Call for Proposals for the « Horizon Europe- 2nd Opportunity ERC» Programme

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Code: 33778 | Identifier Code: OPPTY- ERC/0524 | Programme name: 2941 | Sub-program: i. “RESTART 2016-2020” Programmes | Start submission calls: 27/05/2024 | End submission calls: 17/12/2024

The Programme’s objective is to provide a second opportunity to entities and natural persons (researchers) who attempted to receive a grant under Horizon Europe Programme, and whose proposals despite of being of high quality did not manage to secure funding.

Bilateral Collaborations – BILATERAL/ISRAEL (IIA)/0524

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Code: 33771 | Identifier Code: BILATERAL/ISRAEL (IIA)/0524 | Programme name: 2799 | Start submission calls: 22/05/2024 | End submission calls: 30/10/2024

The “Bilateral Collaborations” Programme aims at developing collaborations and networking of Cypriot organisations with organisations of a specific collaboration country through the implementation of joint research Projects in selected thematic areas of interest to both parts.

Specific targets and objectives:

• The development of collaborations between Cypriot organisations and leading European and/or international organisations.
• Expansion of the role and upgrade of existing bilateral agreements.
• The development of new bilateral agreements with countries of specific interest.
• Activation of general agreements – cooperation frameworks in matters of research and technological development through the promotion of joint programmes.
• Promotion of the participation of Cypriot organisations in international RTDI programmes.

The Cyprus – Israel (IIA) joint Call for Proposals aims to promote and support collaboration between Israeli and Cypriot scientists.

The Funding Agency on the Israeli side is the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA).

Advancing Large AI Models: Integration of New Data Modalities and Expansion of Capabilities (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA)

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Code: 33767 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-03-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

This topic centres around the development of innovative multimodal large AI models, covering both the training of foundation models and their subsequent fine-tuning.

Proposals should address at least one of the following focus areas:

• the integration of innovative modalities of data for large AI models during training and inference. Examples of innovative modalities include event streams, structured data and sensor measurements. The incorporation of such new modalities could potentially bring unforeseen enhancements to model performance and enable their application in new domains like weather forecasting, robotics, and manufacturing.
• enhanced multimodal models that exceed the current state of the art, with either significantly improved capabilities or the ability to handle a larger number of modalities. This focus area also encompasses models capable of multi-modal output generation. Current large-scale multimodal models most commonly engage with only vision and language.

Innovation Vouchers

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Code: 33753 | Identifier Code: INNOVOUCHERS/0524 | Programme name: 13602 | Start submission calls: 14/05/2024 | End submission calls: 28/03/2025

«Innovation Vouchers» Programme aims to encourage Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to engage in research and innovation activities and to strengthen cooperation between enterprises and knowledge intensive organisations.

State Aid Scheme of the Social Welfare Services for the establishment of new or the expansion of existing social care structures within the framework of the Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026

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Code: 33750 | Identifier Code: C5.2I2 | Programme name: 13609 | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 30/09/2024

The objective of the Scheme is the establishment of new social care structures or the upgrading/expansion of existing structures by creating additional positions, thus strengthening the welfare state and promoting social inclusion and well-being.

The Scheme, in the context of its second call for applications, focuses on the following priorities, in line with the corresponding challenges that Cyprus faces:

• Establishment of new or upgrading/expansion of existing Multifuctional Centers for Children (day care centers/nurseries for pre-school aged children 0-4 year and school aged children 6-13 years), as well as Childcare Centers (day care centers/nurseries for pre-school aged children 0-4 years).

The objective is the provision of affordable quality care and social development services for children. This will contribute to increasing women’s participation in the labour market, gender equality, improve employment in general and contribute to increasing the fertility rate, reducing the risk of poverty as well as reducing inequalities.

Digital Humanism – Putting people at the centre of the digital transformation (CSA)

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Code: 33747 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-03-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Digital Humanism is here defined as the continuing search for a European answer to keep up high civilization standards stemming from enlightenment and the humanist era, and to further develop them in the digital world. Such a digital environment should enable all Europeans to make full use of digital and technologies, to have a society where geographical distance matters less, so that all Europeans can benefit from the digitalisation in their daily activities (ranging from work, learning, to enjoying culture or leisure activities) but also in their interactions with governments, and participation in democratic processes.

