Internationalisation mission to India, Mumbai to Inter FoodTech from 9 to 11 June 2022 for SMEs within @FoodPackLab project

Apply here: https://bit.ly/3vQNN71

The Inter FoodTech fair will take place in Mumbai from 9 to 11 June 2022. The FoodPackLab team will attend this event and bring along foodtech and agritech SMEs looking to expand into the Indian market!

Any interested SME can contact us to let us know its wish to join this great fair. As FoodPackLab 2 project, we will provide up to 1000€ EUR per company to the selected SMEs, matching with the fair’s perspectives. 

This trip will also be an opportunity for SMEs to have B2B meetings and interesting networking sessions organized by the FoodPackLab team.

#india #b2b #opportunity #networking

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AMULET 1st Open Call to develop lightweight materials for the Automotive, Aerospace & Aeronautics, Energy and Building sectors

Apply by 30 June 2022
https://bit.ly/3P7IB6c

Receive Up to €120,000 (up to €60,000 per one SME) 

Looking for micro-consortium of minimum 2 and maximum 3 legal entities including exclusively SMEs for the development and implementation of demonstration activities around technology and system applicable to exactly one of the Open Challenges publicly announced with this Open Call coming from one of the three types of lightweight materials(polymer-based composites, ceramic matrix composites and light metal alloys) for four sectors: automotive, aerospace & aeronautics, energy and building.

More information: https://lnkd.in/dD4jUMip #technology #automotive #development #aerospace

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DIGITbrain open call for proposals: industrial experiments
https://bit.ly/3KSD14n

Apply by 31st May 2022, 17:00h (CEST Time)

In its 2nd Open Call, the DIGITbrain project will accept new applicants and will support the implementation of 7 industrial experiments (use cases) in the field of manufacturing with up to 97,800 EUR Euros per experiment and up to 60K Euros per experiment partner.

Companies located in the EU, a Horizon 2020 associated country, or the UK, can apply for this last Open Calls, with their specific use case. Experiments can cover all segments of the entire manufacturing sector, e.g. discrete manufacturing, continuous production, or construction. In its first Open Call, open from 28th of February 2022 to 31th of May 2022, it will add 7 new experiments, eligible by up to 97.800 Euros each. The experiments will be integrated into a Digital Marketplace, which provides the necessary graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in view of configuring and monitoring the Digital Brain for an industrial product instance and will handle the access rights to the Digital Brain’s instances.

#digital #construction #manufacturing #project

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Tenders - Supplies - open procedure
Fast and High Resolution Digitiser Cards

More information: https://bit.ly/3JMG79y

European Commission - Joint Research Center

Lot 1: A new data acquisition system needs to be developed for the VERDI fission fragment spectrometer. The instrument is composed of a large number of detectors (64 silicon detectors and two MCP's) whose signals need to be digitised at high sampling frequency exceeding 1 GSPS. All channels need to be synchronised with high precision. We plan to set up a framework contract where a sufficient number of digitisers with the needed technical characteristics can be ordered over the time needed to design, develop, test and complete the data acquisition for VERDI. The value of the contract is calculated to cover the possible needs of spare cards as well.

Lot 2: A framework contract to complement existing data acquisition systems with additional digitisers with similar characteristics to the one already in place (14 bits digitisers with 1 GSPS and 500 GSPS sampling rate).

#research #data

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The National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) is a Uruguayan government agency that promotes research and application of new knowledge to the productive and social reality of the country.

Tools for innovations aims to increase and strengthen companies' internal capacities to innovate, so that they are better prepared to design and implement their innovation projects. Through this call, companies can apply to:

1) hire international experts
2) organise international stays in technology centers, foreign universities or companies 
3) hire professionals 
4) validate technological ideas 
5) carry out internships in companies 
6) provide scholarships for employee training and development

More information (in Spanish): https://bit.ly/3jTN8e0

#innovation #development #technology

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EIC Accelerator Open
TOPIC ID: HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOROPEN-01

Apply by: 15 June 2022 and 05 October 2022
https://bit.ly/3JT8Eu3

The EIC Accelerator supports companies (principally SMEs, including start-ups) to scale up high impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones. The EIC Accelerator provides a unique combination of funding from EUR 0.5 to EUR 17.5 million and Business Acceleration Services (see Section V).

