DISRUPTIVE ASSETS MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS, INCLUDING URBAN USE CASES
European Comission
ExpectedOutcome :
Building upon the work delivered by IP3 in S2R and other research and innovation activities, the Project stemming from this topic shall ensure the innovative/disruptive aspect of proposed Technologies / Use cases thanks to a thorough state of the art of existing solutions and on-going R&I activities. The project shall not undertake any (similar) activities currently implemented in the context of FP3-IAM4RAIL as describe in the project deliverable D2.6 – Definition of Use Cases, including Innovation, Business Assessment, KPIs definition and roadmap (first issue)[1]. More specifically, no robotic/unmanned application shall be considered as use case.
The Project stemming from this topic is expected to deliver relevant environment validation of three innovative demonstrators of innovative:
- assets monitoring solutions and/or
- inspections solutions and/or
- remotely controlled interventions solutions.
Among the proposed demonstrators, at least two urban specific use cases (metro/tramway/…) shall be addressed.
Scope :
Rail asset management is a key area to enhance via research and innovation, especially as more rail services will be needed to solve existing challenges and meet societal demands, following EU guidelines such as the Green Deal. The objective of the project is to enhance the capability for monitoring/inspection solutions evolving towards non-invasive and self-diagnostic systems with no or minimal service disruptions and/or remotely controlled interventions, through the usage of innovative/disruptive technologies concerning data acquisition, data analysis and maintenance decision making.
In order to fulfil the expected demonstration outputs, research activities should detail specific, tangible and suitable use cases illustrating the impact of the technologies in concrete solutions. While the innovative/disruptive aspect of the technologies implementation choice shall be considered, the definition of the use cases shall ensure a possible deployment of the outcomes. Those proposed innovative solutions should contribute to a significant improvement in reliability, availability, maintainability and safety of the system or work conditions versus state of the art.
Interactions with other EU-RAIL projects and EU-Missions
The action to be funded under this topic shall take into account the outputs of linked projects from EU-RAIL Flagship Area 3[2] and work together for any potential interfaces.
Gender dimension
In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content is not a mandatory requirement.
Specific Topic Conditions :
Activities are expected to be at TRL 4/5, higher TRL are possible – see General Annex B for a guide to the TRL definitions and criteria to be used.
[1]https://projects.rail-research.europa.eu/eurail-fp3/deliverables/
General conditions
- Admissibility conditions: described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes
The page limit of the application is as follows:
Regarding admissibility conditions and related requirements, part A of the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-2024 General Annexes applies, with the following exception: the limit for a full Innovation Action application is set to 70 pages.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System
- Eligible countries: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide .
Other eligibility conditions: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes
Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes
Evaluation and award:
- Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes
The award criteria included in the General Annexes of the Horizon Europe – Work Programme 2023-2024 are complemented with additional criteria as specified in Annex VIII to this Work Programme.
- Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual
The granting authority can fund a maximum of one project.
- Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes
- Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes
The starting date of grants awarded under this topic may be as of the submission date of the application. Applicants must justify the need fora retroactive starting date in their application. Costs incurred from the starting date of the action may be considered eligible.
Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025). [[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf]].
As specified in section 2.3.8.1 of the WP 2023-2024, in order to facilitate the contribution to the achievement of the EU-Rail objectives, the options regarding 'linked actions' of the EU-Rail Model Grant Agreement and the provisions therein, is enabled in the corresponding EU-Rail Grant Agreements.
The action that is expected to be funded under this topic will be complementary to
- FP3-IAM4RAIL (GA 101101966)
Please note that the list is non-exhaustive as additional Linked Projects may follow at a later stage of the programme implementation to complement the activity.
Specific conditions
- Specific conditions: described in the [specific topic of the Work Programme]
Applicant Private37 Members of the EU-Rail part of consortia responding to this topic should provide in-kind contributions to additional activities to be declared via the template model available on the F&T portal. The amount of total in-kind contributions (i.e. in-kind contributions for operational activities and in-kind contributions for additional activities) should be no less than 1.26338 times the funding request, in aggregate, of these applicant Private Members. Any discrepancy shall be well and duly justified.
In this respect, the grant agreements will set, in principle, annual deliverable on in-kind contributions for the projects selected under this topic, as well as mandatory reporting requirements, for those applicants who are Private Members of EU-Rail.
Indicative project duration: 30 months. This does not preclude submission and selection of a proposal with a different project duration.
Special skills and/or capabilities expected from the Applicant(s): Applicants shall ensure that their proposals and consortium reflect the aggregated expertise to perform the activities and achieve the objectives set by the topic.
Documents
Call documents:
Standard application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System from 4 October 2023
Evaluation form
Model Grant Agreement (ToMGA)
Europe's Rail - Work Programme 2022-2024
Europe's Rail - Master Plan
Europe's Rail - Multi Annual Work Programme
Additional documents:
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2024 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2024 – 13. General Annexes
HE Framework Programme and Rules for Participation Regulation 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
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