This requires intense, cross-disciplinary work of computer (and technology) sciences with legal, economic, sociological, philosophical and other kinds of expertise as a co-development exercise.

Developing and deploying a network of quantum gravimeters in Europe

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Code: 33745 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

This topic is consetrated on the development of a network of quantum gravimeters in Europe.

Quantum gravimeters (gravity sensors) can deliver high-sensitivity, real-time, non-invasive gravity measurements, with much greater precision than classical gravimeters. They have started to demonstrate their disruptive potential in many application sectors, including Earth observation and civil engineering.

Support for transnational activities of National Contact Points in the thematic areas of Digital, Industry and Space (CSA)

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Code: 33743 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-02-34 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 10/09/2024

This topic focuses on the support of transnational activities of National Contact Points in the thematic areas of Digital, Industry and Space (CSA).

Projects are expected to contribute to the Improved and professionalised NCP services across Member States and Associated Countries, supporting access to Horizon Europe calls, lowering the entry barriers for newcomers, and raising the average quality of proposals.

Explainable and Robust AI (AI Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA)

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Code: 33739 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-03-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

To achieve robust and reliable AI, novel approaches are needed to develop methods and solutions that work under other than model-ideal circumstances, while also having an awareness when these conditions break down. To achieve trustworthiness, AI system should be sufficiently transparent and capable of explaining how the system has reached a conclusion in a way that it is meaningful to the user, enabling safe and secure human-machine interaction, while also indicating when the limits of operation have been reached.

Facilitate the engagement in global ICT standardisation development (CSA)

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Code: 33737 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-03-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

The aim is to reinforce the presence of EU and associated states experts in the global ICT standardisation scene, by setting up an ICT standardisation observatory and a facility supporting the participation of key European specialists (especially from SMEs, societal stakeholders and Academia) in key international and global Standard Developing Organisations. In particular, the project should foresee actions related to topics in the Rolling Plan for ICT standardisation as well as related to internet standardisation.

Experimental local action for EU missions: knowledge institutions as focal points of transdisciplinary research and innovation activities with European outreach

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Code: 33734 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CROSS-02-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 15/05/2024 | End submission calls: 25/09/2024

The EU Missions on cancer, climate adaptation, climate neutral cities, oceans and soil, pursue objectives agreed between Member States and the European Commission in the context of the European Green Deal and health policies. Sustainably managing common-pool resources and the provision of public goods are an important dimension in the EU Missions. scholars consider small-scale multistakeholder activities within a local or regional innovation ecosystem to be crucial for the non-technological innovation processes. Such innovation ecosystems for transformative change include non-commercial stakeholders like civil society and administrations.

The proposal should aim to implement, for the benefit of a specific location or region in an EU Member States or countries associated to Horizon Europe, a research and innovation action.

MSCA International Cooperation 2024

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Code: 33731 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MSCA-2024-INCO-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 14/05/2024 | End submission calls: 04/09/2024

The objective of the present call is to foster international cooperation in MSCA in Horizon Europe, through a dedicated support action to complement and ensure coordination between existing promotion channels at local level, and ensure consistency with formal R&I policy dialogues at bilateral and regional levels.

Spotlight on plant priority pest: fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda)

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Code: 33729 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK-03-1 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/05/2024 | End submission calls: 24/09/2024

A successful proposal should support the farm to fork strategy to transition to fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food systems from primary production to consumption, notably the target to reduce by 50% the overall use and risk of chemical pesticides and reduce the use by 50% of the more hazardous pesticides and the biodiversity strategy. Activities will work on protective measures against pests of plants and on measures to prevent the introduction into, establishment and spread within the Union territory of Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith).

