Oportunidades TIC en el ámbito de financiación en cascada del programa H2020
Oportunidades de Cascade Funding: más allá de las convocatorias ordinarias
14/09/2018, Centro Tecnológico de La Rioja
European Commission / Horizon 2020
Background: What’s Cascade Funding?
grants projects
which distributefinancial support, through open calls, to third parties
Open calls
Background: What’s an Open Call?
competitive calls for proposals
within EU granted projects
to integrate more participants via:
• pilots, demonstrations or experiments:➢ piloting experiments➢ innovation experiments➢ assesment experiments➢ application experiments
• extensions: enlarge experimentation capacity
• incubation / acceleration: of startups applying technologiespromoted by project
CASCADE FUNDING OVERVIEW
For an easier overview, cascade funding opportunities might be grouped in three major initiatives:
and in some themes:
Other cascade funding opportunities, such as those for Platforms or cluster collaboration, will be grouped together.
Cascade funding overview
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FIRE, launched in 2010 under FP7, aims at beingEurope’s Open Lab for Future Internet research,development and innovation.
Cascade funding topics related to FIRE
Offers cutting edge test facilities to experiment with networks, infrastructures and tools in a multidisciplinary test environment.
Cascade funding topics related to FIRE are:• ICT-11-2014: FIRE+ -Future Internet Research & Experimentation- (a. RIA)• ICT-12-2015: Integrating experiments and facilities in FIRE+ (a. RIA)• ICT-12-2016: Net Innovation Factory (a. IA - Acceleration activities)• ICT-13-2016: Future Internet Experimentation - Building a European
experimental Infrastructure (a. R&IA)
NGI Initiative, launched in autumn 2016, aims to shapethe future internet as an interoperable platformecosystem that embodies the values that Europe holdsdear: openness, inclusivity, transparency, privacy,cooperation, and protection of data
Cascade funding topics related to FIRE
Cascade funding topics related to NGI are:• ICT-24-2018: Next Generation Internet - An Open Internet Initiative (a. RIA)• ICT-29-2018: A multilingual Next Generation Internet (a. IA: A European
Language Grid, section pilot the Grid in specific sectors)• ICT-30-2019-2020: An empowering, inclusive Next Generation Internet (a.
IA Digital Learning Incubator)• ICT-31-2018-2019: EU-US collaboration on NGI (a. CSA, section Fellowship
Programmes & b. RIA)
SAE supports, from January 2015, product and serviceinnovation through digital technologies.
Cascade funding topics related to SAE
Cascade funding topics related to SAE are: • ICT-01-2014: Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (b. IA)• ICT-02-2014: Smart System Integration (b. IA)• ICT-04-2015: Customised and low power computing (b. IA)• ICT-04-2017: Smart Anything Everywhere Initiative (a. IA)• DT-ICT-01-2019: Smart Anything Everywhere (a. IA SAE)
“The total EU funding of Phase 2 is €26 million, of which about 60% will be spent to directlysupport SMEs and midcaps, either as direct funding or as services by DIHs. About 50% of thetotal funding will be allocated through 15 open calls in 2018-2020.”
ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs is addressing, sincelaunched in July 2013 within FoF PPP, process innovationthrough digital technologies.
Cascade funding topics related to I4MS
Cascade funding topics related to I4MS are: • FoF-09-2015: ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (a. IA)• FOF-12-2017: ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (a. IA, ii)• DT-NMBP-20-2018: A digital 'plug and produce' online equipment platform
for manufacturing• DT-ICT-07-2018-2019: Digital Manufacturing Platforms for Connected Smart
Factories• DT-ICT-03-2020: I4MS (phase 4) - uptake of digital game changers and
digital manufacturing platforms
“During Phases 1 and Phase 2 more than €26million was distributed to SMEs and Mid-caps through 15 open calls. Phase 3, launched in September 2017, aims at reinforcing the I4MS ecosystem. A total funding of€34 million is made available under this phase.”
IoT-EPI is a European Initiative federating the new EU-funded H2020 programs about IoT platform development.
Cascade Funding topics related to IoT
Cascade funding topics related to IoT are: • ICT-30-2015: Internet of Things and Platforms for Connected Smart Objects
(a. RIA) • IoT-01-2016: Large Scale Pilots
• Develop innovative platform technologies • Foster community and business building based on these technologies.
