Open Calls

3^rd Exchange Scheme Open Call (Closed)

About the Call

Through TES #3 (oc3-2025-TES-01), ENFIELD aims to fund mobility-based research exchanges for individual researchers to address targeted scientific and technological challenges in the field of AI, contributing to the development of Green, Adaptive, Human-Centric, and Trustworthy AI across industrial domains such as Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Space.

Objectives

This call seeks to support researchers (PhDs, Post-docs, Senior Researchers or Group of Researchers) willing to undertake short-term (3 to 6 months) research residencies within ENFIELD’s network of Centres of Excellence.

Selected applicants will contribute to foundational AI research aligned with one or more of ENFIELD’s four pillars and four industrial domains by responding to pre-defined scientific challenges listed in the official Catalogue of Challenges.

General Information

Call opening: 15 February 2025

Deadline for submission:
~~~~15 April 2025, 17:00~~ CET~~

Extended! 30 April 2025, 17:00 CET

Open Call Summary Report (Coming Soon)

Selected Projects

Project	Researchers	Host Institutions	Duration	Grant Awarded
Energy-Efficient Inference of Large Language Models in Software Engineering	Hasan Sozer	SINTEF	6 Months	14 400 €
Adaptive Digital Twin-Driven Healthcare for Chronic Condition Management	João Rocha Gomes	NRS	6 Months	14 400 €
SAFER AI: Secure, Accurate, Fair, Explainable and Robust AI	Rasha Zieni	POLIMI (Co-host DTI)	6 Months	14 400 €
LoRA-Specific Adaptive Replay for Continual Learning	Andrii Krutsylo	TU/e	3 Months	7 200 €
Comparing explainable AI in distributed markets: IL Risk	Ignacio Ariel del Monte	TUC	6 Months	14 400 €
Semantics-Aware Image Generation From a Scene Sketch	Ahmed Bourouis	Telecom Paris/IMT	6 Months	14 400 €
MoSE: Mixture-of-Specialized-Experts for efficient continual adaptation	Van-Tuan Tran	TU/e	5 Months	12 000 €
Pruning-Aware Adapters for Bitrate and Complexity Scalable LIC Models	Gabriele Spadaro	Telecom Paris/IMT	6 Months	14 400 €
Uncertainty-aware feature attribution for temporal predictive models	Niklas Koenen	TELENOR	4 Months	9 600 €
Generalization of Deepfake Voice Detection across Generator Architectures	Nhien-An Le-Khac; Hong-Hanh Nguyen-Le	BME	6 Months	14 400 €
Towards Green AI adoption and policy for sustainable AI governance	Anastasija Nikiforova	KNOW	6 Months	14 400 €
CHARM: CH4 and CO High-Resolution Mapper	Oualid Yahia	Telecom Paris/IMT (Co-host ECoE)	6 Months	14 400 €
Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Predictive Energy Management	Sajjad Fattaheian; Mahyar Tofighi Milani	KNOW (co-host PREDICT)	6 Months	14 400 €
ADAPT-BioEL: zero shot biomedical entity matching and linking	Katerina Gkirtzou	IMT (co-host ICCS)	6 Months	14 400 €
XAI for Advancing Hydrological Forecasting and Process Understanding	Rafael Francisco	TU/e	5 Months	12 000 €
Tiny Models on the Resource Constrained Edge Devices	Kasim Sinan Yildirim	SINTEF	6 Months	14 400 €
Explainable AI for Solar Cell Design via Electrochemical Impedance Spectra	Ricardo Grau-Crespo	TU/e	4 Months	9 600 €
Foreign Object Debris (FOD) detection using Unreal Engine	Óscar Rodríguez del Río	BAS	6 Months	14 400 €
Think Before You Sample: Physics-Informed Active Learning for Green AI	Bernd Schuscha	KNOW (co-host PREDICT)	6 Months	14 400 €

More Information on TES #3

Each selected researcher or research group will receive:

month mobility allowance

Maximum funding per researcher

Duration of the exchange (months)

Expected beneficiaries

What We Offer

Opportunity to carry out top-level research activities in partnership with distinguished research institutions and industry entities;
Chance to network and benefit from mutual exchanges, feedback and collaboration with peers and various experts in the AI field;
Up to 14.400€ in financial support (6 months);
Visibility and promotion.

What We Are Looking for

The open call TES #3 is designed to attract the top-level researchers to conduct foundational research activities related to specific scientific and technological challenges raised by ENFIELD project.

Foundational research activities

Green AI

G-AI.3: The Policy Landscape for Green AI
G-AI.4: Green Generative Language Models
G-AI.5: Energy-Efficient Large Language Models for Sustainable Software Engineering
G-AI.6: Green World Models
G-AI.7: Cooperative Multi-agent Green AI

Adaptive AI

A-AI.1: Adaptive AI for Environmental Monitoring: Multimodal Data Fusion for Context Aware Deployment
A-AI.2: Adaptive AI for Multimedia: Learned Compression and Real-Time Applications
A-AI.3: Adaptive AI on the Edge – Innovations for Resource-Constrained Systems
A-AI.4: LLM on the Edge
A-AI.5: Adaptive AI-Powered Digital Twin for Innovating Healthcare Security and Resilience
A-AI.6: Adaptive AI for Generalizable and Multimodal Semantic Reasoning
A-AI.7: Zero-shot large-scale biomedical entity matching and linking
A-AI.8: Parameter Efficient Algorithms for Foundation models
A-AI.9: Robustness and Generalization in single or multimodal models

Human-centric AI

HC-AI.1: Interpretability and uncertainty in predictive models
HC-AI.2: Improving transparency and explainability of web-based AI systems through semi-structured natural language descriptions
HC-AI.3: Explainable AI for Multimodal and Sequential Data Analysis in Physical and Chemical Processes

Trustworthy AI

T-AI.1 Secure Voice Biometrics with Fake Voice Detection
T-AI.2 Non-linear models for multivariate time series (vertical federated learning)
T-AI.3 Security and Robustness of AI systems
T-AI.4 Privacy and Compliance of AI systems
T-AI.5 AI in Distributed systems

Manufacturing

VM.1 Context-agnostic Computer Vision human detection
