Coordination and knowledge sharing across materials development communities (CSA)

Call Updates

Aug 11, 2023 11:24:50 AM

EVALUATION RESULTS

Call for proposals: HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01

Deadline: 20 April 2023

Available budget: EUR 213,000,000.00

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 71

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 51

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 286,741,697.24

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

Please note that the number of proposals that can finally be funded will depend on the finally available budget and the formal selection by the Commission.

For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.

Apr 26, 2023 6:13:26 PM

PROPOSAL NUMBERS

Call HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01 has closed on the 20th April 2023.

71 proposals have been submitted.

The breakdown per topic is:

HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-39 03: proposals 

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in July 2023

Jan 24, 2023 10:12:13 AM

We would like to draw your attention to an update of the “Detailed Budget Table” Excel template. A new template has been republished for your kind consideration and use.

An additional paragraph has been added to the instructions tab, explaining how to save the detailed budget table and how to upload it in the submission system:

“After you completed this Excel workbook, you must also complete the table ‘Budget for the proposal’ in Part A of the proposal, entering the requested EU contribution for each participant. Fill the Part A budget table using the total for each participant from the sheet ‘Lump sum breakdown’ in this Excel workbook. The format of this Excel workbook is .xlsm because it uses macros to generate sheets and make calculations automatically. Always save it as .xlsm. However, this format cannot be uploaded to the submission system for security reasons. Therefore, to submit the completed workbook, save a copy as an .xlsx or .xls document (and not as .xlsm) and upload it to the proposal submission tool at Step 5 of the submission process. Always keep a copy of the original .xlsm file. To save the workbook as .xlsx document, use the action button in the sheet “Instructions”. Alternatively, click on “File” and then “Save as”; in the “Save as” dialog box, choose “.xlsx” or “.xls” from the “Save as type” dropdown list.”

You can still use the template initially available in the submission system if you wish to, but please be aware of the instructions on how to upload and save the file.

Dec 8, 2022 12:00:09 AM

The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-39(HORIZON-CSA)

Coordination and knowledge sharing across materials development communities (CSA)

TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-39

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: RESILIENT VALUE CHAINS 2023 (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01)
Type of action: HORIZON-CSA HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
Type of MGA: HORIZON Lump Sum Grant [HORIZON-AG-LS]
Deadline model: single-stage
Opening date: 08 December 2022
Deadline date: 20 April 2023 17:00:00 Brussels time

ExpectedOutcome:
A pathway for accelerating advanced material research in line with strategic innovation markets, in particular for generating reliable data and information and for providing easy access to any interested stakeholder;
A common knowledge base for researchers and industry increasing collaboration between strategic innovation markets driven by advanced materials;
Overcoming hurdles with regards to the use of digital tools for improved access to and valorisation of data.
Scope:
There is a need to integrate and unify digital and materials competences and resources, including data, ontologies, characterisation and modelling, as well as robotics and machine learning, to accelerate the design, development, production and application of advanced materials with the desired manufacturing processes, properties, durability, and end of life. The lack of integration is a major challenge for the advanced materials design and development serving the innovation markets, including the related value chains.[1]

Such collaboration should be extended to the manufacturing industries and their digital marketplaces so that data and information to design new materials can be shared by all interested stakeholders in a faster way.

Platforms integrating materials data management, modelling, characterisation and harnessing machine learning and automation have the potential to accelerate substantially the design, development and upscaling of new advanced materials by a time factor of 5-10 and decrease the costs associated with innovation chain and market exploitation. The necessary acceleration and cost decrease should be directly beneficial for any subsequent manufacturing process.

Actions are required that ensure synergies and common approaches across strategic innovation markets driven by advanced materials, to capitalise on commonalities and to ensure interoperability and integration of all methodologies. There should be collaboration with existing European and national data spaces and marketplaces on interfaces and metadata, in order to ease the access and improve the (re-) use of materials data.

Proposals should address all of the following activities:

Establish an inventory of relevant existing collaborative materials data and information systems (platforms, databases and infrastructures) serving strategic innovation markets.
Network the identified data and information systems and make them accessible and usable for any stakeholder interested in the research, development or deployment of advanced materials research results.
Establish common methodologies for data acquisition and knowledge generation:
Modelling, including data- and physics-based materials modelling
Characterisation, including multi-scale, multi-technique, in/on-line
Materials synthesis and fabrication technologies including autonomous robotics platforms
Machine learning and AI-based methods
Based on the scope of the strategic innovation markets, and on the methodologies above for acquiring data and generating knowledge, develop a common language for data documentation and exchange on advanced materials and related manufacturing processes through widely agreed vocabularies, taxonomies as well as relevant domain ontologies based on the Industry Commons Ontology Commons EcoSystem (OCES)128 and the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO)129, covering all relevant methodologies (including modelling and characterisation).
Demonstrate easy access to reliable data and information/knowledge by connection of identified databases with the ontologies, providing a resource for the materials developers community and for industries. This demonstration should be done with a number of case studies in different areas of application of advanced materials and considering the entire value chain.
Integrate data and methods for life-cycle assessment and take into account the safe and sustainable by design framework for chemicals and materials.
Establish a cost overview and a business plan for the sustainability for a digital knowledge sharing system and the supporting coordination network across materials development communities and industries up to 2035 and beyond.
Establish training schemes to facilitate skills development, reskilling and upskilling in the relevant methodologies, with particular emphasis on digital skills for all interested stakeholders.
Proposals should build on or seek collaboration with existing projects and develop synergies with other relevant European and national initiatives, funding programmes and platforms, in particular with the “Materials 2030 Roadmap” and any follow up actions.[2]

In order to ensure interoperability and coordination of data architectures, projects should in particular exploit synergies with:

the projects selected on computational modelling on Safe and Sustainable by Design (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-23);
the Data Spaces support centre funded under the Digital Europe programme,
projects related to Common European data spaces, in particular on manufacturing.
[1]advanced-materials-2030-manifesto.pdf (europa.eu)

[2]https://www.ami2030.eu/