EIT Food Business Plan 2023-2025

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Horizon Europe (2021-2027)

Programme Description

Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-KIC-EITFOOD

Call

EIT Food Business Plan 2023-2025

Summary

Objective:

  • Relevant and appropriate EIT Food Business Plan for 2023-2025 implementation of the KIC’s multiannual strategy Strategic, demonstrating its excellence (including objectives and ambition; methodology; financial sustainability), its impact (including KIC’s pathways towards impact; measures to maximise impact – dissemination, exploitation and communication) and its quality and efficiency of the implementation (including work plan and resources at portfolio level; capacity of participants and KIC Partnership as a whole).
  • To address EIT Food‘s target societal challenges and Knowledge Triangle Integration (KTI), contributing to achieving the future high-level results and impacts included in the EIT Impact Framework.
  • KIC’s objectives/priorities in this Business Plan, describing its objectives using SMART criteria (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound) and why are they pertinent to the KIC Strategic Agenda.

Detailed Call Description

Scope:

The KIC’s Business Plan 2023-2025, describing the activities at portfolio level aligned to the EIT Food Strategic Agenda in the framework of the EIT Strategic Agenda 2021-2027.

Expected Impact:

In response to this topic, EIT Food should show how the KIC could contribute to the outcomes and impacts described in the KIC Strategic Agenda and the KPIs in the EIT Impact Framework following the specific EIT Food’s Impact Pathways, the likely scale and significance of this contribution, and the measures to maximise these impacts in the context of Horizon Europe. Each activity included in the Business Plan should contribute to at least one core EIT KPI.

Call Total Budget

For 2023: €905,000,000. The amount each year changes.

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

Is described in Chapters 7 and 8 – Invitation to submit proposals for KIC Business Plans 2023-2025 (2023-2024 in case of first wave KICs), for the Cross-KIC activities 2023-2025, and for the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) initiative 2023-2025.

See websites below. 

Thematic Categories

  • Education and training
  • Industry
  • New Entrepreneurship
  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation

Eligibility for Participation

  • Large Enterprises
  • NGOs
  • Private Bodies
  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
  • State-owned Enterprises
  • Training Centres

Eligibility For Participation Notes

In accordance with the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2021-2022 10 and the Draft EIT Single Programming Document 2023-2025, in order to be eligible for funding, the applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:

  • the Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU) including their outermost regions
  • the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States
  • eligible non-EU countries:
    • Countries associated to Horizon Europe
    • Certain low- and middle-income countries

Legal entities, which are established in countries not listed above will be eligible for funding when their participation is considered essential for implementing the action by the EIT.

Call Opening Date

01/06/2022

Call Closing Date

28/09/2022

National Contact Point(s)

Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia
P.O.Box 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Email Address: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/

Contact Persons:
Mr. Marinos Photiades
Scientific Officer
Telephone: +357 22205048
Contact Email: mphotiades@research.org.cy

Dr Charalambos Papatryfonos
Scientific Officer
Telephone: +357 22205016
Contact Email: cpapatryfonos@research.org.cy

(Publish Date: 09/06/2021-for internal use only)

EU Contact Point

Applicants are invited to send in any questions they might have on the EIT Call for Proposals until 3 February 2022 via the following functional mailbox: EIT-KICs-Call-2021@eit.europa.eu.