Programme Category
Programme Name
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The overall goal of FIDAL Open Call is to reach two main added values of the project:
- Involving key actors committed to perform beyond 5G trials in diversified and heterogeneous vertical use cases covering key industrial and societal sectors.
- Ensuring the support of the needed infrastructure to deploy the proposed field trials.
Detailed Call Description
This Open Call aims the involvement and engagement of “third parties” to run 5G evolved field trials. FIDAL is inviting SMEs, start-ups, research institutes, groups of entrepreneurs, app developers and infrastructure owners to undertake a set of beyond 5G trials in a multitude of domains compatible to the FIDAL ones:
- Media
- Entertainment
- Emergency Services
- Time critical applications and services
This Open Call maximises the impact and accelerate adoption of FIDAL demonstrating flexibility, user acceptance and technology transfer. Through this Open Call, FIDAL ensures wide acceptance and achieve sustainability of its results and fosters the further take-up by inviting innovative use cases belonging to the project verticals or compatible, to tune up the FIDAL experimentation framework and associated products as well as the testbeds and large-scale trial facilities.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Each of the selected projects will run indicatively for a period of 9 months (this indicative period may be changed during the contracting phase) and receive a funding up to €150.000 (under option 1) or €250.000 (under option 2).
Moreover, 3 additional prizes of €10.000 will be awarded to the best Open Call contractors rewarding excellence of trials performance, adoption of the FIDAL framework and KPIs & KVIs production.
One proposal per organisation might be selected for funding in this Open Call.
The funding rate for selected projects is 100% of the eligible costs for all types of organisations.
Thematic Categories
- Audiovisual sector and Media
- New Entrepreneurship
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
- Trade Unions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Applications can be made by both private and public organisations from industry and research (not individual researchers), located within the EU Member States or Associated Countries.
FIDAL gives 2 options to the applicants of the Open Call:
- Submit single beneficiary proposal for new use case and related field trials using FIDAL experimentation framework, toolkits and Network Applications supported by the existing infrastructures coming from FIDAL initial Consortium.
- Submit proposals from groups of collaborating and complementary partners to produce new use cases and perform trials using additional services and testing facilities.
Under option 2 the applicant may propose the integration of external testbeds implementing new services, besides using FIDAL ones, only if it provides a clear value to the project e.g. access to a large number of users participating in the proposed trial(s). The integration of the testbed will be performed by the applicant and has to be clearly described in the proposed implementation plan.
FIDAL consortium believes that large projects involving the inclusion of large number of trial users, usage of a significant amount of new datasets, FIDAL services, onboarding of external infrastructure, etc. will provide significant results.
FIDAL is inviting SMEs, start-ups, research institutes, groups of entrepreneurs, app developers and infrastructure owners.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
EU Contact Point
A specific Helpdesk opencall@fidal-he.eu is active to support the applicants.