6G-BRICKS 2nd Open Call

Admissibility& Eligibility Criteria:

The rules for participation and funding in the Open Calls are subject to the General Annexes to Horizon Europe for the Work Programme 2023-2024.

o Type of Activity: The use of the 6G-BRICKS Experimental facility is a compulsory requirement for all experimenters.

o Type of 3^rd party: SME and/or RTO and/or Big Company (maximum consortium 2 beneficiaries)

Feasibility check:

The Feasibility Check is a preliminary step in the 6G-BRICKS Open Calls process. Before applicants submit their full proposals, they are required to send a Feasibility Check Form. This form includes a project summary and details about the requested 6G-BRICKS resources. The 6G-BRICKS Open Calls Selection Committee reviews this information to assess the feasibility of the proposed project.

The Feasibility Check is crucial to ensure that proposed projects align with the goals and resources available in the 6G-BRICKS Open Calls. If the project passes the Feasibility Check, applicants are given the green light to submit a full proposal. To perform the feasibility check, a description of the planned experiment must be sent to opencalls@6g-bricks.eu, using the template provided at https://6g-bricks.eu/open-calls/, before the 11^th October 2024.

Submission:

Submissions to the first Open Call will be enabled on July 1^st, 2024, and will end on November 29^th, 2024, at 17:00 CET time.

Selected projects are expected to start on March 1, 2025. All proposal submissions must be made using the 6G-BRICKS open call management platform (www.6g-bricks.eu/open-calls/ ).

The proposals must be submitted by using the mandatory proposal template, available on the project website.

Evaluation:

To conduct evaluations, independent experts outside the 6G-BRICKS consortium will be involved. They will not evaluate proposals where a conflict of interest exists. The independent experts will perform the proposal evaluations, including their rating and ranking, in accordance with the requirements and objectives specified in the Open Call. All submitted proposals will be evaluated using criteria similar to Horizon Europe.

Evaluation of the received proposals, final ranking, and decision on proposals to be funded, including notifications to the proposers, will be completed by the end of January 2025, at the latest.

• Beneficiaries: Beneficiaries must be consortia composed of up to 2 legal entities (SME and/or Big Company and/or RTO) acting as technology providers and/or application providers for use case implementation. All organizations have to be established in any of the EU Member States and their Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or Horizon Europe Associated Country.

6G-BRICKS partners, their affiliates, and employees—including persons working under employment contracts or similar to employment contracts — can NOT be involved in the grantees’ projects, nor can board members.

• Exclusion: Grants will not be awarded in the event of 1. Bankruptcy, winding up, court-administered affairs, creditor arrangements, suspended business activities, or other comparable procedures (including procedures that involve persons who have unlimited liability for the applicant’s debts). 2. Non-compliance with social security or tax obligations (including if such noncompliance is committed by persons with unlimited liability for the applicant’s debts). 3. Commission of grave professional misconduct.
• Countries: EU Member States and their Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or Horizon Europe Associated Countries see here. Following the Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2506, as of 16th December 2022, no legal commitments can be signed with Hungarian public interest trusts established under Hungarian Act IX of 2021 or any entity they maintain.
• Funding Support: Fixed Lump Sum per sub-project. The maximum funding per beneficiary is €60.000 and the maximum funding per sub-project is €120.000. A dedicated allocation of at least 30% of the total budget has been earmarked specifically to support Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).