6G Holistic System
HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022-STREAM-B-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 telecommunic6GSmart networks and services
Description
This project should provide a global end-to-end system framework building up on the 5G PPP results that are targeting 6G networks, provide new solutions for well selected topics and identify the place and role of each topic from the above-mentioned 4 strands. Results generated in other frameworks (e.g., national or international 6G initiatives) may also be considered as appropriate. The project should equally investigate both societal and technical aspects to cover citizen needs in 2030 and beyond.
It shall provide at least the following results:
- A complete system perspective of future 6G SNS platform, from an architectural and functional perspective and from an end-to-end, user-to-user (human and automated) perspective, integrating key results of other strands of Stream B as they become available.
- The consolidation of 6G KPI’s and KVI’s as federating SNS targets for European R&I in the field.
- The identification of key 6G use cases, their requirements, and how they can be supported by the 6G retained architecture/technologies.
- The identification of the most promising technologies, being evaluated under a complete system design approach, towards the realisation of the 6G vision.
- The translation of societal/ethical use case needs, targets and objectives into technological requirements and the identification of the technologies that can match these requirements.
- The identification of critical technologies for future standardisation work.
The project should, with equal importance and prominence, investigate societal needs, including KVIs and their related KPIs, as well as technologies in areas indicated in the above Stream B strands, that are promising to fulfil these requirements and needs. It is expected that the societal KVI outputs of the project can be used as a prominent platform to establish a dialogue with the civil society whilst the outputs on technologies and architectures support European voice in global technological fora.
Also, this project should provide well-defined means of communication with the 6G-IA[1] (i.e., 6G-IA Working Groups) for ensuring that the vision and directions of the European ICT community are appropriately captured. An advisory board of experts and representatives from key public and private stakeholders and organizations may be considered. In that context, the project should be open to incorporate, where relevant, results and approaches originating from key stakeholders beyond the project partners.
Objective:Please refer to the "Specific Challenges and Objectives" section for Stream B in the Work Programme, available under ‘Topic Conditions and Documents - Additional Documents’.
Scope:6G networks should take into consideration societal requirements as well as technological improvements. For that purpose, the project should equally address both aspects with the ambition to cover the duality of the European approach: “Sustainable 6G” and “6G for sustainability”. The overall goal is to Identify the technology needed to provide value to the society, being environmentally and economically sustainable.
The project should equally address both of the following aspects:
- The consolidation of 6G societal and technical requirements, KVI’s and KPI’s, to serve 6G use cases and the associated architectural and technological avenues to realise them. It consolidates results of other technological strands and provides comparative assessments of the various solutions, pushing the limits if technology and building a generic 6G toolbox with trade-offs across topics that will be investigated by more than one project (e.g., minimization of the energy consumption, coordination of AI/ML solutions in deployed in different network domains).
- The Societal focus and technologies to address societal goals is an important aspect. A widely validated approach should be developed to transform key SDG requirements into technological solutions and performance objectives.
The work also identifies key technologies to convey towards standardization with common approaches with users, towards the realization of a consensus framework including verticals from the onset. It is expected to be supported by the key 6G players of Europe across the value chain, including development of components and the needs of vertical industries, spanning industry to academia. This provides the view of a European technological solution for the consolidation of a 6G vision, objectives and technological developments leading to strong European position at standardization level, and paving the way towards future deployment.
The project is planned to start concurrently with other Stream B RIAs as several activities are needed before integrating the results and key findings of SNS Phase 1 Stream B projects. These activities indicatively include the definition of an appropriate set of 6G use cases, KVIs and KPIs incorporating the analysis of key findings from pre-6G technologies (5G PPP and other topic related initiatives). This should include the setup and work on key topics that the stakeholders of the project will identify as important for 6G networks and that may not even be included in other Stream B Strands, etc.
[1]Previous name of the Association: The 5G Infrastructure Association (5G IA).
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 100 pages for RIA’s submitted under Stream B.
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.
The call is restricted to the SNS JU member other than the Union and their constituent or affiliated entities.
For the above conditions, a self-declaration will be requested at proposal stage.
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.
- 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.