2nd Open Call for Innovation Experiments

agROBOfood builds upon its existing network and ecosystem and uses the mechanism of Open Calls to provide financial support to third parties, in order to accelerate network expansion, driven by the robotics community and the European agrifood sector. Two types of Open Calls are foreseen – two Open Calls for Innovation Experiments and one Open Call for Industrial Challenges.

2nd Open Call for Innovation Experiments

Topics for Innovation Experiments

Agricultural Robotics for Crop Production

Food Supply Chain Robotics

Livestock Robotics

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants need to be SMEs.
Applicants need to apply as a consortium of 2-5 partners.
Consortiums must consist of at least one end user and one technology provider.
The coordinating SME needs to have a valid VAT number.
The solution provided must be based on robotic technologies.
The solution provided must address a problem of the agri-food sector.
Proposals shall only ask for funding for that part of the work that is not yet accomplished
and will be carried out after having been selected for funding.
Current agROBOfood beneficiaries (OC1 & IC beneficiaries), IAB members
and agROBOfood partners, as well as consortium members are not eligible.
The consortium must have contact with the regional DIH (contact list below).
The proposal is delivered before the defined deadline, applying the requested submission procedure.

Open Call Documentation

Funding schema of 2nd Open Call

Open Call Timeline

FAQ

For more information please refer to our frequnetly asked questions section here. The section is updated on a frequent basis to include your questions.

Contact Info

Name	Contact person	European countries
Cluster Leader	Erik Pekkeriet	All Clusters
North East Europe	Jacob Kortbek	Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus
North West Europe	Erik Pekkeriet	The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, United Kingdom, Ireland
France & Italy	Farzam Ranjbaran	France, Italy
Iberia (South West)	Jesús Pablo González	Spain, Portugal
Central Eastern Europe	Marko Prokin	Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro
Central North Europe	Ahmad Issa	Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary
East Mediterranean Europe	Michael Koutsiaras	Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel

Key Information of this Open Call

Category	Description
Call Title	2nd Open Call on Innovation Experiments
Call Identifier	Innovation Experiments
Description	Open Call 2 aims at selecting approximately six (6) Innovation Experiments that tackle a commercial need within agri-food and offer a solution based on robotic technologies.
Type of open call	NA
Publication Date	1st March 2021
Deadline	31st May 2021, 17:00 CET
Maximum amount of financial support for each project	500.000 Euros
Expected duration of project	September 2021 to January 2023
Target applicants	Consortia of SMEs
Type of applicants	Consortia

AGRIFOOD ROBOTICS

agROBOfood builds the European ecosystem for the effective adoption of robotics technologies in the European agri-food sector and accelerates the digital transformation to make the European agri-food sector more efficient and competitive.

ABOUT PROJECT

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nº 825395.

CONTACT US

Do you have questions about agROBOfood? Get in touch with us! Send us an email at info@agrobofood.eu
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