ICT-09-2019-2020

Robotics in Application Areas -

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Specific Challenge:

While robots originated in large-scale mass manufacturing, they are now spreading to more and more application areas. In these new settings, robots are often faced with new technical and non-technical challenges. The purpose of this topic is to address such issues in a modular and open way, and reduce the barriers that prevent a more widespread adoption of robots. Four Priority Areas (PAs) are targeted: healthcare, inspection and maintenance of infrastructure, agri-food, and agile production.

User needs, ethical, legal, societal and economic aspects should be addressed in order to raise awareness and take-up by citizens and businesses. Privacy and cybersecurity issues, including security by design and data integrity should also be addressed, where appropriate.

Scope

a) Research and Innovation boosting promising robotics applications

Innovative approaches to hard research problems in relation to applications of robotics in promising new areas are particularly encouraged. Proposals are expected to enable substantially improved solutions to challenging technical issues, with a view of take-up in applications with high socio-economic impact. Driven by application needs, the work can start from research at low TRL, but proposals are expected to validate their results in realistic environments in order to demonstrate the potential for take-up in the selected application(s).

The call is open to all robotics-related research topics and to all new application areas. Excluded are the four priority areas which are already covered elsewhere in this work programme: healthcare, inspection and maintenance of infrastructure, agri-food and agile production. Proposals will be expected to plan efforts to connect and cooperate with the DIHs, Platforms and other relevant activities of this work programme, as appropriate.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU between €3 million and €5 million would allow this area to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

b) Innovation Actions - Robotics for infrastructure inspection and maintenance

Establish large-scale pilots capable of demonstrating the use of robotics at scale in actual or highly realistic operating environments; showcase advanced prototype applications built around platforms operating in real or near-real environments and demonstrate high levels of socio-economic impact.

Through large-scale pilots, proposals are expected to make a significant step forward in platform development in the area of infrastructure inspection and maintenance. Starting from suitable reference architectures, platform interfaces are defined, tested via piloting, and supported via ecosystem building preparing their roll-out, and are being evolved over time into standards.

Each proposal is expected to establish large scale pilots. They are expected to: consider utilising existing infrastructure and links to other European, national or private funding-sources; identify the long-term sustainability of the pilot; develop scalable technical solutions capable of meeting performance targets; develop metrics and performance measures for the pilot; engage relevant industry stakeholders, including SMEs, in the provision and operation of the pilot. Proposals will be expected to dedicate resources to disseminate best practice and coordinate access to platforms and demonstrators, in particular in connecting with the Robotics DIHs and Core Technologies actions and other relevant activities, in H2020 and beyond.

Pilots are expected to address both technical and non-technical issues, such as socio-economic impact, novel business models, legal and regulatory, ethical and cyber-security issues and connections to Big Data and IoT.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU between €7 million and €9 million would allow this area to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

c) Robotics Competitions

Competitions aims at reducing technical and commercial risks by allowing commercial and technical performance data to be gathered and assessed. They provide a real or near-real operating environment for long-term trials and the testing of deployment strategies.

Proposals (CSA) should address the delivery of challenge-led, robotics competitions focusing on the four application areas prioritised: Healthcare, Infrastructure Inspection and Maintenance, Agri-Food, and Agile Production. Besides the technological objectives, proposals are also expected to stimulate public engagement and engage with the Robotics DIHs. Proposals should address all aspects of running competitions as public events, and engage with the media and public. Proposals should seek to mobilise external partners in sponsoring and setting up the competitions.

