Projects Open Calls
This page presents all the open, forthcoming and closed open calls managed by projects in our community
Open & Forthcoming Calls
Open Date: Oct 2023
Close Date: Jan 2024
Type of actions funded
Small projects that validate aerOS architecture and focus in one of aerOS use cases
Average Value
EUR 60k Fixed value
Eligible organisations
SMEs, RTOs and Academia, Individuals, NO large companies allowed
Average duration
Max. duration: 9 months
Number of grants awarded
7
Open Call Coordinator
Description
aerOS aims to establish a common meta Operating System that follows a collaborative IoT-Edge–Cloud architecture supporting flexible deployments (e.g., federated or hierarchical), enabling the distribution of intelligence and computation – including AI, ML, and Big Data analytics – to achieve an optimal solution while satisfying the given constraints.
Main goal
Design and build a virtualised, platform-agnostic, zero-touch orchestration (of resources & services) Meta Operating System for the IoT edge-cloud continuum.
Main outputs
- Virtualised and platform-agnostic Meta Operating System
- Methodology, standardisation, and protocols usable across the continuum for legacy and novel technologies
- Data autonomy strategy for the CEI continuum
- Infrastructural services and features for cybersecurity, trustworthiness and manageability
- Open APIs
Link to open call
Website
Open Date: Dec 2023
Close Date: Feb 2024
Start of the work Date: Apr 2024
Type of actions funded
- Technology Extension Grant (TEG): MAXIMUM 5 applicants (ONLY in 1st Open Call), only Individual applicant (i.e., no consortia)
- Use Case Grant (UCG) MAXIMUM 5 applicants for both individual applicants and small consortia (of at most 3 entities)
Average Value
EUR 75k
Eligible organisations
Individual researchers, developers, innovators from universities, research institutions, innovative companies
Average duration
1 year for the implementation
Number of grants awarded
10
Open Call Coordinator
Description
FLUIDOS (Flexible, scaLable, secUre, and decentralIseD Operating System) aims to leverage the enormous, unused processing capacity at the edge, scattered across heterogeneous edge devices that struggle to integrate with each other and to coherently form a seamless computing continuum.
Main goal
Create a fluid, dynamic, scalable and trustable computing continuum, building upon consolidated Operating Systems and orchestration solutions like Kubernetes.
Main outputs
- New, enriched layer enacting resource sharing through advertisement/agreement procedures (in the horizontal dimension),
- Hierarchical aggregation of nodes, inspired by Inter-domain routing in the Internet (in the vertical dimension)
Link to open call
Website
Open Date: 14 Feb 2024
Close Date: 17 Mar 2024
Type of actions funded
Validation of basic aspects of the platform
(An initial list of assets that will be available for the launching of the first call)
Average Value
up to EUR 150k per project
Eligible organisations
- Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises working on the IoT, Edge, Cloud or and other related technologies
- Research institutions, research infrastructures, non-profit organisations and charitable (scientific) foundations and public research centres, when supporting organisations of category 1 in a collaborative 3rd party project
Average duration
7 months
Number of grants awarded
4
Open Call Coordinator
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Description
NebulOuS will introduce an appropriate meta-operating system that encompasses brokerage capabilities across the cloud computing continuum, advanced methods to enable secure and optimal application provisioning, resource adaptation and reconfiguration. It will enable the emergence of ad-hoc fog brokerage ecosystems that exploit IoT/edge and fog nodes, in parallel to multi-cloud resources to cope with the requirements of hyper distributed applications.
Main goal
Develop a Meta Operating System and a platform that enables transient fog brokerage ecosystems that can seamlessly exploit edge and fog nodes with multi-cloud resources while coping with low-latency applications.
Main outputs
- Semantic models for fog brokerage
- MCDM cloud & fog service brokerage
- Optimised application life cycle management
- Autonomous and secure reconfiguration support
- Distributed EMS with automatic anomaly detection
- Full-life cycle support for edge and cloud resources to enable hosting nodes across and outside of organisational units
Link to open call
Website
Closed Calls
IntellIoT Last Open Call
Open Date: 1 Nov 2023
Close Date: 10 Jan 2024 (17:00 CEST)
Type of actions funded
Development of Virtual Objects, Composite Virtual Objects (including the Digital Twin concept), and generic IoT enablers.
Average Value
EUR 76k
Eligible organisations
Individual industrial entities, such as SMEs (including startups) and Midcaps.
Average duration
6 months for the implementation
Number of grants awarded
8
Open Call Coordinator
- Diana Järve, FundingBox
- Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, National Technical University of Athens
- Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens
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Description
NEPHELE enables the efficient, reliable and secure end-to-end orchestration of hyper-distributed applications over programmable infrastructure that is spanning across the compute continuum, removing existing openness and interoperability barriers in the convergence of IoT technologies against cloud and edge computing orchestration platforms
Main goal
Design and build a virtual object software stack that will tackle IoT interoperability and convergence challenges in the compute continuum and develop synergetic orchestration mechanisms that can manage distributed applications in the continuum.
