Open Call for 1st ENVELOPE Project

ENVELOPE is inviting SMEs, research institutes and universities to undertake a set of beyond 5G trials by developing vertical services compatible to the ENVELOPE platform, either expanding its field of application to other industries or confirming its functionality in automotive/CAM UCs other than those already tested within the consortium.

The Open Calls will maximize the impact and accelerate adoption of ENVELOPE demonstrating flexibility, user acceptance and technology transfer.

Purpose

• The purpose of the Open Call is to:
  • demonstrate the reusability of the developed functionalities/interfaces by other stakeholders and potentially other verticals and/or,
  • to extend the provided infrastructure for experimentation as a service with additional functionalities tailored to the needs of other verticals.

Aims

• ENVELOPE aims to deliver 3 large-scale B5G trial sites in Italy (operated by LINKS foundation), Netherlands (operated by KPN and TNO) and Greece (operated by OTE and NCSRD) for CAM services and beyond, implementing functionalities tailored to CAM services, along with advanced exposure capabilities.

Scope

• OC beneficiaries will have to either:
  • make use of at least 1 API or Enabler developed by the ENVELOPE Consortium in order to validate the platform’s functionality;
  • (or) design, develop, integrate and validate a new Enabler/API, extending this way the functionality of the ENVELOPE platform
• The case study where these APIs/Enablers will be applied can either be related to the automotive sector or – and most preferably – on a field other than CAM.

Funding Information

• Fixed Lump Sum per sub-project. The maximum funding per beneficiary is €60.000 and the maximum funding per project is €300.000. A total ammount of €1,350,000 will be allocated to at least 5 projects selected for OC1.
• Duration of sub-project: 6 months

Target Beneficiaries

• Beneficiaries are consortia of up to 5 legal entities that can either be SMEs, Universities or Research Institutes acting as technology and/or application suppliers for use case execution. At least half of the participants in each consortium have to be SMEs. All organizations have to be established in any of EU Member States and their Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or Horizon Europe Associated Country. ENVELOPE partners can NOT be involved in the grantees’ projects neither their affiliates nor employees – including persons working under employment contract or contract or similar to employment contract and board members.

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