Having completed the transition to Horizon Europe, the research and innovation funding programme until 2027, the European Commission has steadily begun issuing Horizon Europe Calls for funding.
With a Horizon Europe budget of €95.5 billion, Horizon Europe’s mission to tackle climate change, help achieve the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, and increase EU’s competitiveness and growth is more attainable than ever.
As the automotive industry is a crucial part of the European Economy, there could not be missing Horizon Europe Calls dedicated to innovations in the sector. In addition, the European Commission recently issued European funding opportunities in Intelligent Transport Systems, or cooperative, connected and automated mobility (CCAM).
Horizon Europe Calls on CCAM Partnerships
In the list that follows, you can find some of the Horizon Europe Calls on CCAM partnerships available on the updated, innovative platform of EUcalls:
Programme: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-05
Budget: € 4,000,000
Description: With the increasing digitalisation of road transport, CCAM solutions have the potential to deliver an improved quality of life, by increasing safety and providing more sustainable and inclusive mobility solutions. However, for these solutions to be successful, a comprehensive understanding of all effects of CCAM on individuals, society and the environment over time is needed. Moreover, the successful deployment of CCAM solutions will depend on their availability and accessibility to future users, including the deploying organisations, as well as on the willingness of the general public to use and accept future CCAM solutions.
Deadline: 12/01/2022
Programme: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-03
Budget: € 9,000,000
Description: Physical and Digital Infrastructure (PDI), connectivity as well as cooperative information and action represent important resources which enable and support the integration of vehicles in the entire transport system. Road authorities and operators can provide essential PDI information to vehicles, road users and other modes of transport. As a complement, connectivity and cooperation are important capabilities of the full range of V2X actors (vehicles, infrastructures, vulnerable road users etc.). This is a necessary condition to proceed towards CCAM services in a developing CCAM ecosystem (involving benefits for e.g. road and mobility users, manufacturers across sectors, traffic management actors).
Deadline: 19/10/2021
Title: Cyber secure and resilient CCAM (CCAM Partnership)
Programme: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-04
Budget: € 6,000,000
Description: Safe and secure operation of vehicles and mobility systems is key to the further deployment of CCAM enabled mobility solutions, also to establish trust and acceptance amongst end users. Extending the system domains beyond the vehicle through connectivity (short range or networked) makes cybersecurity a fundamental building block for trusted (digital) interaction of road users with each other, the infrastructure and cloud-based solutions/services. Systems for CCAM need to be fail-operational and cyber-secure in their entire Operational Design Domains (ODD) guaranteeing a safe and secure operation of vehicles -independent of the respective security level the element or system has within its ODD.
Deadline: 19/10/2021
Programme: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-01-01
Budget: € 50,000,000
Description: CCAM solutions have to provide a more user-centered, all-inclusive road mobility, while increasing safety, reducing congestion, emissions and contributing to climate neutrality. These novel mobility services enable seamless integration with existing services (e.g. public transport, logistics), and higher levels of automation support, transport productivity and efficiency (e.g. transportation of goods at lower speeds to save energy, operational efficiency at logistics hubs and in hub to hub corridors or last mile operations). Yet all these benefits need to be proven. Previous and currently ongoing demonstration projects for CCAM systems and services show, that further testing of highly automated systems and services with high scaling potential is necessary, involving more mature technologies or additional use cases in extended Operational Design Domains (ODDs).
Deadline: 12/01/2022
Programme: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-01-02
Budget: € 8,000,000
Description: In order to ensure the safety of highly automated vehicles, on-board systems need to anticipate risks reliably, prevent crashes and minimise the consequence of unavoidable collisions while enhancing user acceptance, and generating trust and reliance on automated systems through well-designed, informative Human-Machine-Interfaces.
Deadline: 12/01/2022
Programme: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-06
Budget: € 6,000,000
Description: Many diverse CCAM related R&I activities, tests and large-scale demonstration projects are ongoing across Europe and coordination, knowledge and data exchange as well as harmonised approaches for implementing future large-scale demonstrations in Europe are needed to better exploit synergies between all these activities. There is a need for a common and searchable baseline of CCAM, thus ensuring transferability of knowledge for future research, development and testing of CCAM.
Deadline: 19/10/2021
Programme: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-01-03
Budget: € 8,000,000
Description: Statistical data available today gives a good idea of overall human driving, vehicle and infrastructure performance in terms of safety. However, evidence is missing on the precise performance of humans in the variety of specific situations that might be critical for automated driving systems. The variability of human behaviour and performance with factors like gender, cultural and ethnic background, ageing, diseases, driving experience, mental workload or fatigue makes the acquisition of such evidence a very challenging task. External factors such as diverse weather and lighting conditions play a role in this context, as well. Data on the dependence of human driving behaviour from such factors is partly available from previous research, but not sufficiently broken down to the level of specific driving situations.
Deadline: 12/01/2022
Programme: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-01-05
Budget: € 12,000,000
Description: The deterministic understanding and consequential design of assistance systems are mostly reactive or to some extent adaptive. In the transition from driver assistance systems towards fully automated systems, a critical aspect is the decision making (i.e. planning and acting), based on robust and reliable detection and perception. AI has a huge potential to advance this process.
Deadline: 12/01/2022
Title: Integrate CCAM services in fleet and traffic management systems (CCAM Partnership)
Programme: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-01-04
Budget: € 5,000,000
Description: Proposed actions should develop and demonstrate concepts of traffic and fleet management to achieve a desirable integration of CCAM vehicles in the entire mobility system. CCAM vehicles should be considered in their different sizes and usages as well as their mobility service provision (private, public, shared, pooled etc.). Proposed actions should address both the transport of people and goods with automated fleets (commercial/logistics fleets, fleets operated by public or private transport operators) and individual vehicles (CCAM- or conventional vehicles) well integrated in the entire traffic management system. They have to address technology gaps to foster vehicle integration, communication and better manoeuvre coordination and orchestration concepts in managing fleets and traffic as well as integrating public transport and other shared mobility concepts.
Deadline: 12/01/2022
Programme: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-02-05
Budget: € 15,000,000
Description: Advanced multimodal network and traffic management capabilities are essential for the efficient operation of the entire transport network and for seamless door-to-door mobility of both passengers and freight. This is even more pertinent in view of new mobility trends and technologies, connected and automated vehicles, new physical and digital infrastructures and innovative services. At the same time however, a number of challenges remain to develop validated concepts and leverage multi-actor data exchange, ensure interoperability of new technologies and develop interfaces across transport modes, as well as to design appropriate governance arrangements for relevant public and private stakeholders.
Deadline: 12/01/2022
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