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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.
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Call
Summary
The European Innovation Procurement Awards aim to recognise public and private buyers, natural persons and those legal entities supporting these practices across Europe in their efforts to promote and stimulate innovation procurement and the innovative ways the solutions are procured. The Awards also aims to demonstrate how innovation procurement positively transforms the economy by not only creating new and sustainable markets, but also by tackling societal challenges such as climate change.
Detailed Call Description
Innovation procurement boosts the process of transforming research results and ideas into innovative solutions. It represents an untapped potential to stimulate the demand for innovation. By using innovation procurement, the public and private sectors can provide state-of-the-art services and goods to the society and, at the same time, offer new growth and commercialisation opportunities for suppliers of disruptive solutions, particularly start-ups and SMEs.
The awards would:
- Stimulate the innovation procurement uptake;
- Acknowledge and support the efforts done by procurers, and legal entities supporting them, to deliver better services and/or to bring products to the market in an innovative way; and
- Build a diverse European community of public and private buyers to share, work together and inspire each other in the design of innovative procurement processes, and particularly in the delivery of public services.
These Awards complement other EIC initiatives aimed at supporting and fostering innovation procurement in the European Union.
The European Innovation Procurement Awards: Procurement leadership category: to reward the outstanding individual(s) and/or legal entities (s) that create strong role models; who empower others to succeed in the use and further deployment of innovation procurement; or develop, support and promote the establishment of new innovative procurement practices within the innovation ecosystem.
- Procurement Leadership Category Winner €75000
- Procurement Leadership Category Runner Up €25000
Call Total Budget
Thematic Categories
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Small-Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Legal Entities
- Natual person / Citizen / Individual
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants must be:
- For the innovation procurement strategy and the facing societal challenges categories, eligible applicants are any public and/or private procurer, as well as individuals/natural persons, located in one of the Member States (including overseas countries and territories, OCTs) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe;
- For the procurement leadership category, eligible applicants are any public and/or private procurer, individuals/natural persons and/or legal entities supporting procurement practices located in one of the Member States (including overseas countries and territories, OCTs) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe;
- Winners of former European Innovation Procurement Awards editions, as well as runners-up of the edition organised one year prior to the current edition are not 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 Katerina Karakasidou
Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 036
Contact Email: kkarakasidou@research.org.cy
Dr Kalypso Sepou
Head of European Programmes Department
Contact Phone: +357 22 205066
Contact Email: kalypso@research.org.cy
(Publish Date: 23/03/2022-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
European Innovation Council: https://eic.ec.europa.eu/contact-form_en