MASTER 2nd Open Call

Objectif

The objective of the 2nd Open Call for Applicants is to attract the best candidates able to create educational content and validate the platform, as well as the technologies developed in the project, with students (schools or professional training services).

The 2nd Open Call will request applicants to address and solve any of the proposed challenges, or to propose their own challenge, within the scope of the MASTER project.

Critères d'éligibilité

Beneficiaries of the Open Call programme could be SMEs, large for-profit companies and institutions providing education or content creation services and that can guarantee the participation of the end users, namely any type of students.

The micro-consortia are expected to be composed by a single or more entities, where at least one entity applying to the programme should be a non-profit educational institution as described above.

There is the possibility to form a micro-consortium combining an education institution with an SME or large company, but the latter must be partners and not coordinators.

Only the legal entities established in the EU Member States or countries associated to Horizon Europe will be eligible.

Technologies clés

What challenges can be addressed in the applications for this Open Call?

• Industrial applications
o EC – 1: Creation of machine tending applications
o EC – 2: Creation of line following robot applications
o EC – 3: Robot-assisted quality inspection
o EC – 4: XR for collaborative robot programming

• Get to Know the Robots
o EC – 5: Understanding the robot reference systems
o EC – 6: Develop educational material focused on HRC for the general public
o EC – 7: Simulating robotic maintenance procedures
o EC – 8: Safety in human-robot collaboration

• Open Challenge – Innovative applications on training of industrial robotics
o EC – 9: Introduction of AI on training of industrial robotics
o EC – 10: XR for remote and inclusive robotics education
o EC – 11: Multimodal interaction for XR-based robotics training
o EC – 12: Gamification of robotics training in XR

Typologie de consortium

There are several good reasons why an educational institute should apply to the 2nd Open Call:
• You will have the opportunity to bring your own challenges and have them tested first-hand.
• You will give access to your students to new innovative tools.
• As a micro-consortium you can receive financial support up to € 100K for innovative proposals. 100% for educational institutes (non-profit organisations), 70% for SMEs.
• You will be able to showcase your work in the community and access innovative tools together
with other members.

Partners from the MASTER consortium will provide technical and educational mentoring to each
application during the whole execution period.

The execution of winning projects proposed by third
parties (Applications) will last for 9 months.