• Focus area: Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)
• Funding framework: Financial Support for Third Parties (Cascade funding)
• Closing date: Several cut-off dates:
  -31 January 2020, 17:00 (Brussels time)
  -30 April 2020, 17:00 (Brussels time)
  -31 July 2020, 17:00 (Brussels time)
• Funding amount: Maximum total funding for a project : €50 000
• Eligibility criteria: XR research teams from a legal entity (a single organisation, not a consortium), which can for example be an SME, a research institution, an academic institution, etc… based in one of the EU Member States (MS), an H2020 Associated Country or one of the other countries listed in the General Annex A of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018‐2020.

XR4ALL, co-funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020, launches this open call to attract, select, and provide financial support to third parties (outstanding XR research teams from organisations such as SMEs, research institutions, and academia) to develop new XR solutions (e.g. plugins for games engines such as Unity, low level components based on open APIs, standards and frameworks such as SolAR, or any XR Application) using the XR developers platform and publishing their solution on the XR Solutions Catalogue.

• Focus area: ICT
• Funding framework: Call for tender, DG CONNECT
• Closing date: N/A
• Funding amount: Value excluding VAT: 120 000 000.00 EUR to 151 410 000.00 , depending on the lot.
• Eligibility criteria: Participation in this procurement procedure is open on equal terms to all natural and legal persons coming within the scope of the Treaties, as well as to international organisations.
  It is also open to all natural and legal persons established in a third country which has a special agreement with the Union in the field of public procurement on the conditions laid down in that agreement.

Acquisition, delivery, installation and hardware and software maintenance of Precursors to Exascale supercomputers for the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC). There are 3 lots.

The EuroHPC JU wishes to procure three (3) world-class precursor to exascale supercomputing infrastructures, one per lot, for Europe’s scientific, industrial and public users, matching their demanding application requirements by 2020.
The procurement aims at:
• Providing access to High Performance Computing-based infrastructures and services to a wide range of users from the research and scientific community, as well as the industry including SMEs, and the public sector, for new and emerging data and compute-intensive applications and services
• Fostering science and engineering applications in Europe HPC infrastructure by providing more supercomputing resources;
• Fostering the use of supercomputers primarily for research and innovation purposes falling under public funding programmes that shall be open to users from the public and private sectors and shall have an exclusive focus on civil applications

• Focus area: New products, services and business models
• Funding framework: Horizon 2020
• Closing date: Multiple cut-off:
  18 March 2020 17:00:00 Brussels time,
  19 May 2020 17:00:00 Brussels time,
  07 October 2020 17:00:00 Brussels time.
• Funding amount:
  Grant only (funding rate 70%): between €0.5 million and €2.5 million.
  Blended finance option: the grant component is limited to €2.5 million combined with an equity component of up to €15 million
• Eligibility criteria: Individual for-profit SMEs established in an EU Members State or a Horizon 2020 associated country can apply.
  If the activity concerns a primarily technological innovation, a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 6 or above is required for primarily technological innovation or the equivalent for non-technological innovation.

The EIC Accelerator pilot (SME Instrument) is for innovators with ground-breaking concepts that could shape new markets or disrupt existing ones in Europe and worldwide.
Only ground-breaking concepts at the last stage before scale-up can be funded.

Selected companies receive business coaching to further develop their innovation idea, and can also receive mentoring. They are helped in networking with other EIC Accelerator pilot (SME Instrument) clients, with other companies of all sizes, and with potential co-investors and follow-up investors across Europe. As an SME Instrument client, you will gain visibility and boost your chances of success in European and international markets

Phase 1 will be discontinued. Phase 2 offers a grant only support to SMEs in need of one last push before the scaling-up phase; and it will offer blended finance (combining grant and equity) to SMEs looking to further develop their idea.

• Focus area: Innovation
• Funding framework: Horizon 2020, Innovation Action (IA)
• Closing date: Cut-off dates:
  19 February 2020 17:00:00 Brussels time,
  09 June 2020 17:00:00 Brussels time ,
  27 October 2020 17:00:00 Brussels time
• Funding amount: maximum EU contribution per action is €3 million (funding rate: 70% for for-profit entities; 100% for not-for-profit entities).
• Eligibility criteria:
  – Participation of three to no more than five different legal entities, independent of each other, in a consortium.
  – Allocation of at least 60% of the overall budget to consortium partner(s) from industry; or a minimum of 2 industry partners out of a consortium of 3 or 4; or a minimum of 3 industry partners out of a consortium of 5.
  – All consortium members established in EU Member States or in countries associated to Horizon 2020.
  – If the proposal involves technological innovation, your consortium should declare that the technology or the technologies concerned are at least at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6.