Find out what's happening in the area of Horizon Europe, Digital Europe and Horizon 2020
Digital Europe AI, data & cloud Deployment: Best use of technologies
The European Commission has issued a prenotification for a call for tenders in the area of local digital twins. The procurement should open end of August 2023. The subject of this call for tenders is “Development of the Local Digital Twins (LDT) toolbox for Advancing the transformation of Smart Communities”, as well as... read more
Digital, Industry & Space AI, data & cloud
The European Commission has introduced common logos to easily identify trusted data intermediation service providers and data altruism organisations in the EU, which will connect data holders - both individuals and companies - with data users. The identification of trusted data intermediation services and data altruism organisations is part of t... read more
Digital Europe AI, data & cloud
The European Commission has announced today that the deadlines for calls DIGITAL-2023-CLOUD-AI-04 and DIGITAL-2023-PROGRAM-SUPPORT-04 have been postponed to 22 November 2023. This concerns the following call topics: Developing citiverse - DIGITAL-2023-CLOUD-AI-04-DEVELOPCITI Highly secure collaborative platform for aeronaut... read more
Health Climate, Energy, Mobility Agro-Food, Environment Missions
The Commission has made its first assessment of the EU Missions in a recently published Communication. It expresses the Commission’s support for the continuation of the 5 EU Missions with a proposed increase of budget to 11% of Pillar 2 from 2024 onwards (up from 10% currently). The Communication also launches preparations on a... read more
Autoship is, as the name suggests, an acronym for autonomous ship. Just like with self-driving cars, the possibilities of an unmanned boat seem endless. It can create more efficient freight transport, around the clock deliveries and these are just a few of the examples. The project has two societal challenges.
At first, De Vlaamse Waterweg was a bit hesitant as their experience with FP7 or Horizon 2020 projects was limited and they had not been very successful up until then. The fact that they were already doing basic research on the topic of autonomous boats, and the administrative help of NCP FLanders helped De Vlaamse waterweg to cross the line and get involved.