The H2020 project InterConnect launches its first Open Call on Interoperable-by-design Prototypes to support ICT/Energy SMEs and Startups to develop and test novel Interoperable applications or services for smart homes and grids, with a clear societal and economic value:

• Developed by small and innovative ICT players (SMEs including start-ups).
• Leverage the interoperable marketplace toolbox* developed by InterConnect.
• Support the project’s validation of the SAREF’s semantic interoperability* approach, seeking its adoption by a wider ecosystem of stakeholders, hence ensuring easier integration of new devices and services as well as helping market acceptance.
• Aim to build a more comfortable and healthier living space at lower costs and enable their active participation in the energy system and market.

 

Interconnect will select up to 14 Bottom-up projects will develop and test novel Interoperable applications or services for smart homes and grids, with a clear societal and economic value, on top of the Interconnect’s Interoperability framework. These highly innovative projects should aim to build a more comfortable and healthier living space at lower costs and enable their active participation in the energy system and market.

 

What are the Challenges?

 

• Challenge A – Semantic Interoperability for smart homes and buildings: Solutions focused on building semantically interoperable services and ecosystems between different energy and non-energy systems within a building.
• Challenge B – Interoperable services for Demand Side Flexibility: Solutions focused on demand side flexibility and its cross-domain dimensions.
• Challenge C – Semantically Interoperable services for Smart grids and energy communities: Solutions focused more towards wider energy systems and energy communities.
• Challenge D – Semantically interoperable services for electric mobility: Solutions focused on EVs and charging stations.
• Challenge E – Semantically Interoperable services for energy marketplaces and incentive mechanisms: Solutions focused on the business dimension of the energy and cross-domain challenges.

 

 

The beneficiaries selected will receive financial support, up to 150.000 € per project, and 7 months Customized Support Programme, complete with technical specialists and business mentors that will guide the participants to ensure the proper implementation and successful integration of their solutions into the project’s marketplace. Beneficiaries will develop the new interoperable by design application, based on the interoperable framework. It will be tested with end-users in the InterConnect Pilots to get a final stable version (TRL 7 or 8).

 

This call is aimed at SMEs and Startups registered in a Member State of the EU and its Overseas Countries Territories and/or in the Associated Countries to H2020.

 

The eligible candidates can submit their applications through the FundingBox platform microsite created for this purpose by filling up an easy online application form by 26/07/2022 (17:00 Brussels Time). 

 

The applicants can access a dedicated Open Call Helpdesk by joining the InterConnect Community. Find all the information in a nutshell on the Guide for Applicants and the Frequently Asked Questions which are regularly updated while this Open Call is running.

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