Open calls 

 

IMPACT www.impact-accelerator.com

IMPACT Accelerator challenges European SMEs and Web Entrepreneurs to develop innovative applications and businesses in the Mobile Internet using FIWARE Technology. IMPACT subsidizes each start-up up to 100,000€ without equity.

INCENSe www.incense-accelerator.com

INternet Cleantech ENablers Spark. FIWARE Accelerator supporting startups developing innovative Internet-based solutions for Energy and CleanTech.

 

Internet of Things and Platforms for Connected Smart Objects  More

The scope is to create ecosystems of "Platforms for Connected Smart Objects", integrating the future generations of devices, embedded systems and network technologies and other evolving ICT advances. These environments support citizen and businesses for a multiplicity of novel applications. They embed effective and efficient security and privacy mechanisms into devices, architectures, service and network platforms, including characteristics such as openness, dynamic expandability, interoperability, dependability, cognitive capabilities and distributed decision making, cost and energy-efficiency, ergonomic and user-friendliness. Such Smart Environments may be enriched through the deployment of wearable /ambulatory hardware to promote seamless environments.

 

Boosting public sector productivity and innovation through cloud computing services More

Cloud computing has the potential to reduce the IT expenditure of the public sector across Europe, while at the same time improving the scope for flexible high-quality new services. However, the adoption of cloud computing services by the public sector is inhibited by many barriers related to procurement, trustworthiness, technical standards and legal terms of reference, risk of lock-in etc. The overall challenge is to overcome these barriers in order to boost the public sector's productivity by stimulating the preparedness for wide adoption of competitive, secure, reliable and integrated cloud computing services.

 

International partnership building and support to dialogues with high income countries More

The twofold target is:
- to support dialogues between the European Commission/the EU and strategic high income partner countries and regions,
and
- to foster cooperation with strategic high income third country organisations in collaborative ICT R&D both within the EU's Framework Programmes (Horizon 2020) and under relevant third country programmes.