The STARHAUS Open Call aimed at supporting the contribution of third parties to specific use-cases with additional tools, services applications, ideas or services, as well as designed strategies to enhance the acceptance of the project solutions in the target communities. STARHAUS invited artists/creatives and technology providers SMEs to submit proposals for Experiments aimed at changing the mindset of communities into adopting sustainable consumption models by using customized products manufactured by small-scale factories configured for local communities.

The project had 100 000 EUR to provide support to at least 2 SMEs that will be working side-by-side with the STARHAUS partners to produce relevant requirements and specifications for project activities, willing to contribute to research challenges of decentralised manufacturing processes and to support the validation of the proposed solutions within the project use-cases: 1) Pet Food, 2) Fertilizers, 3) Beverage and 4) Breakfast Cereals.

Proposals were evaluated against criteria of degree of innovation, technical approach, creative and business capacities and cost-benefit. Proposals could be submitted by single entities or by a consortium composed of 2 legal entities. Entities had to be established in an EU or a Horizon Europe Associated country.