We would like to draw your attention to the following cascading calls for proposals.

What is a cascading call?

A cascading call is a funding mechanism where a larger project, already funded by Horizon Europe or other funding programme, distributes part of its funds to smaller projects through its own call for proposals. As an applicant to a cascading call, you would be applying to receive a portion of the funding managed by this larger project.

Why is it interesting?

From your perspective, this process involves finding a cascading call that aligns with your project's goals and submitting a proposal to the organization managing the larger project. If your proposal is successful, you'll receive funding to support your research or innovation activities. This approach allows Horizon Europe to efficiently distribute funds to a wider array of smaller projects, encouraging diverse and innovative contributions to the overarching goals of the program. Essentially, you're benefiting from a secondary layer of funding opportunities, making it easier for smaller or more niche projects to access financial support.

List of open calls (summer 2024)

Within the Next Generation Internet (NGI) ecosystem

• NGI Zero Core - Supports upgrading the open internet architecture with building blocks that prioritize reliability, confidentiality, integrity, security, and resource efficiency.
  - Funding up to: €50,000
  - Deadline: 1st October 2024

• NGI Zero Commons - Funds R&D on technology commons that improve openness, trustworthiness, resilience, and user autonomy, making these available as free/libre/open-source software and hardware.
  - Funding range: €5,000 - €50,000
  - Deadline: 1st October 2024

• NGI Taler - Supports the development of technology commons that empower users and establish a new generation of privacy-friendly digital payment systems.
  - Funding range: €5,000 - €50,000
  - Deadline: 1st October 2024

• NGI Mobifree - Supports solutions for an open mobile ecosystem.
  - Funding range: €5,000 - €50,000
  - Deadline: 1st October 2024

• NGI Fediversity -Aims to bring easy-to-use, hosted cloud services with service portability and personal freedom at their core to everyone.
  - Funding range: €5,000 - €50,000
  - Deadline: 1st October 2024

• NGI Sargasso - Creates a collaborative ecosystem to harvest EU-US or EU-Canada technology breakthroughs that revolutionize the Next Generation Internet technologies, services, and standards, contributing to a human-centric approach of the internet commons.
  - Funding up to: €100,000
  - Deadline: 1st August 2024

• NGI Review - Offers free services to NGI grantees, including support with accessibility, diversity and inclusion management, community building and mentoring, copyright and license due diligence, internationalization, translation and localization, packaging, security audit, and standardization.
  - Deadline: 31st July 2024

• NGI Search - Supports innovative solutions that change the way we use, experience, search, and discover data and resources on the internet and web.
  - Funding range: €150,000
  - Deadline: 29th July 2024

• NGI Trustchain - With the topic “Multi chains support for NGI protocols,” supports developers to design and build gateways that enable trustworthy and secure transfer of knowledge, metadata, data, processes, and requirements from one chain to another.
  - Deadline: 17th July 2024

Other cascading calls

• DS4SSCC-DE - The European Data Space for Smart Communities opened early June and is for pilots for local public administrations and other entities working with them (companies, academia, NGOs) addressing Green Deal sectors and New European Bauhaus domains. This is the first round of calls for pilots, 2 more rounds are foreseen to open in September and December.
  - Funding up to: €1.5M
  - Deadline: 31st August 2024

• Enfield Project - supports R&D activities to develop fundamental research in the areas of Adaptive, Green, Human-Centric, and Trustworthy AI systems.
  - Funding up to: €60,000
  - Deadline: 31st July 2024

• XR2Industry - supports hardware enablers and will select up to 7 developers of XR components (MidCaps or SMEs) aimed at integrating emerging technologies (such as 5G/6G, IoT, data, artificial intelligence, edge and cloud computing, and microelectronics) to enable possibilities of XR experiences.
  - Funding up to: €500,000
  - Deadline: 17th September 2024

• CORTEX2 - Will finance a minimum of one single entity (tech startup/SME/research organization) and a maximum of two entities representing technology developers, with emphasis on XR, AR, and AI. The inclusion of the second entity must be justified.
  - Deadline: 15th August 2024

• StandICT.eu - supports contributions to ICT standardization activities.
  - Deadline: 23rd August 2024

• INDUSAC - Supports short-term research collaborations between academia (students, researchers) and industry in solving company challenges.
  - Funding up to: €1,000 per student / €3,000 per team
  - Deadline: See cut-off dates in call

• NEMO -Supports IoT developers to extend the NEMO use cases and implement innovative IoT apps and services that use heterogeneous IoT and NEMO components to offer new services.
  - Funding up to: €90,000
  - Deadline: 31st August 2024

• COMMUNICITY - Supports tech companies and providers, organizations, cities, and their residents to develop innovative technical solutions to overcome digital, urban, and social challenges.
  - Deadline: 31st October 2024

• QU PILOT - Supports all EU companies in search of experimental production facilities incorporating cutting-edge technologies in quantum computing, communication, and sensing.
  - Deadline: 30th September 2024

• QU TEST - Supports all EU companies in search of testing and experimentation facilities incorporating cutting-edge technologies in quantum computing, communication, and sensing.
  - Deadline: 30th September 2024

• FFPlus - Promotes the adoption of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and (generative) Artificial Intelligence (AI) for SMEs and start-ups across Europe, showing the business benefits and impacts of adopting HPC and AI in real business models.Two types of open calls:
  - Business experiments (no prior HPC use): funding up to €200,000
  - Innovation studies (scaling up AI): funding up to €300,000
  - Deadline: 4th September 2024