Call for proposal: action grants to contribute to the organisations of conference and events (OA-g-23-89)
Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
The Programme aims to improve and promote health in the Union to reduce the burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases by:
- protecting people from serious cross-border health threats
- improving the availability, accessibility and affordability of medicines, medical devices and other crisis-related products in the EU
- strengthening national health systems
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The objective of this action is to support the organisation of not-for-profit, EU-wide high-level science-policy-society events that bring together all interested parties such as citizens, patients, practitioners, academics and scientists, policy makers from local, regional, and EU level.
Detailed Call Description
Proposals should include considerations and state-of-the art activities to facilitate the exchange of ideas and identification of Union-wide and/or global solutions to major health challenges.
The proposals should include at least one of following activities:
- effective mobilisation of a broad audience with participation of policy makers (EU, national, regional and where necessary global levels), academia, industry, civil society including patients’ organisations and other relevant representative);
- provide a platform for a sounding board to explain Eu health initiatives and health societal challenges;
- sustainable outreach activities beyond the event with multiplier effect including on social media;
- facilitate high-level policy dialogues attracting relevant health actors from different relevant sectors;
- the use of innovative approaches in running the event are a plus.
Priority will be given to proposals covering several of the above activities.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The costs will be reimbursed at the funding rate fixed in the Grant Agreement (60%). Your organisation can apply for a higher project funding rate (80%) if your project is of “exceptional utility”. Actions shall be considered to have exceptional utility where at least 30% of the budget of the proposed action is allocated to Member States whose GNI per inhabitant is less than 90% of the Union average; or the project concerns actions with bodies from at least 14 Member States and where at least 4 are from Member States whose GNI per inhabitant is less than 90% of the EU average.
Thematic Categories
- Health
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Educational Institutions
- International Organisations
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Applications will only be considered eligible if their content corresponds wholly (or at least in part) to the topic description for which it is submitted.
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- eligible non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries and countries associated to the EU4Health Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)
Type of applicants targeted: Public or non-profit entities with expertise on organising events in public health domain
Specific eligibility criteria applicable to the consortium composition: Applications may be either by a single applicant or a consortium (no minimum requirement)
Non-eligible activities Conferences: which have already held by the date on which the grant application is submitted are not eligible.
Conferences organised by the Presidencies of the European Union fall outside the scope of the present call.
Other topic requirements: Priority will be given to proposals covering several types of health challenges in several Member States and beyond the EU.
Priority will be given to proposals covering several types of the topics (under subsection Strand – scope) in several Member States, and beyond the EU where necessary.
Priority will be given to proposals covering several of the activities (under subsection activities that can be funded – scope).
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Health, Department of European Affairs
Ms MAKRIGIORGI Elena
emakrigiorgi@moh.gov.cy
EU Contact Point
Stefan DE KEERSMAECKER
+32 2 298 46 80
stefan.de-keersmaecker@ec.europa.eu
Darragh CASSIDY
+32 2 298 39 78