SPARC is a PPP, between the EC and European industry andacademia, for growth and empowerment of the roboticsindustry and value chain.
Cascade funding topics related to Robotics
Cascade funding topics related to Robotics are: • ICT-24-2015: Robotics (b. IA) • ICT-26-2016: System abilities, development and pilot installations (c. & d. IA)• ICT-27-2017: System abilities, SME & benchmarking actions, safety
certification (b. RI&A and c. IA)• DT-ICT-02-2018: Robotics - Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH)
The Photonics PPP, created in 2012, aims to maintainand increase Europe's industrial leadership inphotonics by fostering photonics manufacturing andaccelerating Europe’s innovation process.
Cascade funding topics related to Photonics
Cascade funding topics related to Photonics are: • ICT-30-2017: Photonics KET 2017 (b. IA, i.)• DT-ICT-04-2020: Photonics Innovation Hubs
The Big Data Value PPP, created in October 2014, linksup European industry, researchers, academia and theEC to cooperate in data research and innovation.
Cascade funding topics related to Big Data
Cascade funding topics related to Big Data are: • ICT-15-2014: Big data and Open Data Innovation and take-up (a. IA)• ICT-14-2016-2017: Big Data PPP: cross-sectorial and cross-lingual data
integration and experimentation (IA b.)• DT-ICT-11-2019: Big data solutions for energy• DT-ICT-05-2020: Big Data Innovation Hubs
Budget: around 500 M€ (from Horizon 2020).
Other cascade funding opportunities
Other topics allowing cascade funding are:• INNOSUP-01-2015: Cluster facilitated projects for new industrial value chains.• INNOSUP-01-2016-2017: Cluster facilitated projects for new industrial value
chains.• INNOSUP-01-2018-2020: Cluster facilitated projects for new industrial value
chains• INNOSUP-03-2017: Technology services to accelerate the uptake of advanced
manufacturing technologies for clean production by manufacturing SMEs.• INNOSUP-03-2018: Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies for SMEs• INNOSUP-04-2016: SMEs for social innovation – Challenge platform.• INNOSUP-04-2019: Workplace innovation uptake by SMEs• INNOSUP-06-2018: Supporting experimentation in innovation agencies
Other cascade funding opportunities
Other topics allowing cascade funding are:• DT-ICT-08-2019: Agricultural digital integration platforms• DT-ICT-09-2020: Digital service platforms for rural economies• DT-ICT-10-2018-19: Interoperable and smart homes and grids• DT-ICT-12-2020: The smart hospital of the future• DT-TDS-01-2019: Smart and healthy living at home• DT-RUR-12-2018: ICT Innovation for agriculture – Digital Innovation Hubs for
Agriculture
Other similar opportunities
Examples of other schemes with a similar structure to cascade funding which might be taken in account are:
ERA-NET actions: joint calls at
Other cascade funding opportunities
ERA-NET actions
CASCADE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES RELATED TO
FIRE, I4MS, SAE
Cascade funding opportunities related to FIRE under ICT-13-2016
ORCA > offers experimentation
facilities to promote wireless innovationOpen calls:Experiments:• OC1-EXP: 06/12/17 - 28/02/18• OC2-EXP: delayed (expected
Jun.’18)• OC3-EXP: expected by Dec.’18.Extensions:• OC1-EXT: 20/09/17 - 15/11/17 • OC2-EXT: 15/03/18 - 09/07/18
5GinFIRE> aims at developing an Open and Extensible 5G NFV-based Reference ecosystem of Experimental Facilities.Open calls:• OC1 Phase 1: 06/12/17 -
28/02/18• OC1 Phase 2: 18/06/18 -
19/09/18• OC2: expected by Mar.’19
Cascade funding opportunities related to FIRE under ICT-13-2016
Fed4FIRE+ focuses on speeding up the development and testing cycles of wireless solution developments.Open calls:• OC1: 02/01/17 – 08/02/17• OC2: 28/08/17 – 15/11/17.• OC3: 18/10/17 – 15/01/18.• OC4: 18/06/18 – 18/09/2018• Continuous: SME Cascaded
Experiments
FLAME > aims at developing
and deploying a Future Media Internet delivery platform.
