Call for proposals

Horizon 2020 programme - Industrial Leadership – ICT – Inducement prize:
“Online security - Seamless personal authentication” - OnlineSecurityPrize-01-2017

 

Objective and description

Horizon Prizes are 'challenge' prizes (also known as ‘inducement’ prizes) offering a cash reward to whoever can most effectively meet a defined challenge. The aim is to stimulate innovation and come up with solutions to problems that matter to European citizens.

 

Nowadays, there is a clear need for a simple, secure and privacy-friendly way of seamlessly authenticating individuals online. This Horizon 2020 “Online security - Seamless personal authentication prize” aims to significantly improve citizen's overall experience related to online authentication and consequently foster the widespread adoption of services and products provided within the Digital Single Market of the European Union.

 

This prize also complements the activities of the Cybersecurity cPPP which aims to develop Europe's strengths in digital security.

 

Expected results

An information and communication technologies (ICT) solution that enables citizens and their smart objects to seamlessly authenticate themselves across a wide range of applications and devices. The solution should be easy to use, reliable, robust against cyber-attacks, privacy-friendly and compatible with widely used technologies as well as affordable. It should be also open enough so that it could be easily audited, enhanced, tailored, developed and/or integrated. In addition, it should be ready to benefit a wide range of the EU population, from healthy to impaired citizens of all ages.

 

The innovative solution should enable people and the smart objects they own to seamlessly authenticate (i.e. prove their relationships, identities, privileges and rights) among each other and across a wide range of services, applications, systems and devices within IoT ecosystems. The solution should also overcome the shortfalls of existing authentication technologies including challenges of group authentication (multiple users authenticating e.g. to the same smart objects in IoT and cloud ecosystems). It should be ready to benefit a wide range of the EU population and the variety of objects they own (e.g. smart cars/appliances/terminals/devices) while respecting and promoting the objectives of relevant EU legislation (e.g. eIDAS, NIS Directive , GDPR).

 

The solution must be developed by the contestant(s). The solution proposed by the contestant must be demonstrated, including at least a system prototype running in an operational environment.

 

Eligible applicants

The contest is open to any legal entity (including natural persons) or group of legal entities established in an EU Member State or in a country associated to Horizon 2020.

 

Please also be aware that participants that have already received an EU or Euratom prize cannot receive a second prize for the same activities.

 

Joint applications by a group of participants are admitted. In this case, the participants must appoint a 'lead participant' to represent them towards the Commission. The participants will be jointly responsible and must all fulfil and respect the conditions set out in these Rules of Contest.

 

Members of consortium are not required to conclude a consortium agreement.

 

Budget and duration

A total budget of 4.000.000 EUR is available for this prize, offering 3 (three) awards as follows:

·         2.800.000 EUR for the winner(s)

·         700.000 EUR for the 1st runner-up

·         500.000 EUR for the 2nd runner-up

 

Deadline for proposals’ submission

The deadline for submitting applications is 28 September 2018 at 17:00:00 CEST.

 

The application template (attached) serves as an example. The template to be filled in is available after entering the submission tool.

 

If there are more than 12 applications, there will be a pre-selection phase to select the best 12 applications to pass to jury review. Otherwise, all applications will pass directly to jury review.

 

Further information

Please find attached the call documents.

 

In case of questions, please contact cnect-a2-prize@ec.europa.eu.

 

More information: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/onlinesecurityprize-01-2017.html

 

 

Kind regards,

Rosemary

 

Rosemary STREVINIOTI

Head of Brussels Office
European Office of Cyprus
Rue du Luxembourg 3, 2nd floor
B-1000 Brussels
Tel./Fax: +32 (0) 2 280 22 85
E-mail: strevinioti.rozamaria@ucy.ac.cy

 

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