Data-driven Distributed Industrial Environments (Made in Europe Partnership) (IA)

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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-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-08

Call

Data-driven Distributed Industrial Environments (Made in Europe Partnership) (IA)

Summary

The aim of this call is to build a flexible industrial Internet for distributed control and modular manufacturing while keeping the high-level of reliability and safety required by the manufacturing sector. Computing, storage and networking technologies will have to show also flexibility along the industrial value chains and promote the introduction of new business models, based on the availability of deep industrial data from different data sources and ontologies, within an agreed data governance, with mutual trust and adequate distribution of the value created by sharing data.

Detailed Call Description

Proposals are expected to address one of the following technology areas for data-driven industrial environments:

  • Development of technologies and definition of specifications and standards for data, products, and/or business processes, that can be agreed and commonly used by many industrial actors, and that have the potential for the emergence of future digital value chains, identify promising industrial areas and organisational models that facilitate cooperation and collaborative product and service design among industry players facilitating industry agreements.
  • Quick uptake of advanced 5G technologies by European manufacturing sector to support the convergence towards greater exploitation of industrial data and increase resilience and cybersecurity by design. Private 5G networks are exclusive mobile networks that manufacturers can use for a defined local production site. Innovative approaches to simplify the deployment and operation of such private 5G networks throughout their life cycle are needed. Implementers in industrial environments need to take a holistic view, including both the connectivity infrastructure and the actual production system. An important element for rapid deployment is also the development and evaluation of new business models for private 5G networks.

Projects should offer opportunities for new players that have their main focus on non-public (campus) networks (NGN) for connected industries and in particular automation applications.

Projects will aim at “Zero-Touch Management”, using network automation, AI / ML, Self-organizing Networks (SON), etc. and taking into account the specifics of industrial environments. Projects are encouraged to develop toolkits of open hardware, software and toolware, and qualify the use of these to provide opportunities to SMEs to further automate and digitalise their manufacturing, as well as further development on top of these Industrial Internet standards and there inherent cyber security demands for Operational Technology environment.

Call Total Budget

€24,00 million

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

70%

Contribution per project: between € 4,00 and €8,00 million

Thematic Categories

  • Information Technology
  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation

Eligibility for Participation

  • Private Bodies
  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
  • Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Call Opening Date

22/06/2021

Call Closing Date

23/09/2021

National Contact Point(s)

Research and Innovation Foundation

Strovolos Avenue 123, 2042 Nicosia, Cyprus, P.O.Box 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.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: 19/08/2021-for internal use only)