FIDAL
General Information
Opening date
09 September 2024
Deadline model
single-stage
Deadline dates
10 December 2024 17:00 (Brussels time)
Open For Submission
Expected duration of participation
12 months
Total funding available
2 000 000,00 €
Project acronym
FIDAL
Full name of the EU funded project
Field Trials beyond 5G
Grant agreement number
101096146
Topic
HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022-STREAM-D-01-01 – SNS Large Scale Trials and Pilots (LST&Ps) with Verticals
Submission & evaluation process
FIDAL is inviting SMEs, start-ups, research institutes, large enterprises, non-profit entities, groups of entrepreneurs, app developers and infrastructure owners to undertake a set of beyond 5G trials in a multitude of domains compatible with the FIDAL ones:
• Media
• Entertainment
• Emergency Services
• Time critical applications and services
Throughout the project, FIDAL allocates a total budget of € 6,000,000 to provide financial support to the selected applicants divided in two different Open Calls.
The funding rate for selected projects is 100 % of the eligible costs for all types of organizations.
The rate is 100 % for profit-making as well as for non-profit legal entities.
FIDAL allocates around € 2,000,000 for this second Open Call.
The details of the terms and conditions can be found in the Guide for Applicants available here.
Each selected sub-project will run indicatively for a period of 9 months (this indicative period may be changed upon further notice) and receive funding up to €150.000 (under option 1) or €250.000 (under option 2).
Proposers’ organizations can submit multiple proposals; however, only one proposal per organization can be selected for funding in this Open Call.
FIDAL allows two options to the applicants of the Open Call:
1. Submit a single beneficiary proposal for new use case(s) and related field trials using FIDAL experimentation framework, toolkits and Network Applications supported by the existing infrastructures coming from FIDAL initial Consortium.
2. Submit proposals from groups of collaborating and complementary partners to produce new use cases and perform trials using additional services and testing facilities.
Eligibility
The call for applications is accessible to legal entities located in eligible countries. These entities must be established in the Member States of the European Union or associated countries, in line with the rules of Horizon Europe.
Applicants must maintain complete independence from project partners, their affiliated entities, and any controlled companies. Institutions, organizations, or other legal entities funded by or affiliated with a FIDAL partner are ineligible.
With regards to eligibility rules for participation and funding in the Open Calls, the General Annexes to Horizon Europe for the Work Programme 2023-2024 apply.
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.
Submission
Applications should be submitted electronically via the Funding Box tenders portal electronic submission system (Accessible https://fidal.fundingbox.com). Paper submissions are not allowed.
Applications should be submitted using the forms provided inside the Funding Box electronic submission system.
The structure and presentation should be aligned with the instructions outlined in the forms mentioned above.
The evaluation is limited to 40 eligible proposals; the priority is given to earlier submissions as defined by the time stamp of the completion and submission of the proposal. Please note that the time stamp used to determine eligible proposals is related to the proposal’s last submission; previous submissions will be discarded, and their time stamp will be not taken into consideration.
The online Application Form can be completed any time after the launch of the Open Call (9 September 2024) until 10 December 2024 (05:00:00 PM CEST).
The form will be deactivated on 10 December 2024 at 05:00:00 PM CEST.
Evaluation
The following aspects will be considered and evaluated. The criteria that will be evaluated are presented in the following bullet points:
• Capacity of the proposer to perform the field trial (Threshold 3/5; Weight 2).
• Relevance for FIDAL and for 5G evolve Threshold 3/5; Weight 2)
• Industrial and/or scientific innovation (Threshold 3/5; Weight 1).
• Clarity and methodology (Threshold 3/5; Weight 1)
• Impact for market and society (Threshold 3/5; Weight 1)
• Technology expertise, security practices and quality (Threshold 3/5; Weight 1)
All submitted proposals will be evaluated using criteria similar to Horizon Europe. Evaluations will be undertaken through the following three steps:
Initially, each proposal will be assigned to at least two external expert evaluators: these are independent experts not belonging or involved in the FIDAL consortium.
After the individual evaluation stage, the experts will have a consensus telco to agree on a common evaluation text and a score.
Finally, to smooth out any human factors, all evaluators will have a common panel telco together with a project’s representative to rank and shortlist the proposals.