Scaling up CEI pilots: Discover the open calls of O-CEI and COP-PILOT

Scaling up CEI Pilots: Discover the Open Calls of O-CEI and COP-PILOT

📅 12 February 2026  |  🕒 11:00am - 12:30pm CET  |  🌐 Online webinar

Turning Cloud–Edge–IoT research into real-world impact often depends on access to the right funding mechanisms, partners and deployment opportunities. Open calls play a crucial role in this process, enabling innovators to scale pilots, validate technologies and reach new markets.

This joint webinar, organised within the CEI-Sphere framework, brings together O-CEI and COP-PILOT to provide a strategic overview of their open call activities. The session will highlight lessons learned from O-CEI’s first open call and present the scope and objectives of COP-PILOT’s upcoming call, offering participants a clearer picture of how these initiatives support the scaling of CEI pilots.

Rather than focusing on procedural details, the webinar will emphasise how to approach open calls strategically, how to design strong proposals, and how joint initiatives can amplify visibility and impact across the CEI ecosystem.

Why attend this webinar

This session is particularly relevant for:

• organisations interested in scaling Cloud–Edge–IoT pilots through European open calls,
• potential applicants seeking early guidance on positioning their ideas,
• innovation actors looking to expand beyond their existing networks,
• and stakeholders aiming to better understand how O-CEI and COP-PILOT complement each other.

Check the agenda below.