Européen
COP-PILOT Open Call 1
COP-PILOT is developing a Collaborative Open Platform (COP) designed for robust, end-to-end service orchestration across complex, heterogeneous environments that span the IoT-to-edge-to-core compute continuum. The platform’s primary goal is to enable the deployment of secure, intelligent, and automated applications that operate across multiple administrative domains and industrial sectors. This framework is being validated through large-scale piloting clusters in the following clusters:
⚫ CL1. Business Integration in Mining
⚫ CL2. Smart Sustainable IoT Solutions
⚫ CL3a. AgriTech Transformation & Sustainability
⚫ CL3e. Edge Intelligence for Grid Reliability
⚫ CL4. Smart Vineyards & Sustainable Winery Ecosystems
To accelerate market uptake, broaden the platform’s capabilities, and foster a mature European supply chain, COP-PILOT is engaging third-party innovators, with primary focus on SMEs and
startups, through Open Calls. Participants in these calls are expected to design, integrate, and validate their own innovative services and applications or integrate new domains and functionalities to existing piloting clusters. By leveraging the COP-PILOT framework, successful applicants will test their solutions against real-world industrial challenges, demonstrate new cross-sector applications, and contribute to the platform’s growing ecosystem.
IoT-to-edge-to-core technologies
FUNDING AVAILABLE:
⚫ Total Available Budget: €1,600,000
⚫ Maximum Funding per Project: €200,000
⚫ Expected Funded Projects: 8 (min 1 and max 2 per cluster)
⚫ Funding Rate: 100% of eligible costs (check section 6)
PROJECT DURATION
⚫ Standard: 8 months execution + 2 months for reporting
⚫ Expected start: July 2026 (after evaluation)
Eligible applicants are Single SME or SME-led consortia of at least 2 partners no maximum and don’t need to be from different countries.
While the leading partner must be an SME, the other eligible partners can be as defined below:
✓Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
✓ Large enterprises
✓ Research institutions and universities
✓ Non-profit organizations
✓ Public entities (where permitted)
Organizations must be registered in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country.

