HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-27

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Efficient trustworthy AI - making the best of data (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA)
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MOTIVATION HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-27 Reinforces the role of trustworthy AI solutions in enhancing societal trust, a core element of HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-01.
DIGITAL-2021-TRUST-01-EDMO
European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) - national and multinational hubs
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MOTIVATION HEU projects are encouraged to collaborate with the European Digital Media Observatory

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Expected Outcome:

Proposal results are expected to contribute to one of the following expected outcomes:

Advanced AI solutions against advanced disinformation techniques for media professionals.
Advanced AI solutions against disinformation for citizens.

Scope:

The Media Action Plan is developed around three areas: recovery, transformation, and enabling and empowerment. Research and innovation is key to the area of the transformation. Innovative digital solutions play an important role in ensuring a pluralistic access to trustworthy and meaningful information and quality content.

The consumption of news media has substantially increased during the COVID19 crisis, with people seeking out relevant and factual information in a time of uncertainty. Unfortunately, online services have also been used by malicious actors to spread dangerous disinformation campaigns, with sometimes fatal consequences. Similarly the need for reliable and consistent social media interactions as well as for access to audiovisual content, gaming and other interactive activities has increased during COVID-19.

Notably, media and digital literacy is one of the key pillars in fight against disinformation, as also identified e.g. in the Communication: “Tackling disinformation - the European Approach”. With the modern social media being more and more AI based, and contemporary disinformation mechanisms increasingly sophisticated, advanced means are required to ensure a trustworthy environment. AI technologies applied to tools and services tailored to the media ecosystem will help the access to and creation and distribution of trustworthy information and facilitate countering sophisticated manifestations of disinformation.

The outcomes from this topic will offer exploitation and take-up opportunities for the Digital Europe and Creative Europe Programmes.

Research and innovation proposals are expected to respond to one of the following:

Advanced AI based solutions for securing a trustworthy online environment. Disinformation techniques are already today strongly AI based. Therefore, scientific researchers and media practitioners need to be equipped with quantitative and semi-supervised tools based on AI, and network science driven tools of least same level of sophistication, capable of detecting different forms of deep-fakes and tampered content and to understand how and where such type of content spreads online. The development of such tools require the involvement of a scientific community at the intersection between AI and computer science, mathematics, social network sciences, social sciences and other relevant scientific fields, closely collaborating with journalists and media practitioners, and equipped with the necessary computing power to analyse rich content (e.g. videos and images) and to automate the management, processing and analysis of the flow of information within online systems.

Advanced AI based solutions targeted to citizens for securing a trustworthy online environment. The solutions should foster citizens’ ability to identify, verify and combat disinformation through AI innovation. Solutions provided would include the analysis and tracing of various forms of content, correlation/comparison of various sources of information, exploitation of contextual information. Efficient and intuitive mechanisms to convey the information regarding quality/veracity of information should be addressed, as appropriate. Transparency and human oversight would be key, with a view of empowering citizens.

Proposals should include, as appropriate, the development of tools and processes for design, testing and validation, deployment and uptake, auditing, certification (where appropriate), software engineering methodologies, as well as approaches to modularity and interoperability. Relevance to real-world applications should be demonstrated. Various approaches to AI for detection, elaboration of confidence levels, contradiction trade-offs, pattern identification in a field of heterogeneous sources and media formats, and also for decision support need to be considered. Involvement of multidisciplinary teams and transdisciplinary research will be essential. The consortia are strongly encouraged to team up with European companies, which are part of the media ecosystem, including SMEs, and also with non-media industrial and technological expertise.

Proposals should clearly identify the expected outcome it will focus on (i.e. targeting media professionals or citizens).

Proposals should also coordinate and ensure complementarity with the ongoing media and social media R&I, related to projects in the field (e.g. AI4Media[1], Fandango[2]) and take into consideration the expectations of the Media Action Plan and the European Democracy Action Plan, and collaborate with the European Digital Media Observatory. The media data space (developed under Digital Europe) infrastructures and communities might provide an opportunity to pilot new tools produced by the selected proposals. Proposals should foresee activities to collaborate with projects stemming from the topics HORIZON-CL3-2021-FCT-01-03: Disinformation and fake news are combated and trust in the digital world is raised.

All proposals are expected to embed mechanisms to assess and demonstrate progress (with qualitative and quantitative KPIs, demonstrators, benchmarking and progress monitoring), and share communicable results with the European R&D community, through the AI-on-demand platform, a public community resource, to maximise re-use of results and efficiency of funding.

Activities are expected to achieve TRL5-6 by the end of the project

All proposals are expected to allocate tasks to cohesion activities with the PPP on AI, Data and Robotics and funded actions related to this partnership, including the CSA HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-02.

