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 specific prioritized challenges:
Challenge 1 Construction Material and Facade Simulation
Challenge 2 Data-Driven Behaviour Modelling
Challenge 3 Urban Cooling System for Public Outdoor Spaces
Challenge 4 Sensor Calibration System for Public Outdoor Spaces
Challenge 5 Climate (Risk) Modelling
Challenge 6 Thermal Comfort Visual Recognition System
Challenge 7 User‐Friendly Smart App for Energy Monitoring in Multi‐Story Buildings (Manager & Consumer perspectives)
Challenge 8 Real-Time Resource Consumption Prediction
Challenge 9 Large-Scale Data for Model Calibration/Validation
Challenge 10 Apps for Consumers
Challenge 11 Predictive Maintenance for District Heating Networks
Challenge 12 Predictive Maintenance for PV Plants
Challenge 13 Waste Management System
Challenge 14 Digital Twin of Anaerobic Digester of Wastewater Treatment Plant
Challenge 15 Industrial Energy Community Optimisation and Flexibility Management
Challenge 16 Models for innovative blue/green solutions
Challenge 17 Digital Twin for Domestic Energy Usage
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.
