Programme Category
Programme Name
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.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The Commission will award on an annual basis a recognition prize to reward beneficiaries that have successfully used their research results to create value for society. This action aims to illustrate the wider socio-economic benefits of the EU investment in research and innovation and to encourage project beneficiaries to best manage and use their research results.
Detailed Call Description
The beneficiaries must be able to show proof of effective exploitation and uptake of their research results. The award enables individuals or teams to showcase their best practices and achievements. This will encourage other beneficiaries to use and manage their results in the best way possible. It aims to create role models and inspire beneficiaries of research and innovation funding to maximise the impact of their research.
Total of six prizes of €0,025 each: €0.15 million from the 2021 budget, and €0.15 million from the 2022 budget.
All applicants are required to submit letter(s) of support coming from the user community that can provide testimony on achieved impact.
The prize will be awarded, after closure of the contest, to the contestant(s) who in the opinion of the jury best addresses the following cumulative criteria:
1. Pathway from results to societal benefits:
Applicants will need to detail how the R&I results were directly or indirectly exploited after the lifetime of the project. They will need to describe the activities that were done to ensure that the R&I results lead to societal benefits. They will need to describe the scale and the sustainability of their actions.
2. Achieved impact:
Applicants will need to demonstrate the already existing impact and created societal benefits. They will need to detail concrete examples of how their research results have benefitted the society and who are the user communities that have profited from it. The achieved impact must be already materialized. The letter of support will serve as a testimony of the described impact.
Call Total Budget
Thematic Categories
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- International Organisations
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
The contest is open to all legal entities (i.e. natural or legal persons, including international organisations) or groups of legal entities that participated as beneficiaries in FP7 or Horizon 2020. The projects must have ended by close of the contest. Natural persons such as ERC principal investigators or MSCA fellows and legal entities principally created by past beneficiaries for the exploitation of the project results, are also eligible.
Applicants that have already received an EU or Euratom prize cannot receive a second prize for the same activities.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia
P.O.Box 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Phone Number: +357 22205000
Email Address: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
Ms Constantina Makri
Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 054
Contact Email: cmakri@research.org.cy
Ms Katerina Karakasidou
Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 036
Contact Email: kkarakasidou@research.org.cy
Mr. Marinos Photiades
Scientific Officer
Contact phone: +357 22205048
Contact email: mphotiades@research.org.cy
Dr Kalypso Sepou
Head of European Programmes Department
Contact Phone: +357 22 205066
Contact Email: kalypso@research.org.cy
(Publish Date: 10/01/2022-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
Research and Innovation
https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation_en