The first Smartx Call for funding is now open. You can find in the Guide for Applicants all information about the eligibility and selection criteria, the selection process and details on how coaches will help candidates to submit a clear and valid Application.

If you wish to apply for SmartX support, the initial step is to fill an Expression an Interest, so that a dedicated coach will get in touch and start helping you.

Then, in order to file an Application you will have to sign and/or complete the documents below. Please download them and complete them at your convenience, then check with your coach that everything is in order. You will then receive a link to upload all the requested documents onto a restricted-access page dedicated to your project.

The Technical Application Form helps Applicants describe their project objectives, targets and what they expect from SmartX support
The Powerpoint presentation Guidelines will help you to present projects in a concise way to allow the Selection Committee members to understand them with most clarity and accuracy
The Declaration of Honour is a legal mandatory document to certify all Applicants meet the eligibility criteria and none of the excluding ones
The Conflict of Interest declaration intends to prevent any possible conflict of interest from arising between any Applicant and any SmartX partner coach, as well as any Selection Committee member. The final document will be uploaded as soon as the 12th and last member is confirmed i.e. by December 15th. It will enable each project to be viewed or processed only by SmartX partners and Selection Committee members who are not in a situation to cause potential conflict of interest with neither the Applicant nor the applying project.
A short video webinar will be posted on this page by December 15th to make sure all candidates can fill in the forms with maximum ease.
We remain however at everyone’s disposal in case of questions : hello@smartx-europe.eu

Please, do not forget the closing date for sending us an Expression of Interest is February 15th and for submitting the finalised Application is February 29th.

Link: https://www.smartx-europe.eu/application/

This first open call of Trinity DIH project targets application experiments (a.k.a. use case demonstrations) which include ICT technologies including robotics, IoT and cybersecurity to facilitate agile production in European companies.
The call includes two tracks:

- End-users driven demonstrations, which aim at validating demonstration of technologies proposed by the participating DIHs. This track, which has a budget of 1M€, targets end users with a specific need in the areas of digitalization, advanced robotics, or data and cybersecurity and offers end-users and system integrators a possibility to modernize their processes via new technologies.

- Technology providers, which aims at demonstrating novel solutions innovated by companies, in particular SMEs, in a realistic and industrially relevant environment. This track, which has a budget of 3M€, provides access to the infrastructure and expertise provided by the DIHs to perform the demonstrations.

Proposals must be submitted by consortia of 1 to 3 partners, led by industrial partners (SMEs, or slightly bigger) and can consist end-users, technology providers and competence centres. All consortia partners must be legal entities established in one of the EU Member States or H2020 Associated countries; must be members of the TRINITY DIH community (at least 10 days before the deadline of the open call) and must have a PIC number. Cross-regional collaboration will be appreciated and each lead applicant can submit only one proposal.

Deadline for applications’ submission is on 28th of February 2020, at 17:00 (CET). Proposals are expected to be evaluated by 30th April 2020 and funded projects are expected to start by May-June 2020.

15 external demonstrations are expected to be funded in the first open call. These experiments should last from 6 to 9 month and funding per experiment might range from €50K to €300K (the maximum funding rate is 70%). The total grant from TRINITY DIH may not exceed 300 k€ for a single partner during the TRINITY runtime.

1ª Fase: Para empresas e entidades individuais, com o dealine a 31 de outubro 2019 às 16:00 (CET).
2ª Fase: Para consórcios, iniciando-se a 3 de Dezembro 2019 às 00:00 (CET) com o deadline a 27 de fevereiro 2020 às 13:00 (CET)
- Dia 18 Julho 2019 [formulário de registo: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4804923387766976770 ]
- Dia 25 Julho 2019 [formulário de registo: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5558682589072544258 ]

The Venture Builder for Human Centric Solutions 

2nd OPEN CALL Open from the 1st November until the 31st January 2020 (18h CET)

Up to €200K equity-free for the best in class innovators Business mentoring, networking, and researcher-in-residence support Venture Builder Programme Potential venture capital investments & more
Who Can Apply?

Teams might be composed of either:
- minimum 1 and maximum 2 legal persons (SME,  research organisations, foundations) with a multidisciplinary team composed by at least 3 profiles (humanistic/social/technical researcher, technological developer, business development/entrepreneur) or 
- minimum 3 natural persons in a multidisciplinary team (at least an humanistic/social/technical researcher, technological developer and business development/ entrepreneur). 

