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+# Proposers
+
+- name-of-proposer-1 (institution-of-proposer-1)
+- name-of-proposer-2 (institution-of-proposer-2)
+...
+
+# Description
+
+Describe your proposal in ~1000 characters.
+You can reference external content listed in section "References" as [Ref-1].
+
+# Demo or definition of done
+
+Describe which high level conditions needs to be fulfilled to demonstrate this feature implementation is completed.
+You can reference external content (example, demo paper) listed in section "References" as [Ref-2].
+
+# References
+
+1. [Reference name](https://reference-url)
+2. Author1, Author2, Author3, et. al., “My demo using feature,” in Conference-Name Demo Track, 20XX.
+
+# Acknowledgements
+This work is funded by the European Commission through the <European project id> project with Grant Agreement number <Agreement Number>.
+```example HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022 FLEX-SCALE project with Grant Agreement number 101096909.```
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+# Proposers
+
+- name-of-proposer-1 (institution-of-proposer-1)
+- name-of-proposer-2 (institution-of-proposer-2)
+...
+
+# Description
+
+Describe your proposal in ~1000 characters.
+You can reference external content listed in section "References" as [Ref-1].
+
+# Demo or definition of done
+
+Describe which high level conditions needs to be fulfilled to demonstrate this feature implementation is completed.
+You can reference external content (example, demo paper) listed in section "References" as [Ref-2].
+
+# References
+
+1. [Reference name](https://reference-url)
+2. Author1, Author2, Author3, et. al., “My demo using feature,” in Conference-Name Demo Track, 20XX.
+
+# Acknowledgements
+This work is funded by the European Commission through the <European project id> project with Grant Agreement number <Agreement Number>.
+```example HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022 FLEX-SCALE project with Grant Agreement number 101096909.```