VM.2 Machine Learning-based stress detection for human operators

Space

VS.1 Synthetic dataset generation of foreign object debris on runways and FATOs
VS.2 Detection of potential water illegal abstractions using Artificial Intelligence and Earth Observation
VS.3 Causal Machine Learning model to identify agricultural practices aiding in yield productivity improvement using Earth Observation (EO) data

For details about each of the challenges, please consult the catalogue.

Who Can Apply?

Researchers or a group of researchers (2) based in EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries. This includes PhD Candidates (who demonstrate their enrolment in a PhD programme), post-docs and senior researchers who demonstrate their employment at a university, research centre or business entity in Europe.

How to Apply?

Read all documents with special attention to:

Guidelines for Applicants
Frequently Asked Questions

Download relevant call documents:

Call for Proposals
Catalogue of Challenges

Prepare your application:

Fill in the Technical Annex
2 min Presentation Video

Start your Application:

Make sure you answer all questions in the application form and upload all relevant documents.

Submit before the deadline

Documentation

These are the necessary documents that will help you to get the best understanding of the Open Call requirements, application and selection process. We advise you to read them carefully before applying.

All the documents can be downloaded here.

Application:

Selected Applicants:

TES #1 Webinar
Watch here the presentation of the open call.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Researchers established in one of the EU Member States or Horizon Europe associated countries. An updated list of countries eligible to participate can be found here. 
Researchers can be: 

PhD candidates (who demonstrate their enrolment in a PhD programme) in an eligible country.

Post-docs or senior researchers who demonstrate their employment at a university, research centre or business entity in an eligible country.

Group of researchers composed by one senior researcher + one or two PhD candidate(s)/Post-doc(s).

ENFIELD Partner Institutions cannot apply!

First, you need to access the public open call here. After reading it carefully, you should complete the technical proposal annex and upload it in PDF format along with a link to a 2-minute presentation video in the application form, here.

The video will not be uploaded during the application. In the application form you will need to provide an URL link to the repository where you stored your video. Applicants should record and watch the final version of the video to ensure it’s ready for submission. Store a copy of the 2-minute Presentation Video on an online repository (e.g., YouTube, Vimeo, etc) and in the application form provide the URL link. It is important to adjust the video’s privacy settings so that the evaluators have access to the URL link to watch the video. If the video is not accessible for watching, it will be considered that no video was associated, making the application not eligible.

Applications can be submitted in English only. The 2-minute presentation video must also be in English.

Each project will have a duration between 3 to 6 months

Yes. Applicants can submit multiple proposals but only one project can be awarded per beneficiary.

Proposals should be submitted until 30 April 2025 at 17:00 (CET).

All applicants will be informed of the results of the evaluation process by email by 30 May 2025 (indicative date). The list of the selected projects will then be published on the information channels of the ENFIELD project.

Queries about applications can be sent by email to enfield.opencall@inova.business before 25 April 2025. We cannot guarantee that emails will be answered after this date.

ENFIELD has four Exchange Scheme open calls scheduled. The first occurred in Spring 2024, the second in Fall 2024, the third in Spring 2025.

The open call offers successful applicants a mobility allowance of €2,400/month. No further financial support is available through the open call.

The management of intellectual property rights (IPR) is outlined in Article 8 of the Sub-grant Agreement: “Published content can be used in the thesis by ensuring reference to relevant authors and in agreement with the host organisation”. Please refer to the open call documentation for detailed information on IPR management.

Financial support will not be extended to the employer of the selected researchers.

No. Applications must be presented in response to the ENFIELD proposed challenges.

The open call allows researchers from various universities across different countries to participate, as long as the countries meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the open call documents.

The funding is exclusively for researchers (individually or in a group).

Each researcher within the group will receive a monthly mobility allowance of €2,400/month.

The exchange programme does not necessarily need to occur entirely on-site at the host institution. Specific arrangements can be made between the researcher(s) and the host institution.

Researchers from all fields are encouraged to apply. In the application form, candidates will be required to demonstrate how they can contribute to the specified research activities associated with the selected challenge.

Since Ukraine is listed as a third country associated to Horizon Europe, researchers established in Ukraine are eligible to apply

No, it is not possible to choose any other host institution aside from those listed in the catalogue.

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