Expected Impact:

a)

  • Strengthening European excellence in Robotics S&T
  • Boosting the use of robotics in promising application areas
  • Opening up new markets for robotics
  • Lowering barriers in the deployment of robotics-based solutions.

b)

  • Demonstration of the potential for robotics to impact at scale in the chosen application areas prioritised in this call (infrastructure inspection and maintenance).
  • Reduction of technical and commercial risk in the deployment of services based on robotic actors within the selected application area.
  • Greater understanding from the application stakeholders of the potential for deploying robotics.
  • Demonstration of platforms operating over extended time periods in near realistic environments and promotion of their use.
  • Develop the eco-system around the prioritised application areas to stimulate deployment.
  • Contribution to the development of open, industry-led or de facto standards

c)

  • Greater public exposure to actual robotics capability.
  • Greater engagement with competitions from commercial organisations in the four prioritised application areas: Healthcare, Infrastructure Inspection and Maintenance, Agri-Food and Agile Production.
Delegation Exception Footnote:

This topic continue in 2020 under ICT-46-2020: Robotics in Application Areas and Coordination & Support

Cross-cutting Priorities:

Socio-economic science and humanitiesContractual Public-Private Partnerships (cPPPs)Robotics

News flashes

2020-10-01

An overview of the evaluation results of call H2020-ICT-2020-2, named Call Flash Info H2020-ICT-2020-2 is now available in section Conditions and documents - Additional documents of all the topics belonging to this call. These topics are: ICT-36-2020, ICT-37-2020, ICT-40-2020, ICT-41-2020, ICT-46-2020, ICT-47-2020, ICT-49-2020, ICT-52-2020, ICT-57-2020 and ICT-58-2020. .

2020-06-22

Submissions to call H2020-ICT-2020-2

A total of 712 proposals has been submitted to call H2020-ICT-2020-2, which closed on 17 June 2020. These proposals, of which the evaluation will be organized over the coming weeks and months, were submitted to the following topics / Types of Action:ICT-36-2020 – Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 79 proposals (indicative RIA budget EUR 47.5 million)ICT-37-2020 – Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) - 1 proposal (indicative CSA budget EUR 4 million)ICT-37-2020 – Innovation Actions (IA) - 15 proposals (indicative IA budget EUR 15 million)ICT-37-2020 – Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 61 proposals (indicative RIA budget EUR 29 million)ICT-40-2020 – Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) - 5 proposals (indicative CSA budget EUR 0.6 million)ICT-40-2020 – Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 90 proposals (indicative RIA budget EUR 19.4 million)ICT-41-2020 – Innovation Actions (IA) - 29 proposals (indicative IA budget EUR 49 million)ICT-46-2020 – Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) - 6 proposals (indicative CSA budget EUR 3 million)ICT-46-2020 – Innovation Actions (IA) - 30 proposals (indicative IA budget EUR 41.5 million)ICT-46-2020 – Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 136 proposals (indicative RIA budget EUR 41.5 million)ICT-47-2020 – Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 64 proposals (indicative RIA budget EUR 20 million)ICT-49-2020 – Innovation Actions (IA) - 39 proposals (indicative IA budget EUR 30 million)ICT-52-2020 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 81 proposals (indicative RIA budget EUR 55 million)ICT-57-2020 – Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 23 proposals (indicative RIA budget EUR 7 million)ICT-58-2020 – Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) - 8 proposals (indicative CSA budget EUR 1 million)ICT-58-2020 – Innovation Actions (IA) - 45 proposals (indicative IA budget EUR 10 million)

2020-05-08

An overview of the evaluation results of the H2020-ICT-2020-1 call, named Call Flash Info H2020-ICT-2020-1 is now available in section Conditions and documents - Additional documents of the topics belonging to this call. These topics are: ICT-38-2020, ICT-42-2020, ICT-44-2020, ICT-50-2020, ICT-51-2020, ICT-54-2020 and ICT-56-2020) .

2020-05-08

An overview of the evaluation results of the H2020-ICT-2020-1 call, named Call Flash Info H2020-ICT-2020-1 is now available in section Conditions and documents - Additional documents of the topics belonging to this call. These topics are: ICT-38-2020, ICT-42-2020, ICT-44-2020, ICT-50-2020, ICT-51-2020, ICT-54-2020 and ICT-56-2020) .