The EIC Accelerator focuses in particular on innovations, building on scientific discovery or technological breakthroughs (‘deep tech’) and where significant funding is needed over a long timeframe before returns can be generated (‘patient capital’). Such innovations often struggle to attract financing because the risks and time period involved are too high. Funding and support from the EIC Accelerator is designed to enable such innovators to attract the full investment amounts needed for scale up in a shorter timeframe.

The EIC Accelerator supports the later stages of technology development as well as scale up. The technology component of your innovation must therefore have been tested and validated in a laboratory or other relevant environment (e.g. at least Technology Readiness Level 5/6 or higher and have fully completed Technology Readiness Level 4). The EIC Accelerator looks to support companies where the EIC support will act as a catalyst to crowd in other investors necessary for the scale up of the innovation.

EIC Accelerator Open, which has no predefined thematic priorities and is open to proposals in any field of technology or application.

For further information, please see the EIC Work Programme 2022.

#tech #innovation #investment #development #business

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Innovation investments Strand 1-GREEN
TOPIC ID: I3-2021-INV1-GREEN

Apply by 18 October 2022
https://bit.ly/3rCFEAv

The present call for proposals under this topic encourages applications in one or more or a combination of the following investment areas (a non-exclusive list):

• Innovative investments in decarbonisation, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and contributing to improve air quality, health and wellbeing;
• Innovative investments in SMART cities;
• Innovative business investments related to smart, sustainable/efficient transport solutions and/or alternative fuels;
• Investments in climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials;
• Investments in the management of natural resources, including the use of recycled materials, especially construction materials, plastics,and textiles, to stimulate demand for secondary markets raw materials;
• Business investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency to make industry more sustainable;
• Business investments related to energy efficiency in buildings;
• Business investments related to a sustainable blue economy, contributing to the coastal protection;
• Business investments in circular economy to replicate and scale up successful circular economy solutions, which can generate EU added value;
• Investments in bioeconomy, efficient and sustainable agriculture and forestry, innovation in marine/ maritime and inland water sustainable solutions.

At least 70% of the grant must be allocated to investments in companies.

#circulareconomy #management #agriculture #innovation #business #renewableenergy #water #quality

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Innovation investments Strand 1 - DIGIT
TOPIC ID: I3-2021-INV1-DIGIT

Apply by 18 October 2022
https://bit.ly/3vpP7w3

Programme Interregional Innovation Investments Instrument (I3)

The present call for proposals encourages applications in one or more or combination of the following investment areas (a), (b), (c) (non-exclusive list):

a. Digital economy innovation
b. Digital transformation of the public administration
c. Digitalisation of healthcare

Digital technologies present an enormous growth potential for Europe. According to the Europe fit for the digital age strategy, this call for proposals targets investments in businesses and administrations. In order to unlock digital growth potential and deploy innovative solutions (both for businesses and citizens), to improve the accessibility and the efficiency of services and bridge the persisting digital divide, the present call under this topic will support interregional investments projects in the above mentioned areas.

At least 70% of the grant must be allocated to investments in companies.

#europe #innovation #investment #healthcare #administration

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Innovation investments Strand 1 - MANU
TOPIC ID: I3-2021-INV1-MANU

Apply by 18 October 2022

Call under Interregional Innovation Investments Instrument (I3)
https://bit.ly/3ryQVSB

This topic focuses on improving the delivery of new or improved products, processes or services in the manufacturing industry. In the context of advanced manufacturing; knowledge and innovative technologies are used to produce complex products and improve processes to lower waste, pollution, material consumption and energy use. Robotics, 3D and 4D printing, artificial intelligence as well as high performance computing for modelling are important elements in advanced manufacturing.

The present call for proposals under this topic supports interregional innovation investments for the uptake of new or improved manufacturing solutions, as well as for supporting industry to face the challenge of digitalisation and to promote the shift towards a more environmentally sustainable production (zero pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment). 

