NGI Sargasso is a project that aims to strengthen EU cooperation and partnerships with the US and Canada in the Next Generation Internet. The initiative focuses on improving the internet’s human-centric approach through the promotion of openness, inclusion, transparency, privacy, cooperation, and data protection. NGI Sargasso’s objective is to revolutionize the Next Generation Internet technologies and standards while ensuring interoperability and promoting innovation and creativity.

We are looking for troubleshooters that help society tackle the ossification of the internet and other hard but very very important challenges, each of which has significant social and economic consequences. We need new ideas and disruptive core technologies, while at the same time evolving and growing existing technologies that are still enough future-proof.

We need a more resilient, trustworthy and open internet, empowering the end-users. Trust is only justified and sustainable if it the technology in question is up for the job, and is secure-by-design as well as trustworthy.

Activities under this topic respond directly to the goal of the Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’ of setting up 100 living labs to lead the transition to healthy soils by 2030. They support the specific objectives of the Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’ dealing with urgent soil health challenges (see in particular specific objectives 1 to 6 and 8). Activities should thereby contribute to meeting the European Green Deal ambitions and targets, such as those related to food and nutrition security, climate, biodiversity, environment, and rural areas.

This topic aims at exploring and developing enhanced capabilities for securely managing digitalised travel documents used for travel across external borders.
The proposed solution should be compatible with planned or possible future EU highly digitalised travel documents formats and travel facilitation systems, and with applicable ICAO current and upcoming schemes. The proposed solutions should be compatible or interoperable with relevant existing digitalised travel documents systems. The proposed solutions should also respect fundamental rights such as privacy and protection of personal data, apply privacy by design of the application and use privacy-enhancing technologies.

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.

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. 

In summary, the scope of this topic is not only to develop new robotic solutions for specific tasks but addresses also more holistically the surrounding environment and factors that impact civil protection on a larger scale (urbanisation, ageing, climate change, increased complexity in the area of critical infrastructure protection etc.). There are many research and engineering challenges that need to be addressed in the framework of this topic. First responders play a vital role in ensuring that the robotics solutions are based on the needs and are valuable assets for the civil protection ecosystem. 

 

The world's premier engineering design competition invites engineers, entrepreneurs, and students to push the boundaries of innovation and find solutions that benefit society and the economy. Participants are given the opportunity to showcase their ingenuity along with sound design principles for a chance to win a $25,000 grand prize and over $50,000 in total prizes.

We are looking together with our strong partner DB Regio for new and innovative solutions to Strengthen intermodular mobility, Support mobility and sense-impaired travellers and Set new internal standards. Develop your prototype and business model with us and open up new solutions for our passengers and employees. This is your chance to work with the DB Regio Bus and Schiene on the innovations of tomorrow.

The national funding bodies from UK and Israel have allocated funding for organisations collaborating on international R&D projects.  The partnership will support research and innovation projects within all thematic fields (EUREKA Call).

To enable sharing of key product related information that are essential for products’ sustainability and circularity, including those specified in Annex III of ESPR proposal, across all the relevant economic actors. Consequently, to accelerate the transition to circular economy, boosting material and energy efficiency, extending products lifetimes and optimizing products design, manufacturing, use and end of life handling.

The Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETPartnership) aims at accelerating the clean energy transition to achieve the goal of climate neutrality by 2050. It is a multilateral and strategic partnership of national and regional research, development and innovation (RDI) funding programmes in EU Member States and Associated Countries, co-funded by the European Commission through Horizon Europe (HE). The CETPartnership’s goals are: Building a transnational transformative joint programming platform Developing and demonstrating technologies and solutions for the energy system transition Building innovation ecosystems that support capacity building at all levels.

Tourism businesses and destinations should engage in climate action, for example, by applying circularity models, reducing environmental footprint, ensuring climate adaptation, applying sustainability schemes). Data-driven tourism services and stepping up the digital capacities of SMEs is essential for competitive businesses. Additional considerations towards equal opportunities, accessibility, affordability and creating a positive impact on local communities should shape the sector’s social dimension.

Under the topic ‘Greening Cities’, projects will be funded to experiment and deliver tangible innovative solutions on green infrastructure across European cities, for better addressing the biodiversity, pollution, resource and climate challenges, including synergy development with other key policy areas. The innovative solutions tested under the funded projects are expected to contribute to Cohesion policy investments related to the green and just transition, and will embrace the issue of being affordable to all.

 

Space for Tourism deadline: 29 September 2023
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Space for Olympic Games deadline: 31 December 2025