1st Call Digital Challenges (CLOSED)

DigiFed and European enterprises are looking for StartUps and SMEs who are ready to:

  • Respond to digital challenges for which NO Cyber Physical Systems or embedded systems solutions have been identified in the market
  • Collaborate with large organisations to prototype potential solutions

DIGIFED AND THE DIGITAL CHALLENGE OWNERS OFFER:

  • The opportunity to respond to a real-world industry challenge adding a relevant use case to your unique value proposition.
  • Up to €110k in funding – representing 70% of your project’s declared budget.
  • Added value to your product, through high-level technical expertise, innovation support and access to pilot sites to deploy your solution
  • The opportunity to bid to implement the full solution for the Digital Challenge Owner
  • Innovation management support focusing on sustainable business development – to help your innovation get to the market via DigiFed and the Smart Anything Everywhere ecosystem.
  • Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) services to identify technical partners, commercial opportunities in Europe and receive tailored support, webinars and boot camps through the DigiFed project.

IF YOU ARE:

  • Developing innovative smart solutions worthy of market leaders.
  • Bridging the physical and virtual worlds with advanced technologies and industrialized solutions.
  • Interested in using premium resources and competencies to speed up solutions development.
  • Wishing to access a unique European ecosystem composed of leading industrial companies, world-class research organizations, innovation accelerators and private investors.

→ APPLY NOW TO TAKE ON THE FOLLOWING CHALLENGE(S):

Build an AIOT System of Systems (GE Hydro France)

Funding: 110k €

GE Hydro France is entering Industry 4.0 and looking for solutions to build an AIOT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) system of systems. 

The ideal candidates are mature companies, with experience in IIOT, Artificial Intelligence, Tiny Machine Learning & Arduino. These companies shall have strong knowledge in embedded devices/electronics and libraries building to help GE Hydro France achieve a state of the art data collection and processing to enable Condition Based Monitoring of critical components.

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KEY REQUIREMENTS:

Proposals shall be pan-European (EU member states or H2020 associated countries, including the UK) where applicants:

  • Have existing Customer experience or ideally, successfully taken a product or a service from TRL 3 to TRL 8
  • Will be using an agile approach during the development and work closely with the Digital Challenge Owner to deliver the proposed solution

The interested parties will need to follow the two-stage application process and submit a signed non-disclosure agreement before engaging with the Digital Challenge Owners.

The Digital Challenge Applicants are small/medium (startups and SMEs) organisations residing in an EU Member State (including their overseas departments) or in one of the EU Associated Countries *.

* UK companies remain eligible for grants and procurement procedures as if the UK was a member state for the entirety of the Horizon 2020 framework programme and previous framework programmes. This also applies for to financial support to third parties according to Article 204 FR (cascading grants) and applies for the duration of H2020 projects.

HOW TO APPLY?

To apply for the ‘Build an AIOT System of Systems’ challenge by GE Hydro France please register to the DigiFed portal and contact: Bastien Hualpa (Bastien.Hualpa@minalogic.com) or info@digifed.org

THE PRE-SELECTION STAGE IS NOW CLOSED! 

All pre-selected applicants are invited to complete their application and submit the final proposal on the Digital Challenge portal by 15th December, 5PM (Brussels time).

Application Process Timeline

APPLICATION DOCUMENTATION PACK

OTHER INFORMATION:

  • Digital Challenge General Information and Application Process (ppt)
  • Digital Challenge FAQ page
  • Digital Challenge Webinar

WHAT NEXT

All pre-selected applications are invited to complete their application and submit their final proposal by 15th December (5PM, Brussels time) on the Digital Challenge portal.

For more information around the Build an AIOT System of Systems digital challenge, please see this page.