Open calls:• OC1: 09/04/18 - 10/06/18.• OC2: expected by Oct.’18.• OC3: expected by Apr.’19.
Cascade funding opportunities related to SAE under ICT-04-2017
Fed4SAE offers support(including funding, technical and business coaching) to strengthen companies’ competitiveness in the CPS and embedded systemmarkets.
Open calls:• OC1: 14/11/17 - 06/02/18• OC2: 29/05/18 -18/09/18
Tetramax supports the development ofinnovativesolutions in the domain of customized andlow-energy computing for CPS and IoT.Open calls:• 4 billateral (Nov.'17, Sept.'18, Oct.'19,
Apr.'20),• 4 value chain (Feb.'18, Dec.'18, Oct.'19,
Apr.'20) and• 3 entrepreneurial (Aug.'18, Aug.'19,
Aug.'20)
Cascade funding opportunities related to SAE under ICT-04-2017
diatomic funds microelectronics SMEs and midcaps in the industries of health, agrifood, and manufacturing.Open calls:• OC1: 15/03/18 – 15/06/18.• OC2: 01/11/18 – 31/01/19.
the adoption of new digital products, services and business models enabled by flexible electronics technologiesOpen call:From 18/12/18 until 20/09/19, with cut-off dates on: • 16/11/18, • 19/04/19, • 20/09/19.
SmartEESsupports
Cascade funding opportunities related to I4MS under FoF-12-2017
optimize production processes and producibility, by using modelling and simulation based in Cloud / HPC and leveraging online factory data and advanced data analytics.Open calls:• OC1: 01/07/18 – 30/09/18.• OC2: expected Jul.’19
MIDIH aims at realizing services to support ICT
ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs, especially in the domains of Cyber Physical Production System (CPPS) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) .Open calls:• OC1: 29/03/18 - 29/06/18.• OC2: expected Apr.’19.
CloudiFacturingaims to
Cascade funding opportunities related to I4MS under FoF-12-2017
AMable supports European SMEs and mid caps in the uptake of Additive Manufacturing, through services and financial support. Open calls:• Tender call: 11 - 24/06/18.• OC1: 01/07/18 – 01/10/18.• OC2: expected Mar.’19
L4MS aims at supporting European manufacturing industry, especially SMEs and Mid-Caps, by addressing their intra-factory logistics challenges .Open calls:• OC1: 01/09/18 – 30/11/18.• OC2: 01/09/19 – 30/11/19.
CASCADE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES IN IoT, ROBOTICS
AND BIG DATA
Cascade funding opportunities related to IoTunder IoT-01-2016
implementing mature IoTsolutions for active and healthy ageing using the current European ecosystem for testing, demonstration and initial market take-upOpen calls:• OC1: 01/07/18 - 31/10/2018• OC2: Feb.-May 2019.
SynChroniCity aims at to create a global market for human-centered IoT-enabled urban services which are interoperable, replicable and reusable across cities and across domains.Open calls:• OC1: 01/06/18 – 30/06/18.
Activage aims at
Cascade funding opportunities related to IoTunder ICT-30-2015
lasting innovation ecosystem that fosters the uptake of IoTtechnologies for precision farming. It support the implementation of use cases around sectors of arable, dairy, fruits, meat and vegetables.Open calls:• OC 1: 05/06/18 – 30/09/18
Monica is a large-scale demonstration of new and existing IoT applications for a smarter living.Open calls:• MONICA Open Air Hackathon:
August, 2018.• MONICA Hackathon on
Urban Spaces: October, 2018• Leeds Hackathon on sports
events: November, 2018.
IoF 2020 aims at building a
Previous cascade funding opportunities related to Robotics under ICT-26-2016
the impact of ROS-Industrial by making it better and even more business-friendly and accessible.It supports Educational FocusedTechnical ProjectsOpen calls:• FTP call: continuous
submission process. Next cut-off dates: 14/09/18, 16/11/18.
• EP: continuous submission process. Next cut-off dates: 14/09/18.
and multi-domain European robotics software ecosystem.It supports software developments consisting on models or tools and metamodels.Open calls:• OC 1: 10/07/17 – 09/10/17.• OC2: expected April to July
2019.
