FORTIS Open Call #2: Pushing towards the deployment of FORTIS and Exploiting the FORTIS solution in other key sectors
Run by Multi-Modal and Multi-Aspect Holistic Human-Robot Interaction · TRL 4 to 7 · Needs partners
What this call funds
This open call funds consortia that integrate, pilot, or scale technologies within the FORTIS human robot interaction framework, or transfer the FORTIS solution to new sectors like agriculture, healthcare, events or retail. Projects should start at a working prototype stage and reach a near final, tested version within the project duration. Around 14 projects will be funded across two topics, one focused on deploying FORTIS itself and one on cross sector exploitation.
robotics automation · internet of things · extended reality · agriculture agritech · digital health · advanced manufacturing
Who wins this
A small multidisciplinary consortium of SMEs, startups, universities or research organisations wanting to integrate their technology into the FORTIS robotics platform or adapt it to a new application sector.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €250k
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- Cascade funding
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: at least 2 partners.
- Eligible applicants
- university, research organisation, mid-cap, SME, startup, end-user
- Funding rate
- 100% for non-profit entities, 70% for SMEs and for-profit entities
- Support to third parties
- Up to 250,000 euros per project for Topic OC#2.1 and up to 170,000 euros per project for Topic OC#2.2, with a lifetime cumulative ceiling of 200,000 euros per legal entity across all FORTIS Open Calls.
- Also required
- Topic OC#2.1 requires 3 entities including at least 1 SME from at least 2 different eligible countries, while Topic OC#2.2 requires 2 entities including at least 1 SME and allows single country consortia. Budget for non industry partners cannot exceed 30% of total project budget. Project duration is 10 months.
- Sectors
- AI/ML · Deep Tech · Manufacturing · Aerospace
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Israel, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Tunisia, New Zealand
Who has won calls like this
Organisations that most often win this call family · 231 past winners