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Source of Funding: SeaClear 2.0
SeaClear2.0 is seeking to collaborate with 5 Associated Regions in the Atlantic +Arctic, Baltic, Mediterranean, and Danube/Black Sea basins. With a grant of up to €100,000 each, the selected regions will be strategic partners, showcasing the feasibility, replicability, and scale-up of SeaClear2.0’s pioneering solutions for identifying, collecting, and valorising marine litter. In return, the selected regions will have the opportunity to enhance their capacities and approaches to identify and implement site-specific solutions for preventing and minimising marine litter and foster an ocean literate society through community activation and citizen engagement, in their regions.
The type of activities that can receive financial support include:
1.Collection of underwater marine litter images
2.Solutions to handle marine microplastics
3.Marine litter collection solution at beaches, coastal areas, and rivers
4.Marine litter reuse and upcycling approaches
5.Developing/ implementing mitigation and prevention strategies for marine litter
Deadline for submissions: 31st May 2024, 12:00 CET
For questions or further details please contact us at: oc2.0@seaclear-project.eu
Visit the below link to download guidelines and read further.
COROB aims to develop a flexible, cooperative and intelligent multi-robotic solution for arc welding-based manufacturing processes (joining and additive manufacturing), to offer new operational capabilities that allow to increase the efficiency and improve the flexibility of industrial processes.
The purpose of the Open Call is to integrate and test innovative solutions within the COROB project’s framework. This initiative aims to enhance the efficiency and flexibility of arc welding-based manufacturing processes by employing a cooperative multi-robot system powered by Inspection, Monitoring, Control, and AI techniques.
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Source of Funding: European Commission
The Open Call for EIC Solvers is an exclusive opportunity for SMEs currently or previously funded by the European Innovation Council to test and pilot their innovation and develop a solution to a concrete challenge that exists in the public domain
To apply, an EIC Solver must team up with a public organisation of their choice (Challenger) and propose both the challenge to be solved and the Solution to be developed.
The top 4 Challenger/Solver consortia for this Open Call for EIC Solvers will get selected to join a 10-month co-creation programme, supported by the InnoBuyer team.
Recording of the Information Webinar can be found below:
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Source of Funding: Malta Digital Innovation Authority
Overall Objectives of MARG
The MDIA Applied Research Grant (MARG) aims to support capacity-building efforts related to:
Visit the below link to download guidelines, application form and view call deadline.
Source of Funding: Malta Council for Science and Technology
The Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) is receiving proposals under the Horizon Internationalisation Partnership Award Scheme (HIPAS).
The Scheme will support Maltese eligible entities intending to submit a Horizon Europe proposal (including Partnerships indicated in the Scheme Rules), as a Coordinator entity to engage a service provider (local or foreign) who will be supporting the applicant entity through proposal writing and submission.
Interested Applicants are to submit their application form electronically to horizon.malta@gov.mt keeping Lili Kankaya lili.vasileva@gov.mt in copy with “HIPAS – Application 2024” as a subject heading.
The call will be open throughout the year with the following cut offs:
Visit the below link to download guidelines and application form.
Source of Funding: Malta Council for Science and Technology
After the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between MCST and the Malta Digital Innovation Authority (MDIA), several avenues for collaboration were identified, including a dedicated thematic programme for the digital domain. The Digital Technologies Programme aims to support capacity-building efforts related to:
It aims to move towards a safer and more trustworthy development, adoption, and use of digital technologies. The Digital Technologies Programme is intended to fund projects which are either early stage or applied research, hence targeting research between TRL 1 and TRL 7.
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An Information Session will be held on 19 April 2024, 13:00 to 14:30 CET, click here to register.
Source of Funding: Malta Council for Science and Technology
The Joint Call on Consequences of Changing Marine Lightscapes is now officially open, aiming to address critical gaps in our understanding of the drivers and ecological impacts of changing marine lightscapes resulting from both Coastal Darkening and Artificial Light at Night.
This initiative, supported by seven Funding Partners, including the Malta Council for Science and Technology, will provide funding to R&I projects focusing on the following key areas:
Entities based in Malta are eligible to request up to € 200,000 in funding so that together with their consortium they can submit a proposal (N.B. if more than one National partner is present in one consortium, the total amount of funding for the participating National partners cannot exceed the € 200,000 capping).
Visit the below link to download call guidelines and application forms.
Source of Funding: Procure4Health
What activities are funded?
Twinnings aim to transfer knowledge and experience around the use of a product or service, process or methodology, strategy or a procurement business model.
Twinning applicants shall submit their application electronically via the Procure4Health online community platform.
This call is open in a cut-off deadline format:
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Source of Funding: Malta Council for Science and Technology
The Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) launched the 4th MCST-TÜBİTAK 2024 Joint Call for R&I Proposals to support cooperation in Science, Technology, and Innovation in the following thematic areas:
Malta-based entities and Türkiye-based entities are invited to jointly apply for funding to undertake a R&I project in these thematic areas.
This Call involves a one-stage submission process, and the complete submission documentation needs to be received by the 14th June 2024 (23:59 CET).
Visit the below link to download the guidelines and application forms.
MCST has organised an online information session on the 17th April 2024 for Malta-based stakeholders, where an overview of the Joint Call, National Rules, Submission Documents, and Partner Search has been provided.
You can now view the recording of this session here:
For any queries, feel free to contact MCST at prima.mcst@gov.mt or call +356 23602175-23602152.
Cascade funding is a simple, direct and administrative-less mechanism the European.
Commission has brought forward to support smaller players in the innovation arena.
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Deadline of calls: variates from call to call