ROSin aimsto amplify
RobMoSys aims at Building an open, sustainable, agile
Cascade funding opportunities related to Robotics under ICT-27-2017
RobotUnion is a Pan-European Robotics acceleration program for startups in the areas of Manufacturing , Healthcare , Agri-food and Civil InfrastructureOpen calls:• OC1: 17/04/17 - 03/07/18.• OC2: expected by spring
2019.
benchmarking framework for robotic systems in Europe. It isfocused on bipedal machines and funds developemt and validation of benmarkingframeworkOpen calls:• OC 1: 15/07/18 - 31/10/18• OC2: June - August 2020.
Eurobenchaims to create the 1st
unified
Cascade funding opportunities related to Robotics under ICT-27-2017
Esmera promotes applied robotics technology developed for 8 industrial challenges set by key European companies in the areas of Energy, Manufacturing, Construction and Agri-food.Open calls:• OC1: 01/08/18 – 31/10/18.• OC2: expected by fall 2019.
coboteers in completing, analyzing and validating safety for their cobot system or component by applying the project’s toolkit.Open calls:• OC 1: expected to launch by
15/11/2018.
COVR awardsis to help
Cascade funding opportunities related to Photonics under ICT-30-2017
open call to all European companies (big and small,but particularly targeted at SMEs) so they can availof timely, cost-effective, and low risk photonicsinnovation support.
Open call:The ACTPHAST open call work on a continuoussubmission procedure basis.
ACTPHAST is a rapidprototyping incubatorand operates as an
Cascade funding opportunities related to Big Data under ICT-14-2016-2017
European Data Incubator (EDI) is a Big Data incubator offering a dedicated acceleration programmeand equity-free funding for EU based startups and teams.
Open calls:• OC1: 28/03/2018 – 20/06/2018• Two more open calls are
expected.
Data Pitch brings together corporate and public-sector organizations that have data with startups and SMEs that work with data. It works as a competition and an acceleration programme.Open calls:• OC1: 01/07/17 - 01/10/17.• OC 2: 02/07/18 - 02/10/18
OTHER CASCADE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Cascade funding opportunities under INNOSUP-1-2016
IncluSilver aims to support collaboration between actors from different sectors in order to generate and validate innovative ideas in the field of personalisednutrition for the Silver EconomyOpen calls:Continuous submission scheme. Next cut-off dates on:
• 15/09/18• 15/12/18• 15/03/19• 15/06/19
IMPACT Connected Car Impact Connected Car aims at creating value link-chains for innovation in the challenges of Automotive, Infrastructure & building, Electronics, ICT & TelCo and in the transversal areas of Mobility and Business & Consumer services.Open calls:• OC1: 09/10/17 - 10/01/18• OC2: 11/06/18 - 18/10/18
fostering collaboration, transfer ofknowledge and opportunitiesamong European SMEs comingfrom Aerospace and Energyleveraged on Biotechnology, ICTand Medical Devices sectors.Open calls:• 1st Ideas Contest: 15-16/02/18.• OC 1: 19/02/18 - 15/05/18.Expected : 2nd ideas contest, OC2, & 2 SME/University students’ competition
IoT4Industry aims at developing a new cross-sectoral industrial value chain based on the integration and use of IoTand related components into manufacturing tools, machines and robots.Open calls:• OC1: 20/09/18 - 20/12/18.• OC2: 10/03/19 – 10/06/19.
Cross4Healthaims at
Cascade funding opportunities under INNOSUP-1-2016
Other cascade funding opportunities under INNOSUP
KET4CleanProduction awardsmicro-grants to cross-bordercooperation projects, betweenSMEs and, minimum, 2 KETtechnology centres, which aimto integrate KET to solve cleanproduction challenges.Open call: Continuous submission. Next cut-off dates: 31/10/18; 31/01/19; 30/04/19; 31/07/19; 31/10/19; 31/01/20; 30/04/20.
complementary funding mechanism, which enabled the testing and market-uptake of solutions best addressing the social challenges posted in the platform between September 2017 and June 2018.Open call: • OC: 15/09/17 - 15/04/18
Under INNOSUP-03-2017
The Social Challenge Innovation Platform (SCHIP) featured a
Under INNOSUP-04-2016
CASCADE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES: CALENDAR
CALENDAR 2018-2019
Project Jan'18 Feb'18 Mar'18 Apr'18 May'18 June'18 July'18 Aug'18 Sept'18 Oct'18 Nov'18 Dec'18 Jan'19 Feb'19 Mar'19 Apr'19 May'19 Jun'19 July'19 Aug'19 Sept'19 Oct'19 Nov'19 Dec'19
FED4FIRE+
ORCA Exp. Exp.
