Vaccines 2.0 – developing the next generation of vaccines

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Code: 15788 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-06-03-two-stage | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Health (Cluster 1) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/10/2021 | End submission calls: 01/02/2022

Proposals should aim to diversify and accelerate the global vaccine research and development pipeline, and to strengthen the current leading role of the EU in vaccine research and development. Proposals should cover those pathogens, which still lack vaccines of sufficient efficacy, but where earlier efforts have already produced promising vaccine candidates.

Development of new effective therapies for rare diseases

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Code: 15786 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-06-04-two-stage | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Health (Cluster 1) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/10/2021 | End submission calls: 01/02/2022

Τhe number of available therapies for rare diseases remains low, as fewer than 6% of rare diseases have an approved treatment option. Τhere is an urgent unmet medical need for the development of therapies for rare diseases, where there is still no approved therapeutic option available. Therefore, proposals should aim to develop therapies for rare diseases with no approved therapeutic option.

Better financing models for health systems

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Code: 15784 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-HLTH-2022-CARE-08-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Health (Cluster 1) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/10/2021 | End submission calls: 21/04/2022

Proposals under this topic should aim for delivering results that are contributing to some of the following expected outcomes:

a) Decision and policymakers in the field of health care avail of new approaches to financial planning and financing mechanisms that provide flexibility to stretched health budgets.
b) Decision and policymakers in the field of health care apply cost-effective spending strategies based on the optimisation of the use of resources, while maintaining or improving health outcomes in an equitable way;
c) Decision and policymakers in the field of health care access tools that enable them to better remunerate, contract and incentivise health care professionals and providers;
d) Decision and policymakers in the field of health care take evidence-based and socially equitable health care financial decisions.

European partnership on transforming health and care systems

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Code: 15781 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-HLTH-2022-CARE-10-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Health (Cluster 1) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/10/2021 | End submission calls: 21/04/2022

The creation of a research and innovation (R&I) partnership with a focus on health and care systems’ transformation represents a unique strategic opportunity to bring together stakeholders, create synergies, coordinate R&I actions, facilitate the digitisation of health and care services and support the transformation of health and care systems with innovative solutions driven by knowledge and evidence.

Public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI) for building the resilience of health care systems in the context of recovery

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Code: 15770 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-HLTH-2022-CARE-08-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Health (Cluster 1) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/10/2021 | End submission calls: 21/04/2022

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to one or several expected impacts of destination 4 “Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health care”.
This topic prioritises areas of health care such as health promotion, preparedness, prevention, surveillance and rapid response to cross-border health threats.

Environmental observations solutions contributing to meeting “One Health” challenges

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Code: 15755 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01-09 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

The general scope of this topic is to explore areas of the One Health policy that would benefit from the use of environmental observation and how environmental observations can be used for further shaping policies in the context of e.g. human health, animal health (including zoonoses) and plant health.
A specific focus of the proposal should be on the monitoring of the evolution of ecosystem barriers in densely populated, industrialised or agricultural areas.

Assessing the nexus of extraction, production, consumption, trade and behaviour patterns and of climate change action on biodiversity in the context of transformative change

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Code: 15752 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-01-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

A successful proposal must develop knowledge and tools to understand the role of transformative change for biodiversity policy making, accelerate and upscale biodiversity-relevant transformative changes in our society.
With focus on assessing the nexus of extraction, production (including processing), consumption, trade and behaviour patterns, including transformative changes for climate change on biodiversity for the EU and Associated Countries, international cooperation in particular with African countries, Brazil, Latin American and Caribbean countries or the Mediterranean region is strongly encouraged.

Preparatory actions for data spaces for manufacturing

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Code: 15699 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-CLOUD-AI-01-PREP-DS-MANUFACT | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The preparatory action will establish a multi-stakeholder data governance, an inventory of existing data platforms for manufacturing and a blueprint for manufacturing-specific building blocks which could contribute to the long-term convergence of existing and new data-related initiatives in manufacturing by making use of the data space technical infrastructure. The preparatory actions will support the deployment of these data spaces for manufacturing, and propose sustainable business models and incentives schemes to motivate participants to share data.
The action will bring together existing national, regional and local data ecosystems, and relevant stakeholders, to join efforts and identify common principles for sharing industrial data and re-using large pools of data at the EU level.

Data Space for Mobility

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Code: 15697 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-CLOUD-AI-01-PREP-DS-MOB | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The objective is to contribute to the further development of the common European Mobility data space announced in the Data Strategy and in the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy, built and operated in full compliance with existing EU legislation in the mobility and transport sectors. The specific aim is to support the creation of a technical infrastructure combined with governance mechanisms that will facilitate easy, cross-border access to key data resources in this area.
Data for sustainable urban mobility indicators (SUMI) and for traffic and travel information in urban and regional areas will be made available for reuse for the development of innovative services and applications, and for policymaking.

Create a European Industrial Ecosystem for Secure QCI technologies and systems

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Code: 15694 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-QCI-01-INDUSTRIAL | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

To prepare for the industrialisation and deployment of quantum communication infrastructure (QCI) technological and operational capabilities and advanced QCI networks essential for European cybersecurity, and contribute to the development of a European industrial QCI ecosystem, including a thriving SME sector. This support is needed to contribute to European technological autonomy in the highly strategic field of quantum communication technologies.

