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Call for Proposals "Secure Neural Human-Machine Interaction"
On October 7, 2022, the Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH (Cyberagentur | Innovation for Cybersecurity) published its call for tenders for research into neurotechnology in the context of human-machine interaction. Up to 30 million euros are available for the project over a period of four years.
The project arises from the objective of designing the benefits of human-machine interactions advantageously and securely for the citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany at an early stage in terms of cyber security. Currently, transformative and extremely far-reaching new uses with a direct impact on humans and their forms of interaction are emerging in the field of neuroinformatics. This is primarily due to advances in computer science (here especially in machine learning), neuroscience, surgery, and nanomaterials and manufacturing processes. These innovative disciplines are mutually enriching and will continue to develop exponentially. The potential of MMI becomes particularly clear when considering brain-computer interfaces (BCI), which enable a direct connection between the human brain and technical systems.
Wide range of applications for human-machine interaction
The benefits of BCIs currently arise primarily in the medical field, e.g. in the control of bionic prostheses or targeted brain stimulation for the treatment of mental illnesses. Increasingly, other non-medical use cases are becoming foreseeable, ranging from the gaming industry to the simultaneous control of swarms of drones or even telepathic communication between people.
Framework is basis for new research project
In an initial project, Cyberagentur | Innovation for Cybersecurity had already conducted fundamental research into how all future developments and application scenarios of BCI can inherently guarantee privacy and cyber security in the sense of the user by means of a framework. The research results were published in summer 2022 and are also the basis for the research in the now tendered project, which pursues the answer to the following questions:
How can communication between humans and (partially) autonomous systems be simplified, shortened and done without the detour via text, touch or voice input? How can large amounts of information be cognitively captured, processed and seamlessly output as instructions?
Europe-wide negotiated procedure with competitive bidding for an innovative contract award
The research project, which deliberately focuses on risky approaches with potentially groundbreaking effects, will be awarded via a negotiated procedure with a prior competitive bidding process. Here, in the first stage from Oct. 7 to Nov. 7, 2022, interested parties will be called upon to demonstrate basic requirements such as their technical expertise. The call for proposals is designed in such a way that universities, research institutes, companies and explicitly start-ups (or communities/consortia of these) are given equal opportunity to participate.
In a second step, Cyberagentur | Innovation for Cybersecurity will invite interested parties who meet all the criteria to submit a bid from mid-November, for which the potential bidders have until Jan. 16, 2023. Subsequently, the bids can be finalized in individual negotiation rounds before Cyberagentur | Innovation for Cybersecurity selects the most promising bid.
The tender will be carried out jointly with PD - Berater der öffentlichen Hand GmbH as the contracting authority and will be published on their website on October 7, 2022, under the number 2022-I-021: https://bieterportal.pd-g.e-va.eu/
The tender is also published in the Official Journal of the European Union on October 12, 2022: https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:559639-2022:HTML:EN:HTML&tabId=0.
Contact
Michael Lindner
Press Officer Cyberagentur | Innovation for Cybersecurity
Tel.: +49 151 44150 645
E-Mail: presse@cyberagentur.de
Background: Cyberagentur | Innovation for Cybersecurity
The Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH (Cyberagentur | Innovation for Cybersecurity) was founded in 2020 as a fully in-house federal company by the German federal government under the joint leadership of the Federal Ministry of Defense and the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Community with the aim of adopting an application-strategy-related and interdepartmental view of internal and external security in the field of cybersecurity. Against this background, the work of Cyberagentur | Innovation for Cybersecurity is primarily aimed at the institutionalized implementation of highly innovative projects, which are associated with a high risk with regard to the achievement of objectives, but at the same time can have a very high disruptive potential if successful.
Cyberagentur | Innovation for Cybersecurity is headed by Prof. Dr. Christian Hummert as Research Director and Managing Director and Daniel Mayer as Commercial Director.
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