FLAME Oct.'18 Apr.'19
5GinFIRE
GateOne
FEd4SAE Nov.'18
TETRAMAX Dec.'18 Aug.'19 Oct.'19
DIATOMIC
SmartEES
L4MS Sept.'19
CloudiFactor ing Jul.'19
MIDiH Mar.'19
AMaBLE 11 - 24 Mar.'19
ROSIN
RobMoSys
Robot Union
CVOR 15/11/18
ESMERA
EUROBENCH
VICINITY H2'18
Synchronic ity - IoT
ACTIVAGE
IOF 2020
MONICA Aug.'18 Oct.'18 Nov.'18
AUTOPILOT
DataPitch
EDI
ACTPHAST 4
Impact Connected Car
Inc lus ilver
Cross4Health
IoT4Industry Mar.'19
KET4CleanProduction
INTE: 15/10/17 & September, 2018; IVS: 15/09/17- 15/06/19. Cut-off: 15/12/17, 15/03/18, 15/06/18, 15/09/18, 15/12/18, 15/03/19.
15/02/18 - 16/05/18
June, 2018 - 31/04/20, with cut-off dates for evaluation every 4 months
28/06/18 - 20/10/18
09/10/2017 - 10/01/2018
Open call on a continuous submission basis
11/06/18 - 18/10/2018
01/07/18 - 01/10/18
28/03/18 - 17/06/18
15/03/18 - 15/06/18
05/06/18 - 30/09/18
01/06/18 - 30/09/18
Feb.-May'19
April - July 2019
17/04/2018 - 03/07/2018
15/07/18 - 31/10/18
31/07/18 - 30/10/18
01/07/18 - 30/09/2018
29/03/18 - 29/06/18
31/03/17 - 31/08/2020 (or till budget allocated). Cut-off dates: 30/06/17, Oct.'17, Dec.'17, 06/04/18, 15/06/18, 14/09/18, 16/11/18.
01/07/2018 - 01/10/2018
01/08/18 - 30/10//18
14/11/2017 - 06/02/2018
01/12/17-28/02/1828/02/18 - 30/05/18
19/03/18 - 30/06/2018 10/09/2018 - 07/01/2019
29/05/18 - 18/09/2018
18/12/2017 - 20/09/2019. Cut-off dates: 20/07/2018, 16/11/2018, 19/04/2019
01/09/18 - 30/11/18
31/08 - 30/11
09/04 - 10/06
06/12/17 - 28/02/18
25/10/17-15/01/18
06/12/17 - 28/02/18 15/03/18 - 09/07/18
18/06/18 - 19/09/18
20/06/2018 - 18/09/2018
Internet SAE I4MS Robotics IoT Big Data Photonics Value Chains
CALENDAR 2018-2019
Project Jan'20 Feb'20 Mar'20 Apr'20 May'20 Jun'20 Jul'20 Aug'20
FED4FIRE+
ORCA
FLAME
5GinFIRE
GateOne
FEd4SAE
TETRAMAX Apr.'20 Aug.'20
DIATOMIC
SmartEES
L4MS
CloudiFactor ing
MIDiH
AMaBLE Mar.'20
ROSIN
RobMoSys
Robot Union
CVOR
ESMERA
EUROBENCH
VICINITY
Synchronic ity - IoT
ACTIVAGE
IOF 2020
MONICA
AUTOPILOT
DataPitch
EDI
ACTPHAST 4
Impact Connected Car
Inc lus ilver
Cross4Health
IoT4Industry
KET4CleanProductionJune, 2018 - 31/04/20, with cut-off dates for evaluation every 4 months
Open call on a continuous submission basis
01/06/20 - 31/08/20
31/03/17 - 31/08/2020 (or till budget allocated). Cut-off dates: 30/06/17, Oct.'17, Dec.'17, 06/04/18, 15/06/18, 14/09/18, 16/11/18.
Jan'20
Internet SAE I4MS Robotics IoT Big Data Photonics Value Chains
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