At least 70% of the grant must be allocated to investments in companies.

#innovation #sustainable #investments

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Virtual Exchanges with other specific regions in the world
TOPIC ID: ERASMUS-EDU-2022-VIRT-EXCH-NDICI

Apply by 20 September 2022
https://bit.ly/3MbGbBb

Virtual Exchanges in Higher Education and Youth (ERASMUS-EDU-2022-VIRT-EXCH) for projects working with Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Mediterranean and Neighbourhood East.

#africa #projects #highereducation

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Alliances for Education and Enterprises
TOPIC ID: ERASMUS-EDU-2022-PI-ALL-INNO-EDU-ENTERP

Apply by 15 September 2022
https://bit.ly/37n7Ws2

Alliances for Innovation aim to strengthen Europe’s innovation capacity by boosting innovation through cooperation and flow of knowledge among higher education, vocational education and training (both initial and continuous), and the broader socio-economic environment, including research.

They also aim to boost the provision of new skills and address skills mismatches by designing and creating new curricula for higher education (HE) and vocational education and training (VET), supporting the development of a sense of initiative and entrepreneurial mind-sets in the EU.

#europe #innovation #development #training #highereducation

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Public Sector Open Data for AI and Open Data Platform
TOPIC ID: DIGITAL-2022-CLOUD-AI-02-OPEN-AI

Apply by 17 May 2022
https://bit.ly/3MdiVmx

The objective is to increase the easy availability, quality and usability of public sector information in compliance with the requirement of the Open Data Directive, in order to boost the re-use and combination of open public data across the EU for the development of information products and services, including AI applications.

#digital #ai #data #cloud

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Short term training courses in key capacity areas
TOPIC ID: DIGITAL-2022-TRAINING-02-SHORT-COURSES

Apply by 17 May 2022
https://bit.ly/385dJ5y

The aim of this action is to give the possibility to the current workforce to access trainings reflecting the latest developments in key capacity areas, such as HPC, Cybersecurity, AI and other emerging technologies. These technologies evolve at such a fast pace that requires a constant update of the digital skills, also of the people already in employment. This investment will increase the number of men and women able to design, develop and deploy digital solutions in the economy and across sectors.

The project aims at expanding the existing offer for training and retrain existing workforce, with a particular focus that enables to meet the needs of SMEs.

#investment #digital #training

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Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL) call for proposals

Testing and Experimentation Facility for Agri-Food
TOPIC ID: DIGITAL-2022-CLOUD-AI-02-TEF-AGRIFOOD

Apply by: 17 May 2022
https://bit.ly/3xCEsRG

The selected project will develop reference testing and experimentation facilities with a focus on full integration, testing, validation, demonstration, and where appropriate certification, of advanced AI-based and AI-powered robotics technologies for the agri-food sector.

Fields of applications may include, for instance, precision farming solutions, but also other applications from mid- and down-stream such as food processing, wholesale, retail, hospitality and food services. The project may cover the whole value chain of the agri-food sector, but should only cover at least agriculture. Where appropriate demonstration can be done in connection with a specialised demonstration facility, several sub-sector and production types can be considered as well as various variables as it regards crop-livestock types/soils/climatic and environmental conditions/farm structure.

The facilities may include a range of use cases in different fields such as – but not limited to - precision weeding/fertilisation/seeding, sensor data management, multifunctional autonomous robotics applications (and its long-time continuous use), and/or in different sub-sectors, such as arable farming, greenhouses, livestock/chicken management. Use cases may also be developed along different topics, such as collaborative robotics, circular economy or reduced food loss/waste.

The use-cases offered should be end-user driven. This will be ensured by closely involving the end-users, e.g. farmers. Smaller farms[2] and businesses should be involved in particular to ensure affordability of AI solutions. The project may conduct an analysis of bottlenecks and drivers of uptake of AI-based solutions by end users for its specific use cases, if appropriate in combination with the European Digital Innovation Hubs.

