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1 EN. Horizon 2020. Work Programme 2018-2020 . Information and Communication Technologies IMPORTANT NOTICE ON THIS WORK Programme . This Work Programme covers 2018, 2019 and 2020. The parts of the Work Programme that relate to 2020 (topics, dates, budget) have, with this revised version, been updated. The changes relating to this revised part are explained on the Funding & Tenders Portal. ( European Commission Decision C(2020)4029 of 17 June 2020). Horizon 2020 - Work Programme 2018-2020 . Information and Communication Technologies Table of contents introduction .. 6. Call - Information and Communication Technologies .. 10. artificial intelligence and Technologies for Digitising European Industry and Economy .. 10. ICT-46-2020: Robotics in Application Areas and Coordination & Support .. 11. ICT-47-2020: Research and Innovation boosting promising robotics applications .. 14. ICT-48-2020: Towards a vibrant European network of AI excellence centres .. 16. ICT-49-2020: artificial intelligence on demand platform.

2 20. ICT-38-2020: artificial intelligence for manufacturing .. 22. ICT-36-2020: Disruptive photonics technologies .. 24. ICT-37-2020: Advancing photonics technologies and application driven photonics components and the innovation ecosystem .. 25. ICT-50-2020: Software Technologies .. 27. ICT-01-2019: Computing technologies and engineering methods for cyber-physical systems of systems .. 30. ICT-02-2018: Flexible and Wearable Electronics .. 31. ICT-03-2018-2019: Photonics Manufacturing Pilot Lines for Photonic Components and Devices .. 33. ICT-04-2018: Photonics based manufacturing, access to photonics, datacom photonics and connected lighting .. 34. ICT-05-2019: Application driven Photonics components .. 36. ICT-06-2019: Unconventional Nanoelectronics .. 39. ICT-07-2018: Electronic Smart Systems (ESS) .. 41. ICT-08-2019: Security and resilience for collaborative manufacturing environments .. 43. ICT-09-2019-2020: Robotics in Application Areas .. 44. ICT-10-2019-2020: Robotics Core Technology.

3 47. European Data Infrastructure: HPC, Big Data and Cloud technologies .. 48. ICT-51-2020: Big Data technologies and extreme-scale analytics .. 48. ICT-40-2020: Cloud Computing: towards a smart cloud computing continuum .. 50. ICT-11-2018-2019: HPC and Big Data enabled Large-scale Test-beds and Applications .. 52. ICT-12- 2018-2020 : Big Data technologies and extreme-scale analytics .. 54. ICT-13-2018-2019: Supporting the emergence of data markets and the data economy .. 55. ICT-15-2019-2020: Cloud 57. ICT-16-2018: Software Technologies .. 59. 5G .. 61. ICT-52-2020: 5G PPP Smart Connectivity beyond 5G .. 62. ICT-41-2020: 5G PPP 5G innovations for verticals with third party 64. Part - Page 2 of 197. Horizon 2020 - Work Programme 2018-2020 . Information and Communication Technologies ICT-42-2020: 5G PPP 5G core technologies innovation .. 65. ICT-53-2020: 5G PPP 5G for Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) .. 67. ICT-17-2018: 5G End to End 69. ICT-18-2018: 5G for cooperative, connected and automated mobility (CCAM).

4 70. ICT-19-2019: Advanced 5G validation trials across multiple vertical industries .. 71. ICT-20-2019-2020: 5G Long Term 74. ICT-21-2018: EU-US Collaboration for advanced wireless platforms .. 75. ICT-22-2018: EU-China 5G 76. ICT-23-2019: EU-Taiwan 5G collaboration .. 78. Next Generation Internet (NGI) .. 79. ICT-54-2020: Blockchain for the Next Generation Internet .. 80. ICT-55-2020: Interactive Technologies .. 83. ICT-56-2020: Next Generation Internet of Things .. 84. ICT-57-2020: An empowering, inclusive Next Generation Internet .. 86. ICT-44-2020: Next Generation Media .. 87. ICT-24-2018-2019: Next Generation Internet - An Open Internet Initiative .. 90. ICT-25- 2018-2020 : Interactive Technologies .. 94. ICT-26- 2018-2020 : artificial intelligence .. 96. ICT-27- 2018-2020 : Internet of Things .. 98. ICT-28-2018: Future Hyper-connected Sociality .. 99. ICT-29-2018: A multilingual Next Generation Internet .. 101. ICT-30-2019-2020: An empowering, inclusive Next Generation Internet.

5 103. ICT-31-2018-2019: EU-US collaboration on NGI .. 105. Cross-cutting activities .. 106. ICT-45-2020: Reinforcing European presence in international ICT standardisation: Standardisation Observatory and Support 106. ICT-32-2018: STARTS The Arts stimulating 108. ICT-33-2019: Startup Europe for Growth and Innovation Radar .. 110. ICT-34-2018-2019: Pre-Commercial Procurement open .. 112. ICT-35-2018: Fintech: Support to experimentation frameworks and regulatory compliance .. 113. International Cooperation activities .. 114. ICT-58-2020: International partnership building between European and African innovation hubs .. 114. Conditions for the Call - Information and Communication Technologies .. 117. Call - Digitising and transforming European industry and services: digital innovation hubs and platforms .. 124. introduction .. 124. Part - Page 3 of 197. Horizon 2020 - Work Programme 2018-2020 . Information and Communication Technologies Support to Hubs .. 124. DT-ICT-03-2020: I4MS (phase 4) - uptake of digital game changers.