[1] https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/951911

[2] https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/780355

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2022-03-30

Call for proposals: HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01

Deadline: 21 October 2021

Available budget: EUR 206.000.000

Topic code

Type(s) of action

Budget

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-01

RIA

36,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-02

CSA

13,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-03

RIA

9,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-04

RIA

12,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-05

RIA

17,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-06

26,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-07

CSA

2,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-08

CSA

2,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-09

CSA

1,500,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-13

RIA

14,500,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-14

RIA

6,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-17

CSA

1,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-18

CSA

1,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-19

CSA

5,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-20

CSA

2,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-21

RIA

8,500,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-24

RIA

10,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-25

14,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-26

RIA

5,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-27

RIA

13,000,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-28

CSA

2,500,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-29

CSA

2,500,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-30

CSA

1,500,000 €

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-31

CSA

1,000,000 €

The Commission has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned call.

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 206

Number of inadmissible proposals: 4

Number of ineligible proposals: 9

Number of above-threshold proposals: 137

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 673.341.542

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

It is expected that the first grant agreements will be signed by June 2022.

Information on the selected projects will be published on CORDIS [1] after that date.

Please note that the number of proposals that can finally be funded will depend on the finally available budget and the formal selection by the Commission.

For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service [2].

[1] Available at http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/home_en.html

[2] Available at http://ec.europa.eu/research/enquiries

2021-11-05

Submissions to call HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01

A total of 206 proposals has been submitted to call HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01, which closed on 21 October 2021. These proposals, of which the evaluation will be organized over the coming weeks and months, were submitted to the following topics:

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-01 - Verifiable robustness, energy efficiency and transparency for Trustworthy AI: Scientific excellence boosting industrial competitiveness (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA)

38 proposals (indicative budget 36 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-02 - European coordination, awareness, standardisation & adoption of trustworthy European AI, Data and Robotics (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (CSA)

3 proposals (indicative budget 13 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-03 - European Network of AI Excellence Centres: Pillars of the European AI lighthouse (RIA)

2 proposals (indicative budget 9 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-04 - Trust & data sovereignty on the Internet (RIA)

7 proposals (indicative budget 12 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-05 - Trustworthy open search and discovery (RIA)

7 proposals (indicative budget 17 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-06 - Innovation for Media, including eXtended Reality (IA)

15 proposals (indicative budget 26 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-07 - Next Generation Internet community-building and outreach (CSA)

7 proposals (indicative budget 2 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-08 - NGI International Collaboration - Transatlantic fellowship programme (CSA)

2 proposals (indicative budget 2 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-09 - NGI Tech Review (CSA)

1 proposals (indicative budget 1,5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-13 - eXtended Reality Modelling (RIA)

18 proposals (indicative budget 14,5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-14 - eXtended Reality for All – Haptics (RIA)

3 proposals (indicative budget 6 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-17 - Awareness raising on Intellectual property (IP) management for European R&I (CSA)

5 proposals (indicative budget 1 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-18 - Fostering standardisation to boost European industry's competitiveness (CSA)

4 proposals (indicative budget 1 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-19 - Testing innovative solutions on local communities’ demand (CSA)

6 proposals (indicative budget 5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-20 - Piloting a new industry-academia knowledge exchange focussing on companies’ needs (CSA)

6 proposals (indicative budget 2 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-21 - Art-driven use experiments and design (RIA)

13 proposals (indicative budget 8,5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-24 - Tackling gender, race and other biases in AI (RIA)

24 proposals (indicative budget 10 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-25 - eXtended Collaborative Telepresence (IA)

6 proposals (indicative budget 14 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-26 - Workforce skills for industry 5.0 (RIA)

12 proposals (indicative budget 5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01- 27 - AI to fight disinformation (RIA)

22 proposals (indicative budget 13 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01- 28 - eXtended Reality Ethics, Interoperability and Impact (CSA)

2 proposals (indicative budget 2,5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-29 - Support for transnational activities of National Contact Points in the thematic area of Digital (CSA)

1 proposals (indicative budget 2,5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-30 - Support for transnational activities of National Contact Points in the thematic area of Industry (CSA)

1 proposals (indicative budget 1,5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-31 - Support for transnational activities of National Contact Points in the thematic area of Space (CSA)

1 proposals (indicative budget 1 EUR million)

2021-10-12

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This annex should only be uploaded for topics:

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-03 - European Network of AI Excellence Centres: Pillars of the European AI lighthouse (RIA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-04 - Trust & data sovereignty on the Internet (RIA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-05 - Trustworthy open search and discovery (RIA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-06 - Innovation for Media, including eXtended Reality (IA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-08 - NGI International Collaboration - Transatlantic fellowship programme (CSA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-13 - eXtended Reality Modelling (RIA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-19 - eXtended Reality Learning - Engage and Interact (IA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-20 - Piloting a new industry-academia knowledge exchange focusing on companies' needs (CSA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-21 - Art-driven use experiments and design (RIA)

HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-25 - eXtended Collaborative Telepresence (IA)

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2021-10-04

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