The teams must consist of one legal entities or at least 3 natural persons legally established in an EU member state or in Associated Countries.
Projects (Technology Transfer Experiments) have to be  based in Research components, relevant for the topic of Privacy-by-Design, Distributed Data Governance and consisting in development, test and validation of technical and economic viability of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) or Service.
The results of these bottom-up projects should be compliant with Open Licences (i.e. Open Hardware, Open Software and/or Creative Commons)

Know more: https://ledger-2nd-open-call.fundingbox.com

Circular Economy Acceleration Program
UP TO €60K per SME 
Mentoring, networking and designer/business consultancy support

C-VoUCHER, the project funded under Horizon 2020 EU Programme aims at creating circular value link-chains in traditional industries.

Who can apply?
We are looking for companies willing to embark on the circular transformation journey and change the way of doing business, cooperating with others and creating a positive impact on environment. The applicant should be a SME, small and medium sized enterprises.

What could companies expect from C-voucher?
The first phase includes a 3-day workshop (Bootcamp) where 13 companies are invited to identify and develop circular economy solutions building upon their existing business models by adding enabling technologies and design thinking strategies to their operations.

In the second phase 6 of the 13 companies are selected to further develop their ideas in a 9-month programme (Circularity Programme for Classic SMEs) including tailored Designer/business consultancy support, technology implementation, business mentoring and further funding opportunities (both public and private).

What is included in the Voucher?
The 13 selected companies will receive 2 000 EUR to participate in the 3-day workshop (reimbursement of travel costs).

The 6 selected companies will be offered a voucher up to €58K for the purchase of technology. Furthermore, the project provides business consultancy services and access to funding solutions.

What does it take to participate?
The company should allocate internal resources - the people coming from various areas of the company's structure (management-level, finances, production, technology, etc.) as well as time in order to be ready to participate in the Programme. Personnel's dedication would need to be sufficient in order to implement the circular project.

To participate in the Bootcamp (the event organized for the 13 selected companies) the following preparations are needed from the company: saving the dates for the meeting (expected at the last week of February 2020, tbc) and selecting 2-3 key people to work on the proposal during the meeting (together with a designer and technology expert provided by C-Voucher) and present the project during the event (pitching session in front of the jury panel).

Companies selected to the Circularity Acceleration Programme (6 out of 13 invited to the Bootcamp) will have to report back on their progress in the Programme. They will have to deliver the Circular Solution Definition Plan (created in cooperation with the assigned designer and finalized after the second month of the Programme). Each SME will be required to stay in touch with the assigned designer and systematically monitor the implementation of the Plan according to individual arrangements. 

DEADLINE: December 31, 2019 ( 17:00 Brussels time)
Know more: https://smes-open-call.fundingbox.com

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Announcement of 2nd. Open Call for CloudiFacturing
CloudiFacturing is a project, which is open to new (teams of) participants (3rd parties). With this announcement, we would like to draw your attention to our upcoming Call / Request for Proposals to initiate the creative process of generating ideas for Application Experiments. Application Experiments are dedicated sub-projects with one-year duration that are executed within the scope of CloudiFacturing.
Our Open Call will allow you to propose such an Application Experiment!

