Cascade Funding Opportunities – April 2024
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ICAERUS is an EU funded project that aims to exploit the disruptive potential of drone technologies for creating significant positive impact for farmers and rural communities.
ICAERUS will utilize an application-oriented approach to explore multi-purpose drone use in 5 specific drone applications, representing the most important sectoral and societal drone usage purposes in Europe.
ICAERUS also plans to use research, technology optimization, demonstration, and drone education to create an efficient, trusted, and safe environment for the EU drone service market to flourish contributing to the achievement of the EU’s decarbonization, digitalization and resilience.
ICAERUS will build upon the existing network through the issue and promotion of two (2) types of Open Calls (PUSH/PULL) providing financial support to third parties (FSTP), as a mechanism to harvest ideas and datasets from the ecosystem and accelerate the formation of a European network for the effective and efficient adoption of drone technologies.
Both types of the Open Calls will have two release dates. In total, a 1,080,000 € budget is allocated for FSTP. The Open Calls will result in 8 PUSH Innovation Development winners (480,000 € for ID – up to 60,000 € for each third party) and 12 PULL Farming, Forestry and Rural Challenges winners (600,000 € for FFRC – up to 50,000 € for each third party). Each sub-project accepted will last for 12 months and be divided into 3 phases: Design, Development and Market.
The ICAERUS project launched the first round of PUSH Open Calls for drone innovators on April 13 2023. Funding will be provided to support 4 innovative ideas as a mechanism for harvesting ideas and datasets from the ecosystem.
Applications are open until July 11th, 2023.
ICAERUS is looking for European drone manufacturers, SMEs and start-ups exploiting (big) data, AI and IoT companies, research institutes. Applicants need to be either an SME or Research Institute:
The following types of applications/solutions (but not limited to) qualify for financial support under the 1st Open Call:
The ICAERUS application form is available on the Open Call Hub platform , which is the unique entry point for all application submissions to the first ICAERUS Open Call. Applications must be submitted in English and before the official deadline: 11th of July 2023, 17:00 (CEST).
Successful applicants will be notified in October 2023. Sub-projects implementation will be divided into three phases: Design, Development and Market, lasting a total of 12 months, beginning November 1, 2023 and ending October 31, 2024.
Payments will be linked to a review procees conducted by the ICAERUS Open Call Advisory Board. The board will evaluate the progress of the beneficiares based on a deliverable. When the
deliverable is officially accepted, the Chair of the AB will inform the Treasurer and the payment will be released.
Based on the results of the review and acceptance of respected deliverables, payment will be made towards the subgrantees in the following modalities:
For further questions and clarifications, you may check and address the following ways:
The ICAERUS consortium incorporates all actors involved in the agri-rural sector and combines multidisciplinary competences and resources from academia, industry and research communities in various fields of expertise. More specifically, to materialise its concept, ICAERUS will bring together organisations from:
Get ready for April 2024 with 20 Cascade Funding Opportunities for EU SMEs, startups, researchers, and innovators! Are you ready to apply?
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