The Second FLUIDOS Open Call for Financial Support is now open!
Key Information
Deadline
4 October 2024
Grant amount
Up to 120.000 EUR
Who can apply
Individual entities and small consortia (up to three partners)
What are the grants for
To develop new Use Cases for the FLUIDOS Edge processing system
The FLUIDOS Open Calls are open to individuals and organizations with a strong focus on tech, particularly in Edge Computing, Open-Source Software and Community Collaboration, Security and Zero Trust Architecture, and other relevant areas.
Grants Available
- The FLUIDOS Technological Extension grant (TEG) invites applications from individual entities (researchers, developers, SMEs, start-ups, large enterprises, innovators, and research institutions) to develop and integrate additional Open-Source functionalities with FLUIDOS.
- The FLUIDOS Use Case grant (UCG) offers funding to individual entities or small consortia to test and validate FLUIDOS architecture and software by incorporating their own additional software on top of the FLUIDOS system and exploring new sectors beyond the traditional application domains.
Grant Amount and Duration
- The five chosen TEG applicants will have the chance to receive up to 75,000 euro in financial support to implement the technology extension development over an 8-month period.
- The five successful UCG applicants will be granted up to 120,000 euro between the consortia or for the individual company to develop the use case over a period of 8 months.
DEADLINE to apply – 29.02.2024 17.00 CET
We have set up a Q&A page for some of the common questions that applicants have. If your question is not answered here, please contact opencall@fluidos.eu
FLUIDOS Champions
FLUIDOS Champions are technical partners within the project that are available to advise applicants on the first draft of their application form. You can request a consultation from a FLUIDOS Champion by contacting us at administrative@fluidos.eu Please put “Champion Request” in the subject line of your email.
To benefit from this service, please be aware that FLUIDOS partners will require at least one week to arrange a consultation. Therefore, it is important to schedule this accordingly with regards to your application drafting in order to be able to submit your application on time. PLEASE NOTE: if your request arrives after 22 February, we cannot guarantee that you will receive feedback with enough time to draft an application.
There are several other documents that are important for administrative purposes. These do not form part of the evaluation but the Honour Declaration must be completed in order for a proposal to eligible. View the FLUIDOS Open Call Admin Documents Below:
What is the Grant For?
The FLUIDOS project is now accepting applications for financial support to develop new Use Case of the FLUIDOS system.
The Use Case grant (UCG) offers funding to individual entities or small consortia to test and validate FLUIDOS architecture and software by incorporating their own additional software on top of the FLUIDOS system and exploring new sectors beyond the traditional application domains.
The deadline to apply is the 4th October 2024.
Below you can find the technical documents supporting the FLUIDOS architecture. These can help you design your Use Case and understand how to integrate with the FLUIDOS system.
Project Resources and Technical Information
Project Deliverables
D2.1 Scenarios, Requirements and Reference Architecture – V.1
D6.1 Cost-Effective and Energy Aware Infrastructure
D9.1 Development Environment and CI/CD Workflows
D9.2 Release and Evaluation Report – First release of the integrated meta-OS
Project Publications – please note these are hosted externally
Data forging is harder than you think – “Privacy Regulation and Protection in Machine Learning” (ICLR 2024)
Cost Minimization in Multi-cloud Systems with Runtime Microservice Re-orchestration – 27th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN)
Building the Cloud Continuum with REAR – 2024 IEEE 10th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)
Scheduling Multi-Component Applications Across Federated Edge Clusters With Phare – EEE Open Journal for the Communications Society
A multi-layer guided reinforcement learning-based tasks offloading in edge computing – Computer Networks , January 2023
Assessing the Potential Energy Savings of a Fluidified Infrastructure – Computer, June 2023
Serverless computing: A security perspective – Journal of Cloud Computing, October 2022
Locality-aware deployment of application microservices for multi-domain fog computing – Computer Communications, October 2022
By-default Security Orchestration on distributed Edge/Cloud Computing Framework – 2023 IEEE 9th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)
Enhancing Network Intrusion Detection: An Online Methodology for Performance Analysis – 2023 IEEE 9th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)
Computing Without Borders: The Way Towards Liquid Computing – IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, September 2023
FLUIDOS Champions and FAQs
FluidOS Champions are project partners who are available to provide feedback on your proposal idea and technical feasibility. Once you have read the publications and seen the Github, they will be available for a final check of the alignment of your proposal and offer suggestions of how it can be better aligned with the FLUIDOS architecture and objectives. You can use the form below to request the support of a Champion.
Please be aware that due to the time required to provide support, Champion requests will not be available inside the final 10 days prior to the submission deadline.