Open Calls

2nd Exchange Scheme Open Call (Closed)

About the Call

Through TES #2 (oc2-2024-TES-02), ENFIELD aims to fund mobility-based research exchanges for individual researchers to address targeted scientific and technological challenges in the field of AI, contributing to the development of Green, Adaptive, Human-Centric, and Trustworthy AI across industrial domains such as Energy, Healthcare, and Manufacturing.

Objectives

This call seeks to support researchers (PhDs, Post-docs, Senior Researchers or Group of Researchers) willing to undertake short-term (3 to 6 months) research residencies within ENFIELD’s network of Centres of Excellence. Selected applicants will contribute to foundational AI research aligned with one or more of ENFIELD’s four pillars and four industrial domains by responding to pre-defined scientific challenges listed in the official Catalogue of Challenges.

General Information

Call opening: 15 August 2024

Deadline for submission:
~~14 October 2024, 17:00 CET~~

Extended! 31 October 2024, 17:00 CET

Open Call Summary Report

Selected Projects

Project	Researcher(s)	Host Institution	Project Duration	Grant Awarded
CXAI: Cautious explainable artificial intelligence	Sébastien Destercke	IMT Mines Alès	5 Months	12.000€
A Multi-Layer Defense System against LLMs Adversarial Prompt Attacks	Leonardo Piano	TELENOR	6 Months	14.400€
Towards encryption-free verifiable federated learning for energy use-cases	Lukas Stippel	INESC TEC	4 Months	9.600€
Optimal hybrid AI strategies for battery management and state estimation	Lluís Trilla; Alejandro Clemente; Andrés Barnabeu	KNOW Center	4 Months	28.800€
Risk Assessment and Decision Support for ICU Readmission Prediction	Paola Berchialla; Alessia Visconti; Emanuele Koumantakis	NTUA	6 Months	43.200€
Multimodal Analysis of Sleep Dynamics with Explainable Transformers	Ander Cejudo	TU/e	5 Months	12.200€
Detecting fake voices from real recordings and synthetic generations	Mario Fernando Acosta	BME	5 Months	12.000€
Generic Framework for Systemic and Local Explainability of Dynamic Systems	Ifigeneia Lamprianidou	INESC TEC	6 Months	14.400€
self X-Smart MAintenance for industrial Robot manipulator Technologies (X-SMART)	Simone Arena	POLIMI	6 Months	14.400€
SHACKLE: SHape-based pAtterns for Constraining KnowLedge graph Embeddings	Pierre Monnin	IMT/Telecom Paris	6 Months	14.400€
Robust Multimodal Continual Learning for Robotics	Nicolas Kuske	TU/e	6 Months	14.400€

More Information on TES#2

Each selected researcher or research group will receive:

month mobility allowance

Maximum funding per researcher

Duration of the exchange (months)

Expected beneficiaries

What We Offer

Opportunity to carry out top-level research activities in partnership with distinguished research institutions and industry entities;
Chance to network and benefit from mutual exchanges, feedback and collaboration with peers and various experts in the AI field;
Up to 14,400€ in financial support (6 months);
Visibility and promotion.

What We Are Looking for

The open call is designed to attract the top-level researchers to conduct foundational research activities related to specific scientific and technological challenges raised by ENFIELD project.

Foundational research activities

Green AI

G-AI.1 Green Generative Language Models
G-AI.2 Optimizing Green AI in the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum
G-AI.3 Green AI Metrics

Adaptive AI

A-AI.1 Adaptive AI on the Edge – Hardware Aware Differentiable Architecture Search
A-AI.2 Adaptive AI on the Edge – Resources-constrained Training
A-AI.3 Adaptative Robustness and Trustworthiness
A-AI.4 Brain-inspired AI – Developing intelligent systems that are effective and efficient continual learners
A-AI.5 Brain-inspired AI – developing intelligent systems that are better in generalization and robustness

Human-centric AI

HC-AI.1 Evolving Symbolic Models for Decision-Making
HC-AI.2 User Perspectives on Explainable AI
HC-AI.3 Child-Centric AI for Personalized and Safe Educational Voice Assistants
HC-AI.4 Novel Explainable AI Methods for Decision Making

Trustworthy AI

T-AI.1 Secure Voice Biometrics with Fake Voice Detection
T-AI.2 Non-linear models for multivariate time series (vertical federated learning)
T-AI.3 Security and Robustness of AI systems
T-AI.4 Privacy and Compliance of AI systems
T-AI.5 AI in Distributed systems

Energy

VE.1 Systemic and Local explainer of the system dynamic behavior

Healthcare

VH.1 ICU readmission analysis and support

Manufacturing

VM.1 Context-agnostic human detection in robotic cell
VM.2 Self-X Integration in manufacturing domain

For details about each of the challenges, please consult the catalogue.

