Call for Applications: SUSTAIN Innovation Services

Objectives

• Boost the market of building construction by developing a wide network of related clusters and SMEs in order to minimize the effect of the Covid-19 crisis.
• Address the strategic dependencies, both technological and industrial in the field of building construction sector and enhance the EU’s open strategic autonomy, by promoting innovative services and training SMEs to adopt these services.
• Focus on the green and digital transition for companies related in the market of building sector, by promoting innovative solutions related to buildings energy efficiency and smartness.

Themes

• Smart Readiness Indicators coupled with Artificial Intelligence:
  • Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies could provide automated solutions for the design, analysis, simulation, control, diagnosis, and provision of dependable energy in the building industry.
• Smart Readiness Indicators coupled with Augmented Reality Virtual Reality:
  • Technology-based ICT programs and tools change the approach that companies adopt for project development, encompassing design, planning, and execution phases.
• Smart Readiness Indicators (SRI) coupled with Building Information Modelling (BIM):
  • Building information modeling (BIM) is widely regarded as the most important tool for advancing the building industry. Multiple disciplines can be combined into one model, known as the BIM model, using BIM.
• Smart Readiness Indicators (SRI) coupled with Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs):
  • Potential synergies between the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) and the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) include the potential for a joint assessment process.
• Smart Readiness Indicators coupled with Building Energy Management System (BEMS):
  • The Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) should raise awareness amongst building owners and occupants of the value behind building automation and electronic monitoring of technical building systems and should give confidence to occupants about the actual savings of those new enhanced functionalities.
• Smart Readiness Indicators coupled with Internet of Things (IoT):
  • The integration of Smart Readiness Indicators (SRI) with Internet of Things (IoT) technologies can enable enhanced monitoring, control, and automation of building systems. By leveraging IoT devices and sensors, buildings can collect real-time data on various parameters such as occupancy, energy consumption, indoor air quality, and environmental conditions.
• Smart Readiness Indicators coupled with Methodologies and Tools to Support Positive Energy Buildings (PEB) Construction Renovation:
  • Positive energy buildings can have a significant contribution to the efforts for mitigating climate change, by providing also the surrounding community with renewable energy, while ensuring a good living and working environment for its own occupants.

Funding Information 

• The awarded SME (or SMEs Consortium) will be able to receive up to 30.000€, according to the proposed experiment type. The call targets SMEs, which can apply individually or as consortium.
• For all applicants, it is mandatory to include the following costs in the proposed budget:
  • Innovation support Actions (Gold Awards):
    • Minimum 4.000 € for travel costs for mobility actions and networking activities that
    • Will take place during the SUSTAIN project.
    • Minimum 2.000 € for publication costs (paper or conference presentation).
  • Go-to-Market Support Actions (Silver Awards):
    • Minimum 3.000 € for travel costs for meetings between partners, participation to networking actions, final event, etc. that will take place during the SUSTAIN project.
    • Minimum 4.000 € for dissemination and marketing actions (participation in events, exhibitions, dissemination material, etc.)

Eligibility Criteria

• The SUSTAIN Open Call is addressed only to legally established and registered SMEs (including start-ups), according to the criteria set by the EU as defined in the EU Recommendation
• Each beneficiary must be an SME established or having a branch office in the SUSTAIN territorial scope, described as follows:
  • 27 EU Member States
  • non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the COSME part of the Single Market Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.

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