Find more here: https://www.cloudifacturing.eu/open-calls-general/

Each year, the I4MS project will launch the Disruptors Awards Call and select the best cases or experiments illustrating a company's ability to innovate and implement ICT technologies to meet its business needs. The first open call for applications was launched in May 2018 and closed in July 2018.
This second Open Call is available to SMEs and mid-caps having received technological and financial support by any project or Innovation Action under the I4MS initiative (Fortissimo, Fortissimo2, Cloudflow, CloudSME, LASHARE, INTEFIX, EuRoC, Appolo, ReconCell, BEinCPPS, HORSE, MIDIH, Cloudifacturing, L4MS and AMable).
The Disruptors Awards winner will be offered a specially designed offline and online visibility during the Mobile World Congress 2020 in Barcelona where the winner will also be offered 2 exhibition tickets, technological and innovation support during a workshop offered by the Danish Technological Institute and MADE – Manufacturing Academy of Denmark, and an exhibition space at the FIWARE Summit during Spring 2020. Finally, the winner will receive a visibility package which includes the promotion of the experiments and the winning SMEs or midcap via the I4MS online community, website, social networks, blog and I4MS newsletter, plus the opportunity to be featured as the best digital transformation case in different newsletters linked to the I4MS ecosystem.
The Disruptors Awards is not only a competition, but also an opportunity to gain visibility and thereby make your ideas grow and get in contact with a large ecosystem.
JOIN THE I4MS DISRUPTORS AWARDS
Be a DISRUPTOR – show the world how you can solve existing challenges!
Submit your idea, get in contact with the ecosystem and get exhibiting opportunities in World Class events.
The best SME/mid-cap proposal will win prize package. You can find more information about benefits and criterias to participate here:
SUBMISSION:
In order to participate, it is necessary to register on the I4MS Disruptors Awards Open Call website and apply to be selected as the I4MS Disruptor.
QUESTIONS?
Please contact us at hello@i4ms.eu or make your questions in the Q&A section.
You can find all the information you need to know to apply for the Disruptors Awards in the Guidelines for applicants and at www.i4ms.eu

The winning proposal will be announced in November 2019 on the I4MS website

The second call of MIDIH aims at complementing functionalities around MIDIH reference architecture and performing experiments in CPS/IOT based on the components provided by the architecture.

This call will support the development of data driven applications (preferably by IT SMEs as technology providers) and experiments in CPS/IoT (preferably by Manufacturing SMEs), within the following topics:

Technological topics

• T1. Modeling and Simulation innovative HPC/Cloud applications for highly personalised Smart Products, Smart Factory and Smart Supply Chain


• T2. Smart Factory and Smart Product Digital Twin models alignment and validation via edge clouds distributed architectures


• T3. Advanced applications of AR / VR Technologies for Remote Training / Maintenance Operations (Smart Product and Smart Factory)


• T4. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence advanced applications in Smart Product, Smart Factory and Smart Supply Chains management and optimization.

Experimentation topics

• E1. Integrating Additive Manufacturing into legacy production system for experiments with CPS / IOT production technologies.


• E2. Integrating CPS / IOT technologies to bridge factory automation and robotics


• E3. Integrating CPS / IOT discrete production technologies in Process Industry


• E4. Integrating CPS / IOT factory logistics technologies in internal/external logistic scenario

The experiments must cover one of the three main scenarios (Smart Factory or Smart Product or Smart Supply chain) and The usage of components of the reference architecture is mandatory.

Applicants must be individual legal entities (consortia are not allowed) established in countries eligible for participation in EC H2020 projects.

This open call, which has an indicative budget of € 960,000, has a deadline for applications’ submission on 06th August 2019, at 17:00 Brussels local time, and selected proposals, which should have an expected duration of 6 months, may receive funding up to € 60,000 per proposal (but remember that applicants that have already received more than € 100,000 from H2020 I4MS and SAE projects cannot be awarded).

Visit the open call page at MIDIH site for full information!

• Blockchain,


• Big Data,


• Internet of Things,


• 5G,


• Cybersecurity,


• Cloud/Edge Computing,


• Interactive Technology,


• Future Hyper-Connectivity and


• Human-centric Internet.

Applicants can participate in the program through 3 different approaches:

1. Open Ideas: applicants may submit a proposal around their ideas, products and services in one or several focus areas and they will be identified and matched the best candidates with the US Nodes.


2. Challenges: applicants may submit a proposal to a Challenge from the ones defined by US Nodes, taking into consideration their specific priorities for collaboration.


3. Paired Teams: applicants may submit a proposal to advance their ideas, products and/or services in one or several of the focus areas along with a specific US partnering organization.

The call is open to employees with innovator or researcher profile of a European legal entity (limited to: startups, SMEs, mid-caps, research centres or academia) under the European Commission regulations.

This open call has a deadline for applications submission on 31st July 2019 at 12:00 CEST and will follow this indicative timeline:

• Evaluation: from August 2019 until September 2019.


• Communication to applicants and contracting: October 2019.


• Inmersion (4-day intensive bootcamp): October 2019 – November 2019.


