Communication Infrastructure Technologies and Devices

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Code: 27196 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-SNS-2023-STREAM-B-01-03 | Programme name: 26685 | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 25/04/2023

The scope covers the design of new systems and components for 6G networks.

EU-US 6G R&I Cooperation

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Code: 27193 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-SNS-2023-STREAM-B-01-06 | Programme name: 26685 | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 25/04/2023

ExpectedOutcome:

• EU-US research cooperation on selected critical 6G technologies and architectures exploring AI, paving the way towards global validation, adoption and standardisation of intelligent approaches, notably in the context of key 6G KPIs.
• Technology validation in platforms where appropriate.
• Joint progress towards AI large scale applicability in 6G networks and standardisation opportunities supported by availability of common data sets and learning sequences provided in an open manner.

SNS Large Scale Trials and Pilots (LST&Ps) with Verticals – Focused Topic

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Code: 27190 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-SNS-2023-STREAM-D-01-01 | Programme name: 26685 | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 25/04/2023

The target 5G Advanced / 6G systems validation work through large scale trials is expected to cover at least the following domains:

• Priority 1  for this topic is on connected and automated mobility (CAM) vertical and intelligent terrestrial transportation.
• Priority 2 include the following verticals (to be considered independently or in combination): Health, Smart Cities, Farming, or Education.

To ensure a balanced portfolio covering both aforementioned Priorities grants will be awarded to proposals not only in order of ranking but at least also to one project that is the highest ranked within each of the two Priorities (Priority 1 on CAM and Priority 2 on complementary use cases in the specific vertical sectors Health, Smart Cities, Farming or Education (to be considered independently or in combination) provided that the proposals attain all thresholds.

SNS Societal Challenges

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Code: 27188 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-SNS-2023-STREAM-CSA-01 | Programme name: 26685 | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 25/04/2023

The scope covers:

At societal level – clearly identify why society needs 6G solutions and consider the acceptability of a new 6G technological wave. This will cover all aspects that may lead to acceptance and possibly adoption of a new technology by people, social sustainability and technology acceptability, including democracy, privacy and security principles, contribution to and impact on the society, and participation of the population are in scope as well as possible measures to address or improve the key factors of acceptability.

From a sustainability point of view – analyse 6G contribution to the sustainability targets and a human-centric approach, with sustainability models for various application domains. Sustainability may be considered at large and should cover at least i) energy efficiency/carbon neutrality for various sectors; ii) energy and carbon footprint of current and future SNS technology solutions as well as related technology enablers and enabled applications; iii) affordability and accessibility considering the cost of technological solutions and the impact on availability and prices.

Public policy objectives – as well as existing and future EU guidance in various fields including, cyber-security, privacy, environmental and climate action, as well as health that are important elements to be considered during the developments of new technology solutions.

European technological competitiveness and digital leadership – notably in terms of position of European players in the supply chain and digital skills in the field of 6G technologies are of key importance. Activities under the SNS JU need to contribute to conceive, develop and deploy a European value-based approach to 6G (based on European KVIs and KPIs) and promote it through the 6G global standard setting process. Synergies with related SNS CSA projects from Phase 1 and other initiatives already in place (IPCEI on Microelectronics and Connectivity, Chips Act, etc.) may be considered.

Intellectual property aspects and its valorisation through standards in a changing (software/IT influenced) digital world is in the scope of the project. In this context confidentiality of exchanges of data and their security are aspects to be taken care of.

Complementary SNS experimental Pan-EU federated Infrastructure

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Code: 27184 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-SNS-2023-STREAM-C-01-01 | Programme name: 26685 | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 25/04/2023

The scope of this topic, includes an open, disaggregated, versatile, and unified end-to-end platform operating over multiple interconnected B5G/6G sites in multiple European countries and following where possible open architectures at cloud implementation level thus, delivering the highest degrees of performance, flexibility and functionality for supporting testing and validation of innovative B5G/6G use cases such as holographic, XR/VR/telepresence, digital twins, cooperative robots, AI-as-a-service and haptic communications.

System Architecture

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Code: 27182 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-SNS-2023-STREAM-B-01-01 | Programme name: 26685 | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 25/04/2023

The scope covers the realisation of a unified and open communication and computing architecture beyond the current 5G SBA capabilities. Such architecture will enable seamless operations across a multiplicity of heterogeneous domains, infrastructures, services, business, and application heterogeneous domains, paving the way towards massive digitisation. The scope also covers new paradigms and solutions that are looking promising for the further reengineering of network architectures.
Applicants should define the domain boundaries of their planned solutions and how they intend to maximise take up prospects in a fully heterogeneous domain.

