Through two Open Calls, COSMIC will select up to 27 SMEs (including start-ups) to develop, test, and validate AI-based services and solutions tailored to energy resource optimization.
Successful applicants will integrate their solutions into COSMIC’s AI-driven platforms and participate in large-scale pilots across six European countries (Spain, Belgium, Portugal, France, Ireland, and Finland), ensuring real-world validation and market readiness. The integration of these core and application-oriented technologies will result in Integrated AI Systems (IAIS) for Key Energy Resource Optimization Applications capable of scaling up to cover more key applications.
Each proposal must focus on one of the following 16 specific prioritized challenges:
CH20 Data-Driven Behaviour Modeling
CH21 Energy Literacy Online Game
CH22 Port Power Digital Twin
CH23 Port Energy Investment Simulator
CH24 Port Energy Management System
CH25 GeoAI-Driven Optimization of DHC Networks
CH26 Uncertainty Quantification for DHC Networks modelling
CH27 Digital Twin of WWTP Biological Reactor
CH28 Multi Vector Energy Optimiser in WWTP
CH29 Energy Bill LLM Microservice
CH30 REC Discovery & Onboarding Platform
CH31 AI-driven Social Support Tool
CH32 Maintenance Scheduling Optimizer
CH33 AI – Accelerator for Urban CFD simulations
CH34 Long-Term Prediction Model for Energy Demand
CH35 Energy Community Marketplace
Projects must demonstrate conceptual alignment with the COSMIC Core Technical
Facilitators (CTFs) or Core Social Facilitator (CSF):
● CSF – User engagement and user centric design
● CTF1 – Data standardisation and data preparation modules.
● CTF2 – Big data analytics framework.
● CTF3 – Big data microservice platform for district energy optimisation
● CTF4 – TPEE Data-driven web platform for optimal energy management for multi-storey
buildings
● CTF5 – HEMS Home Energy Management System
● CTF6 – RECreation platform for managing Renewable Energy Communities
● CTF7 – Sizing tool of multi-energy communities
● CTF8 – iHELM, digital twin platform for sustainable and operational efficient maritime
industry
● CTF9 – HPC based multi-fidelity and physics design of resilient built environment
● CTF10 – Intraverse, VR/AR platform
Each project will receive a lump sum of up to 150.000 Euros. Each applicant must demonstrate the ability to provide at least 30% of the total project budget through self-financing. The COSMIC project will offer a lump sum covering up to 70% of the project budget for third-party beneficiaries. Non-profit legal entities may be eligible to receive up to 100% funding.
Selected projects will benefit from our comprehensive 10-month support programme, structured into four dynamic stages:
1. Technical mentoring: Shaping individual mentoring plans and initial Proof-of-Concept definitions.
2. Solution development: Guidance through alpha version testing and iterative improvements.
3. Pilot testing: Evaluation of beta solutions within controlled environments and real-world pilots.
4. Market readiness and exploitation: Tailored business support and joint sessions to enhance market impact.
The proposed activities should ideally include:
● Solution development: Crafting innovative AI and data-based services, tools, and technologies (e.g., digital twins, smart charging systems, and user interfaces) that directly address a specific COSMIC challenge.
● Integration and facilitation: Merging new solutions with existing platforms – such as BMS, BIM/GIS-based digital twins or Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) – to enhance data flow and system interoperability.
● Testing and validation: Rigorously evaluating the proposed solutions in large-scale pilot environments to verify their performance, scalability, and user acceptance.
● Proof-of-concept and demonstration projects: Delivering demonstrative projects that highlight the practical impact and industrial applicability of the developed assets.
● Resource utilization assessment: Assess and track the resources, especially electricity, used in the process of delivering the service or developing the solution and estimate the operational resource consumption.
Proposals must aim to reach a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) between 6 and 7 by the end of the project. Selected solutions will be validated within the context of COSMIC’s large-scale pilots (Spain, Belgium, Portugal, France, Ireland, and Finland), allowing for real-world testing in industrial or urban environments.
Eligible applicants are individual SMEs (including startups) registered in:
● The Member States of the European Union and their Overseas Countries and Territories
(OCT) or
● Associated Countries (AC) to Horizon Europe.