• Expeditions: from January 2020 to June 2020.


• NGI Explorer Oscars: July 2020.

Selected projects will get financial support for Explorers’ travel and subsistence costs during their Expeditions and funding will be released under a lump sum scheme. The monthly rate for the Program has been set at €4,650 and funding ceilings are up to € 13,950 for a 3-month Expedition and up to €27,900 for a 6-month Expedition

NGI Explorers is a program to launch Europe's best Internet talent into Expeditions to the US. It will support top researchers and innovators to gain the skills, build the networks and find the sustainability necessary to catalyze the impact of their disruptive ideas, NGI concepts or product-oriented research activities.

The Program will invest US$ 1+M to spur 40+ top-notch European Explorers over a 3-year period (January 2019 – December 2021).

Visit the NGI Explorers Program site for full information.

This second open call of ACTIVAGE project targets mature deployment sites (cities, regions) which provide IoT based services to their citizens, to replicate ACTIVAGE reference use cases and demonstrate the interoperability capabilities of ACTIVAGE’s AIOTES framework.
The call, which was launched on 22nd March 2019, has a submission deadline on 21st June 2019 and expects to fund (up to €200K per project) a maximum of 3 projects of 9 months duration.
ACTIVAGE project is a European Multi Centric Large Scale Pilot on Smart Living Environments and aims to build the first European IoT ecosystem to enable the deployment and operation at large scale of Active & Healthy Ageing IoT based solutions and services, supporting and extending the independent living of older adults in their living environments, and responding to real needs of caregivers, service providers and public authorities.

http://www.activageproject.eu/open-call

The second open call of the European Data Incubator targets start-ups and SMEs which use Big Data open source tools oriented to sort out major challenges in different business. The open call is divided in three tracks:

• Ready-Made (Track 1 - Domain specific): challenges have been defined by the EDI data providers according to the needs detected. These challenges and associated datasets are defined in the Challenge Catalogue.


• Half and Half (Track 2 - Data combination): devoted to the discovery of new opportunities proposed by the applicants, where the use of at least two different datasets is compulsory (one from the EDI data catalogue and another(s) external to which the applicant has access and processing rights (in compliance with data protection regulations) and has legal permission to include them in a commercial solution).


• Free choice (Track 3 - Bring your own data provider): teams will be allowed to bring their own data provider with a specific challenge to be solved and specific datasets to be used.

The call is open to start-ups and SMEs legally established in eligible countries (EU’s Member State, OTC territories and H2020 associated countries). Also teams between 2 to 4 individuals legally established in one of the eligible countries can apply but they will have to sign a written commitment to set up a legally registered SME if reaching the second phase of the incubation (the “Experiment” phase).

Submission deadline is on Wednesday 19th of June 2019 at 12:00 (noon) CEST and selected applicants will have access to a three-phase (Explore, Experiment, Evolve) incubation programme, including:

• Mentoring from experts in your sector,


• Workshops and datathons in new markets,


• Up to €100K equity-free funding depending on the stage reached (up to €5K for the 50 teams in Explore phase, plus up to €80K for the 17 teams in Experiment phase, and plus up to € 15K to best 7 teams in Evolve phase).


• Free cloud environment for scalable data processing


• Direct access to major European corporates.

Indicative call timeline is as follows:

• Submission deadline: 19/06/2019, 12:00 (noon) CEST


• Evaluation: from 19/06/2019 to 22/07/2019


• Communication of results: from 22/07/2019 to 26/07/2019


• Subgrant agreements: from 27/07/2019 to 08/09/2019 2.2


• Phase 1 – Explore: execution from 09/09/2019 to week 23/10/2019


• Phase 2 – Experiment: execution from 28/10/2019 to 21/02/2020


• Phase 3 – Evolve: execution from 09/03/2020 to 24/04/2020

The European Data Incubator (EDI) has been funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and it’s part of the Big Data Value PPP. It aims at sustainable business incubation around Big Data by facilitating the uptake of Big Data tools and increasing the technical and business skills of start-ups/SMEs.

https://edincubator.eu/startups/

The IPA4SME Call aims to facilitate and promote the use of Intellectual Property (IP) among SMEs which have received a Seal of Excellence from the H2020 SME Instrument program, providing them with access to:

• Relevant information about their existing technological and knowledge assets along with a tailor-made IP business strategy so a secure and efficient exploitation of those assets can be implemented, ensuring at the same time an increase in the company’s overall performance.
• Co-financing that will partly cover the costs associated with the advice of IP attorneys and the filling of patent applications.

