5G PPP – 5G innovations for verticals with third party services

Call Updates

Oct 1, 2020 2:06:40 PM 

An overview of the evaluation results of call H2020-ICT-2020-2, named Call Flash Info H2020-ICT-2020-2 is now available in section Conditions and documents - Additional documents of all the topics belonging to this call. These topics are: ICT-41-2020

Jun 22, 2020 4:23:42 PM

Submissions to call H2020-ICT-2020-2

A total of 712 proposals has been submitted to call H2020-ICT-2020-2, which closed on 17 June 2020. These proposals, of which the evaluation will be organized over the coming weeks and months, were submitted to the following topics / Types of Action:

ICT-41-2020 – Innovation Actions (IA) - 29 proposals (indicative IA budget EUR 49 million)

Apr 8, 2020 11:30:08 AM

Please note that the submission deadline for this topic has been extended from 22 April to 17 June 2020, 17:00, Brussels local time. This extension is a response to the COVID-19 crisis that has severely affected many potential applicants to this topic. With this extension, the European Commission wants to give all applicants more time for proposal preparation.

Nov 19, 2019 12:30:52 AM

The submission session is now available for: ICT-41-2020(IA)

Sep 27, 2019 12:26:21 PM

Please note that A Guide to ICT-related activities in H2020 Work Programme 2018-20 has been published under Additional documents in section Topic conditions and documents of the 2020 topic pages

5G PPP – 5G innovations for verticals with third party services

ID: ICT-41-2020

Type of action: IA Innovation action

Deadline Model : single-stage

Planned opening date: 19 November 2019

Deadline: 22 April 2020 17:00:00 Brussels time Forthcoming

Horizon 2020

Work programme: Information and Communication Technologies

Work programme year: H2020-2018-2020

Call name: Information and Communication Technologies

Call ID: H2020-ICT-2018-20

Specific Challenge:

Software networks provide high flexibility through implementation of virtual network functions (VNFs). VNF's may be chained across several domains to create Network Applications (NetApps) tailored to the requirements of specific tenants, as demonstrated under previous 5G PPP phases. This requires open platforms that provide access to networks resources which can then be used to develop NetApps supporting requirements and developments from specific vertical sectors.

Scope:Experimentation facilities able to provide enhanced experimentation infrastructures on top of which third party experimenters e.g. SMEs or any service provider and target vertical users will have the opportunity to test their applications in an integrated, open, cooperative and fully featured network platform running across multiple domains where needed, and tailored to specific vertical use case.

The objective is to focus on innovation for operations and secure/trusted service provisioning taking advantage of experimental facilities featuring virtualised and software implemented functions and representative of a redesigned virtualised access/core network. The facilities should provide opportunities for SMEs and developers to experiment their applications in the context of specific vertical use cases on open experimental network platforms, and to create 5G open source repositories for wide use and towards standards development. Typical vertical use cases include connected and automated mobility, smart factories and industry 4.0 use cases. Furthermore, healthcare, PPDR, energy, media though other verticals may be considered.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 4 and 6 million would allow this area to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

Expected Impact:

Testing and validation of NetApp solutions on top of a 5G virtualised experimental environment with different implemented functions and vertical-specific configurations.
NetApps secure interoperability beyond vendor-specific implementation across multiple domains and availability of related standards or reference implementations.
Open-source repository of network applications that can be further leveraged by other developers.
Creation of third party markets for start-ups and SMEs. 50% of SMEs are targeted for this action.
Relevant 5G PPP KPI: Service creation time in minutes.
Generation of results that may be appropriate for transfer towards an incubator or a start up, either within the project or outside of the projects in follow up actions.
Cross-cutting Priorities:Contractual Public-Private Partnerships (cPPPs)
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