Programme Category
Programme Name
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.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
This action is an application-oriented initiative, which responds to the new GEO strategy for the period beyond 2025 and aims to combine and promote existing European Earth observation services and solutions, which have been prototyped under the relevant Horizon, Copernicus and other European and national projects and initiatives, and to extend them to end-users and customers with a view to their widespread adoption.
Detailed Call Description
In support of the European Green Deal targets, the project should develop, test, demonstrate and customise 2 to 3 integrated solutions, using advanced digital technologies like Artificial Intelligence, including generative AI, with a clear path towards operationalisation that should correspond to some of the following selected focus areas of the GEO Post-2025 implementation plan:
- Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security;
- Water Resilience;
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity;
- Carbon Management;
- Disaster Resilience.
The solutions should be co-designed with relevant European users, including local, regional and national governments (such as through the Copernicus National User Forums), and mature business plans should be developed in the project to ensure operational uptake after the project, including by public/private procurers or service providers, Copernicus services, or GEO flagships and initiatives.
The activity should leverage European infrastructures and where relevant integrate various remote sensing platforms such as satellites, manned and unmanned aviation (drones). It should further build on and contribute to the existing European digital ecosystem, including different research and service infrastructures, like European data spaces, citizen science initiatives and national, regional, and global databases of in-situ observation, and support their evolution. Clustering and cooperation with other selected projects under this call topic and other relevant projects should be ensured. To this end, proposals should earmark the appropriate resources for coordination activities accordingly in their work plan.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
70%
Expected EU contribution per project: €7.50 million.
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Environment and Climate Change
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Other Services
- Public Administration
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Businesses
- Central Government
- Educational Institutions
- Legal Entities
- Natual person / Citizen / Individual
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- Services Providers
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
- Training Centres
Eligibility For Participation Notes
If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used).
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia,
P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
Marcia Trillidou
Scientific Officer A’
Email: trillidou@research.org.cy
Dr. Mary Economou
Scientific Officer
Email: meconomou@research.org.cy