Eureka Globalstars CFPs on AI as Enabling Technology for Smart Cities & Healthcare, and Industry 4.0

Deadline: 31-Jan-23

The national funding bodies (FB) from Sweden, Germany and Spain, and the regional research funding body from the state of São Paulo, Brazil, have allocated funding for organisations collaborating on international R&D projects in the fields of Smart Cities and Healthcare with AI as enabling technology and in the field of Industry 4.0.

Eureka is the world’s biggest public network for international cooperation in R&D and innovation, present in over 45 countries. It is a decentralised intergovernmental organisation aiming to boost the productivity and competitiveness of industries by funding and supporting international collaborative market-driven R&D projects. This call for projects has been launched following Eureka’s Globalstars framework based on mutual consent between participating national and regional funding bodies.

Scope

• This project call is for R&D projects within the following mandatory fields:
  • AI in Smart Cities:
    • The city as a platform for data driven innovation
    • Digital twins for cities
    • AI for city management
    • AI for Budget and investment management
  • Focusing on:
    • Water & air quality
    • Water and sewage management
    • Transport and logistics, mobility of people and goods
    • Citizen’s involvement – empowerment
    • Contribution to resource efficiency and CO2 reduction
  • AI in Health:
    • Sensors, data from sensors (and analysis) in care, care rehab and prevention
    • New technology and new ways of working in care
    • Empowerment, increase control over one’s own health / prevention – to combine lifelong learning with lifelong use of technology for empowerment / that one can use technology as support in different ways during different phases of life.
    • Methods for technology development, user involvement and implementation together with companies (within Digital Health).
    • New methods for decision making aimed at boosting efficiency and accuracy for health specialists.
  • Industry 4.0:
    • ICT applications in the industrial context, including innovation in processes and products:
      • Decentralized production
      • Remote maintenance
      • Robotics
      • Digitalized control
      • Virtualization
      • Industry 4.0 technologies for sustainable production

Funding Information

• SMEs can apply for up to 50%, large companies up to 30% and universities and research institutes up to 100% of the eligible costs. The maximum funding (grant) per project is SEK 2.5 million (approximately 250,000 Euros).

Participating Countries

• Participating Countries and National or Regional Funding Bodies (FBs)
  • Brazil (state of São Paulo region): FAPESP – São Paulo Research Foundation
  • Sweden: Vinnova – Sweden’s innovation agency
  • Spain: Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology – CDTI
  • Germany: Federal Ministry of Education and Research – BMBF (t.b.c.).

Eligibility Criteria

• In order to apply to the present call, the partners must meet the following qualifications:
  • Your project idea must represent international cooperation in the form of a specific project.
  • The project must be directed at researching or developing an innovative product, process, or service with the goal of commercialisation.
  • The project must have a civilian purpose.
  • Your consortium must include at least two independent legal entities from a minimum of one Eureka participating country and one from the state of São Paulo in Brazil.
  • The project must include at least one Brazilian SME (up to 250 employees) with a branch established in São Paulo State in Brazil or a Brazilian company (of any size) associated, for the purposes of this project, with a research centre or university located in the state of São Paulo.
  • No single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget.
  • The project should have an obvious advantage and added value resulting from the technologic cooperation between the participants (e.g., increased knowledge base, commercial leads, access to R&D infrastructure, etc.).
  • A signed consortium agreement is mandatory following national requirements. The consortium agreement should at least include the ownership and use of know-how and IPR settlements.
  • The duration of the project may not exceed 36 months.
  • Product, service or process implementation or market launch should happen no later than 24 months after project completion.

For more information, visit https://www.vinnova.se/en/calls-for-proposals/strategic-global-investments/eureka-globalstars-call-in-cooperation-2022-01619/

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