Horizon research project opportunities final

HORIZON
Research
Project
Opportunities
Session 8: Workshop on New
Research Ideas
June 30, 2021

Horizon Europe
• General information
• EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of €95.5
billion.
• Tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth
• Facilitates collaboration and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in
developing, supporting and implementing EU policies while tackling global
challenges. It supports creating and better dispersing of excellent knowledge and
technologies
• Creates jobs, fully engages the EU’s talent pool, boosts economic growth,
promotes industrial competitiveness and optimises investment impact within a
strengthened European Research Area.
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From H2020 to Horizon Europe
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Lessons learned
from H2020 Interim Evaluation
Key Novelties
In Horizon Europe
Support breakthrough innovation
Create more impact through mission-
orientation and citizens’ involvement
Rationalise partnerships’ landscape
Reinforce openness
Strengthen international cooperation
Encourage participation
European Innovation Council
EU Missions
New approach to partnerships
Open science policy
Extended association possibilities
Spreading Excellence

Horizon Europe programme structure
Part: Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area
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Pillar I: Excellent Science
• European Research
Council
• Marie Sklodowska –
Curie Actions
• Research
Infrastructures
Pillar II: Global Challenges and European
Industrial Competitiveness
1. Health
2. Culture, Creativity & Inclusive
Society
3. Civil Security for Society
4. Digital Industry & Space
5. Climate, Energy & Mobility
6. Food, Bioeconomy, Natural
Resources, Agriculture &
Environment
• Joint Research Centre
Pillar III: Innovative Europe
• European Innovation
Council
• European Innovation
Ecosystems
• European Institute of
Innovation &
Technology*
Clusters
• Widening participation and spreading excellence • Widening participation and spreading excellence
* The European Institute of Innovation & Technology is not part of the specific programme

Horizon Europe Budget: €95.5 billion
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Political agreement December 2020
€ billion in current prices

Pillar II – Clusters
Global Challenges & European Industrial Competitiveness:
Boosting key technologies and solutions underpinning EU policies & Sustainable
Development Goals
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Cluster 1: Health
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HORIZON-HLTH-2022-STAYHLTH-01-04-two-stage: Trustworthy AI tools to predict the risk of chronic
non-communicable diseases and/or their progression
Expected EU
contribution per
project
Around EUR 6.00 million
Indicative budget EUR 60.00 million
Type of Action Research and Innovation Actions
Expected Outcome • Clinicians, medical professionals and citizens have access to validated disease risk assessment
AI tools and hence citizens are better informed to manage their own health.
• Healthcare professionals can utilise robust, trustworthy and privacy-preserving AI tools that help
them to assess and predict the risk for and/or progression of chronic non-communicable
diseases and hence citizens can benefit from improved health outcomes.
• Healthcare professionals can develop evidence-based recommendations and guidelines for the
implementation of AI-based personalised prevention strategies and citizens can benefit from
optimized healthcare measures superior to the standard-of-care.
• Healthcare professionals can employ quantitative indicators in order to identify and follow-up of
individuals with high risk for the development and/or risk for progression of chronic non-
communicable diseases.

Cluster 1: Health
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HORIZON-HLTH-2021-TOOL-06-03: Innovative tools for use and re-use of health data (in particular
electronic health records and/or patient registries)
Expected EU
contribution per
project
Around EUR 8.00 million
Expected Outcome • Νovel solutions improve quality, interoperability and re-use of health data by health professionals,
researchers and health authorities, data analytics and metadata from different repositories across
countries, in compliance with FAIR data management principles, in compliance with national and EU legal
(in particular personal data protection) and ethical requirements.
• Health professionals, researchers and health authorities make effective use of tools enabling them to
exploit unstructured and heterogeneous data from different sources to improve the delivery of care and
advance health research.
• Better data portability due to the standardization of meta knowledge (meta data, ontologies and reference
repositories) and clinical data, especially data coming from different clinical services / sites and/or from
multiple countries and consequently better data use by patients, researchers and clinicians.
• More efficient and cost-effective healthcare procedures and workflows that contribute to improved
disease prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment by healthcare professionals.

Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive
Society
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HORIZON-CL2-DEMOCRACY-2022-01-01: Artificial intelligence, big data and democracy
Expected EU
contribution per
project
Between EUR 1.50 and 2.50 million(s)
Indicative budget EUR 7.00 million.
Type of Action HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
Expected
Outcome
• Protection of fundamental rights and European public values from possible
threats of unregulated use of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data.
• Examination of established legislation, non-regulatory measures and potential
digital governance resistance to accelerated digitisation and effectiveness of
monitoring and control protocols.
• Introduction of value-centric frameworks regulating data governance, the use of
AI and the processing of big data.
• Innovative uses of AI and big data to enhance citizen engagement and
democracy.

