The Fed4FIRE+ project launched its 2nd competitive Open Call in summer 2017 targeting innovative experiments in categories “SME Cascaded Experiments”.
The 2nd Open Call was organized in two phases as follows:
- Stage 1: total funding of 187,500€, maximum 12,500€ per experiment (max. 15 experiments)
- Stage 2: total funding of 330,000€, maximum 55,000€ per experiment (max. 6 experiments)
The above mentioned amounts included the budget for the Fed4FIRE+ partner(s) acting as Patron for the experiment; maximum 2,500€ per experiment in stage 1 and maximum 5,000€ in stage 2.
The experiment proposals for stage 2 were intended to be small experiments to be implemented, in order to concretely elaborate and prepare the stage 2 experiment proposals, so that only the successful proposals from the stage 1 could qualify to make proposals for the stage 2. Deadlines for submission of the proposals were on 18 September (stage 1) and 12 December (stage 2) 2017.
During the 2nd Open Call – stage 1 – we received 11 proposals and 10 have been accepted, whereas 9 proposals were submitted during the stage 2. After the second stage, six proposals have been accepted (success ratio of 54% by considering the entire OC-2 process).
Numbers of submitted and accepted experiments per country of origin of the proposing organizations are presented in the table below.
| Country | Submissions | Accepted |
|
Belgium |
3 |
2 |
|
Greece |
3 |
2 |
|
Slovenia |
2 |
1 |
|
Ireland |
1 |
|
|
Poland |
1 |
1 |
| Spain | 1 |
|
The accepted proposals (short titles of the proposals) are listed below:
- PERCCEVAL
- CLONE
- F4F-LWA
- COMFORT-APP
- FIVE
- Crowdbeamer
