The national funding bodies from Sweden, Spain and Germany and the regional research funding body the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) from the state of São Paulo, Brazil, have allocated funding for organisations collaborating on international R&D projects in the fields of smart cities and healthcare, with AI as enabling technology, and industry 4.0.
To note: Sweden is only supporting projects on AI in smart cities and healthcare.
For this call for projects, an organisation can submit its R&D project application between 22 August 2022 and 31 January 2023. Each project consortium must include at least one organisation from São Paulo State in Brazil and one organisation from the participating Eureka countries: Sweden, Spain or Germany. At least one company must be part of the consortium. Multilateral projects with at least one organisation from the São Paulo state in Brazil are also encouraged.
Scope
This project call is for R&D projects within the following mandatory fields:
AI in smart cities
- The city as a platform for data driven innovation
- Digital twins for cities
- AI for city management
- AI for budget and investment management
Focusing on:
- Water and air quality
- Water and sewage management
- Transport and logistics, mobility of people and goods
- Citizen involvement – empowerment
- Contribution to resource efficiency and CO2 reduction
AI in Health
- Sensors, data from sensors (and analysis) in care, care rehab and prevention
- New technology and new ways of working in care
- Empowerment, increase control over one’s health / prevention – combine lifelong learning with lifelong use of technology for empowerment / using technology as support in different ways during different phases of life
- Methods for technology development, user involvement and implementation with companies (within digital health)
- New methods for decision making aimed at boosting efficiency and accuracy for health specialists
Industry 4.0
ICT applications in the industrial context, including innovation in processes and products:
- Decentralised production
- Remote maintenance
- Robotics
- Digitalised control
- Virtualisation
- Industry 4.0 technologies for sustainable production
Your project should address at least one of the fields mentioned and demonstrate the potential to research and develop a product, process or service for commercialisation.
Read all about this new opportunity:
https://www.eurekanetwork.org/open-calls/globalstars-brazil-sao-paulo-2022