Feeling a bit lost when you noticed that the Cluster4 Work Programme counts 479 pages? And that it contains in total 97 open calls (the 2023 topics) and 67 forthcoming (the 2024 topics)? We feel your pain!

Overall structure

The scheme below will help you to locate the sections of your interest.

Call topic organisation

Where the schema provides you some rough orientation, it isn't enough to uncover where the concrete opportunties lie. But the list below should be suffient to quickly identify those call topics that deserve your close attention. Btw, an easy method to create your own overview, is by starting from our Excel Call Topics overview, and delete the rows that you don't need.

• Core data topics
  • Data sharing and Analytics Capacity (DATA-01-02 & 07)
  • From Cloud to Edge to IoT for European Data (DATA-01-04 & 06)
• AI, Robotics and ESP
  • AI, Data and Robotics (incl. efficient, robust, safe, adaptive and trusted robots (EMERGING-01-01 & 02)
  • European Leadership in Emerging and Enabling Technologies (EMERGING-01-11 & 12)
  • European Innovation Leadership in Photonics (EMERGING-01-51, 53, 56, & 57)
• Graphene & Quantum (flagships)
  • Graphene and 2D materials: Europe in the lead (EMERGING-01-32 & 33)
  • Flagship on Quantum Technologies: a Paradigm Shift (EMERGING-01-50)
• Human Centred/Ethical Development
  • Systemic approaches for accelerating uptake of technology and innovation (HUMAN-01-31, 32 & 33)
  • Research and Innovation for Industry 5.0 (HUMAN-01-51,52,53 & 54)
  • European standards for industrial competitiveness (HUMAN-01-62, 63, 64, 65 & 66)
  • International Cooperation (HUMAN-91, 92 & 93)
  • Leadership in AI based on trust (HUMAN-01-01, 02, 03, 04 & 05)
  • Internet of Trust (HUMAN-01-11, 12, 13 & 14)
  • eXtended Reality (HUMAN-01-21, 22 & 23)
  • Digital Humanism and human compatible technologies (HUMAN-01-81 & 82)

More information

Your official source of information is the Work Programme. For the call topics, the same information can be found on the Funding & Tenders Portal. And maybe you prefere not to read? Well, in that case you can watch the video recordings of the Cluster 4 info days.

Partnerships

The easiest way to see these partnerships is as smaller and more dedicated ecosystems inside the huge Cluster4 programme. Core to all of them is that they are initiatives that support the EC within their topic field. The following are key partnerships in the area of Digital:
1. Artificial Intelligence, Data and Robotics
2. Photonics
3. Smart Networks and Services (calls on 5G+6G are expected late December 2022)
4. Key Digital Technologies