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3rd 6G-XR Open Call - Vertical Replicability enablers

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Description

In this third wave of Open Calls, third parties are invited to submit projects that qualify for receiving financial support that leverage 6G-XR’s enablers, infrastructure facilities and testbeds to deploy, replicate and validate the verticals of their interest. This is strongly aligned with, and enabled by, key expected outcomes of the project: modular, flexible and interoperable enablers to replicate and/or realize any service, application or vertical of interest, beyond the internal 6G-XR validation use cases; and comprehensive and accurate modules for determining cross-layer performance- and value-oriented metrics, and smart orchestration and decision making to trigger efficient adaptations. Candidate media / XR services for selection include but are not limited to: (i) novel delivery paradigms (e.g., one-to-many, many-to-many) for traditional and immersive media; (ii) metaverse-like services; (iii) gaming-like services; (iv) interactive and distributed AR/XR/VR services; (v) adaptation of classical audio-visual services to assess the benefits of 6G(-XR) technology. The infrastructures are divided between the North and South Node. There are also some themes that are relevant to both nodes, such as ArtificiaI intelligence. In addition, 6G-XR has identified some verticals that are considered complimentary to the internally developed Use Cases and can serve as examples of verticals that are welcome to this Open Call within the South Node: 6G-XR-OC3-TOP1.1: Full-fledged multimedia platforms / services providing new encoding and streaming solutions for Holographic Communications [Mentor: VICOM, i2CAT] 6G-XR-OC3-TOP1.2: Training and education, by using immersive platforms that support rich interaction and collaboration between distributed users [Mentor: i2CAT] 6G-XR-OC3-TOP1.3: Culture visits and events, by using immersive platforms that support real-time tele-portation to a virtual place or an event, and rich interaction therein. [Mentor: i2CAT] 6G-XR-OC3-TOP1.4: Smart Industry / Spaces, by using immersive platforms that support rich data sharing, manipulation of digital twins, and/or remote collaboration. [Mentor: i2CAT] 6G-XR-OC3-TOP1.5: Interactive multiuser multi-sensory experiences, by integrating multiple data modalities beyond audio and video. [Mentor: i2CAT] 6G-XR-OC3-TOP1.6: Energy immersive platforms for virtual testing and evaluation [Mentor: CGE] 6G-XR-OC3-TOP1.7: Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) in micro-mobility scenarios. [Mentor: i2CAT] For the purpose of this 3rd Open Call, 6G-XR has identified some verticals that are considered complimentary to the internally developed Use Case 4: Collaborative 3D Digital Twin-like Environment within the North Node: 6G-XR-OC3-TOP2.1: Simulation and prediction; Prototyping simulation, Predictive maintenance in Industry. [Mentor: UOULU] 6G-XR-OC3-TOP2.2: Training and Education; Operational training, remote collaborative operations in education, medicals. [Mentor: UOULU] 6G-XR-OC3-TOP2.3: Visualization and data sharing; visualization of complex system and environment, real-time data dashboard in smart media, smart city, smart agriculture. [Mentor: UOULU] For the purpose of this 3rd Open Call, 6G-XR has identified some verticals that are considered complimentary to the internally developed Use Case 5: Energy Measurement Framework for Energy Sustainability within the North Node: 6G-XR-OC3-TOP3.1: Utilization of open data in the optimization of RAN energy usage [Mentor: UOULU, VTT] 6G-XR-OC3-TOP3.2: End-to-end energy budgeting for the sustainable mobile network infrastructure [Mentor: UOULU, VTT] 6G-XR-OC3-TOP3.3: Visualization of mobile network measurement data [Mentor: UOULU, VTT] 6G-XR-OC3-TOP3.4: Calibrations, validations, and verification of energy measurement data [Mentor: VTT] In addition to the previous complementary verticals directly related to the 5 internal Use Cases, 6G-XR has identified an cross-cutting theme that extends beyond the internally developed use cases: Artificial Intelligence. Applicants are welcome to submit proposals for both the South and North nodes. 6G-XR-OC3-TOP4.1: AI supervised manufacturing (UOULU Mentor UOULU, VTT, CGE, I2CAT) 6G-XR-OC3-TOP4.2: Distributed AI for Energy [Mentor: CGE] However, this third and final Open Call welcomes any other vertical or different Use Cases under any other relevant vertical under topic 6G-XR-OC3-TOP5.1: Open vertical replicability [Mentor: Based on the selected infrastructure] Please note that a minimum of one and a maximum of four proposals will be funded per infrastructure. The use of an alternative infrastructure may be negotiated if the chosen infrastructure is unavailable/unbalanced in terms of available resources.

Beneficiary & submission

Before submitting the proposal, please download and carefully read the provided documentation and templates through the link below:

https://www.6g-xr.eu/open-calls/oc3/

The proposal must be submitted in English and through the 6G-XR online form that is located on the same page.

All form fields should be filled with no exceptions.

A Feasibility Check is required before submission. Proposers MUST submit their draft proposal by Friday 10 January 2025 @17:00 CET (for more details see Section 4.4).

