Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
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.
Detailed Call Description
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.
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;
- 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;
Financial support to third parties (FSTP) (see page 400 of the work programme).
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
70%
EU contribution per project: between €5,00 and €8,00 million
Thematic Categories
- Environment and Climate Change
- Information Technology
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties which can only be provided in the form of grants. The maximum amount to be granted to each third party is € 200000 to further extend the application domains, guarantee reproducibility and demonstrate the integration paths for take-up by European industries.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia
P.O.Box 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Phone Number: +357 22205000
Email Address: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
Dr Angelos Ntantos
Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 033
Contact Email: antantos@research.org.cy
Mr George Christou
Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 030
Contact Email: gchristou@research.org.cy
(Publish Date: 23/09/2021-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
Εuropean Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/research-and-innovation_en#contact