Deadline: 18-Sep-25
The European Commission is requesting proposals for Advanced IoT and Device Technologies.
Scope
- Proposals should address one of the following three areas (and clearly identify which area is being addressed):
- Sensing and connectivity technologies and architectures to enable the advent of (closed to) zero energy devices: The technologies enabling the device to function without being battery powered are in scope as well as the networking protocols and the optimised connectivity operation enabling the overall energy budget to remain close to zero, in demanding IoT scenarios (e.g., for long-term unattended operations such as for the whole device lifecycle). This may also include passive and battery-less NTN IoT terminals and components allowing ultra-low power/unattended operation.
- Communication technologies and architectures enabling 6G unlicensed operations for IoT: Related use-cases environments of interest are e.g. industrial environments, healthcare/hospital deployment, campus networks. Aspects of (fast) deployment in these contexts should be considered as well as the related data processing over a computing continuum that may span multiple domains and service requirements.
- IoT applications that can benefit from 6G characteristics, offering better performance compared to a 5G implementation: The scope includes both the optimization through 6G features of applications of diverse nature, with technologies enabling a wide range of versatility and intelligence for implementation/deployment of the needed service features required to serve the target use cases as well as the design of novel connected IoT devices that will enable new services and applications.
Funding Information
- Budget (EUR): 9 000 000.
- Contributions: around 3000000.
Expected Outcomes
- The expected outcomes are addressing several technologies and architectures that may be applicable for a wide range of innovative IoT connectivity scenarios as those described by the Use Case analysis of the Hexa-X-II flagship project. They target mainly:
- Characterisation and performance studies of technologies enabling the advent of (close to) zero-energy devices, in particular for unattended long-term IoT operations with minimal loss of performance from the network side.
- Enabling technologies and architectures to operate 6G for IoT in unlicensed bands (6G-U) in promising related use-case scenarios (e.g., industrial deployment).
- Design of novel innovative IoT connected devices and operation modes that will enable new services and applications supporting IoT scenarios in a 6G context and showing clear performance improvements (KPI and/or KVI) over a legacy 5G implementation.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from no associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call/topic.
- A ‘legal entity’ means any natural or legal person created and recognised as such under national law, EU law or international law, which has legal personality and which may, acting in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations, or an entity without legal personality.
- Entities eligible for funding:
- To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
- Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
- Countries associated to Horizon Europe;
- Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
- To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
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