Pilots of long-term climate impact forest monitoring sites: Providing temporally resolved ecosystem-level information on the effects of climatic drivers on forest structure and function in near real-time

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Code: 34620 | Identifier Code: FORWARDS - G-06-2024 | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 31/07/2024 | End submission calls: 31/10/2024

This call aims to set up pilots for long-term climate impact forest monitoring sites across Europe. Current long-term forest monitoring networks provide important information on the impact of climate change on forests. Still, most monitoring networks are not particularly focused on assessing climate change impacts. With this call, the aim is thus to increase the potential of existing forest monitoring sites – especially but not inclusively ICP Forests, ICOS or LTER sites (i.e., sites which already provide a basic set of monitoring data) – to assess the impact of climate and climatic extremes on trees and forests.

AerOS Open Call #2

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Code: 34618 | Identifier Code: aerOS | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 25/07/2024 | End submission calls: 30/09/2024

AerOS is a project funded by the Horizon Europe programme aiming at designing and building a virtualised platform-agnostic meta operating system for the IoT-edge-cloud continuum.

NGI FEDIVERSITY 1st Open Call – “Creating the hosting stack of the future”

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Code: 34616 | Identifier Code: Fediversity | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 01/08/2024 | End submission calls: 01/10/2024

Fediversity is a comprehensive effort to bring easy-to-use, hosted cloud services with service portability and personal freedom at their core to everyone. It wants to provide everyone with high-quality, secure IT systems for everyday use.

PQ-REACT Open Call #1 – DEVELOP

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Code: 34607 | Identifier Code: PQ-REACT | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 03/08/2024 | End submission calls: 30/09/2024

The main objective of PQ-REACT project is to design, develop and validate a framework for a faster and smoother transition from classical to quantum resistant solutions for a wide variety of contexts and usage domains.

Design Platform

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Code: 34605 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-Chips-2024-CSA-CDP-1 | Programme name: 32499 | Start submission calls: 13/08/2024 | End submission calls: 10/10/2024

This activity aims at building a pioneering cloud-enabled European Design Platform that will aid users, particularly start-ups and SMEs, in accessing a wide range of advanced tools, assets and services to develop their chips. The Design Platform is expected to support the design of a wide variety of technologies, specifically but not limited to digital circuits at multiple process nodes (up to leading edge nodes); analogue; mixed-signal; power; photonics and quantum. The Design Platform shall also support back-end of line (BEOL) design and manufacturing through advanced heterogeneous systems integration and advanced packaging techniques.

Non-thematic research actions targeting disruptive technologies for defence

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Code: 34603 | Identifier Code: EDF-2024-LS-RA-DIS-NT | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 05/11/2024

The specific challenge is to lay the foundations for radically new future technologies of any kind with unexpected impact that aims to bring radical technological superiority over potential adversaries. This topic also encourages the driving role of new actors in defence research and innovation, including excellent researchers, ambitious high-tech SMEs and visionary research centres of big companies, universities or research and technology organisations.

Beyond the line-of-sight close combat

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Code: 34600 | Identifier Code: EDF-2024-DA-GROUND-BLOS | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 05/11/2024

Beyond Line Of Sight (BLOS) engagement is the capability of firing at a target not directly seen by the effector, based on information given by a remote sensor. The Beyond Line Of Sight (BLOS) capability offers tactical advantages, as mobile units acquire an increased engagement capability with higher kill probability and without being spotted by the adversary.

To succeed in a BLOS-firing mission, reconnaissance, intelligence, and adequate preparations is likely essential. A technical system design (i.e., incorporating command and control, mobility, survivability, lethality, intelligence and endurance) for BLOS must be versatile against future alterations pending an evolving hostile threat. A BLOS system design therefore needs to be future-proof regarding robustness and security to motivate investments in resources and funds for the anticipated period of life.

Defence multi-dimensional communication standard

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Code: 34595 | Identifier Code: EDF-2024-DA-C4ISR-COMS-STEP | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 05/11/2024

This topic focuses on system level integration and orchestration of 5G technologies for seamless interaction of private military and public 5G networks. Hence, the overall objective is to support the need for an always connected concept enabling military applications to roam securely through a mix of private and public networks. To achieve this, there is a need to study, develop and demonstrate how the military can exploit seamless and uninterrupted transfer of secure applications and services in a coverage area served by a mix of private military and public 5G networks, including BLoS (Beyond Line of Sight) through Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) communication systems integrated in 3GPP standard.

The specific challenge of this topic is to demonstrate robust and dynamic operational capabilities of 5G connectivity solutions matching the military needs for tactical command and control applications and services.

The solution should always be connected via a hybrid form of networks, while ensuring secure communications, using tactical networks, private military and public 5G networks and other federation solutions. The use of flexible reach back solutions such as 5G NTN is also necessary to reach shared centralised cloud services.

Within this context, secure integration of commercial and military hardware, software and services is a fundamental challenge that must be addressed on both a technological and a commercial level.

Next generation armoured infantry fighting vehicle

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Code: 34593 | Identifier Code: EDF-2024-DA-GROUND-AIFV | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 05/11/2024

Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicles (AIFV) remain a pivotal element of land military manoeuvre, both in a conventional warfare context as well as in the asymmetric one, thanks to the combination of protection, mobility, and firepower. Nonetheless, AIFVs currently numbered in the fleet inventories of the EU Member States are to some extent either ageing or obsolete and, therefore, the same States face the compelling need to modernise their in-service platforms and replace those of them approaching the end of their operational life. There is also a need to accelerate the acquisition and increase the size of the AIFV fleets updating some of the new requirements stemming from the war in Ukraine and the new threat scenarios. Against this background, the upgrade of the current and development of the next generation armoured infantry fighting vehicle capable of outstanding operational effectiveness and mission success in all possible future scenarios are highly necessary.

Modularity, reduced crew workload, the integration of automatic systems, Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T), and increased survivability must guide design considerations.

Small enhanced European UAS

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Code: 34590 | Identifier Code: EDF-2024-DA-C4ISR-SEEU-STEP | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 05/11/2024

This topic intends to contribute to address the following specific challenges that small UAS are prone to:

• Low UAS signatures and extended operational ranges;
• Operate autonomously and automatic, including with assisted piloting considerations;
• Miniaturisation of sensors and payloads, including potential weapons and communication systems;
• Operational capability and survivability in contested, congested and challenging (e.g., weather) airspace.

Non-thematic development actions by SMEs

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Code: 34588 | Identifier Code: EDF-2024-LS-DA-SME-NT | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 05/11/2024

This call topic encourages the driving role of innovative SMEs to turn technology and research results into defence products in a fast and cost-efficient way, possibly by adapting technologies from civil applications or addressing hybrid warfare.

Autonomous heavy minesweeping system

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Code: 34586 | Identifier Code: EDF-2024-DA-UWW-AHMS | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 05/11/2024

Uncrewed systems are a familiar asset in naval capabilities, and they are being increasingly adopted. These types of assets and the technologies that go with them have the potential to offer a diverse mission set, minesweeping being one of them. The maritime drones and their payloads currently used and integrated by the navies operate with different levels of autonomy and endurance. This topic aims to enhance naval minesweeping capabilities by pushing the design and level of the autonomy of particularly maritime drones. Furthermore, this topic addresses sweep gear and sweep sources for minesweeping operations adjoining the higher level of autonomy. In this context the drone/platform and its payload/sweeping gear form the minesweeping system.

The objective of this call is to reach at least technology readiness level 6 for a minesweeping system (platform/drone and payload designed for it).