Beyond the horizon: A human-friendly deployment of artificial intelligence and related technologies

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Code: 30301 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 04/10/2023 | End submission calls: 07/02/2024

The history of “artificial intelligence” technologies (AI) is marked by great optimism and expectation, sometimes followed by disappointment. AI has had significant impact in the arts and humanities, and AI-based methods and tools are becoming more widely used in the cultural arena. Today the collection of computer technologies commonly labelled artificial intelligence, along with related technologies for instance in the fields of data science, neuroscience and biotechnology, already show the potential to disrupt and impact the rights of individuals and the wellbeing of societal structures. AI systems have been (mis-)used to micro-target and influence voters in elections as well as in the creation and dissemination of disinformation, and otherwise impact on human agency and autonomy. Many ethical issues arise in the development of AI systems, such as their use in medical devices, brain-computer interfaces, reasoning about human mental and emotion state, etc.

The European Forest Institute (EFI) – Establishing Climate-Smart Forestry and forest restoration pilots in Europe G-04-2023

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Code: 30292 | Identifier Code: G-04-2023 | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 31/07/2023 | End submission calls: 31/10/2023

The aim of this call for grants is to set up Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) and forest restoration pilots across Europe as a basis for developing an evidence-based understanding of effective CSF and restoration management practices in supporting climate change mitigation, adaptation, and biodiversity.

NGI Search 3rd Open Call

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Code: 30287 | Identifier Code: 3rd Open Call | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 01/08/2023 | End submission calls: 02/10/2023

The main objective of the NGI Search 3rd Open Call is to attract entrepreneurs, developers, socially engaged people, SMEs (including newly established organisations), research organisations, academic research groups, non-profit organisations etc. who can strongly demonstrate that they contribute towards the scope of NGI SEARCH – that is to change the way we use and experience, search and discover data and resources on the internet and web.

UTTER Financial Support for Third Parties – 1st Open Call (2023) – UTTER FSTP ’23

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Code: 30284 | Identifier Code: UTTER FSTP '23 | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 31/07/2023 | End submission calls: 15/10/2023

UTTER call for pilot (demonstrator) projects should further the design and implementation of XR models, aided by UTTER research and technology, enabling new types of human-human and human-machine interaction in new sectors.

Arts and cultural awareness and expression in education and training

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Code: 30282 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 04/10/2023 | End submission calls: 07/02/2024

Arts in education and developing cultural awareness and expression, one of the key competences for lifelong learning have value in themselves. Research evidence is also missing on whether, and how, education and training systems have capacity to support learners in developing cultural awareness and expression.
Therefore, this topic is focused on Arts and Cultural awareness as well as on their expression in education and training.

Inclusive clinical studies for equitable access to clinical research in Europe

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Code: 30264 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-04-03-two-stage | Programme name: 23667 | Start submission calls: 27/07/2023 | End submission calls: 08/11/2023

This topic aims to develop a multi-faceted, intersectional approach to overcome the multifactorial barriers associated with the recruitment and retention of underserved patient populations in clinical studies and to contribute to transforming the way clinical studies are conducted in Europe. To fulfil this aim, the following activities around the defined themes should be addressed.

Safe & Sustainable by Design (SSbD) packaging and single use device solutions for healthcare products

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Code: 30260 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-04-05-two-stage | Programme name: 23667 | Start submission calls: 27/07/2023 | End submission calls: 08/11/2023

The project is expected to strengthen and make more competitive the European healthcare industry by positioning it at the forefront of the development of medical technologies, products, and services of the future – those that generate less waste, require less waste treatment, have reduced carbon footprints, increased circularity, and other approaches that reduce the environmental impact of healthcare.

It aims to promote the development of new health products by integrating the principles of the Safe & Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework, from the earliest design stages, and notably for packaging and device design including the end-of-life of a product. In the context of this call, packaging includes primary packaging in direct contact with products (e.g. drugs, medical devices, in vitro diagnostic reagents, etc.) and secondary packaging made of plastic polymer materials – excluding secondary and tertiary cardboard packaging.

Innovation Action in Low Latency and High Bandwidth Interconnects

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Code: 30257 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2023-INTER-02-01 | Programme name: 24430 | Start submission calls: 01/08/2023 | End submission calls: 31/01/2024

The aim is to support the R&I technology development of innovative and competitive European HPC inter-node interconnect technology.

Therefore, this topic is focused on innovation action in Low Latency and High Bandwidth Interconnects.