6 126. DT-ICT-04-2020: Photonics Innovation Hubs .. 128. DT-ICT-05-2020: Big Data Innovation Hubs .. 129. DT-ICT-01-2019: Smart Anything Everywhere .. 131. DT-ICT-02-2018: Robotics - Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH) .. 133. DT-ICT-06-2018: Coordination and Support Activities for Digital Innovation Hub network .. 135. Platforms and Pilots .. 135. DT-ICT-09-2020: Boost rural economies through cross-sector digital service platforms. 138. DT-ICT-12-2020: AI for the smart hospital of the future .. 140. DT-ICT-07-2018-2019: Digital Manufacturing Platforms for Connected Smart Factories .. 142. DT-ICT-08-2019: Agricultural digital integration platforms .. 144. DT-ICT-10-2018-19: Interoperable and smart homes and grids .. 146. DT-ICT-11-2019: Big data solutions for 148. DT-ICT-13-2019: Digital Platforms/Pilots Horizontal Activities .. 150. Conditions for the Call - Digitising and transforming European industry and services: digital innovation hubs and platforms .. 152. Call - Cybersecurity.

7 155. SU-ICT-01-2018: Dynamic countering of cyber-attacks .. 156. SU-ICT-02-2020: Building blocks for resilience in evolving ICT systems .. 158. SU-ICT-03-2018: Establishing and operating a pilot for a Cybersecurity Competence Network to develop and implement a common Cybersecurity Research & Innovation 160. SU-ICT-04-2019: Quantum Key Distribution testbed .. 164. Conditions for the Call - Cybersecurity .. 166. Call - EU-Japan Joint Call .. 168. EUJ-01-2018: Advanced technologies (Security/Cloud/IoT/BigData) for a hyper-connected society in the context of Smart City .. 168. EUJ-02-2018: 5G and beyond .. 169. Conditions for the Call - EU-Japan Joint Call .. 171. Call - EU-Korea Joint Call .. 175. EUK-01-2018: Cloud, IoT and AI technologies .. 175. EUK-02-2018: 5G .. 176. Part - Page 4 of 197. Horizon 2020 - Work Programme 2018-2020 . Information and Communication Technologies Conditions for the Call - EU-Korea Joint Call .. 177. Other actions .. 181. 1. External expertise.

8 181. 2. Digital Assembly Events 2018, 2019 and 2020 .. 181. 3. ICT conferences, studies and other activities .. 181. 4. EUROSTAT .. 183. 5. Framework Partnership Agreement in European low-power microprocessor technologies (Phase 1) .. 183. 6. Fostering transnational cooperation between National Contact Points (NCP) in the area of ICT: follow-up project .. 185. 7. "Digital Opportunity" pilot scheme .. 188. 8. Inducement prize: Tactile Displays for the Visually Impaired .. 189. 9. Inducement prize: Online security Seamless personal authentication .. 190. 10. Inducement prize: Zero Power Water Infrastructure Monitoring .. 190. 11. Eurochain: Developing a European Public Blockchain Infrastructure that builds on the European legal framework .. 190. 12. InnovFin artificial intelligence and Blockchain .. 191. 13. Assessment of deployment and access-to-finance conditions in artificial intelligence and Blockchain .. 192. 14. Support for the deployment of innovative robotics solutions in healthcare.

9 193. Budget .. 195. Part - Page 5 of 197. Horizon 2020 - Work Programme 2018-2020 . Information and Communication Technologies introduction Europe should step up its research activities in the areas building on the promising digital technologies which offer a significant competitive boost for our economies and respond to key societal challenges. For the 2020 Work Programme , the areas of artificial intelligence (AI), key technologies for digital transformation from photonics to software, advanced and smart connectivity with the emerging 5G, and Next Generation Internet including distributed ledger technologies and Blockchain are prioritised. The actions foreseen in this work Programme are strategic stepping stones in the direction of the next framework and will support Europe to take a bold lead in digital technologies by 2030. They also build ground for wide-spread deployment of digital technologies and thus provide means to respond to the challenge of digital transformation in line with the objectives of the proposed Digital Europe Programme .

10 The following technological areas cut across the different themes/topics: artificial intelligence : AI is transforming our economies, societies and industry. Growth in computing power, availability of data and progress in algorithms have turned AI into one of the most strategic technologies of the 21st century. The stakes could not be higher. The way we approach AI will define the world we live in. Amid fierce global competition, the EU. should be ahead of technological developments in AI and ensure that AI applications are swiftly taken up across its economy. This implies stepping up investments to reinforce and ensure closer cooperation between European AI excellence centres around agendas fixed together with industry. It also implies investment in R&I to bring rapidly the benefits of AI. and robotics to all key sectors from manufacturing to health going through automotive and agriculture. The Work Programme dedicate close to 400 M to AI and robotics related activities including in addition to R&D, an emphasis notably on testing and experimentation and access to data with large scale pilots such as for smart hospitals and automated driving and with Innovation Hubs targeting SMEs.