Society
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HORIZON-CL2-DEMOCRACY-2022-01-01: The future of democracy and civic participation
Expected EU
contribution per
project
Expected
Outcome
• Enhance and expand the implementation of civic participation as well as co-
creation in democratic life at scale, including the least engaged communities and
categories of the population, at all levels from local to European.
• Improve the articulation between deliberative processes and representative
institutions in liberal democracies. Research should elucidate how to open up
traditional institutions of representative democracy. Increase trust in democratic
governance through direct participatory processes as well as clear and
transparent feedback mechanisms to citizens.

Society
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HORIZON-CL2-DEMOCRACY-2022-01-01: Politics and the impact of online social networks and new
media
Expected EU
contribution per
project
Expected
Outcome
• Understand the changes wrought on democratic processes by new technologies.
• Produce evidence-based recommendations to address the opportunities and
challenges for political behaviour and democratic engagement presented by
social platforms and new media.
• Enhance capacities for digital citizenship.

Society
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HORIZON-CL2-HERITAGE-2021-01-01: Green technologies and materials for cultural heritage
Expected EU
contribution per
project
Expected
Outcome
• Contribute to the objectives of the Green Deal by developing methods to
conserve, preserve and restore6 monuments and artefacts with respect to
different materials in a sustainable green way.
• Promote research on the quality of conservation, supporting maintenance and
restoration of cultural heritage in a sustainable and green way. Ensure higher
quality standards in conservation and restoration of Europe’s cultural heritage.
• Improve sustainability and energy efficiency in heritage sites, museums and other
cultural institutions.
• Strengthen citizens’ contribution to safeguarding of their cultural heritage and art

Society
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HORIZON-CL2-HERITAGE-2021-01-04: Games and culture shaping our society
Expected EU
contribution per
project
Expected Outcome • Evidence of the impact of games on European society, including their cultural value
and risks.
• Evidence of the innovation potential of games and play (on-line or other).
• New knowledge on the role of the games industry and non-commercial creative
practices in the EU to benefit society.
• Improved knowledge of legal and intellectual property rights issues linked to the
gaming population and games industry in the international markets.
• Make proposals on the potential for improving games in terms of improving
education, skillsets, responsible business models, employment chances, social
cohesion and creativity.

Society
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HORIZON-CL2-HERITAGE-2022-01-04: Traditional crafts for the future: a new approach
Expected EU
contribution per
project
Expected
Outcome
• Revive, valorise and foster traditional craftsmen techniques and combine them with
new and emerging cutting-edge technologies.
• Bring together the old traditional know how with new and/or digital technologies to
develop improved and new products, services and professions.
• Set up platforms and develop courses for vocational training, methodologies, curricula
and entrepreneurship skills to create jobs and revive enterprises, where tradition
meets the future.
• Create sustainable relationships and networks between research and heritage sites
and cultural and creative sectors, institutions, universities and other research
institutions, regional and national authorities, enterprises and other relevant
stakeholders, to promote innovation, jobs and sustainable growth.

Society
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HORIZON-CL2-TRANSFORMATIONS-2021-01-02: Estimates and conditions of irregular migrants in
Europe - stakeholder network
Expected EU
contribution per
project
Type of Action HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
Expected Outcome • Enhance EU migration governance by providing a rigorous review of estimates on
• irregular migrants living in the EU, including those working.
• Enhance statistics and data on migration by developing methodologies to estimate
the number of irregular migrants across different EU legislative and statistical
contexts.
• Assess viability, costs and benefits of regularisation programs, including consideration
for their possible signalling effect to incentivise further migration,, as well as positive
impacts in terms of contribution to the labour markets, socio-demographic challenges,
reduction of health risks and the promotion of increasingly diverse societies. Propose
EU and context specific policy measures accordingly, in articulation with the general

Society
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HORIZON-CL2-TRANSFORMATIONS-2022-01-07: Conditions for the successful development of
skills matched to needs
Expected EU
contribution per
project
Expected
Outcome
• Enable policymakers to better understand, measure and reduce skills gaps and
problematic mismatches between skills and jobs, thereby supporting the diffusion
and adoption of innovation, the digital and green transitions, inclusive economic
growth as well as individual wellbeing.
• Support the objectives of the European Skills Agenda for Sustainable
Competitiveness, Social Fairness and Resilience as regards Vocational Education
and Training (VET) and Adult Learning (AL).

Cluster 3: Civil Security for Society
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HORIZON-CL3-2021-CS-01-03: AI for cybersecurity reinforcement
Expected EU
contribution per
project
Between EUR 3.00 and 4.00 million
Expected Outcome • Reinforced cybersecurity using AI technological components and tools in line
with relevant EU policy, legal and ethical requirements.
• Increased knowledge about how an attacker might use AI technology in
order to attack IT systems.
• Digital processes, products and systems resilient against AI-powered
cyberattacks

Cluster 3: Civil Security for Society
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HORIZON-CL3-2022-CS-01-04: Development and validation of processes and tools used for agile certification of ICT products, ICT
services and ICT processes
Expected EU
contribution per project
Type of Action Innovation Actions
Expected Outcome • Availability of applicable tools and procedures for partial and continuous assessment and lean re-
certification of ICT products, ICT services and ICT processes;
• Reduction of time and efforts spent for (re-) certifying ICT products, ICT services and ICT processes;
• Improved stakeholder collaboration on cybersecurity certification information, including manufacturers
and end users from different Member States;
• Efficient (re-)use of information and evidence relevant to certification and in support of multi-scheme
(re-)use;
• Integration of certification on the whole system modelling, verification, testing and verification process
• Increased comparability of assurance statements arising from certification schemes and the standards
used therein; avoidance of multi-certification;
• Advancing test and simulation facilities, including incident and threat analysis;
• Increased Digital Twin capabilities for continuous assessment and integration of new solutions.

Cluster 4: Digital Industry & Space
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RESILIENCE-03-2022: Innovative business models for circular value chains
Scope In order to ensure circularity along the value chain, the product path has to be
clearly specified from the beginning, at the stage of the supply chain. Projects
are expected to propose new products that can follow a clear path from the
supply until the recycling, closing the loop to ensure circularity.
Type of Action IA
Expected Outcome • Strengthening collaboration along the complete value chain, from supply -
process industries, manufacturing, to waste and recycling industries
• Demonstrate contribution to the Next Generation EU (recovery plan).

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RESILIENCE-48-2021: Connecting and strengthening Startup Ecosystems, Innovation Radar and venture building
in Strategic Digital Technologies
Scope This Topic has a key focus on ensuring the active integration and networking of digital
startup ecosystems into the Research and Innovation activities of Cluster 4, building on the
Startup Europe initiative of Horizon 2020.
Type of Action CSA
Expected Outcome • Connecting and strengthening communities of startup ecosystems in strategic digital
technologies, notably AI, Advanced Computing, Cybersecurity, Next Generation Internet
including Blockchain and Fintech by increasing the participation of startups in destinations of
Cluster 4.
• A scaling up of capabilities in matching EU-funded technology solutions developed by highly
innovative digital startups with access to finance and growth opportunities including, but not
limited to, other European funding instruments (such as the Digital Europe Programme),
innovation procurement and corporate innovation ventures.
• Contribute to the scaling up of innovative startups in areas of Horizon Europe digital
priorities.

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RESILIENCE-49-2022: Leveraging standardisation in Strategic Digital Technologies
Scope This action will involve and empower European stakeholders participating at the development of open technical
specifications and standards with the aim to representing European values and ethics, strengthen the take-up,
scalability cross-border and cross-sector interoperability of their technological solutions, as well as, decreasing the
costs of technical due diligence to the public and private procurers
Type of Action CSA
Expected
Outcome
• Connecting European stakeholders ecosystems, including of SMEs, with European and International
standardisation bodies and other relevant actors.
• Identification of ICT standardisation areas which need European intervention and proposal of actions;
• Engagement of required stakeholders and experts to ensure lasting impact;
• Increase the influence or Europe into international ICT standardisation, ensuring promotion of European
requirements, values and interests;
• Set-up of a facility to support participation of EU specialists in international ICT SDOs and technical bodies.
• Increase the participation of European specialists in international ICT Standardisation activities to support
European values and interests, including in leadership positions.
• Getting working items at the right time into the right technical bodies in international SDOs, fora and
consortia.
• Synergies with other similar initiatives or EU players including from EU (and national) funded R&I projects
• Common positions of European stakeholders in international ICT standardisation.
• Increase awareness and education on ICT standardisation

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RESILIENCE-53-2021: ‘Innovate to transform’ support for SME’s sustainability transition
Scope Organisations in EU projects and initiatives may team up and join forces as
project partners. As such, it will also reinforce SME’s innovation support
ecosystems and create leverage amongst existing EU networks and SME
support initiatives, such as Digital Innovation Hubs, Clusters, Start-up Europe,
etc.
The action targets both traditional and innovative SMEs, with a clear objective
to transform their business models by applying innovative solutions.
Type of Action CSA
Expected Outcome • Increased resilience of SMEs receiving advisory support for their
sustainability transition, including increased innovation capacity.
• Leveraging synergies between existing EU networks and SME support
initiatives.

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DATA-01-2021: Technologies and solutions for compliance, privacy preservation, green and
responsible data operations
Scope Digital technologies, methods and architectures for safe, trustworthy, compliant,
fair and environmentally sustainable collection, storage, processing, querying,
analytics and delivery of data. The technologies shall facilitate sharing and
manipulation of data in compliance with prevailing and emerging legislation (e.g.
GDPR)
The scope also includes technologies and solutions that enable environmentally
sustainable data operations and technologies and solutions for ensuring human,
fair and ethically sound collection, processing and manipulation of data, in line
with the principles of responsible/trustworthy AI
Type of Action IA
Expected Outcome • Improve the efficiency and the use of trustworthy digital technologies to
address the requirements of citizens, companies and administrations on
privacy and commercial and administrative confidentiality as well as
responsible, fair and environmentally friendly data operations.

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DATA-02-2021: Technologies and solutions for data trading, monetizing, exchange and interoperability
Scope The focus is on technologies, solutions and frameworks that facilitate collection, sharing,
storing, processing, trading and re-using data in compliance with the legal framework.
Practical and scalable solutions for handling large amounts of transactions are necessary
(e.g. smart/automated contracting, data rights management, tracking of subsequent data
use).
Special attention should be paid to fostering approaches that ensure data and metadata
interoperability, including the application of appropriate standards, reference architectures,
common ontologies/vocabularies/data models allowing smooth data sharing (also across
sectors).
Type of Action IA
Expected Outcome • Improve the digital technologies, solutions and interoperable frameworks for data markets
and data economy (e.g. industrial, administrative and societal/cultural data platforms/data
spaces), allowing for data assets to be discoverable, efficiently and fairly priced and
shared/traded in a secured and compliant way. Promote the development of a European
industrial ecosystem of the data economy capable of ensuring digital autonomy.

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DATA-03-2022: Technologies for data management
Scope The actions under this topic are expected to provide practical, robust and
scalable tools to improve the interoperability, quality, integrity of data and
metadata.
Data management tools and systems shall enable or support the creation and
maintenance of common ontologies, vocabularies and data models and/or
structured, standardised and automated authoring, co-creation, curation,
annotation and labelling of data, in view of different later uses (especially AI)
made of the data
Type of Action IA
Expected Outcome • Develop new secure data management tools improving the usability of data in
different contexts, covering data provenance, data quality management (such
as data cleaning, validation, enrichment, co-creation, identification of bias and
correlations), improving data interoperability, metadata management
(automated ways of labelling and describing data, data linkage), and ensuring
data security and integrity.

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DATA-04-2021: Extreme-scale data mining, aggregation and analytics technologies
Scope The actions under this topic are expected to provide ground-breaking advances in the
performance (speed, accuracy) and usefulness of data discovery, collection, mining,
filtering and processing in view of coping with the increasing volume, speed and
complexity of data and the dispersed data sources
The technologies shall be able to discover and distil meaningful and useful data and
deliver it to the requesting application/user with minimal delay and in the appropriate
format
In particular, the advances shall enable the development of reliable, accurate and fair AI
systems where quality of data is more important than quantity
The actions should address the integration of relevant technologies (e.g. big data, AI, IoT,
HPC, language technologies, cybersecurity, telecommunications…)
Type of Action IA
Expected Outcome • Develop European technologies, tools and services for data mining (searching and
processing) large amounts of data or sparse/dispersed/heterogeneous/multilingual
data (stored centrally or in distributed systems), in particular IoT and/or industrial/
business/administrative/environmental/societal data.

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DIGITAL-EMERGING-12-2021: AI, data and Robotics for the green deal
Scope The proposals are expected to exploit latest AI and robotics advances and
demonstrate in use-cases scenarios in real or close-to-real environment, how
they can directly contribute to the Green Deal
Type of Action IA
Expected Outcome • Innovative AI on Innovative greener technologies for resource optimisation
and minimisation of waste, including exploitation of all data an information
sources and greener robots for a greener planet.
• Contribution to the green deal for environmental and waste management in
the circular economy value chain with AI empowered innovative, modular
and adaptive robotics solutions, as well as AI for such process optimisation.
• Smart physical intelligence and physical performance of robotics solutions in
diverse harsh environments serving the Green Deal

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DIGITAL-EMERGING-13-2021: AI and robotics at work
Scope The proposals are expected to demonstrate how AI and robotics solutions can
support professionals in their daily work, improving the working conditions and
improving the work performance/efficiency
Type of Action IA
Expected Outcome • Collaborative embodied AI, empowering end-users and workers: A new
human-centred paradigm to keep away from unsafe and unhealthy jobs.
• AI supporting professionals in decision-making
• Intelligent and adaptive systems for training and coaching human
workers/professionals (learning by example). Developing technology in
parallel to workers/professionals’ training.

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DIGITAL-EMERGING-16-2021: Joining forces in scientific excellence in Robotics
Scope To ensure European strategic autonomy in such critical technology as robotics,
with huge potential socio-economic impact, it is essential to reinforce and build
on Europe’s assets in robotics, including its world-class researcher
community, in order to stay at the forefront of technological developments
Type of Action RIA
Expected Outcome • Creating a strong and tightly networked scientific community in robotics,
making it a world-class powerhouse for robotics excellence.

Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural
Resources, Agriculture & Environment
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HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-02: Data and technologies for the inventory, fast identification and
monitoring of endangered wildlife and other species groups
Expected EU
contribution per
project
Βetween EUR 3.00 and 5.00 million
Expected Outcome • Systemic, integrated and (open-)standardised data, knowledge and models on the
conservation status and ecological requirements of species and habitats, with a focus on
those covered by the Birds and Habitats Directives and IUCN Red List
• The bridging of taxonomic and monitoring gaps thanks to new enabling tools, technologies,
fast identification methodologies and integrated monitoring systems across Europe on
wildlife species.
• Models upscaling the results of biodiversity assessments to wider areas, based on existing
datasets of environmental descriptors.
• Integrative taxonomy of inventory pollinator species (bees, butterflies, moths and
hoverflies), soil fauna (mites, springtails, woodlices, millipedes and earthworms) and/or other
threatened species groups

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HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-17: Policy mixes, governance (including financing) and decision-making
tools for transformative action on biodiversity
Expected EU
contribution per
project
Expected Outcome • Tools promoting the benefits of biodiversity are taken up by policy makers,
industries, civil society organisations including NGOs, financing entities,
businesses and retailers
• Ways to facilitate the application of systemic, sustainable policy mixes and
governance approaches, based on a range of policy tools, economic instruments
or regulations
• Making options available on how to implement in practice the renewed
sustainable finance strategy for the financial system to generate a positive impact
on biodiversity
• …

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HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-18: Understanding the impacts of and the opportunities offered by digital
transformation, new emerging technologies and social innovation on biodiversity
Expected EU
contribution per
project
Expected Outcome • A better understanding, today and for the future, of the impacts on, risks and
opportunities for biodiversity of digital transformation (for example smart technologies,
artificial intelligence, automation, miniaturised sensors, citizen science applications,
crowdsourcing), new materials (e.g., for biomimicry), and new and emerging
technologies.
• Identification and an assessment of how system-level change affecting biodiversity
through social innovation happens. This should cover bringing in new technologies, new
production processes, consumer products, regulations, incentives, or participatory
processes, and changes how socio-technical and socio-ecological systems operate
• …

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HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-01-03: Network for nature: multi-stakeholder dialogue platform to promote
nature-based solutions
Expected EU
contribution per
project
Around EUR 6.00
Type of Action Coordination and Support Actions
Expected Outcome • Broad and effective community of innovators in the EU and associated countries, practitioners and
developers of NBS – including but not limited to Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe projects – engaged
across communities of science, business, policy and practice, and from local to global level
• Better engagement, with public authorities, private sector and society at large for implementing and
investing in NBS;
• Establish European NBS “quality brand” with an underlying, comprehensive and agreed vision and
agenda, to position and promote EU excellence in NBS innovation;
• Improve cooperation and synergies with key strategic international partners and collaboration with
CEN/CENELEC to develop European and international standards and foster the emergence of a
global market for NBS;
• Consolidate NBS knowledge across sectors and disciplines through regional and Europe-wide
transdisciplinary collaboration, advisory services, awareness raising, knowledge transfer and skills
development.

Information Systems Laboratory
Research Interests
• Digital Government
• Policy modelling
• Blockchain
• Text mining
• E-Participation
• Social Simulation
• Impact Assessment
• Societal Challenges
• Sciences for Society
• Semantic Web 34
• Open/Big/Linked data
• Legal Informatics
• Citizen Science
• Roadmapping
• Public Administration
• Cloud Computing
• Cyber Security
• Digital Twins
• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital Transformation
• Software Technologies
• Service Science
• Simulation
• Ontologies
• Collaborative
Governance
• Smart Cities
• Internet of Things
• Distributed Ledger
Technologies

…every great
project starts
with an idea
let’s start…
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