Patient-centric blood sample collection to enable decentralised clinical trials and improve access to healthcare

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Code: 30255 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-04-02-two-stage | Programme name: 23667 | Start submission calls: 27/07/2023 | End submission calls: 08/11/2023

This topic is focused on patient-centric blood sample collection to enable decentralised clinical trials and improve access to healthcare.

The overall aim of the project generated from this topic is to create and validate the infrastructure and logistics for blood collection by the patient and/or caregiver at home as a healthcare tool and an alternative to the current gold standard venous blood for routine clinical assays. This project will employ only commercially available CE-marked microsampling devices, according to their intended use.

The development of new devices for blood sampling or of new clinical assays / analytes is not the focus of this project, and no new clinical assays will be evaluated.

 

Establishing novel approaches to improve clinical trials for rare and ultra-rare diseases

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Code: 30252 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-04-04-two-stage | Programme name: 23667 | Start submission calls: 27/07/2023 | End submission calls: 08/11/2023

This topic is focused on establishing novel approaches to improve clinical trials for rare and ultra-rare diseases.  The topic aims to unravel roadblocks on the current clinical development pathways and deliver methodological solutions for innovative clinical trial designs and analyses, including regulatory considerations.

Expanding translational knowledge in minipigs: a path to reduce and replace non-human primates in non-clinical safety assessment

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Code: 30249 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-04-01-two-stage | Programme name: 23667 | Start submission calls: 27/07/2023 | End submission calls: 08/11/2023

The overall objective of this topic is to characterise the minipig for use in R&D of new therapeutics and innovative medical technologies. The knowledge generated in this proposal may facilitate innovative health solutions and improve disease understanding and human predictions. The goal is to advance biomedical R&D by generating background scientific data to evaluate if the minipigs could be a viable and feasible alternative to NHPs in key therapeutic areas, with a special focus on translatability from minipigs to humans.

Sustainable circular development and manufacturing of healthcare products and their quantitative environmental impact assessment

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Code: 30247 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-04-06-two-stage | Programme name: 23667 | Start submission calls: 27/07/2023 | End submission calls: 08/11/2023

This project will focus on the standardisation and harmonisation of assessing and scoring the environmental performance of systems across industry: healthcare and API manufacturing by chemical and biotech companies.
They have developed a strong commitment to sustainability by design approaches over the past years with individually developed life cycle assessment methodologies to evaluate the environmental impact of their respective process developments and improvements. All methodologies lack a common framework of metrics and quantitative sets of descriptors to allow comparability of identical unit operations with different assessment systems.

This topic will focus on sustainable circular development and manufacturing of healthcare products and their quantitative environmental impact assessment.

Sport for People and Planet – a new approach on sustainability through sport in Europe

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Code: 30238 | Identifier Code: PPPA-SPORT-2023-PEOPLE-PLANET | Programme name: 2280 | Start submission calls: 26/07/2023 | End submission calls: 17/10/2023

The action should focus on examples of inspirational behaviour and practices at grassroots level that can be multiplied and on methods to engage citizens and sport stakeholders in communities to co-create and cooperate on sustainable sport practices.

Pilot Project – Sport Support – emergency sport actions for youth

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Code: 30236 | Identifier Code: PPPA-SPORT-2023-EMERGENCY-YOUTH | Programme name: 2280 | Start submission calls: 26/07/2023 | End submission calls: 17/10/2023

This pilot project will focus on encouraging community integration of children and youth. By improving their mental well-being by attending sport sessions, these individuals will eventually become ready to adjust to their new environment. Sport activities, with their power of bringing people together, will help interaction with the host community; facilitate integration into the education system and the labour market.

Next Generation Innovation Talents

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Code: 30234 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-TALENTS-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/07/2023 | End submission calls: 04/10/2023

The objective of the ‘Next Generation Innovation Talents’ scheme is to enable researchers and aspiring innovators to better understand and gain direct experience of the complex process of taking innovation beyond invention and help them develop their entrepreneurial mindset. At the same time, this scheme aims to provide innovative start-ups with access to new ideas and insights from the cutting edge of research, thus accelerating the development of their breakthrough products and services.

Accelerating the implementation of New Approach Methodologies and other innovative non-animal approaches for the development, testing and production of health technologies

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Code: 30231 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-05-01 | Programme name: 23667 | Start submission calls: 27/07/2023 | End submission calls: 16/01/2024

There is a need to foster progress towards new alternatives (e.g. synthetic matrix, recombinant proteins, optimisation of production processes via artificial intelligence) to reduce the overall number of animals that are bred for these purposes.