2020-04-08

Please note that the submission deadline for all topics of the H2020-ICT-2020-2 call has been extended from 22 April to 17 June 2020, 17:00, Brussels local time. This extension is a response to the COVID-19 crisis that has severely affected many potential applicants to this call. With this extension, the European Commission wants to give all applicants more time for proposal preparation.

The affected topics are the following: ICT-36-2020; ICT-37-2020; ICT-40-2020; ICT-41-2020; ICT-46-2020; ICT-47-2020; ICT-49-2020; ICT-52-2020; ICT-57-2020 and ICT-58-2020.

2020-04-07

An overview of the call evaluation results (termed Call Flash Info H2020-ICT-2019-3) of the H2020-ICT-2019-3 call (topics ICT-45-2020, ICT-48-2020, ICT-53-2020 and ICT-55-2020) is now available under section Conditions and documents - Additional documents.

2020-02-03

A total of 299 proposals has been submitted to call H2020-ICT-2020-1, which closed on 16 January 2020. These proposals, of which the evaluation will be organized over the coming weeks and months, were submitted to the following topics / Types of Action:ICT-38-2020 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 73 proposals (indicative RIA budget EUR 47 million)ICT-38-2020 -Coordination and SupportActions (CSA) -4 proposals (indicative CSA budget EUR1 million)ICT-42-2020 -Innovation Actions (IA) -9 proposals (indicative IA budget EUR 48 million)ICT-42-2020 -Coordination and SupportActions (CSA) -4 proposals (indicative CSA budget EUR1 million)ICT-44-2020 -Innovation Actions (IA) -24 proposals (indicative IA budget EUR15.5 million)ICT-44-2020 -Coordination and SupportActions (CSA) -5 proposals (indicative CSA budget EUR2 million)ICT-50-2020 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 43 proposals (indicative RIA budget EUR29 million)ICT-50-2020 -Coordination and SupportActions (CSA) -2 proposals (indicative CSA budget EUR1 million)ICT-51-2020 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) -55 proposals (indicative RIA budget EUR30 million)ICT-51-2020 -Coordination and SupportActions (CSA) -1 proposal (indicative CSA budget EUR1,5 million)ICT-54-2020 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) -27 proposals (indicative RIA budget EUR20 million)ICT-56-2020 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) -46 proposals (indicative RIA budget EUR46,5 million)ICT-56-2020 -Coordination and SupportActions (CSA) -6 proposals (indicative CSA budget EUR2 million).

2019-11-19
The submission session is now available for: ICT-58-2020(CSA), ICT-40-2020(RIA-CSA), ICT-36-2020(RIA), ICT-46-2020(RIA), ICT-37-2020(RIA), ICT-57-2020(RIA), ICT-47-2020(RIA), ICT-41-2020(IA), ICT-52-2020(RIA), ICT-46-2020(CSA), ICT-37-2020(IA), ICT-58-2020(IA), ICT-49-2020(IA), ICT-37-2020(CSA), ICT-46-2020(IA)
2019-11-15

A total of 95 proposals has been submitted to call H2020-ICT-2019-3, which closed on 13 November 2019. These proposals, of which the evaluation will be organized over the coming months, were submitted to the following topics / Types of Action:

ICT-45-2020 - Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) - 4 proposals (indicative topic budget EUR 4 million)

ICT-48-2020 - Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) -2 proposals (indicative topic budget for CSAs EUR2 million)ICT-48-2020 -Research and InnovationActions (RIA) -14 proposals (indicative topic budget for RIAs EUR 48 million)

ICT-53-2020 -InnovationActions (IA) -10 proposals (indicative topic budget EUR30 million)

ICT-55-2020 -InnovationActions (IA) -65 proposals (indicative topic budget EUR17 million)

2019-09-27

Please note thatA Guide to ICT-related activities inH2020 Work Programme 2018-20 has been publishedunder Additional documents in section Topic conditions and documents of the 2020 topic pages

2019-08-07

An overview of the evaluation results (called'Flash Call Info 2019-2')of the H2020-ICT-2019-2 call is now available under section Topic and documents - Additional documents.