Microelectronics-based Solutions for 6G Networks

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Code: 27177 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-SNS-2023-STREAM-B-01-05 | Programme name: 26685 | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 25/04/2023

ExpectedOutcome:

• Increased capabilities of European microelectronics industry to provide solutions for communication networks and devices (beyond the today 4% of global markets), in line with the findings of the CoreNect CSA.
• Available solutions for devices at various levels of the device data processing chain, from baseband and mixed-signal processing to RF and Antenna system and considering new spectrum that may be needed for 6G.
• Availability of validated hardware solutions that may be used, especially from a physical layer radio perspective, in the context of the 6G standardisation with strong partnership between the microelectronics and communication industrial actors.
• Availability of open solutions that may support further innovation at any level, from the end devices to core 6G network components.
• Availability of solutions that will offer significant energy reduction for 6G communication systems.

Reliable Services and Smart Security

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Code: 27175 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-SNS-2023-STREAM-B-01-04 | Programme name: 26685 | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 25/04/2023

The target outcomes qualify the needed level of reliability, trust and resilience that applies to a critical infrastructure like 6G based on a globally connected continuum of heterogeneous environments supported by the convergence of networks and IT systems to enable new future digital services.

Wireless Communication Technologies and Signal Processing

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Code: 27170 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-SNS-2023-STREAM-B-01-02 | Programme name: 26685 | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 25/04/2023

The focus of this Strand is on techniques to improve the performance of radio links and systems for 6G communications. Physical layer of THz communications has been extensively covered by projects selected in the first SNS call and is subsequently not expected to be a strong focus for this topic. Moreover, the scope covers the design of 6G RAN systems.

EIC Transition Challenge: Environmental Intelligence 

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Code: 27168 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-TRANSITIONCHALLENGES-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 27/09/2023

Proposals submitted to this Challenge should focus on demonstrating novel devices, sensors or technologies that have a clear and quantifiable advantage with respect to one or several of the key issues mentioned above compared with existing alternatives for similar class of problems or applications.

Deadline dates:
12 April 2023
27 September 2023

EIC Transition Challenge: Chip-scale optical frequency combs

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Code: 27163 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-TRANSITIONCHALLENGES-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 27/09/2023

The overall goal of this Challenge is to advance technological developments of the light states in driven nonlinear systems and to develop novel platforms for chip-scale frequency combs.

Deadline dates:
12 April 2023
27 September 2023

Transition Open 2023

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Code: 27155 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-TRANSITIONOPEN-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 27/09/2023

The EIC Transition Open has no predefined thematic priorities and is open to proposals in any field of technology or application. For any chosen field, EIC Transition projects should address, in a balanced way, both technology and market/business development, possibly including iterative learning processes based on early customer or user feedback.

Broadband Connectivity Voucher Scheme (Measure C4.1I2)

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Code: 27152 | Identifier Code: Measure C4.1I2 | Programme name: 13607 | Start submission calls: 01/02/2023 | End submission calls: 30/09/2023

The ‘Connectivity Voucher Scheme’ aims to encourage the upgrading of the internal building infrastructure in Cyprus and the connection of end-users to Gigabit capable networks, deployed close to their residence, through the reduction of set-up cost and subscription fees. The main objective of the Scheme is to intensify demand for ultrahigh speed connections, while encouraging the market to invest in Very High Capacity Networks (VHCN), an objective that is fully in line with the Cyprus Broadband Plan 2021-2025.

Closing date of call: 30/09/2023 or until the amount of €3.5 million is absorbed.

Onsite digital technologies to monitor nutrients and chemical or biological stressors in soil and plants with relevance for food safety and nutrition

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Code: 27149 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 20/09/2023

Onsite digital technologies and applications are emerging in food production and have the potential to detect chemical and biological stressors in soil and plants to help assessing, managing and eventually eliminating potential food safety risks that these stressors may pose. There is a need to improve the development and application of digital tools in primary production and food industries and boost their technological scale-up as a means to address more effectively the soil-food nexus. Moreover, those technologies will help the food industry to track safety and quality of post-harvested food grown in soils.

Innovations to prevent and combat desertification

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Code: 27147 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 20/09/2023

In 2017, 25% of land in Southern, Central and Eastern Europe was estimated to be at high or very high risk of desertification. The risk is likely to have further increased since then, and to continue increasing because of accelerating climate change and continued pressures from land use and land-use change. Desertification leads to loss of biodiversity, of organic carbon and of other land-based ecosystem services, including reduced agricultural and forest productivity. Desertification further amplifies global warming through the release of CO2 and other greenhouse gases linked with the decrease in vegetation cover. Thus, it has severe environmental, social and economic consequences which need to be urgently tackled.

Back to earth: bringing communities and citizens closer to soil

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Code: 27143 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-07 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 20/09/2023

The Cultural and Creative sectors (CCIs), artists and civil society organisations can play a significant role in promoting a green transition by engaging people and giving visibility to environmental issues. Working together with soil experts, they can contribute to increasing soil literacy by mobilising the population in the protection and restoration of soil health as well as by tackling soil challenges through creative activities.

