Open Call Topics

HSbooster.eu will provide a tailor-made online platform and resources for standardisation experts in Europe to advise 1,000 Horizon Europe and H2020 projects on how best their research results can lead to the revision or creation of standards. As experts, you will help projects assess the standardisation readiness of their results and guide them on how these results can feed into standardisation working groups or technical committees. Experts will provide consultancy services to projects on a set of standardisation priorities which are listed below.

 

The priorities have been selected based on the standardisation urgencies highlighted in the EU’s Strategy on Standardisation, call priorities in the EC’s funding programmes, active standardisation committees and relevant EU regulation, standardisation mandates, and standardisation requests from the Commission (SREQs). As HSbooster.eu evolves, we will be engaging with standardisation organisations and experts in these fields to validate and further refine or add to these priorities.

 

The priorities will form the basis of 5 open calls aimed at Horizon Europe and H2020  projects. The open calls will run for four-month periods from 21 June 2022 to 31 January 2024. You can find out more about the Open Calls for projects here.

Find out more about the first Open Call.

 

HSB bullet Health

 

Pandemics

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • COVID-19 vaccines: Needle-free and needle based-injection systems for medical use
  • COVID-19 vaccines: Aseptic processing
  • Medicine production
  • Respiratory equipment
  • Pandemic preparedness and resilience
  • Tests and measurement methods for SARS/COV19: Pathogens
  • Tests and measurement methods for SARS/COV19: Wastewater
  • Epidemiology: Risk, population, genetic
E-Health and personalised services

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • eHealth
  • Mobile applications
  • Digital healthcare
  • Assisted living
  • Accessibility
  • Personal medicine
  • Cybersecurity in healthcare
Design and use of medical devices

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Design for disassembly
  • Reliability of medical devices (for emergency use)
  • 5G for live consultations and remote surgery
  • Biotechnology (organ-on-chip)
  • Patient safety
AI in Healthcare

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • AI in radiology
  • AI health services
  • Synthetic data

 

HSB bullet Resilience

 

Robust supply chains

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Energy and natural gas distribution
  • Transport and infrastructure (roads, rails, telecommunications, energy, etc.)
  • Workforce changes and demands
  • Risk management
  • Business continuity
Climate resilience

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Climate adaptation
  • Climate monitoring
  • Biodiversity
  • Geotextiles
Hybrid civil/defence

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Civil crisis preparation
  • Emergency management
Data protection and cybersecurity

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Information security for SMEs
  • Payment services
  • IT security
  • Cyber resilience

 

HSB bullet Sustainable digitalisation

 

Data quality and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Trustworthy AI
  • Intelligent factories
  • AI-bsed decision-making solutions (HR, legislation, labour)
  • Circular data
  • Ethical data usage
  • Data interoperability
Access to and usage of data

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Ethical data usage
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Common European data spaces
  • Data interoperability
  • Digital twins
  • Blockchain and digital logbook
  • Circular data
  • eID
  • eGovernment
  • Internet protocols (IPs)
Space

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • European Global Navigation Satellite Systems (EGNSS)
  • Big data from space
  • 5G from space
Data and cybersecurity

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Cyber- and information security (SME)
  • Cyber security in telecommunication
  • Chips in terms of security, authenticity, reliability
  • Payment services
  • Audit and certification of information security
  • Cloud services
  • Identity management
Quantum technology

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Quantum computing
  • Quantum sensors
  • Quantum simulations
  • Quantum communication

 

HSB bullet Green transition in Europe

 

Clean energy

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Clean hydrogen value chain
  • Gas transportation (incl. hydrogen)
  • Clean hydrogen infrastructure
  • Documentation of green fuels
  • Fueling and refueling of green fuels
  • Energy storage
  • Wind turbines
  • Smart energy
Materials (raw and secondary)

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Recycling of critical raw materials (CRM)
  • Plastic recycling incl. textiles
  • Critical raw materials for batteries and waste batteries
  • Recycling/reuse of electrical components (WEEE directive)
Green and sustainable production

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Additive and on demand manufacturing (3rd print, etc.)
  • Eco design
  • Sustainable product initiative
  • Product environmental footprint
  • Product passport
  • Material passport
Environmental impact

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Toxic-free environment
  • Carbon capture, utilisation, storage (CCUS)

 

HSB bullet Smart Cities and Circular Economy in Buildings

 

Circular economy in the construction sector

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Design for circularity
  • Design for disassembly
  • Embedded carbon
  • Selective demolition
  • Material and product pass
  • Non-destructive testing
  • Low-carbon cement
Transportation

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Connected cars
  • Green transportation
Infrastructure

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Interconnected city
  • Postal code
  • Intelligent transportation systems
  • Critical infrastructure incl. pipes, etc
Green buildings

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Intelligent buildings
  • Indicators for circular buildings