Main outputs
- Virtual Object software stack for virtualization, openness and interoperability of IoT devices
- A synergetic meta-orchestration framework for managing the coordination between cloud and edge computing orchestration platforms
Link to open call
Website
ICOS First Open Call
Open Date: Aug 2023
Close Date: 17 Nov 2023
Type of actions funded
Develop & test applications using the ICOS framework
Average Value
EUR 200k
Eligible organisations
SMEs and mid-caps Consortium-type applicants (1 tech provider & 1 end-user)
Average duration
12 months
Number of grants awarded
5
Open Call Coordinator
- Elena Japundžić, FundingBox
- Francesco D’Andria, Atos
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Description
ICOS aims to design, develop, and validate a meta-operating system by addressing the challenges of device volatility and heterogeneity, continuum infrastructure virtualisation and diverse network connectivity, optimised and scalable service execution and performance, as well as resource consumptions and costs.
Main goal
- Design of an intelligent meta OS for the continuum
- Exploiting novel intelligent data and resource utilization methods
- Enforce trustworthy yet open operation
- Demonstrate the project outcomes in key relevant scenarios
- Building an open innovation environment and fostering the creation of new applications in the continuum
- Reduction of integration costs and effective mitigation of cloud provider lock-in effects
Main outputs
- MetaOS ICOS , – in a data-driven system built upon the principles of openness, adaptability, and data sharing, which consists of three main layers and two modules:
- Meta-Kernel
- Security layer
- ICOS Shell
- Data Management
Link to open call
Coming soon
Website
NEMO First Open Call
Open Date: Sep 2023
Close Date: Nov 2023
Type of actions funded
- NEMO meta-architecture extensions
- Software components/plugins not covered by the current NEMO implementation plan
- New network or service/resources metering/automated control components
- Porting NEMO on new, highly heterogeneous IoT devices.
Average Value
EUR 150k
Eligible organisations
SMEs active in edge computing, edge and/or cloud native software development, operating systems, IoT/5G networks and IoT manufacturing entities
Average duration
18 months
Number of grants awarded
6
Open Call Coordinator
Description
NEMO is an open source, modular and cybersecure meta-operating system in the AIoT-edge-cloud continuum. It introduces novel concepts, methods, leverages on existing technologies and tools, testing and engagement campaigns.
NEMO will bring intelligence closer to the data and make AI-as-a-Service integral part of network self-organisation and micro-services execution orchestration.
Main goal
Develop a Meta OS that will manage the resources, storage computing, data and networks across continuum in an open and reusable manner.
Close the digital gap by using smart tech applications and reinforce EU CEI ecosystem competitiveness.
Main outputs
- Open and modular meta-Operating System (mOS)
- Transparent IoT-to-Edge-to-Cloud continuum
- On-device Intelligence to enable AIoT (inter-)acting as self-aware, (semi-) autonomous entities
- Intent-based DevZeroOps Platform as a Service with tools and plugin mechanisms
- Massive AIoT applications and high penetration
- Federated meta Network Cluster Controller
- Meta-Orchestrator
Link to open call
Website
Nephele First Open Call
Open Date: Sep 2023
Close Date: Nov 2023
Type of actions funded
- NEMO meta-architecture extensions
- Software components/plugins not covered by the current NEMO implementation plan
- New network or service/resources metering/automated control components
- Porting NEMO on new, highly heterogeneous IoT devices.
Average Value
EUR 150k
Eligible organisations
SMEs active in edge computing, edge and/or cloud native software development, operating systems, IoT/5G networks and IoT manufacturing entities
Average duration
18 months
Number of grants awarded
6
Open Call Coordinator
Description
NEMO is an open source, modular and cybersecure meta-operating system in the AIoT-edge-cloud continuum. It introduces novel concepts, methods, leverages on existing technologies and tools, testing and engagement campaigns.
NEMO will bring intelligence closer to the data and make AI-as-a-Service integral part of network self-organisation and micro-services execution orchestration.
Main goal
Develop a Meta OS that will manage the resources, storage computing, data and networks across continuum in an open and reusable manner.
Close the digital gap by using smart tech applications and reinforce EU CEI ecosystem competitiveness.
Main outputs
- Open and modular meta-Operating System (mOS)
- Transparent IoT-to-Edge-to-Cloud continuum
- On-device Intelligence to enable AIoT (inter-)acting as self-aware, (semi-) autonomous entities
- Intent-based DevZeroOps Platform as a Service with tools and plugin mechanisms
- Massive AIoT applications and high penetration
- Federated meta Network Cluster Controller
- Meta-Orchestrator