NAMs and other innovative non-animal approaches have high potential to improve the development and/or production of health technologies, while contributing to the reduction and replacement of the use of animals. Recent improved biological knowledge, technological advances, computer simulations and innovative non‑animal approaches and methods – e.g. organoids, complex 3D cell models, microphysiological systems, in silico models, non-animal derived antibodies and other biomolecules provide the opportunity to move forward with safer and more effective tools for protecting human health and preventing/treating diseases that would in parallel entail an improvement of animal to human translation or better production processes, as well as helping progress towards the replacement of animals used in biomedical research in general.

The current topic seeks to address these challenges by exploiting the latest relevant scientific advancements to develop NAMs and other non-animal approaches, which could be more readily available and more efficient than those involving animals, and which should improve either the development, including efficacy and safety assessment, of new health technologies for infectious/non-communicable diseases or the production processes of such technologies.

Improved prediction, detection, and treatment approaches for comprehensive stroke management

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Code: 30229 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-05-03 | Programme name: 23667 | Start submission calls: 27/07/2023 | End submission calls: 16/01/2024

Stroke is a preventable, treatable, and manageable disease and thus the potential to reduce its burden and its long-term consequences exists.

The challenge in stroke management is the lack of efficient and comprehensive pathways along the whole continuum of the disease – including the variation of structural settings depending on the location of the patient (rural vs. central) and between countries. The implementation of connected healthcare pathways will lead to an improvement in the outcome for the patients and thereby drive efficiency and effectiveness from a clinical and health resource perspective.

Integrating data is key to allow for modelling, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-based evaluation to identify groups and individual persons at risk and assure early recognition of stroke, thereby providing faster diagnosis and optimal, patient-specific treatment, resulting in better outcomes for patients. Moreover, comprehensive stroke management continues in the post-acute treatment setting and includes long-term follow-up for secondary prevention and rehabilitation.

Innovative solutions for faster acquisition, integration, and better retention of multiple types of data and better organisation among the various actors across the entire stroke pathway are crucial to achieve optimal prevention and treatment focused on the needs of patients. Use of novel technologies for federated data analytics and interpretation could help in this direction and assist in providing the right treatment to patients in a timely manner, improving their outcomes.

Maximising the potential of synthetic data generation in healthcare applications

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Code: 30226 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-05-04 | Programme name: 23667 | Start submission calls: 27/07/2023 | End submission calls: 16/01/2024

Healthcare research using individual patient data is often constrained due to restrictions in data access because of privacy, security, intellectual property (IP) and other concerns. Synthetic health data, i.e., data that is artificially created to mimic individual patient data, can reduce these concerns, leading to more rapid development of reliable data-driven methods including diagnostic, precision medicine, decision support and patient monitoring tools. However, while many synthetic data generation (SDG) methods are currently available, it is not always clear which method is best for which use case, and SDG methods for some types of data are still immature. Furthermore, it is still unclear whether highly detailed synthetic data, which are often needed for research, can be categorised as anonymous.

This topic is focused on maximising the potential of synthetic data generation in healthcare applications.

Development and proof of principle of new clinical applications of theranostics solutions

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Code: 30224 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-05-02 | Programme name: 23667 | Start submission calls: 27/07/2023 | End submission calls: 16/01/2024

To address this challenge, project(s) funded under this topic should aim at developing new, or innovative combinations of existing multi-modal theranostic solutions including radiopharmaceuticals and/or non- radioactive theranostic solutions. Applicants should clearly identify a disease(s) of unmet public health need, (e.g., oncology, neurology and/or advanced multi-disease conditions) and explain their choice with relevant evidence where possible.

This topic is focused on the development and proof of principle of new clinical applications of theranostics solutions.

Evolution of RIS Innovations (EVO-R) 2023

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Code: 30222 | Identifier Code: EVO-R | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 20/07/2023 | End submission calls: 09/08/2023

EVO-R supports activities undertaking innovative small-scale manufacturing solutions from the demonstration stage through to market uptake. The grant is awarded to activities and/or individuals that were already have selected and concluded under the regional or national funding programmes in the RIS countries that aim to scale up into European and global markets.

“EIT Manufacturing” is open to applications from entities that are citizens of EIT RIS eligible countries that shall present a solution fitting one of the EIT Manufacturing flagship areas.