Focus of the call
The overall objective of this action is to provide financial and expert support for IP protection and valorisation. SMEs will have the opportunity to receive up to three types of services with different levels of co-financing.

Guide for Applicants and more information here.
Find out the FAQ section here.

Support to develop innovative ideas of functional products that needs Additive Manufacturing
This second call of AMable (AMable OC 2) aims to support European SME’s and mid-caps which undertaken “application experiments” to develop an innovative idea of functional products that needs Additive Manufacturing (AM) to become real. In particular, types of experiments that might be funded are:

Feasibility studies, which are 3 to 6 months experiments, expected to have a TRL 3 to 5, to use 1 to 3 project’s services and to have a cost between € 5,000 and €25,000.
Best practice experiments, which are 4 to 12 months experiments, expected to have TRL 4-8, to use more than 2 project’s services and to have a cost between €10,000 and €60,000.

The call is open to SME's and mid-caps from the European Union. For feasibility studies, the experimentation Team should consists of, at least, one legal entity (SME or midcap) in the supplier role (aiming to bring the product idea into the market) and, for best practices, the experimentation team should consists of, at least, one supplier (an SME or mid-cap, which supplies parts or services to e.g. consumers or industry) and one user (a company that intends to use the product in market). Maximum number of partners in a experimentation team for a best practice is three.
This call, which has an estimated budget of €300,000, has a submission deadline on 01st June 2019, at 17:00 hrs. (Brussels Local Time).
To take up additive manufacturing, selected companies will receive financial support (up to 70% of substantiated eligible costs, with a maximum of €60,000 per party and call and a maximum of €100,000 per party during all project) and AMable Services, which aim to support and upskill of employees in the areas of design for AM, technology development, skills and education and to support their business development.
The aim of AMable project is to accelerate the uptake of additive manufacturing technologies; from design to manufacture for functional parts throughout the European Union. AMable is creating a digital framework to provide impartial access to the best European AM knowledge to support this adoption.


https://www.amable.eu/calls/call-for-proposals

O Projeto LEDGER lançou sua primeira chamada para apoiar o desenvolvimento de produtos ou serviços, que visam preservar o controle dos cidadãos sobre o gerenciamento de seus dados. As verticais direcionadas incluem Saúde, Economia, Mobilidade, Serviços públicos e Energia e Sustentabilidade, mas também uma solução genérica adicional na qual podem ser aplicadas soluções de outros setores que abordam a privacidade por design e o gerenciamento de dados descentralizado.

O convite está aberto a candidaturas de PMEs (com equipas multidisciplinares incluindo pelo menos 3 membros: idealmente um Investigador, um Desenvolvedor e um Desenvolvedor de Negócios) entre outros e o prazo para candidatura é 30 de abril de 2019, às 18:00

Para mais informações, visite https://ledgerproject.eu/

RobotUnion is calling for robotics start-ups in #agrifood, #manufacturing, #healthcare and #civil engineering. Selected start-ups will take part in this pan-European acceleration programme and might get up to €223k in equity-free cash. Apply before 30th April 2019!

More details https://robotunion.fundingbox.com

• Technical innovation in privacy enhancing technologies (such as cryptography, federated identity, security and privacy for IoT, distributed ledgers and privacy-enhancing data transports and data at rest).
The call is open to legal entities or natural persons registered or resident (respectively) in an EU Member State or a Horizon 2020 associated country. Teams can involve experts from various disciplines including technological, legal ethical, sociological or economic expertise.
1. Viability: up to € 100,000 funding (no matching funds required) for projects which explore and assess the technical feasibility and/or commercial potential of a breakthrough innovation (including conceptual development, risk assessment, market study or intellectual property management of a new technology or service, or a new application of existing technologies).
During the project, two more calls are expected (scheduled to open in October 2019 and February 2020) and will aim to build on this call’s projects, but also attract additional players with scalable projects in specific fields, industries or verticals.

