Online event

The European Commission invites stakeholders from industry, academia and innovators to participate in the Horizon Europe Info Day on 30 January 2023. This event is an Information Session on the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-2024 on “World leading data and computing technologies” and offers participants a unique opportunity to pitch concrete ideas in front of leading research organisations and cutting-edge innovators from across industry.

The open and FREE half-day virtual event will introduce three calls under Destination 3:

• HORIZON-CL4-2023-DATA-01-07: Collaboration with NSF on fundamental research on new concepts for distributed computing and swarm intelligence (CSA) (All information about the call here)
• HORIZON -CL4-2023-DATA-01-04: Cognitive Computing Continuum: Intelligence and automation for more efficient data processing (RIA) (All information about the call here)
• HORIZON -CL4-2023-DATA-01-06: Coordination and Support of Cognitive Computing Continuum research and policy (CSA) (All information about the call here)

You can find the whole Horizon Europe work programme here.

PITCH YOUR IDEA!

The event provides participants a unique opportunity to pitch concrete ideas and advertise one’s expertise in front of leading research organisations and cutting-edge innovators. The Info Day will allow participants to be inspired by new ideas, to extend their scientific and cooperative network and/or establish new partnerships.

Register for a flash presentation session:

• Pitch your project idea (submit your 5-minutes pitch by 25 January).
• Pitch your own organisation (submit your 1-minute pitch by 25 January).

To register for a pitch (timing per pitch may be adjusted according to the number of requests received), please complete the registration form by 25 January 2023, 12:00 CEST latest. The event organisers will validate and confirm your pitch slot by 27 January 2023 EOB.

Submit your pitch

Agenda

• 14:00 – 14:15: Welcome and introduction
• 14:15 – 14:45: Presentation of the upcoming calls by the European Commission

HORIZON-CL4-2023-DATA-01-07: Collaboration with NSF on fundamental research on new concepts for distributed computing and swarm intelligence  (CSA) – Jan Komarek, Policy Officer European Commission.

HORIZON -CL4-2023-DATA-01-04: Cognitive Computing Continuum: Intelligence and automation for more efficient data processing (RIA) – Maria Tsakali, Policy Officer European Commission.

HORIZON -CL4-2023-DATA-01-06: Coordination and Support of Cognitive Computing Continuum research and policy (CSA) – Maria Tsakali, Policy Officer European Commission.

• 14:45 – 14:55: Q&A
• 14:55 – 15:10: European Health and Digital Executive Agency HADEA – the Lump sum funding in Horizon Europe, Anna Tsakaleli
• 15:10 – 15:25: IDEAL-IST – Proposal preparation support, Edina Nemeth
• 15:25 – 16:10: Research Agendas

The Big Data Value Association – BDVA, Ana Garcia, BDVA Secretary General.

European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud, Dr Ignacio M. Llorente, Chair of the Cloud/Edge Working Group & CEO of OpenNebula Systems.

Gaia-X, Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO.

NESSI – the European Technology Platform dedicated to Software, Services and Data – Andreas Metzger, Steering Committee Vice Chair.

• 16:10 – 16:30: Pitch session
• 16:30 – 17:00: Closing of the event

Register now