European Partnership of Agriculture of Data

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Code: 33727 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2024-GOVERNANCE-02-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 02/05/2024 | End submission calls: 25/06/2024

This partnership aims to enhance climate, environmental and socioeconomic sustainability, and productivity of agriculture and to strengthen policy monitoring and evaluation capacities through exploiting the potential of Earth and environmental observation and other data, in combination with innovative data technologies.

UTTER second open call: Development and application of deep models for eXtended Reality

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Code: 33725 | Identifier Code: UTTER | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 01/05/2024 | End submission calls: 31/07/2024

UTTER call for pilot (demonstrator) projects should further the design and implementation of XR models, aided by UTTER research and technology, enabling new types of human-human and human-human interaction in new sectors.

EIT Manufacturing Call for proposals Innovation & Entrepreneurship – Master & Doctoral School for the Manufacturing Business Plan 2023-2025

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Code: 33722 | Identifier Code: EITM BP 2023-2025 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 08/07/2024

The Innovation & Entrepreneurship Call covers activities related to Master and Doctoral School, to develop the following programmes for students and professionals:

• Summer School 2025 for EIT Manufacturing Master School
• Doctoral I&E programme 2025

The focus for 2025 is to scale up the results of the Master and Doctoral School activities multiplying the impact of the same through commercialisation and distribution within a wide number of learners.

EIT Manufacturing Competition LEADERS – Women Innovators in Manufacturing at EIT RIS Business Plan 2023 – 2025

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Code: 33700 | Identifier Code: EITM BP 2023-2025 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 14/05/2024 | End submission calls: 15/07/2024

The purpose of the “LEADERS – Women Innovators in Manufacturing at EIT RIS” competition is to support and highlight women researchers and innovators who have played a main role in developing solutions addressing manufacturing-related challenges.

EITM Call for Proposals for New Higher Education Institutions’ accession to EIT Manufacturing Master and Doctoral Schools and new Master programmes

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Code: 33696 | Identifier Code: EITM BP 2023-2025 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 16/04/2024 | End submission calls: 17/06/2024

EIT Manufacturing Master and Doctoral School engages students from different academic backgrounds in the manufacturing sector.

The scope of this call is twofold:

• Expand Partnerships: add new HEIs to the EITM Master and Doctoral School, including those from uncovered countries, to diversify partnerships and ensure multiple HEI combinations for each programme.
• Enhance Program Portfolio: introduce new Master programmes covering topics not currently addressed, aligning with EITM thematic areas and industry needs for skilled graduates.

EIT Manufacturing Call for RIS proposals 2025

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Code: 33693 | Identifier Code: EITM BP 2023-2025 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 29/04/2024 | End submission calls: 08/07/2024

The EIT Manufacturing Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS) aims at widening participation in the KIC’s activities, as well as increasing the impact of EIT Manufacturing in EIT RIS countries. The EIT RIS has been designed as a two-way interaction scheme. By sharing its good practice related to Knowledge Triangle Integration and increasing its activities in EIT RIS eligible countries, EIT Manufacturing welcomes activities for:

• further developing business skills, talent, cooperation opportunities in education, currently untapped entrepreneurial potential
• accessing markets and business, customers for innovative ventures, innovation, knowledge, know-how and technology transfer possibilities
• additional testbeds for applications of innovative solutions
• supporting access to co-funding options provided by EU, regional and national support schemes

EIT Manufacturing Call for Innovation proposals 2025

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Code: 33690 | Identifier Code: EITM BP 2023-2025 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 29/04/2024 | End submission calls: 08/07/2024

The Call for Proposals fosters innovation within the manufacturing sector by addressing pressing industrial challenges and facilitating a transition towards more resilient, sustainable, and human-centered manufacturing practices. It focuses on leveraging cutting edge technologies and methodologies to improve operational efficiency, sustainability, and the attractiveness of the manufacturing work environment. The call underscores the importance of advancing manufacturing technology, sustainability, and efficiency to maintain global competitiveness.

In the context of this call, EIT is looking for education proposals on the following 2 topics:

• Topic 1: Innovative Solution for Industrial Challenges
• Topic 2: Transition towards a resilient and human-centered Manufacturing