Who Can Apply?

Researchers or a group of researchers (2-3) based in EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries. This includes PhD Candidates (who demonstrate their enrolment in a PhD programme), post-docs and senior researchers who demonstrate their employment at a university, research centre or business entity in Europe.

How to Apply?

Read all documents with special attention to:

Guidelines for Applicants
Frequently Asked Questions

Download relevant call documents:

Call for Proposals
Catalogue of Challenges

Prepare your application:

Fill in the Technical Annex
2 min Presentation Video

Start your Application:

Make sure you answer all questions in the application form and upload all relevant documents.

Submit before the deadline

Documentation

These are the necessary documents that will help you to get the best understanding of the Open Call requirements, application and selection process. We advise you to read them carefully before applying.

All the documents can be downloaded here.

Application:

Selected Applicants:

TES #1 Webinar
Watch here the presentation of the open call.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Researchers established in one of the EU Member States or Horizon Europe associated countries. An updated list of countries eligible to participate can be found here. 
Researchers can be: 

PhD candidates (who demonstrate their enrolment in a PhD programme) in an eligible country.

Post-docs or senior researchers who demonstrate their employment at a university, research centre or business entity in an eligible country.

Group of researchers composed by one senior researcher + one or two PhD candidate(s)/Post-doc(s).

ENFIELD Partner Institutions cannot apply!

First, you need to access the public open call here. After reading it carefully, you should complete the technical proposal annex and upload it in PDF format along with a link to a 2-minute presentation video in the application form, here.

The video will not be uploaded during the application. In the application form you will need to provide an URL link to the repository where you stored your video. Applicants should record and watch the final version of the video to ensure it’s ready for submission. Store a copy of the 2-minute Presentation Video on an online repository (e.g., YouTube, Vimeo, etc) and in the application form provide the URL link. It is important to adjust the video’s privacy settings so that the evaluators have access to the URL link to watch the video. If the video is not accessible for watching, it will be considered that no video was associated, making the application not eligible.

Applications can be submitted in English only. The 2-minute presentation video must also be in English.

Each project will have a duration between 3 to 6 months

Yes. Applicants can submit multiple proposals but only one project can be awarded per beneficiary.

Proposals should be submitted until 14 October 2024, 17h00 (CET).

Extended deadline: 31 October 2024, 17:00 (CET)

All applicants will be informed of the results of the evaluation process by email by 19 November 2024 (indicative date). The list of the selected projects will then be published on the information channels of the ENFIELD project.

Queries about applications can be sent by email to enfield.opencall@inova.business before 25 October 2024. We cannot guarantee that emails will be answered after this date.

ENFIELD will have four open calls. The first, currently open until 31 October 2024 – 23:00 (CET) and three others are foreseen for summer 2024, spring 2025 and summer 2025.

The open call offers successful applicants a mobility allowance of €2,400/month. No further financial support is available through the open call.

The management of intellectual property rights (IPR) is outlined in Article 8 of the Sub-grant Agreement: “Published content can be used in the thesis by ensuring reference to relevant authors and in agreement with the host organisation”. Please refer to the open call documentation for detailed information on IPR management.

Financial support will not be extended to the employer of the selected researchers.

No. Applications must be presented in response to the ENFIELD proposed challenges.

The open call allows researchers from various universities across different countries to participate, as long as the countries meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the open call documents.

The funding is exclusively for researchers (individually or in a group).

Each researcher within the group will receive a monthly mobility allowance of €2,400/month.

The exchange programme does not necessarily need to occur entirely on-site at the host institution. Specific arrangements can be made between the researcher(s) and the host institution.

Researchers from all fields are encouraged to apply. In the application form, candidates will be required to demonstrate how they can contribute to the specified research activities associated with the selected challenge.

Since Ukraine is listed as a third country associated to Horizon Europe, researchers established in Ukraine are eligible to apply

No, it is not possible to choose any other host institution aside from those listed in the catalogue.

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