Data Spaces Support Centre

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Code: 15691 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-CLOUD-AI-01-SUPPCENTRE | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The objective of this action is to set up and operate a Support Centre, which coordinates all relevant actions on sectorial data spaces and makes available (blueprint) architectures and data infrastructure requirements for the data spaces, including possible technologies, processes, standard and tools that will allow reuse of data across sectors by the public sector and European businesses, notably SMEs. It will also support the work of the envisaged Data Innovation Board in view of enhancing the interoperability of data as well as data sharing services between different sectors and domains.

e-Justice Communication via Online Data Exchange (e-CODEX)

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Code: 15688 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-TRUST-01-ECODEX | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The objective of this topic is to continue ensuring the operation and evolutive maintenance of e-CODEX started under previous programmes (ICT Policy Support Programme, ICT PSP, part of the Competitive and Innovation framework Programme, CIP, of the EU, ICT PSP CIP, and further developed and maintained under the Connecting Europe Facility, CEF, programme of the EU) and now in use, and to provide support to the stakeholders and users of the system until the planned hand-over to eu-LISA in 2023 in accordance with relevant legislation.

Initial Network of European Digital Innovation Hubs

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Code: 15685 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-EDIH-INITIAL-01 | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

Set-up the Initial Network of European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) from all designated candidate entities resulting from the Expression of Interest (1.1). Upgrade these entities to provide the complete set of services of an EDIH, including the necessary infrastructure, in a specific geographical area, covering the needs of the local SMEs, small mid-caps and/or public sector organisations with respect to their digital transformation. Network these EDIHs with each other and with other projects selected in Digital Europe Programme developing capacities in High Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Advanced Digital Skills and accelerating the best use of these technologies.

Preparatory actions for the data space for Agriculture

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Code: 15682 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-PREPACTS-DS-01-AGRI | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The main objective is to develop a secure and trusted data space to enable the agriculture sector to transparently share and access data allowing for an increase in its economic and environmental performance. The data space is expected to facilitate the sharing, processing and analysis of production data, open data and possibly other public data (e.g. soil data). Production data supplemented by publicly held data will present new opportunities for monitoring and optimising the use of natural resources and will contribute to achieve the objectives of the Green Deal and the Common Agricultural Policy.

Preparatory actions for the data space for tourism

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Code: 15680 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-PREPACTS-DS-01-TOURISM | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

A tourism data space, through its connection to other sectoral data spaces (e.g. cultural heritage) will provide access to information to the ecosystem, with an impact on productivity, greening and sustainability, innovative business models and upskilling. The preparatory action will establish a multi-stakeholder data governance, an inventory of existing data platforms for tourism and a blueprint for tourism-specific building blocks which could contribute to the long-term convergence of existing and new data-related initiatives in tourism by making use of the data space technical infrastructure. The preparatory actions will support the deployment of these data spaces for tourism, and propose sustainable business models and incentives schemes to motivate participants to share data.

Advanced digital skills analysis

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Code: 15677 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-SKILLS-01-ANALYSIS | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The objective of this action is to support the rollout of initiatives for advanced digital skills development, by gathering inputs on the existing education offers in digital areas and the related needs of the labour market.

Specialised education programmes in key capacity areas

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Code: 15675 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-SKILLS-01-SPECIALISED | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The action aims at increasing and improving the offer of education programmes and the number of students specialised in key capacity areas. The offer will be expanded in terms of geographical distribution (including outermost regions and other disadvantaged regions), number of opportunities and relevance to latest technological developments. The actions also aim at supporting more inter-disciplinary courses that can equip professionals with relevant advanced digital skills and increase diversity among students and future digital experts (for example data analytics skills for professionals in different sectors). The goal is to encourage organisations to work together and develop ecosystems of excellence able to train, attract and retain the best digital talents, including by contributing to closing the gender gap in these fields.

Testing and Experimentation Facility for Edge AI

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Code: 15671 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-CLOUD-AI-01-TEF-EDGE | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The overall aim of the Testing and Experimentation Facility (TEF) for Edge AI hardware is to ensure the availability in Europe of trusted, high-performance, low-power edge components and technologies to support the massive data-processing requirements of AI and the digital transformation. The emergence of novel computing paradigms, such as neuromorphic, provides an opportunity for the European industry to take the lead in a new generation of edge and distributed computing systems.
This project aims at delivering a European platform that will enable companies to develop, test and experiment AI product prototypes based on advanced low-power computing technologies, custom-designed for their application environment.

Preparatory actions for the Green Deal Data Space

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Code: 15669 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-CLOUD-AI-01-PREP-DS-GREEN-DEAL | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The action should also establish links to relevant initiatives under the Green Deal to ensure a user-driven development of the data space, in particular those (e.g. Horizon Europe activities such as the Green Deal Missions) that will provide significant opportunities to test, experiment and up-scale the input to and use of the data space
with local partners. Τhe project will propose a roadmap for the deployment of a full-fledged common European Green Deal data space and liaise with potential users and other relevant actors to ensure synergies between users and infrastructures.

Coordinate the first deployment of national EuroQCI projects and prepare the large-scale QKD testing and certification infrastructure

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Code: 15664 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-QCI-01-EUROQCI-QKD | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

To coordinate the developments and findings of the national QCI projects; to prepare for the deployment of a flexible large-scale testing and certification QKD infrastructure that is in the service of all relevant actors of the participating Member States; and to assess the full-scale compliance of different EU technologies with a view to their later integration in EuroQCI. This support is needed to contribute to European technological autonomy in the highly strategic field of quantum communication technologies.