Updated H2020 WP on EIC Pilot

An updated version of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme on European Innovation Council – EIC Pilot has been published last 2nd March 2020 and adopted last 30th April 2020.

The updated Horizon 2020 WP is available here.

Concerning the EIC Pathfinder Pilot, the following revisions have been published:

• FETPROACT-EIC-07-2020 and FETPROACT-EIC-08-2020 opening and closing dates have been revised. The Calls for Proposals are going to be open on March 26th and closed on July 2nd, 2020.

• Concerning the Topic Call FETPROACT-EIC-07-2020, the Call text has been revised introducing updates under the scope a. Artificial Intelligence for extended social interaction and the scope c. Digital twins for the life-sciences; introducing the new scope b. Breakthrough zero-emissions energy storage and conversion technologies for carbon neutrality. The text has not been modified within the scope d. Measuring the unmeasurable – Sub-nanoscale science for Nanometrology.
  The budget dedicated to FETPROACT-EIC-07-2020 has been increased with a total dedicated budget of 56 M euro, of which at least 12 M euro are going to be dedicated for the scopes a.; b.;  and c.

• Concerning the Topic Call FETPROACT-EIC-08-2020, the Call text has been revised introducing updates under both the scope a. new techniques for modelling and predicting social/environmental evolution across different temporal and spatial scales and the scope b. radically novel approaches to resilient, reliable and environmentally responsible in-situ monitoring.
  The budget dedicated to FETPROACT-EIC-08-2020 has been increased with a total dedicated budget of 18 M euro.

The Topic Call related to FETOPEN-01-2018-2019-2020: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking has not been modified in the call text, but due to COVID-19, the Call deadline has been extended to the 3rd June, 2020. Check more information here.

More information is available at: https://ec.europa.eu/research/eic/index.cfm