GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The COVID-19 crisis highlighted the importance of digital technologies and infrastructures as vital societal assets. European space technologies have demonstrated to be instrumental to a large number of activities.

By leveraging EGNSS services including their differentiators (OSNMA, HAS, RLS, CAS etc.), proposals should develop applications and technologies that focus on commercial exploitation in one of the following priority areas:

• Development of downstream commercial applications, which foster the creation of cities built around its citizens, developed on efficient mobility solutions, environmentally-friendly and energetically-efficient. It may also cover the development of automated solutions for personal assistance, healthcare, support to the elderly, city dashboards, or applied robotics and/or applications that boost the green, safe and digital transition of the construction industry;
• Development of downstream solutions based on Galileo, EGNOS and Copernicus (if relevant), combined with connectivity/5G and SATCOM and cutting-edge digital technology to enable more efficient and resilient solutions for tomorrow’s society. The solutions shall address the challenge of higher reliance on the capacity provided by the existing infrastructures (Energy, Telecom, Finance, Insurance etc.), the increased use of remote resources and remote work modality and the awareness of the associated cyber-threats. It may also cover applications for claims assessment (insurance), or timestamping of transactions (finance), as well as commodities trading and risk assessment. With a view to the energy, communication and banking applications, proposals could develop solutions for the certification of GNSS based timing equipment. With regard to the energy sector, particular emphasis could be put on ideas enabling an increased share of electricity from renewable sources (e.g. monitoring and forecasting of electricity generation from wind and solar power).

Proposals could, if applicable, integrate other data sources or services, in particular, where relevant, in combination with Copernicus.

Underpinning technologies may include metaverse and/or Digital Twins (DT) for cities, industries or Critical Infrastructures, tele-presence tools, wearables, AR/VR, secure interconnected IoT networks, sensor integration, technologies allowing seamless indoor-outdoor navigation, solutions for autonomous mobility, integrated secure fleet and objects (e.g. parcels, containers etc.) management systems, new cyber-security paradigms based on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) or Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) etc.