#circulareconomy #management #agriculture

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Blockchain Standardisation
TOPIC ID: DIGITAL-2022-DEPLOY-02-BLOCKCHAIN-STANDARD

Grant

Apply by: 17 May 2022
https://bit.ly/3jOGjul

Support to blockchain standardisation in line with the Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation, reinforcing the presence of European players and the links with EBP initiatives such as EBSI and the sandbox, in standardisation activities undertaken by International and European Standardisation Bodies, such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the European Committee for Standardization and the European Committee for Electro technical Standardization (CEN/CENELEC), the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and other relevant, as well as liaising with and contributing to activities of the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA).

#digital #blockchain #telecommunications

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Horizon Europe call for proposals

Digital solutions for defining synergies in international renewable energy value chains
TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-02-01

Apply by 27 October 2022
https://bit.ly/36nh3Iy

Project results are expected to contribute to some of the following expected outcomes:
1. Advance the European and global scientific basis, European leadership and global role in the area of renewable energy and renewable fuels and related energy value chains while creating evidence for policy making by developing novel digital solutions.
2. Provide digital breakthrough solutions for promoting the increase of the global renewable energy share.
3. Reinforce the European scientific basis through international collaboration while increasing the potential to export European renewable energy technologies and ensuring political priorities in the context of sustainable global energy value chains.
4. Improve reliability of system components, advanced and automated functions for data analysis, diagnosis and fault detection, forecasting and model-predictive control frameworks, ancillary services for the stability of the network; maintenance planning and/or reporting.

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Horizon Europe forthcoming call for proposals

Improved monitoring of threats, intrusion detection and response in complex and heterogeneous digital systems and infrastructures
TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL3-2022-CS-01-01

Apply by 16 November 2022
https://bit.ly/3KVEcke

Projects are expected to contribute to at least three of the following expected outcomes:

1. Improved disruption preparedness and resilience of digital infrastructure in Europe
2. Improved capacity building in digital infrastructure security including organisational and operational capabilities
3. Robust evidence used in cybersecurity decisions and tools
4. Better prediction of cybersecurity threats and related risks
5. Improved response capabilities based on effective collaboration and/or coordination with other relevant national or EU bodies in charge of Cybersecurity, including holistic incident reporting and enabling coordinated cyber-incident response.

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Integrated wind farm control
TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-03-04

Apply by 10 January 2023
https://bit.ly/3xBoI0Y

The proposals are expected to address all the following aspects:

1. Address and validate how digital innovation on wind farm control are able to provide more stable, resilient, secure, reliable and affordable energy, while retaining high levels of cybersecurity. 2. Focus on farm output maximization is expected. Additionally, focus on reduced component load is strongly encouraged.
2. Address how these data-driven innovations reduce operational and maintenance costs, increase energy output, and their impact on (component, turbine, farm) lifetime;
3. Address the role of such innovations as a prognostic tool, regarding failures and damages:
4. Develop and release an open source digital/AI solution for sector uptake. This tool is expected to be built from concrete experiments and data measurements. Further, it should account for the advent of large wind turbines (up to 20 MW) and include those in the development of this tool.

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Call for Expression of Interest (CEI) Preselection of Candidates for the p #urchase of various small IT equipment

Apply by: 01 July 2025 23:59
https://bit.ly/3vqOAKp

Purchase of various small IT equipment

This call for expressions of interest covers small IT equipment such as:

• network cards;
• switches;
• cables;
• adaptors;
• converters;
• hard disks;
• general equipment for IT projects.

(This list is not exhaustive.)

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New financing opportunity (cascade funding)!

The first Call for Proposals is open - apply by 6th July 2022!
https://lnkd.in/dywcHzDb

GreenOffshoreTech will boost innovation by directly supporting in this first call 50 SMEs and 50 SMEs innovative projects.

This Call for Proposals aims to support SMEs and the development of new products, processes, or services for Green Offshore Production and Transport.

#innovation #opportunity #development

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

100% financing for truly mixed human-AI initiatives for human empowerment and trustworthy hybrid decision-support systems

https://bit.ly/3651WDs
Apply by 16 November 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time

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Forthcoming call for:
European Network of AI Excellence Centres: Expanding the European AI lighthouse (RIA)

100% financing for Next Generation AI 
https://bit.ly/3uIMDtT

Apply by 16 November 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time