Once the deadline for submitting a proposal is reached, the call will be closed, and the evaluation process will start. The duration of the evaluation of the proposals and approval by the EU is planned to be kept within 1,5 months. The outcome of the evaluation will be communicated to the proposers via email as soon as the process is completed. The notification will include a report of the evaluation process where for each criterion the score and the motivation of the evaluators will be reported.

It is highly recommended to submit your proposal well before the deadline. If the proposer discovers an error in their submitted proposal, and provided that the call deadline has not passed, the proposer can re-submit it (for this purpose please contact us at opencalls@6g-xr.eu).

Failure of the proposal to arrive within the deadline for any reason, including network communications delays or working from multiple browsers or multiple browser windows, is not acceptable as an extenuating circumstance.

Selected experiments can start at the earliest on End April 2025. Please note that a later start may imply a shorter experiment.

The Open Call proposers are encouraged to contact the 6G-XR consortium and share their intentions in order to verify the feasibility of their proposals to be implemented in the scope of the project. The Feasibility Check will be carried out by the 6G-XR consortium partners acting as Mentor organisations with the support of other partners as needed. The description of the experimental facilities in Section 2 of this document provides insights of the state and targets of each of the facilities and hence proposals should adhere to those targets. Initial feedback will be provided for the proposed planned activities. In order to be eligible and receive feedback, a description of planned experiment (sections A, B, C and J of the proposal template) must be submitted through the 6G-XR Open Call Submission Tool on the project’s website by the designated deadline https://6g-xr.eu/open-calls/oc3/. Under the tab ‘Stage’, please select the option ‘Feasibility Check’ in order to submit your proposal for a Feasibility Check.

If you have submitted your proposal under the ‘Feasibility Check’ option, it will not be considered as a final submission and will not be evaluated.

Actual Feasibility Check of the proposal will be conducted after the submission deadline.

The proposals for final submission shall be submitted through the 6G-XR Open Call Submission Tool on the project’s website by the designated deadline https://6g-xr.eu/open-calls/oc3/ under the ‘Stage’ tab, select ‘Final Submission’.

A proposal will be considered eligible for the 3rd 6G-XR Open Call if it complies will ALL the following rules:

  • The proposal is submitted by a legal entity established and based in one of the EU Member States or a Horizon Europe Associated country. The targeted organisations in this Call are (i) SMEs; (ii) Industry; (iii) Research/scientific organisation; (iv) Academia.
  • The proposal is submitted by a single party. The submission of proposals by consortia is not eligible.
  • The proposer CANNOT BE AFFILIATED TO ANY OF THE CONSORTIUM PARTNERS OF THE 6G-XR PROJECT.
  • The proposal complies with the type of activity qualified for financial support: (i) Personnel costs; (ii) Travel costs (including travel for a live demo at the end of the project); (iii) Indirect costs (25% of the direct costs). No other cost categories are eligible.
  • The proposal is submitted in English.
  • The proposal is submitted through the official Open Call Submission Tool on the 6G-XR website providing all the required documents (completed proposal template and declaration of honour).
  • Feasibility Check submission is mandatory, and for Feasibility Check must include at least the following sections:
    1. Section A Project Summary,
    2. Section B Detailed description and expected results,
    3. Section C Usage of 6G-XR research infrastructures,
    4. Section J Ethical and Privacy Framework) before the Feasibility check deadline.

Proposals failing submission for feasibility will not be evaluated.

  • The proposal has been submitted within the deadline set in this document. Late proposals will not be admitted.
  • The proposal complies with the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) regarding all personal data that might be included in the proposal.

Proposals submitted by Parties meeting the requirements will be further evaluated according to the following criteria:

  1. Clarity and methodology: Soundness of the approach and credibility of the proposed methodology
  2. Ambition: Advancement regard the state-of-the-art and expected output.
  3. Impact: Technology and domain fit to 6G-XR scope and objectives.
  4. Replicability of the proposed solution.
  5. Contribution to standardisation of the proposed solution.
  6. Team capacity to perform; knowledge, technological and business expertise; commitment; research domain & track-record.
  7. Value for money: quality and effectiveness of the requested resources.
  8. SME participation is encouraged.
  9. Gender dimension awareness requested to the proposers.
  10. Maturity/trajectory of the proposing organization/proposed development in the specific field of their proposal.

Further information

Important information is already included in the available 3rd 6G-XR Open Call documents (Information Document, Proposal Template, Declaration of Honour, Draft Third Party Agreement). Please review thoroughly these documents as well as the Frequently Asked Questions section of the 3rd 6G-XR Open Call page.

If the answer to your question cannot be found in the documentation, you can send your question to the following email address: opencalls@6g-xr.eu. In case your question refers to technical details of the offered research infrastructure, you can send your question to the same email address

opencalls@6g-xr.eu, clearly mentioning which infrastructure the question relates to. Questions can be sent at the latest seven calendar days before the submission deadline.

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