Open Call 1 projects have come to an end!
Back in June 2022 SecurIT consortium partners selected 21 projects led by innovative European SMEs to get up to € 88K funding to develop their solutions. 14 demonstrators and 7 prototyping projects have been granted then, and responsible SMEs carried out their activities during 12 months from September 2022 on.
All Open Call 1 funded projects have now ended. There are plenty of things that Open Call 1 projects have been able to reach through SecurIT financial support.
Many projects launched promotional campaigns throughout Europe and globally, starting to communicate about their solutions to potential buyers or integrators during events, even to potential end users for further developments (e.g. latest Open Call 1 SMEs’ exhibitions at Milipol Paris).
Further demonstrations occurred beyond Open Call 1 projects’ ends with additional end users to get the solutions finetuned and ready for market deployment (e.g. Open Call 1 projects FusionSec and HelIA).
Check all projects’ achievements and content on their individual project pages.
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End of a cycle, beginning of another : in between Open Call 1 and Open Call 2 projects
While all projects funded under the first Open Call have achieved the expected results and are waiting for their final payments, Open Call 2 funded projects have kicked off in early July this year and will last until June 2024.
Let’s put the 2 batches of SecurIT selected projects in comparison :
| Open Call 1 (2022-2023) | Open Call 2 (2023-2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Projects’ Kick Off date | 5 September 2022 | 5 July 2023 |
| Number of beneficiary SMEs | 48 | 47 |
| Number of countries represented | 17 | 16 |
| Number of applications | 111 | 130 |
| Number of projects | 21 (14 demonstrators/ 7 prototypes) | 21 (14 demonstrators/ 7 prototypes) |
| Success rate | 19% | 16% |
All projects had to address at least one of the SecurIT challenges which were all included in three major domains : Sensitive infrastructure protection, disaster resilience and public spaces protection. Let’s dive into the detailed distribution of challenges tackled by all projects :
| SecurIT Domains | Open Call 1 (2022-2023) | Open Call 2 (2023-2024) | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 Sensitive infrastructure protection | 13 projects
INSIOTA, Kaleidoscope, IDEAS, RASAD, SECUVERSE, VASCREEN, DIAC, ShowID, ARSP, BIM2SIM, ROGID, CyberTrapper, CyberSec2SME |
13 projects
Smart Diri, INVISIBuBL, RS2DG, DISCGRID, AIRA, AIAGuard, FLOWGUARD, EV Safe, OPTIMIZ NETWORK, SYLVIACARE, ServaL Management, AIR-T4S, CMD |
26 projects |
| #2 Disaster resilience | 5 projects | 11 projects
RS2DG, Smart Diri, ERMINE, WUI-Secure, NOCCRO, RESPO-C, ERRATA, ServaL Management, AI Disaster Emergency Com’, ReBriNet, SYLVIACARE |
16 projects |
| #3 Public spaces protection | 10 projects
C-SHIELD, Digital Forensics Cloud Lab SaaS, HelIA, Kaleidoscope, PIM-SAT-M, RASAD, ROGID, SecuRAIL, ZENITH, FusionSec |
5 projects | 15 projects |
More information on all those solutions and the ways they are tackling SecurIT challenges throughout project activities on the dedicated webpage.
First insights from Open Call 2 project partners
During Kick-Off Meeting in Vilnius in early September, SecurIT partners took the opportunity to ask SMEs funded under SecurIT open call 2 about their motivations and in what way their solutions were a match to SecurIT’s objectives.
SecurIT funding will allow them to gain visibility and to reach higher TRL as well as finetuning their commercialization strategies.
Stay tuned to learn more about the SecurIT community by subscribing to SecurIT’s LinkedIn and Twitter pages. More information on the Open Call 2 funded SMEs and their activities in the next issue!