2019-07-09
The submission session is now available for: ICT-48-2020(CSA), ICT-45-2020(CSA), ICT-55-2020(IA), ICT-48-2020(RIA), ICT-53-2020(IA)
2019-07-09
The submission session is now available for: ICT-56-2020(RIA), ICT-42-2020(CSA), ICT-38-2020(RIA), ICT-50-2020(CSA), ICT-44-2020(CSA), ICT-38-2020(CSA), ICT-56-2020(CSA), ICT-51-2020(CSA-RIA), ICT-50-2020(RIA), ICT-42-2020(IA), ICT-54-2020(RIA), ICT-44-2020(IA)
2019-03-29

A total of 684 proposals has been submitted to call H2020-ICT-2019-2, which closed on 28 March 2019.These proposals were submitted to the following topics/Types of Action:ICT-01 - Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) - 2 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 2 million)ICT-01 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 70 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 38 million)ICT-03 - Innovation Actions (IA) - 7 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 30 million)ICT-05 - Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) - 3 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 1.5 million)ICT-05 - Innovation Actions (IA) - 23 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 30 million)ICT-05 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 43 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 45 million)ICT-06 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 47 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 30 million)ICT-08 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 25 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 11 million)ICT-09 - Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) - 2 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 2 million)ICT-09 - Innovation Actions (IA) - 17 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 28 million)ICT-09 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 56 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 20 million)ICT-10 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 91 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 42 million)ICT-13 - Innovation Actions (IA) - 55 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 48 million)ICT-15 - Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) - 4 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 1.5 million)ICT-15 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 87 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 28.5 million)ICT-20 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 66 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 44 million)ICT-24 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 10 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 21.5 million)ICT-30 - Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) - 4 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 1 million)ICT-30 - Innovation Actions (IA) - 7 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 7 million)ICT-31 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 5 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 3.5 million)ICT-33 - Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) - 12 proposals (indicative budget: EUR 1.5 million)ICT-33 - Innovation Actions (IA) - 42 proposals (indicative budget: EUR 10 million)ICT-34 - Pre-commercial Procurement Actions (PCP) - 6 proposals (indicative topic budget: EUR 6 million)

2019-03-12

An overview of the evaluation results (called 'Call Flash Info') of topics ICT-11-2018-2019, ICT-19-2019 and ICT-25-2018-2020 is now available under section 'Topic conditions and documents - Additional documents' of these three topics.

2019-02-21

For topic ICT-31-2018-2019 (RIA), which is still open for submission until 28 March 2019, anew and SPECIFICPROPOSAL TEMPLATE forPart B, sections 4 - 5, has been uploaded into the submission system. The previous template was incorrect, as it was incomplete. So, if you want to submit a proposal to topic ICT-31-2018-2019 (RIA), please make sure that you select the SPECIFIC template for this topic's Part B, section 4 - 5.

2018-11-21

The Work-Programme update of 13 November 2018 removed topic ICT-14-2020 from the ICT Work Programme. This topic was moved to the European High-Performance-Computing Joint Undertaking. Please keep checking the EuroHPC JU website to stay informed on calls and other developments in the EuroHPC area.

2018-11-15

A total of 172 proposals has been submitted to call H2020-ICT-2018-3, which closed on 14 November 2018.These proposals were submitted to the following topics / Types of Action:ICT-11 - Innovation Actions (IA) - 18 proposals (indicative budget: EUR 40m)ICT-19 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 30 proposals (ind. budget: EUR 90m)ICT-19 -Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) -2 proposals (ind. budget: EUR2m)ICT-25 - Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) - 122 proposals (ind. budget: EUR 20m)