Detalhes sobre esta chamada incl. processo de submissão e todos os documentos relevantes: https://www.tetramax.eu/ttx/calls/

Para mais informações contactar por favor Ana Ferreira da Exponor, seguem os contactos:
Ana Ferreira
Gestora de Marketing
M +351 967 266 711
ana.ferreira@exponor.pt
T +351 22 998 1476

O covr awards é o coração do covr project.
O propósito dos prêmios covr é ajudar os “coboteers” a concluírem, analisarem e validarem a segurança para o sistema cobot ou outros componentes aplicando o covr toolkit e realizando os testes necessários para validar a segurança.

Ao ganhar um covr award, o “coboteer” é convidado para as instalações do parceiro covr mais próximo, onde os especialistas da covr poderão ajudar o “coboteer” em todas as etapas do processo de avaliação e validação de segurança, para que tenham certeza de que seu cobot tem o nível adequado de segurança quando o projecto terminar.


Os “coboteers” podem solicitar prêmios de até € 60.000, seja sozinho ou em um consórcio com outros “coboteers” para, por exemplo, construir um sistema cobot usando um novo tipo de pinça ou sistema de segurança.
O financiamento do prêmio pode ser gasto no amadurecimento do sistema cobot, no desenvolvendo de sistemas de segurança ou algo completamente diferente, desde que os especialistas da covr estejam envolvidos nas fases de avaliação, teste e validação do projeto.

Ao concluir o projeto do prêmio, o kit de ferramentas covr será aprimorado com o conhecimento adquirido através do processo de premiação.

A 1ª CALL ABERTA ESTÁ ABERTA ATÉ 28-02-2019

Acelerar as soluções europeias CPS para o mercado
Centros de inovação digital CPS federados para qualquer iniciativa inteligente em qualquer lugar

3ª call aberta para experiências de aplicação - financiamento até € 58k, orientação técnica e empresarial disponível para apoiar empresas europeias a desenvolver aplicações inteligentes.

Através da iniciativa “Smart Anything Everywhere”, a comissão europeia está a ajudar a digitalizar a indústria europeia. O Fed4sae faz parte dessa estratégia, visando uma grande rede de empresas "pequenas" (startups, pequenas / médias empresas), incluindo especialistas em tecnologia e empresas de baixa tecnologia.

Procuram-se empresas que desejam:
• desenvolver soluções inteligentes inovadoras para assumir uma posição de liderança nos seus mercados-alvo.
• usar as tecnologias mais avançadas e soluções industrializadas para conectar o mundo físico com o mundo virtual, combinando experiência em hardware e software.
• obter acesso premium a recursos, competências e reduzir o tempo de desenvolvimento.
• entrar num ecossistema europeu único, reunindo empresas industriais líderes, organizações de pesquisa de classe mundial, aceleradores de inovação e investidores privados.

Para isso, a Fed4sae oferece às empresas: Suporte ao produto via plataformas industriais - produtos existentes fornecidos por líderes de mercado (avl, intel e st.) - no domínio de sistemas ciber-físicos e embarcados que podem levar a inovação a um estado de maturidade.

Expertise técnica através de plataformas avançadas por rtos (bme, csem, catapulta digital, fraunhofer iisb, fortiss, kth, unican) - soluções técnicas inovadoras ou testbeds - que agregarão valor ao produto.
Gestão da inovação - com foco nos negócios - para ajudar a inovação a chegar ao mercado através do fed4sae e do Smart Anything Everywhere ecosystem.
Até € 58.000 em financiamento - representando 70% do orçamento fixado na proposta.

O Fed4sae acolhe propostas que abordam uma das áreas de foco ou qualquer outro domínio de aplicação inteligente (mobilidade, cidade, saúde e bem-estar, indústria, agricultura, alimentação, etc.). Serão pan-europeus, permitindo que empresas premiadas colaborem com os fornecedores de plataformas industriais e avançadas. A Fed4sae já está a apoiar 16 projetos com PMES vindos de toda a Europa e está em buscar de 15 experimentos adicionais.

Orientações importantes sobre o processo, regras e as tecnologias e plataformas oferecidas podem ser encontradas no site www.fed4sae.eu.

