GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The proposals should address the organisation of a technological challenge on HLT based on the preliminary evaluation plan provided as part of the call document (cf. Annex 4). This includes the collection, annotation and distribution of data, and the writing of the evaluation plans.

Types of activities:

• Activities that aim to create, underpin and improve knowledge, products and technologies, including disruptive technologies, which can achieve significant effects in the area of defence (generating knowledge).
• Activities that aim to increase interoperability and resilience, including secured production and exchange of data, to master critical defence technologies, to strengthen the security of supply or to enable the effective exploitation of results for defence products and technologies (integrating knowledge).

The proposals must cover at least the following tasks as part of the mandatory activities:

• setting-up of the infrastructures for testing HLT systems in the framework of the technological challenge;
• collection and annotation of data, quality assessment, distribution and curation of databases;
• organisation of the evaluation campaigns, and in particular;
  • coordination of the exchanges with the participating teams and any other relevant stakeholders on the evaluation plans and elaboration of these plans;
  • management of the experimental test campaigns and of the objective measurements of the performances of the systems submitted to the tests by the participating teams according to the protocols and metrics described in the evaluation plans;
  • organisation of the debriefing workshops.

A user board consisting of representative defence users should be set up and involved in the preparation of the evaluation plans and of the data. Data should be representative of use cases of interest for defence, such as peacekeeping operations, ISR and C2.