Collaboration with NSF on fundamental research on new concepts for distributed computing and swarm intelligence (CSA)

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Horizon Europe (2021-2027)

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.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

HORIZON-CL4-2023-DATA-01-07

Call

Collaboration with NSF on fundamental research on new concepts for distributed computing and swarm intelligence (CSA)

Summary

Proposal are expected to contribute for the support of the structure for the EU-NSF cooperation: networking events, exchange and fellowship programmes, and vision workshops for the academic and industrial computing community, at least one annual EU-US workshop.

Detailed Call Description

DG Connect and the relevant entity at US National Science Foundation (NSF) have identified mutual interest in collaborating on longer-term on fundamental research on new concepts for distributed computing and swarm intelligence. Preparing the grounds for cooperation, support is needed in terms of a landscaping analysis of relevant tools and frameworks in this field, with clearly identified mutual benefit, organising brokerage events for matching of on-going work streams in projects, especially linked to programming tools for decentralised intelligence and swarms, whilst promoting the emergence of open, collaborative programming frameworks and software development tools. Collaboration shall address common needs emerging on managing complexity through high levels of abstraction, in particular related to large numbers of distributed objects, evolving computational capacity at the edge, and on new AI-based concepts leading to self-organised, dynamic, and adaptive management..

Support for this collaboration is envisaged along the following lines:

• Yearly common workshops for exchange of research results organised in close collaboration with the HIPEAC CSA under Horizon Europe Cluster 4 “From Cloud-to-Edge-to-IoT for European Data”.

• Support to the collaboration through support for secretarial services, networking including travel, research exchange and fellowship programmes, promotion and brokerage events.

• NSF would provide supplement of funding to drive joint research and support collaboration.

It is critical here that collaboration should be based on pre-competitive work between research establishments and academic partners in the context of pairs of projects supported by NSF and the EU.

Call Total Budget

€1,000,000

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

100%

EU contribution: €1,00 million

Thematic Categories

  • Education and training
  • Information Technology
  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation

Eligibility for Participation

  • Educational Institutions
  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions

Call Opening Date

08/12/2022

Call Closing Date

29/03/2023

National Contact Point(s)

Research and Innovation Foundation

29a Andrea Michalakopoulou Street, 1075 Nicosia
T.Th. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
+357 22205000
Email: support@research.org.cy

Dr Angelos Ntantos
Scientific Officer
Telephone: 35722205033
Email: antantos@research.org.cy

Dr Ioannis Theodorou

Scientific Officer
Telephone: 35722205038
Email: itheodorou@research.org.cy

(Publish Date: 13/12/2022-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