We would like to draw your attention to the following cascading calls for proposals. This is an update of the overview we published in summer.

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 (autumn 2024)

Within the Next Generation Internet (NGI) ecosystem

• 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 December 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 December 2024

• NGI Mobifree - Supports solutions for an open mobile ecosystem.
  - Funding range: €5,000 - €50,000
  - Deadline: 1st December 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 December 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: 25th November 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 2025

Within the Smart Networks & Services (SNS) ecosystem

• 6GBRICKS - validate the capabilities, functionalities and performance of the 6G-BRICKS experimental
  facility in various domains (e.g., PPDR, media, eHealth, transportation, Industry 4.0) and
  experimentation xApps (RIS, cell-free experiments, trajectory prediction).
  - Funding up to: €60,000 per partner/ €120,000 per project
  - Deadline: 15 November for feasibility, 23 December 2024 for submission
• 6G XR Vertical replicability enablers invites third-party participants to leverage the project’s technological infrastructure and testbeds for deploying, replicating, and validating their own verticals and use cases.
  - Expected opening: December 2024
• FIDAL - is inviting SMEs, start-ups, research institutes, groups of entrepreneurs, app developers and infrastructure owners to undertake a set of beyond 5G trials in a multitude of domains
  - Funding up to €150—250,000
  - Deadline: 10 December 2024.
• Imagine B5G - supports testing and validating novel vertical applications through pilots and trials on the
  IMAGINE-B5G facilities
  - Funding up to: €60,000 per partner/ €120,000 per project
  - Deadline: 15 November for feasibility, 6 December 2024 for submission
• 6G Path - Supports
  A) Infrastructure deployment: additional third-party testbeds that enable the development and integration of a B5G/6G network infrastructure made available for testing and validating services/ applications across the Health, Education, Smart Cities, and Farming verticals.
  B) Infrastructure software extensions: third-party testbed extensions that integrate advances in any of
  the seven testbed infrastructure services.
  - Funding up to: Track A €300,000, Track B €60.000
  - Deadline: 6 November for feasibility, 21 November 2024 for submission

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: 30th November 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: new calls coming up in Spring 2025

• StandICT.eu - supports contributions to ICT standardization activities.
  - Deadline: 4th November 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: 31st March 2025
• SPIRIT - supports the development and validation of real-time immersive telepresence applications in
  various sectors (healthcare, retail, education, training, entertainment, manufacturing) on the SPIRIT
  platform
  - Funding up to: €100,000
  - Deadline: 19 December 2024

• ARISE - supports HRI-enabled solutions for industrial robotics automation for the collaboration of end
  users and technology providers
  - Funding up to: €200,000
  - Deadline: 16 January 2025
• FARMTOPIA - supports small consortia of two entities to be formed by an Agricultural Digital Solutions (ADSs) provider (SME) and an end-user (small or medium farm) to co-create new ADSs by incorporating Farmtopia Reusable Components
  - Funding up to: €100,000
  - Deadline: 7 January 2025
• XR2LEARN supports small consortia to implement technological XR pilots and experimentation such as piloting of XR applications targeting educational scenarios
  - Funding up to: €30-300,000
  - Deadline: 27 December 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: 15 November 2024
• AI REDGIO 5.0 supports 2 topics: AI at the Edge, data & AI continuum, Cloud, Edge, IoT, Industry 5.0 and human-centric and sustainable manufacturing, inspired by WISE principles
  - Funding up to: €60,000
  - Deadline: 16 December 2024
• THCS supports Better care closer to home: Enhancing primary and community care
  - Deadline: pre-proposal – 30 January 2025, Full proposal 19 June 2025
• RDA Tiger - seeks applications from researchers, research institutes, universities, enterprises, consortia and other legal entities who wish to receive financial support to enhance the activities or the adoption of the results of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Working Groups (WGs) - Open Science principles, European Open Science Cloud activities
  - Funding up to: €10-40,000
  - Deadline: 3 December 2024
• UASEEDs supports Ukrainian innovative tech SMEs (start-ups and scale-ups) to apply for five different programmes to support the integration of Ukraine's innovative companies into the European Innovation Ecosystems, as well as their business continuity and/or the expansion of their businesses into European markets (Business and Innovation Services, Innovative Entrepreneurship, Deep Tech Incubators, Rebuild Ukraine, Deep Tech Scale-up and Acceleration)
  - Funding up to: €10-50,000
  - Deadline: 27 January 2025
• Ready2Scale - Acceleration Program is a 6-month long acceleration program that provides various training and financial support to digitall and deep tech startups with a focus on widening countries 
  - Funding up to: up to €60,000
  - Deadline: 30 November 2024