DIVA é o projeto europeu que está a dar a oportunidade às Pequenas e Médias Empresas (PME) de apresentarem soluções tecnológicas nas áreas do Agrofood, Floresta e Ambiente. No total
estão disponíveis 3M€ - divididos em duas fases de concurso - para apoiar empresas de Portugal, Espanha, França, Grécia, Itália e Irlanda que submetam projetos inovadores.

As candidaturas podem ser feitas até 1 de fevereiro de 2019 no website do projeto: https://www.projectdiva.eu/funding-calls/.

O acesso ao financiamento DIVA, em vales de inovação que podem ir até €60 mil, pode assumir várias tipologias:
• Coaching e Mentoring, vales até €10 mil, para financiar serviços de consultoria e assistência técnica especializada para aceleração do processo de inovação;·
• Maturação, vales até €10 mil, para financiar o amadurecimento tecnológico da PME através de assistência técnica especializada;
• Demonstração, vales de €25 a € 60 mil, para financiar a demonstração de soluções inovadoras em ambiente real ou em condições “quase reais”
• Internacionalização, vales até €30 mil, para financiar serviços de consultoria e assistência técnica especializada no processo de internacionalização, bem como a participação em feiras
e eventos internacionais.

Para mais informações: podem consultar o website ou entrar em contacto com Alexandra Xavier e Sara Neves através do contacto de e-mail: diva@inesctec.pt

O projeto IoT4Industry procura apoiar o crescimento e a competitividade da UE através do desenvolvimento de uma nova cadeia de valor industrial intersetorial baseada na integração e uso de IoT e componentes relacionados (Segurança Digital, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Inteligência Artificial…) em ferramentas de manufatura, máquinas e robôs, processos industriais, ambiente de fábrica, através da colaboração transfronteiriça entre as PME e outros atores.

Os projetos devem ser inseridos em algum dos seguintes instrumentos :

• Estudos de viabilidade , com um Technology Readiness Level (TRL) de 5-6 e duração prevista até 6 meses, que pode receber um montante fixo máximo por projecto de € 50.000 (sendo o montante máximo concedido por PME beneficiária de € 25.000).
• Prototipagem , com um TRL de 7-8 e duração prevista até 12 meses, que pode receber um montante fixo máximo por projecto de € 90.000 (sendo o montante máximo concedido por PME beneficiária de € 45.000).
• Demonstrações/ pilotos , com um TRL de 8 e duração esperada até 12 meses, que pode receber um montante fixo máximo por projecto de € 120.000 (sendo o montante máximo concedido por PME beneficiária de € 60.000).

Prazo de candidatura: 20 de dezembro de 2018

Para mais informação:
https://www.iot4industry.eu/
https://iot4industry-innovation-vouchers.fundingbox.com/

A Portugal Ventures esta à procura de projetos turísticos, tech e non-tech, que tragam para o mercado, produtos e serviços inovadores, que melhorem a experiência do turista, aproveitando aspetos como a história, a arte, a arquitetura, o património cultural e natural, entre outros recursos.

Os projectos devem ser promovidos por empresas que já tenham ou pretendam ter sede em Portuga e que se encontrem em fase inicial.

Prazo de candidatura: 20 de dezembro de 2018

Para mais informação:

https://www.portugalventures.pt/call-for-tourism

submissions@portugalventures.pt

Aumente a sua capacidade de produção e lucros através do programa de aceleração L4MS para PMEs de manufatura.

Esta é uma oportunidade para experiências que validem a relação custo-eficiência da implementação rápida de robôs móveis em PMEs de manufatura e Mid-Caps através da virtualização (OPIL + 3D simulador de fábrica, com licenças fratuitas e orientação da L4MS). As experiências demonstrarão o valor da solução para reduzir o tempo e o custo de instalação, implementação e configuração.

As propostas devem abordar a implementação de pequenas soluções de automação logística para enfrentar as barreiras enfrentadas pelas PMEs de manufatura, como (mas não limitado a):

• Soluções logísticas totalmente automatizadas;

• Soluções de logística automatizada híbrida (colaboração homem-robô);

• Soluções logísticas automatizadas altamente configuráveis;

• Soluções logísticas de vários fornecedores.