2018-09-07
The submission session is now available for: ICT-23-2019(RIA)
2018-08-20
An overview of the evaluation results (called'Flash Call Info')of the topics ICT-02-2018, ICT-03-2018, ICT-04-2018, ICT-07-2018, ICT-11-2018, ICT-12-2018, ICT-13-2018, ICT-16-2018, ICT-18-2018, ICT-21-2018, ICT-24-2018, ICT-25-2018, ICT-26-2018, ICT-27-2018, ICT-28-2018, ICT-29-2018, ICT-31-2018, ICT-32-2018, ICT-34-2018andICT-35-2018is now available under section Topic conditions and documents - Additional documents.
2018-07-31
An overview of the evaluation results (called'Flash Call Info')of the topics ICT-17-2018 andICT-22-2018is now available under section Topic conditions and documents - Additional documents.
2018-07-26
The submission session is now available for: ICT-19-2019(CSA), ICT-11-2018-2019(IA), ICT-19-2019(RIA), ICT-25-2018-2020(RIA)
2017-10-31
The submission session is now available for: ICT-24-2018-2019(CSA), ICT-13-2018-2019(CSA), ICT-28-2018(RIA), ICT-12-2018-2020(CSA), ICT-32-2018(RIA), ICT-29-2018(RIA), ICT-07-2018(RIA), ICT-04-2018(RIA), ICT-25-2018-2020(CSA), ICT-02-2018(RIA), ICT-07-2018(IA), ICT-16-2018(IA), ICT-11-2018-2019(IA), ICT-16-2018(RIA), ICT-21-2018(CSA), ICT-27-2018-2020(CSA), ICT-03-2018-2019(IA), ICT-31-2018-2019(CSA), ICT-04-2018(IA), ICT-35-2018(CSA), ICT-28-2018(IA), ICT-34-2018-2019(PCP), ICT-32-2018(CSA), ICT-16-2018(CSA), ICT-29-2018(IA), ICT-12-2018-2020(RIA), ICT-28-2018(CSA), ICT-13-2018-2019(RIA), ICT-07-2018(CSA), ICT-24-2018-2019(RIA), ICT-26-2018-2020(RIA), ICT-18-2018(IA)
2017-10-31
The submission session is now available for: ICT-17-2018(RIA), ICT-22-2018(RIA)
call topic details
Call status: Closed
Opening date: 2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
Closing date: 2019-03-28 (7 years ago)
Procedure: single-stage

Budget: 20,000,000
Expected grants: not specified
News flashes

This call topic has been appended 24 times by the EC with news.

  • 2020-10-01
    an overview of the evaluation results of...
  • 2020-06-22
    submissions to call h2020-ict-2020-2...
  • 2020-05-08
    an overview of the evaluation results of...
  • 2020-05-08
    an overview of the evaluation results of...
  • 2020-04-08
    please note that the submission deadlin...
  • 2020-04-07
    an overview of the call evaluation resul...
  • 2020-02-03
    a total of 299 proposals has been submit...
  • 2019-11-19
    the submission session is now available...
  • 2019-11-15
    a total of 95 proposals has been submitt...
  • 2019-09-27
    please note thata guide to ict-related a...
  • 2019-08-07
    an overview of the evaluation results (c...
  • 2019-07-09
    the submission session is now available...
  • 2019-07-09
    the submission session is now available...
  • 2019-03-29
    a total of 684 proposals has been submit...
  • 2019-03-12
    an overview of the evaluation results (c...
  • 2019-02-21
    for topic ict-31-2018-2019 (ria), which...
  • 2018-11-21
    the work-programme update of 13 november...
  • 2018-11-15
    a total of 172 proposals has been submit...
  • 2018-09-07
    the submission session is now available...
  • 2018-08-20
    an overview of the evaluation results (c...
  • 2018-07-31
    an overview of the evaluation results (c...
  • 2018-07-26
    the submission session is now available...
  • 2017-10-31
    the submission session is now available...
  • 2017-10-31
    the submission session is now available...
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