With regard to soil health, CCIs, artists and civil society organisations have a major role to play in acting as ambassadors and giving visibility to soil related challenges. They are key for raising awareness, for example on the importance of soil and its functions for society (e.g. documentaries, communication campaigns, podcasts, music, artistic performances, exhibitions, literary arts, etc.), and for inspiring and engaging people to take part in a broader debate and in taking actions, including through innovative methodologies and tools, arts and participatory processes. Arts and other creative forms of engagement have shown to be able to mobilise people that would otherwise not easily connect to more scientific or technical information on soils. Existing examples include initiatives to raise awareness on soils in schools by painting with earth colours or citizen projects on collective composting and urban gardening or the production of documentaries and exhibitions for the general public.

Various and innovative methodologies and tools to increase citizens’ awareness and engagement should be tested in different contexts to reach and involve a large number of people with the overall scope of increasing soil literacy across society.

Discovering the subsoil

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Code: 27141 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 20/09/2023

The term “subsoil” refers to the horizons immediately below the topsoil. The subsoil can have a large impact on soil’s potential for productivity and the supply of ecosystem services. Carbon sequestered in subsoils generally contributes to more than half of the total stocks within a soil profile. In contrast to topsoil, organic matter stored in subsoil horizons is characterised by high mean residence times. Conversely, subsoil degradation (e.g. through compaction, pollution, salinization) may limit root penetration, reduce nutrient uptake and result in plants becoming increasingly susceptible to stress such as from pests and diseases or drought and floods. Reduced water infiltration in subsoils limits plant growth, while increasing surface water runoff and the risk of soil erosion.

Activities under this topic should improve our understanding and knowledge of the links between the subsoil and ecosystem services, and they should promote practices that enhance the health status of subsoils in agriculture, forestry and urban areas, as well as in sites of nature conservation and sensitive landscapes.

Soil-friendly practices in horticulture, including alternative growing media

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Code: 27138 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 20/09/2023

Practices in horticulture can affect soil health and related ecosystem services at different points in the value chain, for example at production sites as well as further upstream. Within horticultural production systems, soils are often subjected to particularly intensive use, which can cause among others soil compaction, soil pollution (e.g. excess nutrients, pesticides or microplastics), and salinization as a consequence of intensive irrigation.
Peat is commonly used in nurseries, greenhouses and amateur horticulture as a growing medium and for soil improvement, as it has an excellent water retention capacity, is highly fertile due to the reduced leaching of nutrients and can improve the soil buffering capacity. The extraction of natural peat, however, is highly contentious as the disturbance of peatlands leads to habitat loss, soil degradation, CO2 emissions and increased flood risks. Therefore, sustainable alternatives to natural peat are required. While various peat-free or peat-reduced growing media have become more widely available in recent years, their performance with regard to environmental and other relevant criteria remains difficult to assess.

Soils in spatial planning

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Code: 27136 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 20/09/2023

Land is a limited resource and needs to be managed carefully to meet the various, sometimes conflicting societal demands on land and soil. Inadequate practices in land management and in land use planning are main drivers of land degradation and result in the loss of important soil functions.
In urban areas for example, soil sealing leads to reduced evaporation and infiltration of water into the soil.
In rural areas, fragmented landscapes lead to a loss of habitats for species and to reduced capacities of soils to perform important functions such as water regulation or carbon storage. At the same time, pressures on rural housing, also call for adequate planning to ensure that soil and land management addresses the manifold needs of rural populations. Spatial planning has a considerable role to play when it comes to steering a more balanced and sustainable use of land and ensuring that net land take is reduced, in particular if applying the principles of a “land take hierarchy“.
Activities under this topic should identify mechanisms and highlight associated benefits that accrue from the increased consideration of soil functions by the spatial planning sector, both in urban and rural environments.

Carbon farming in living labs

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Code: 27130 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-09 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 20/09/2023

Carbon farming can be defined as a green business model that rewards land managers for taking up improved land management practices, resulting in the increase of carbon sequestration in living biomass, dead organic matter and soils by enhancing carbon capture and/or reducing the release of carbon to the atmosphere, in respect of ecological principles favourable to biodiversity and the natural capital overall.

Living labs are collaborations between multiple partners that operate and undertake experiments on several sites at regional or sub-regional level. Individual sites could be e.g. farms, forest stands, urban green or industrial areas, enterprises and other entities, where the work is carried-out and monitored under real-life conditions, regardless of the land size, tenure (land ownerships) or the type of economic activity.

Lighthouses are individual, local sites (one farm, one forest exploitation, one industrial site, one urban city green area, etc.) that either can be part of a living lab or be situated outside a living lab.