Open call 1: DEVELOP

The open call 1 is now closed.
Stay tuned for the winners!

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a consortia of 1-3 partners representing innovators, devices manufacturers, technology providers and integrators, aiming to develop, integrate, deploy and validate applications and services to the SERMAS Toolkit. The third parties need to provide solutions to these topics:

Runtime Avatar Generator: Module capable of generating an avatar, as a 3D humanoid with physical movement and capable of handle emotional feedback. The generator must allow the user to upload a photo as baseline and must be parameterisable in terms of physical characteristics.

3D Object Generator: Module to generate complex fully-functionable 3D designs of objects based on 2D photographs or text descriptions. The module must allow some customisation of the created models.

Privacy-preserving facial recognition: Module implementing facial recognition technologies safeguarding the rights to privacy and protection of personal data of individuals. The module can cover different scenarios from person identification to group categorisation. The module must comply with all relevant EU legislation and regulation, including the Guidelines on facial recognition1.

Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition: Module to automatically recognise speech in several languages, identifying the person speaking in environments with high levels of ambient noise. The module should be able to recognise several speakers in a group and conversation, and handle accents.

Artificial empathy: Module capable of recognising, interpreting and responding to human emotions. This topic covers text-focused, voice-focused and video and multimodal emotion recognition.

Opinion Leader Identification: Module to identify key opinion leaders in a group of persons from a video, predict behaviour and assess impact of behavioural changes.

What do we offer?

An innovative, collaborative environment with specialised infrastructure, technology, knowledge, and the chance of being funded with up to EUR 100 000 per sub-project.

Guidelines for applicants

Please carefully read the guidelines for applicants before submitting your application. Do you need further advice and support? You are strongly advised to communicate with the SERMAS team via the SERMAS online Q&A.

Guidelines for applicants

Updated version 05.09.2023

Annex 2- Proposal Technical Annexe

Updated version 20.10.2023

Annex 3- Sub Grant Agreement Template

Annex 4- Declaration of Honour

Annex 5- Consortium Declaration of Honour

Annex 6- SME Self Declaration

Closed

Open call 1: DEVELOP

The open call 1 is now closed.Stay tuned for the winners!

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a consortia of 1-3 partners representing innovators, devices manufacturers, technology providers and integrators, aiming to develop, integrate, deploy and validate applications and services to the SERMAS Toolkit. The third parties need to provide solutions to these topics:

What do we offer?

An innovative, collaborative environment with specialised infrastructure, technology, knowledge, and the chance of being funded with up to EUR 100 000 per sub-project.

Guidelines for applicants

Please carefully read the guidelines for applicants before submitting your application. Do you need further advice and support? You are strongly advised to communicate with the SERMAS team via the SERMAS online Q&A.

The open call 1 is now closed.
Stay tuned for the winners!