Open Calls

2nd Innovation Scheme Open Call (Closed)

About the Call

Through TIS#2 Open Call (oc1-2025-TIS-01), ENFIELD aims to attract R&D-intensive organisations to carry out applied research activities within key industrial sectors, including Energy, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Space. At the same time, ENFIELD will spread the latest and most advanced knowledge to the academic and industrial AI laboratories beyond the consortium members and build a stronger network across Europe.

Objectives

This call seeks to support start-ups, SMEs and Large Companies, and research institutes in conducting applied research activities related to specific scientific/technological challenges proposed by the industry partners, in at least one of the following sectors: healthcare, energy, space, and manufacturing.

The challenges/use cases proposed by the ENFIELD industry partners would potentially lead to the development and (future) adoption of AI technologies in these sectors and address societally important challenges in Europe.

General Information

Call opening: 17 April 2025

Deadline for submission:
~~17 June 2025, 17:00 (CET)~~

Extended! 17 June 2025, 17:00 (CET)

Open Call Summary Report

More Information on TIS #2

Each selected company or research institution will receive up to:

Maximum Grant

Duration of activities (months)

Expected beneficiaries

What We Offer

Opportunity to benefit from an innovation grant for applied research activities that could place you in the forefront of your field;
Chance to network and benefit from mutual exchanges, feedback and collaboration with peers and various experts in the AI field;
Up to 60.000€ in financial support;
Visibility and promotion;
Possibility to benefit from a specific IPR strategy for promising exploitation opportunities.

What We Are Looking for

The TIS #2 was designed to attract the top-level R&D entities to conduct applied research activities related to specific technological challenges raised by ENFIELD project.

Industrial Domains

Below are the technological challenges identified by the ENFIELD project:

Healthcare

IDH.1: Enhanced AI-Powered Remote Patient Monitoring

Energy

IDE.1: Early Signs of Energy Poverty
IDE.2: City Sustainability Index

Manufacturing

IDM.1: Enhancing robotic disassembly of electronics and household appliances with adaptive AI
IDM.2: Metrics and tools for assessing dataset reliability and robustness in Smart Manufacturing
IDM.3: Computer Vision for feet recognition
IDM.4: Transitioning to Industry 5.0 by enhancing worker safety and well-being in the manufacturing industry

Space

IDS.1: Space-based maritime surveillance
IDS.2: Robust vision-based autonomous navigation for low SWaP UAVs

Who Can Apply?

Research centres and private-for-profit company (start-ups, SMEs, large companies) based in EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries can apply to this open call. Proposals can be submitted by one (1) legal entity (or a group of a minimum of 2 legal entities).

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:

Carefully review the application form and provide detailed responses
Complete and update the Budget Template

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)

A legal entity or a consortium of a minimum of two legal entities established in one of the EU Member States or Horizon Europe associated countries. Legal entities can be:

Research Centres (legal entities)
Private-for-profit companies (including start-ups, SMEs, and large companies). A beneficiary is qualified as an SME as defined in the EU recommendation 2003/361.

An updated list of countries eligible to participate can be found here.
The following additional conditions apply:

There should not be any conflict of interest with any of the ENFIELD partners.
The participating organisations should not have been declared bankrupt or have initiated bankruptcy procedures.

The organisations applying should not have convictions for fraudulent behaviour, other financial irregularities, and unethical or illegal business practices.

Private-for-profit companies including start-ups, SMEs, and large companies established in one of the EU Member States or Horizon Europe associated countries can apply to the call. An updated list of countries eligible to participate can be found here. A beneficiary is qualified as an SME as defined in the EU recommendation 2003/3611.

First, you need to access the public open call here. After reading it carefully, you should complete the application form and upload in it the simplified costs estimation (as a PDF file).

Applications can be submitted in English only. Applications submitted in any other language will be considered ineligible.

The duration of the project is up to the applicant to propose and must have a maximum duration of six (6) months.

The Second Innovation Scheme Open Call will award around 9 proposals, each to be granted with up to 60.000EUR.

When the beneficiaries are private-for-profit organisations, once determined the total estimated cost for the proposal, the exact amount of financial support to be granted as a lump sum will be calculated as 70% of the eligible cost, following the rules of the Horizon Europe programme. When the beneficiaries are research centres (legal entities), the financial support to be granted as a lump sum will be calculated as 100% of the eligible costs.

Applicants will have to submit a simplified costs estimation for the implementation of their proposal, which includes the expected costs concerning Staff Costs; Travel Costs; Equipment/Tech Consumables Costs (depreciation) and, whenever required, Subcontracting Costs. Following the standard flat rate applicable in the Horizon Europe programme, a flat rate of 25% for overheads will be applied.

Payments will be done in two (2) lump sums: one at the beginning of the project (50% with sub-grant agreement signature) and one at the end of the project against the achievement of agreed milestones and deliverables (50% with expected outcome).

Applicants will have to submit a simplified costs estimation (here) for the implementation of their proposal, which includes the expected costs concerning Staff Costs; Travel Costs; Equipment/Tech Consumables Costs (depreciation) and, whenever required, Subcontracting Costs. Payments will be done in lump sums, based on concrete results and not administrative justifications.

Payments will be done in lump sums, based on concrete results and not administrative justifications. However, your costs and funding breakdown will be required to ensure that the funding is used for the right purpose, as well as for traceability and accountability.

Subcontracting is not encouraged. The general rule applicable to the ENFIELD project is that the selected beneficiaries must have the appropriate resources to implement the full set of tasks needed within the project. This means it is not allowed to subcontract key parts of the project. Examples (not restricted to) of not desired subcontracting are paying an external developer not in the company, paying a research centre or foundation to execute technical tasks, etc. Employees of a company are never considered subcontractors but part of the company itself. Example (not restricted to) of subcontracting activities that could be appropriate if needed are legal services or design services. In addition, the subcontracting amount should not represent a relevant amount of the total budget and should be justified on the submitted proposal.

The funds of the project come from the Horizon Europe Programme. This means its regulation will apply to the funds. If you get additional public funding from other entities, it will be your responsibility to assure the compatibleness of the different sources of funding.

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

Proposals should be submitted until 17 June 2025 at 17:00 (CET).

All applicants will be informed of the results of the evaluation process by email by 1 July 2025 (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 12 June 2025. We cannot guarantee that emails will be answered after this date.

ENFIELD will have two innovation open calls. The first opened in the summer of 2024 and the current one (open until 17^th of June) is the second open call for innovation projects.