CHIST-ERA is a consortium of research funding organisations in Europe and beyond supporting use-inspired basic research in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) or at the interface between ICT and other domains. The CHIST-ERA consortium is itself supported by Horizon Europe within the European Innovation Council’s Pathfinder programme. CHIST-ERA promotes novel and multidisciplinary research with the potential to lead to significant technology breakthroughs in the long term. The funding organisations jointly support high risk and high impact research projects selected in the framework of CHIST-ERA, in order to reinforce European capabilities in promising new or emerging ICT or ICT related research topics.

In November 2022, the Consortium launched its annual Call with the deadline set for 2 February 2023. The Call accepts proposals on the following topics: 1) Security and Privacy in Decentralised and Distributed Systems (SPiDDS), 2) Machine Learning-based Communication Systems, towards Wireless AI (WAI).

The Croatian Science Foundation joined the Call upon invitation by the Consortium and Croatian research teams are now eligible to apply to the Call as part of transnational consortia. N.B.: Croatian teams are only eligible to apply in Topic 2) Machine Learning-based Communication Systems, towards Wireless AI (WAI).

The Call is open for transnational consortia consisting of a minimum of three and a maximum of six partners from at least three countries participating in the Call. Each partner shall receive funding from its competent research funding organization. The Croatian Science Foundation is able to fund one research team from Croatia.

Text of the Call and eligibility conditions are available on the page Open Calls and at the following link: https://www.chistera.eu/call-2022-announcement.