Edge Computing Evolution
HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022-STREAM-A-01-05
- Programme
- HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- January 18, 2022
- Deadline
- April 26, 2022
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €6,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- €6,000,000
- Max Grant Amount
- €6,000,000
- Expected Number of Grants
- 1
- Keywords
- Communication engineering and systems telecommunicSmart networks and services6G
Description
- A clear technological strategy for edge integration into a cloud continuum offering opportunities for European cloud/edge technology suppliers and supporting various edge/access integration scenarios, (e.g., NTN).
- Edge architecture and technologies supporting most demanding applications and use cases such as high automation levels for autonomous driving, immersive applications such as digital twins, advanced XR/VR, hologram applications, requiring extremely low latencies and/or very high-capacity justifying edge processing and computing.
- Open, secure, distributed, possibly decentralised, edge computing architectures and implementations optimally integrating heterogeneous communications and networking in edge computing for IoT, with a value chain perspective opening innovative IoT applications and control.
Please refer to the "Specific Challenges and Objectives" section for Stream A in the Work Programme, available under ‘Topic Conditions and Documents - Additional Documents’.
Scope:The work brings virtualization and disaggregation in different segments (home, edge, datacentre, NTN ground and on-board flying nodes), under the scope of multi-access edge computing concepts. The scope is to address functional placement and optimised computing distribution capabilities as a function of requirements emerging from ultra-low latency, ultra-high-capacity immersive applications. Additionally, it may include:
- AI and distributed security to protect transmitted data at the edge computing servers based on ledger or other technologies may be considered.
- The development of the data and control plane techniques required to realize such a multi-edge architecture.
- New IoT device management techniques as needed to operate over distributed architectures for IoT systems based on an open device management ecosystem.
- Novel programming models and engineering practices (e.g., split-computing), preferably applicable to open software environments, enabling the flexible distribution and migration of computation tasks, both horizontally among peer devices, and vertically along the IoT-edge-cloud continuum to enable economic sectors exploiting at the best the potential of the edge computing.
- Optimal deployment of the required data plane paths and control plane elements across a set of distributed physical edge nodes.
- Flexible hardware platforms, and/or programming abstractions (covering individual and aggregate resources) to achieve the benefits for agile, simplified yet automated composition and management of resources, possibly separated in “islands”.
- Models for devices interacting with the physical world (sensors and actuators).
- Demonstrate the provision of high-quality services (including reliable Operations Support System (OSS) mechanisms) while executing a very precise-latency or capacity control over massively distributed resources.
- Provide the necessary openness for making edge computing a “service innovation platform” running their own vertical-centric functions with optimised slice distribution and management.
Related work includes data exploitation for easy generation of big data pipelines, supporting increasingly complex/intelligent data processing techniques. To explore the wealth of data expected in new services, the project will need to provide a common, standard dataspace, to be openly offered for future research activities and paving the way towards intelligent infrastructure and service management, including sustainability aspects.
Eligibility & Conditions
General conditions
1. Admissibility conditions: described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System
The limit for a full application is 70 pages for RIA’s submitted under Stream A.
2. Eligible countries: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
3. Other eligibility conditions: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes
5. Evaluation and award:
- Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes
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For RIA’s under Streams A and B, the award criteria table is complemented with a sub criterion in the impact section reflecting the relevance for proposals to contribute to the overall IKOP objectives of the call. (text in italic below). Relevant proposals are expected to credibly contribute to the overall 5% IKOP objectives:
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Extent to which the members of the proposed consortium contribute to the expected level of in-kind contribution to operational activities to help reaching the target additional investments
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For RIA’s under Streams A, B and C, and for IA’s under stream D, the award criteria table is complemented with a sub criterion in the impact section reflecting the target SME participation:
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SME Participation and opportunities to leverage project results.
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- Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual
- When two RIA proposals are equally ranked and that it has not been possible to separate them using first the coverage criterion, second the excellence criterion, and third the generic Impact criterion, the level of SME participation will be taken as the next criterion to sort out the ties and if still un-conclusive, the level of IKOP will be considered as appropriate.
- Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes:
- Information on the outcome of the evaluation: Maximum 5 months from the final date for submission;
- Indicative date for the signing of grant agreements: Maximum 8 months from the final date for submission
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes
Specific conditions
7. Specific conditions: described in the specific topic of the Work Programme.
Project collaboration.
The project contracted under this call will be expected to enter into a collaboration agreement to collectively work on topics of mutual interests. To that end, they will be subject to contractual clause outlined in article 7 of the Model Grant Agreement.
Funding rates
Please note that the funding rates in this topic are: 100% for non-for-profit organizations and 90% with respect to for-profit organizations. Unfortunately, the maximum funding rate in the budget table is set to 100%. We kindly ask all for-profit organizations to make a manual calculation and request only 90% of the budget.
Documents
Call documents:
A call-specific application form will be used in this topic — the call-specific application form is available in the Submission System.
Standard evaluation form — will be used with the necessary adaptations
Standard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA)
MGA
Additional documents:
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 1. General Introduction
SNS-R&I-Work-Programme-2021-2022
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 13. General Annexes
HE Framework Programme and Rules for Participation Regulation 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
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Please note that the funding rates in this topic are: 100% for non-for-profit organizations and 90% with respect to for-profit organizations. Unfortunately, the maximum funding rate in the budget table is set to 100%. We kindly ask all for-profit organizations to make a manual calculation and request only 90% of the budget.