proposals that have already been submitted or with a project you plan to implement in the future. The contest aims to show how NGOs can develop a project idea into a reality. The selected proposal will be showcased on proposalsforngos.com as an example of best practice and to increase awareness of the tools and services proposalsforNGOs provide to NGOs around the world.
deadline: 31 May 2023
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1st xBUILD-EU call for proposals for Innovate, Global and Digital and Green grants (cascade funding)
It aims to build an EU strategic partnership focused on cross-sectoral collaboration and cross-fertilization across textile, construction and advanced technologies. Its first call for proposals, opening on April 1st, aims to fund 3 different grants schemes: innovate, global and green and digital grants.
deadline: 7 June 2023
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Al Andalus Innovation Venture
The reference event for scaleups and Open Innovation in southern Spain, opens its call in search of the most promising startups in Spain and Portugal.
deadline: 10 June 2023
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SynergistEIC Accelerator Program (cascade funding)
SynergistEIC welcomes applications from deeptech startups developing innovative solutions addressing ClimateTech, CleanTech, Circular economy and AgriFood challenges with a preference on certain technological focus (notably using AI, Machine learning and language processing, Big Data, Advanced Computing, Bioengineering, Next Generation Internet, Blockchain, IoT).
deadline: 14 June 2023
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METASTARS launches its call for innovation services (cascade funding)
Which stands for “METAcluster Support Towards a more resilient AeRospace and defence ecosystem”, launched its open call For Innovation Services for SMEs.
deadline: 31 December 2023


 
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