Com um orçamento de 1,5 milhões de euros, está aberta às PME de produção e Mid-Caps; provedores de soluções de automação; desenvolvedores de software; integradores de sistemas; robôs móveis, fabricantes de sensores e equipamentos, centros de competência, Centros de Inovação Digital (DIHs) e outros membros da cadeia de valor da automação, que podem apresentar uma solicitação individual ou em consórcio.

Prazo de candidatura: 30 de novembro 2018

Para mais informação:

https://l4ms-open-call.fundingbox.com/

helpdesk@l4ms.eu

Esta segunda open call para experiências ORCA (Orchestration and Reconfiguration Control Architecture) está aberta a projetos para validação de soluções inovadoras de Radio definido por software (SDR- Software-defined radio) usando as instalações, plataformas de hardware SDR e conjuntos de ferramentas de software suportados pelo Consórcio ORCA.


Existem duas categorias de experiências:


• Excelência científica (ORCA-OC2-EXP-EXC);

• Inovação por indústria (ORCA-OC2-EXP-IND);


Os proponentes devem ser partes únicas elegíveis para financiamento em projetos H202. Para a categoria de inovação industrial, os proponentes devem ser empresas de pequena, média e grande dimensão (incluindo empresas unipessoais e em nome individual).


O projeto ORCA é uma ação de investigação e inovação do programa Europeu Horizonte 2020, referente ao tópico Sistemas de Conectividade Futura. Este projeto começou em janeiro de 2017, com a duração de 36 meses, termina no final de 2019.


Prazo de candidatura: 30 de novembro de 2018

Para mais informação:

https://www.orca-project.eu/open-calls/

opencalls@orca-project.eu

O “Cyber Investor Day” acontecerá em Berlim, no dia 28 de novembro de 2018. Este evento é organizado pela Organização Europeia de Segurança Cibernética (ECSO), a principal empresa alemã de segurança cibernética, pela Secunet Security Networks AG; e pela associação de segurança de TI TeleTrusT Bundesverband IT-Sicherheit e.V.

Estão à procura de start-ups e PMEs Europeias promissoras na área da segurança cibernética para divulgarem a sua solução entre investidores Alemães e internacionais, nas sessões estratégicas de matchmaking.

Entre os investidores confirmados: IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH; Redstone Digital; Sonae Investment Management, Software e Tecnologia; Rabobank; Telefonica; Inogese; High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH; Nova-Fund; Aizoon; Laranja VC; BFB Brandenburg Kapital GmbH; patronus.io; e empresas adicionais da ECSO especializadas em segurança cibernética (por exemplo, Rohde Schwarz; secunet; Airbus Ventures Capital).

COMPETIÇÃO START-Ups & PMEs
As start-ups e PMEs interessadas devem enviar 5 slides sobre a sua empresa e soluções + formulário de registro para a ECSO: wg4_secretariat@ecs-org.eu
Para mais informação:
Confira os critérios de seleção, o formulário de inscrição, programa e outros dados importantes aqui: http://www.ecs-org.eu/agenda#cyber-investor-days

Prazo de envio: 29 de outubro de 2018

FED4SAE: Acelerar as soluções europeias de CPS para o mercado
FED4SAE é uma one-stop-shop para o desenvolvimento de sistemas ciber-físicos (CPS), financiada pela Comissão Europeia.
Com objetivo de ajudar as empresas europeias em fase de arranque, as PME e as empresas midcap, de qualquer setor, a desenvolver soluções inovadoras de CPS para o mercado. Como parte da Iniciativa Smart Anything Everywhere, contam com o apoio de dez países, oito centros de investigação, cinco parceiros industriais e uma PME para providenciar: - Acesso a plataformas CPS de ponta, tecnologias avançadas e bancos de provas de centros industriais e investigação
- Aconselhamento técnico de especialistas
- Suporte à gestão de inovação
- Até 60 mil euros de apoio financeiro inicial, com possibilidade de mais financiamento
- Acesso a potenciais utilizadores e fornecedores na Europa

Para mais informação:
https://fed4sae.eu/ https://www.facebook.com/fed4sae/
https://twitter.com/fed4sae
https://www.linkedin.com/company/fed4sae/

O projeto fed4SAE recebeu financiamento do programa de Pesquisa e Inovação Horizonte 2020 da União Europeia sob o Acordo de Concessão nº 701708.

Mais informações:  https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls