Intro

Missing access to fast broadband still presents a development challenge to many rural and remote areas. Frequently, the investments costs appear to be too high in comparison to the
final number of end users in certain regions. Sometimes only investing in the “last-mile” presents a bottleneck to the connectivity. End-user needs vary not only between communities,
but also between individual businesses and households, making it more challenging to find a common solution.

Scope

– Assessing the socio-economic and environmental effects of innovative and existing 5G/4G/3G provision options (at regional-, community-, and farm-level) and making them feasible for non-scientists).
– Developing innovative cost-effective and environmentally friendly solutions to 5G-and last-mile provision in remote areas tailored to the needs of ommunities, farms and forestry.
– Assessing the socio-economic and environmental effects of innovative and existing edge technology options (at regional-, community-, and farm-level) and making them feasible for non-scientists.
– Developing innovative cost-effective and environmental friendly edge solutions tailored to the needs of communities, farms and forestry, including an energy balance at systemlevel.
– Developing innovative business models (including at systemic level and cross-sectoral approaches).

Objective

– Reduce digital divides between different types of farms, sectors and regions.
– Contribute to increase the competitiveness and social and environmental sustainability of the agricultural and forestry sectors and rural areas through innovative 5G, last-mile and edge solutions.
– Facilitate decision-making, in particular for municipalities, farmers, foresters and their associations
– Increase energy efficiency through analysing and developing connectivity options

The development of innovative instrumentation (payload) and technologies enabling space science and exploration missions requires timely technology development associated with future space science and exploration missions, including robotic exploration technologies, early stage scientific instrumentation and component technologies for space resources utilisation and space observatories

– Development of new and innovative approaches, such as instruments for Cubesats and other small space platforms

– Advances related to on-site activities such as innovative measurement techniques, increased sensitivity, increased robustness, faster and more accurate data processing or in-situ sample and data analysis

– Enable breakthroughs in technologies and scientific instrumentation for space science and exploration missions
– Validation of novel space/planetary robotic technologies and instrumentation through analogue tests
– Increased collaboration of scientific, engineering and industrial teams both within and outside Europe across different domains
– To strengthen European scientific excellence and support the development of leading edge scientific and technologic research in Europe

This topic aims to improve the overall European space technology landscape and complement and/or create synergy with activities of European and national programmes either in the space or non-space fields

Adress one of the R&I areas:
– RF components

– Passive & RF Passive components

– Discrete power devices

– Very high energy ion accelerators for component, shielding and radiobiology characterization

– Widespread applications of metallic lead (Pb)

– Reduce the dependence on critical technologies and capabilities from outside Europe for future space applications
– Develop or regain in the mid-term the European capacity to operate independently in space
– Enhance the technical capabilities and overall competitiveness of European space industry vendors on the worldwide market
– Open new competition opportunities for European manufacturers by reducing dependency on export restricted technologies
– Improve the overall European space technology landscape

Current space weather models are generally not capable of forecasting events over several days. A longer forecasting horizon would require access to data from new observation infrastructure coupled with new and improved modelling capabilities

– New modelling including ab-initio simulations

– Development of modelling capabilities and/or the delivery of prototype services able to interpret a broad range of observations of the Sun’s corona and magnetic field, of the Sun Earth interplanetary space and of the Earth magneto/iono/thermo-sphere coupling relying on existing observation capacities
– Validate and harmonize the currently available data from existing services and identify gaps in data and model availability
– Training of models using deep-learning techniques

– Inventory of potential early indicators of extreme space weather events

– Complementary and coherent activities with ESA

– On ground demonstration tests

– Ground instruments: densification of ground instrument networks and development/improvement of new instrument concepts

– Complementary and coherent activities with existing space weather services

– Prepare Europe for a full exploitation of space weather data by a renewed effort on modelling and forecasting using currently available data

– Develop concepts to provide space weather data, forecasts and warnings

– Improve scientific understanding of the origin and evolution of space weather phenomena

– Improving SWE restitution and prediction capabilities using artificial intelligence / deep learning techniques

– Develop new services for both scientific purposes and terrestrial infrastructure monitoring

– Acceleration innovation of enabling technologies

Introduction

The EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 addresses the on-going biodiversity decline through an EU Nature Protection and Restoration Plan across land and sea, including through the deployment of a truly coherent TEN-N increasing and interconnecting the current network of protected areas. The strategy includes key commitments for 2030 for legally protecting a minimum of 30% of the EU’s land area and 30% of the EU’s sea area and strictly protecting one third of the EU’s protected areas, including all remaining EU primary and old-growth forests. Additionally, setting up and integrating ecological corridors will be important to prevent genetic isolation, allowing for species migration and dispersal, and for maintaining and enhancing healthy ecosystems. This is particularly relevant for increasing resilience of the network with respect to climate change.

Scope

The successful proposal should set out a clear plan to collaborate with national authorities and stakeholders, relevant projects under this call the EU Biodiversity Partnership, the Science Service under HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-19: ‘A mechanism for science to inform implementation, monitoring, review and ratcheting up the new EU biodiversity strategy’ as well with the EU Natura 2000 Biogeographical Process which will be the main forum for discussion of the targets between the Commission, Member States and stakeholders. To this end, proposals should include dedicated tasks and dedicate appropriate resources for coordination measures, and, where possible, foresee joint activities and joint deliverables. The successful proposals should provide knowledge to Convention on Biological Diversity (e.g. SBSTTA/SBI) and to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services processes where relevant. Projects should ensure that all evidence, data and information will be accessible through the EC Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity.

Objectives

– Development of a coherent and resilient trans-European nature network of protected areas, by supporting Member States on the key commitments for protecting at least 30% of EU land area, and strictly protecting at least 10% of EU land area.
– Setting up of ecological corridors – within and outside the network – to prevent genetic isolation, allowing for species migration including the response to climate change, and maintaining and enhancing healthy ecosystems, and delivering multiple ecosystem services.