aerOS is a project funded by HE programme aiming at designing and building a virtualized platform-agnostic meta operating system for the IoT-edge-cloud continuum. As a solution, to be executed on any Infrastructure Element of such continuum, aerOS will be independent from underlying hardware and operating system (s). More information can be found at: https://aeros-project.eu

aerOS has reserved a total of 900.000 € for financially supporting third parties enhance the scope of the project by joining the project via Open Calls. aerOS will perform two rounds of Open Calls where research entities and SMEs around Europe are summoned to present proposals fitting one of the project pilots, targeting specific challenges. aerOS Open Call #2 is the second (and last) of those two rounds.

Only SMEs, Research entities (RTOs) and Universities can apply to aerOS Open Call. In addition, entities must also comply with specific legal requirements that can be found at the draft Collaboration Agreement.

Via visiting the form https://opencall.aeros-project.eu/author/submit.php, fulfilling the mandatory fields following the instructions depicted in the Guidelines for Applicants. All of the previous must be done before September 30th, 2024, 5 p.m. CEST.

Actions to be completed are:

• Check articles in the Collaboration Agreement.
• Fulfill the form at https://opencall.aeros-project.eu/author/submit.php accept the Ethics and Legal terms.
• Upload a PDF composed of maximum 9 pages (minimum font size: 10,5 pts) including, maximum, 3 diagrams (incl. mandatory Gantt chart). through this link: https://opencall.aeros-project.eu/author upload.php, using the submission number provided by the system, and the password created by you. The narrative text in the PDF must coincide to the letter with the information introduced in the form.
• Receiving an automated acknowledge receipt from the System.

The second round of aerOS Open Calls aims at funding innovative proposals that will be easily transferred into the market fostering the uptaking/upscaling of aerOS technologies, departing from already established solutions and focused in application sectors different to those present in the pilots of the project. Check Guide for Applicants for further information.

Only one proposal per applicant will be considered for evaluation. Multiple submissions of the same proposal can be made: the last one received through the system (with corresponding acknowledge of receipt) will be considered.

The evaluation will be based on: i) Relevance to aerOS (min. 3 out of 5); (ii) Impact and sustainability (min 4 out of 5); (iii) Technical excellence (min 4 out of 5); (iv) Quality of implementation (min4 out of 5) (v) Quality of the team (min. 4 out of 5), and 19 as a global threshold over 25.

Selected entities will enter the Consortium of aerOS as third parties of the Project Coordinator after the signature of a Collaboration Agreement based on the template provided in the Application Package.

A fixed requested amount of 60.000€ per proposal might be accepted. The form of financial support to be used will be a pre-defined lump sum.

All proposals must have a fix duration of 8 months.

Notifications on funding or rejections will be sent out to applicants, together with any feedback, by November, 15th, 2024.Slight delays might be experienced.

If you have been granted funding in the 1st round, you are not eligible. Otherwise, all entities are eligible in so far as they meet the global eligibility criteria.

First, more budget is reserved for round #2. Second, it will focus on applying aerOS to verticals outside of these considered in the project rather than to expanding aerOS’ original pilots. Also, additional challenges have been implemented, that can be consulted in detail in the Guidelines for Applicants.

You can contact the following addresses: opencall-aeros-project@aeros-project.eu, iglaub@upv.es, info@aeros-project.eu