Next generation soil advisors

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Code: 17188 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-02-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 22/12/2021 | End submission calls: 24/03/2022

The objective of this topic is to promote the emergence of specialised “soil advisors” and to strengthen the skills of existing advisors and in view of promoting the uptake of innovations for sustainable land management practices by farmers, foresters and other land managers and owners throughout Europe.

Engage with and activate municipalities and regions to protect and restore soil health

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Code: 17177 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-02-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 22/12/2021 | End submission calls: 24/03/2022

The main objective of this topic is to create spaces and practices for regional and local dialogues on soil health and land management, in order to develop a shared understanding of the nature of the challenges and co-create public (including policy response) and private solutions for the protection and restoration of soil health.

Validating and further developing indicators for soil health and functions

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Code: 17175 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-02-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 22/12/2021 | End submission calls: 24/03/2022

The results of the project to contribute to a harmonized and economic framework for measuring soil health and for the development of a soil health index, based on a widely accepted definition of soil health. In the long run, the results may support harmonized soil monitoring and reporting in Europe, as targeted by the new EU soil strategy. We also need to significantly improve soil health monitoring capabilities and evaluate the results of management practices and measures based on a set of robust soil health indicators (status and change) and receptors for different uses land. It should also focus on supporting policy development and creating incentives for sustainable soil management through increased data on the links between soil health, soil functions and ecosystem services.

Piloting citizen science in marine and freshwater domains

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Code: 17170 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2021-OCEAN-05-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 22/12/2021 | End submission calls: 12/04/2022

Proposals should connect EU citizens and local communities with the ocean, seas and waters, facilitate broad ownership and education and co-design the transitions within the communities that will allow the European Green Deal targets to be reached. Proposals should also help to create a stronger emotional connection between society and aquatic ecosystems and collective responsibility, as well as elicit interest in taking action.

Lighthouse in the Baltic and the North Sea basins – Low impact marine aquaculture and multi-purpose use of marine space

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Code: 17168 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2021-OCEAN-04-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 22/12/2021 | End submission calls: 12/04/2022

Proposals will show the way to profitable and sustainable seafood farming away from the densely populated coasts of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. Such farming will not depend on fossil fuels; a focus should be on low trophic level species. Increased production will not lead to increased pressure on the ecosystem, therefore will not compromise the achievement of Good Environmental Status.

Atlantic and Arctic basin lighthouse – restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems and increased climate resilience

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Code: 17164 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2021-OCEAN-02-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 22/12/2021 | End submission calls: 12/04/2022

Proposals are expected to focus on marine ecosystem restoration at a large scale through:
-reduction of pressures (e.g. from fishing, pollution, extraction, barriers, and other human activities);
– application of ecosystem-based management, nature-based and building with nature restoration measures boosting resilience to climate change (e.g. sea level rise, floods, loss of permafrost in the Arctic) and mitigating its impacts;
– other effective locally adapted restoration measures and appropriate combinations of all the above.

Develop new methods and technologies for cancer screening and early detection

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Code: 17161 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2021-CANCER-02-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 22/12/2021 | End submission calls: 26/04/2022

Research is needed to develop and validate non-invasive, or minimally invasive cancer screening and detection methodologies for everyday medical practice and population-based screening programmes, including enhanced participation of the target population. These programmes should become faster, more precise and personalised, affordable and accessible.

Promoting youth participation in just transition

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Code: 17157 | Identifier Code: EUTEENS4GREEN | Programme name: 17855 | Start submission calls: 21/11/2021 | End submission calls: 31/01/2022

The present initiative aims to empower young people and to make them actors in the definition and implementation of solutions that provide inclusiveness in the green transition.

Social, economic and cultural factors driving land management and land degradation

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Code: 17145 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-02-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 22/12/2021 | End submission calls: 24/03/2022

Avoiding soil degradation and fostering soil health is for a large part conditional upon the land management practices implemented by land managers, together with pressures on natural and semi-natural habitats. Those practices are framed by several factors (economic, social and cultural) and by the policies applied (agriculture, spatial planning, environment, economic, land tenure, etc.). It is necessary to understand those factors and the manner to influence them, so that farmers and other land managers in rural and urban areas are supported in implementing practices that are conducive to soil health and related ecosystem services.

Baltic and North Sea basin lighthouse – coordination activities

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Code: 17142 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2021-OCEAN-04-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 22/12/2021 | End submission calls: 12/04/2022

Proposals under this topic will bring together complementary public and/or private organisations and networks, and integrate heterogeneous expertise to support the rolling out of a “lighthouse” within Baltic and North sea basins and provide a broad portfolio of services ensuring the development and deployment of innovative solutions addressing the objectives of the Mission Ocean, seas and waters in the lighthouse area.

From knowledge gaps to roadmaps on soil mission objectives

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Code: 17137 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-02-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 22/12/2021 | End submission calls: 24/03/2022

For effective coordination and implementation of the mission’s activities, it is necessary to have a detailed view of already existing knowledge, main knowledge gaps and drivers of soil health along with a common understanding of pathways (R&I and other actions) to act on soil health in line with the mission’s specific objectives. Such “roadmaps” for action for each of the mission’s specific objectives should integrate the needs from different disciplines and sectors and address various soil types, land uses and climatic zones across Europe.

