EMIL-1

Description

EMIL, the European Media and Immersion Lab, is an Innovation Action co-funded by the European Union and Innovate UK. It is funded under Call “HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-06: Innovation for Media, including eXtended Reality – Part ii”. EMIL is a consortium of four partners. It is being coordinated by Aalto University in Finland and includes Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain and University of Bath in England. EMIL will establish both a physical and a virtual infrastructure for a pan-European laboratory that works to accelerate development of virtual, augmented and mixed reality technolgies, content, services and applications for the media. To achieve this, EMIL will launch and coordinate financial support to third parties (FSTP) through two calls – providing total funding to XR projects of 5.6M EUROS. EMIL will also support the funded projects through the four partners’ research excellence, technological and creative expertise and their wide contact networks. Moreover, each of EMIL’s four partner institutions will demonstrate latest scientific research knowledge through exemplary Lighthouse Projects exhibiting excellence in the partner’s areas of expertise: Narrative Media Production, Smart Garments, Animation, VFX, Embodied Interaction, Digital Cultural Heritage, Digital Health, Motion Capture/Analysis and technological XR development.

Beneficiary & submission

EMIL – the European Media and Immersion Lab project, co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe (HORIZON) programme under grant agreement No 101070533 and The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), foresees as an eligible activity the provision of financial support to third parties, to achieve its own objectives. EMIL invites proposals, especially for areas related to the core competencies of the consortium partners and the four Lighthouse projects that reflect EMIL's expertise and supporting infrastructure. However, XR-project proposals that are not directly related to these four areas will also be considered. Submission will happen through the EMIL website and EasyChair. The submission guideline is available on the EMIL website. The evaluation process of the proposals will be open, and the proposals will be evaluated by a Programme Committee, an external Independent Expert Panel, an Expert Advisory Group and the project's support teams in the EMIL nodes. The General Assembly of the EMIL project will propose the projects for funding and European Commission will publish the information.

Further information

The EMIL website (https://emil-xr.eu) will be the main information channel and will include the latest information of the opening and closing of the calls.