Underlying models for the European Digital Twin Ocean

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Code: 17131 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2021-OCEAN-05-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 22/12/2021 | End submission calls: 12/04/2022

The objective is to prepare the next generation of EU digital ocean models (Twin Ocean) complementary to the Copernicus marine service. They should be integrated into the architecture of the European Digital Twin Ocean, a public infrastructure (linked action with topic “EU Public Infrastructure for the European Digital Twin”: EU Public Infrastructure for the European Digital Twin Ocean, included under Other actions) to ensure access to required input and validation data (e.g. from EMODnet, EuroGOOS etc.), high performance and distributed cloud computing facilities.

European Blue Parks

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Code: 17118 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2021-OCEAN-02-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 22/12/2021 | End submission calls: 12/04/2022

Proposals under this topic will focus on innovation actions in protection, conservation and enhancement of the EU’s blue natural capital that have the potential to be up scaled and reproduced at European level and beyond. Proposals will develop a strategic approach towards identifying needs, sharing innovation and transferring solutions between initiatives to create well managed marine protected areas.

Pushing the limit of physical intelligence and performance (RIA)

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Code: 16965 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 21/12/2021 | End submission calls: 05/04/2022

Proposals are expected to focus on technology and systems that significantly extend the physical capability of robots beyond the state of the art.

European Enabling technologies for Beyond 5G/6G RAN disaggregated architectures (RIA)

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Code: 16959 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-30 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 21/12/2021 | End submission calls: 05/04/2022

Proposals are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Availability of European capabilities for enabling hardware, computing, signal processing technologies for beyond 5G (B5G) and future 6G infrastructures in the context of disaggregated, virtualized networks, for both small cell networks and cloud-based macro RANs.
• Availability of European capabilities for B5G/6G computing based on new computing architectures for Base station including accelerators (e.g. FPGA’s) capable of supporting even the most demanding 5G/6G processes in cloud servers and white box base stations or routers.

Advanced characterisation methodologies to assess and predict the health and environmental risks of nanomaterials (RIA)

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Code: 16957 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-35 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 21/12/2021 | End submission calls: 05/04/2022

The development of reliable and practical tools to ensure the safe and sustainable use of nanomaterials has not kept pace with the rapid commercialization of nanotechnology-enabled products. The dynamic nature of many nanomaterials in complex environmental matrices is recognized as a major challenge for their detection, quantification and characterization. Consequently, there is an urgent need to establish appropriate methods for cost-efficient assessment and prediction of the health and environmental effects of nanomaterials.

Ultra low energy and secure networks (RIA)

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Code: 16955 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-39 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 21/12/2021 | End submission calls: 05/04/2022

The research covers enabling technologies for the long term objective of
i) ultra low energy networks and corresponding EU industrial capability for end-to-end all-optical communications with no electro-optical conversion
ii) ultra high security over fibre nets (e.g quantum grade beyond today’s range limitation).
Complementary protocol level work may be considered to alleviate IP limitations, making networks deterministic, drastically reducing energy needs whilst increasing performances in terms of security, control by applications of differentiated features, and implementability as “Network on a Chip”.

AI for human empowerment (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA)

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Code: 16952 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2022-HUMAN-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 21/12/2021 | End submission calls: 05/04/2022

Innovative and promising approaches are encouraged, including human-in the loop approaches for truly mixed human-AI initiatives combining the best of human and machine knowledge and capabilities, tacit knowledge extraction (to design the next generation AI-driven co-creation and collaboration tools embodied e.g. in industrial/working spaces environments).
Build the next level of perception, visualisation, interaction and collaboration between humans and AI systems working together as partners to achieve common goals, sharing mutual understanding and learning of each other’s abilities and respective roles.

Next Generation Safer Internet: Technologies to identify digital Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) (RIA)

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Code: 16948 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2022-HUMAN-01-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 21/12/2021 | End submission calls: 05/04/2022

The proposals aim to develop mature tools that support the analytical work of LEAs and Hotlines, based on relevant classifiers that correspond to typical elements/characteristics of CSAM. The tools should allow identification, categorisation and prioritisation of digital CSAM from large data sets. The solutions should be robust enough and provide sufficient information to help Hotline analysts and law enforcement officers in their assessments.

NGI International Collaboration – USA and Canada (RIA)

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Code: 16945 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2022-HUMAN-01-07 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 21/12/2021 | End submission calls: 05/04/2022

The aim of the topic is to reinforce EU cooperation and strategic partnerships with the US and Canada in the area of Next Generation Internet, and to establish a continuous dialogue among the actors involved in the US, Canadian and EU programmes, in particular as far as internet standardisation is concerned. The focus should be on trust and data sovereignty, in particular digital identity, and on internet architecture renovation and decentralised technologies.