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
Since the introduction of the European Research Area (ERA) in 2000 and starting with Framework Programme 6 and the introduction of the ERA-NET scheme, programme-level collaboration among EU Member States and Associated Countries and their research and innovation funding programmes has become a cornerstone of the ERA.
Hundreds of networks among research funders have been created over time, serving different research needs, but always coordinating public research investments across borders and allowing researchers to apply for calls for transnational research projects funded by the participating states.
Detailed Call Description
This action supports bottom-up initiatives that allow stakeholders to define new collaborations on chosen priorities, align national and regional research funding, pool resources, and ensure complementarity with the Framework Programme activities, European Partnerships, and EU Missions, thereby supporting the ERA. The action contributes to the objectives of the Pact for Research and Innovation in Europe[1] to increase the share of national public research and development expenditure committed to the European Partnerships and EU Missions.
In order to achieve the expected outcomes, international cooperation is encouraged. The action allows to strengthen collaboration with third countries and promote shared European values and principles for research and innovation, including advancing gender equality and inclusiveness. Involvement of non-associated third countries must be clearly explained and justified in the proposal.
Successful proposals should align national and regional research funding programmes on agreed priorities common to the countries participating in the action and, where appropriate, implement joint calls for transnational R&I projects as well as other joint calls or joint activities.
Applicants should demonstrate clear commitments from participating programmes to pool resources. The necessary resources should be pooled from the participating national or regional research programmes as well as, where appropriate, leveraged from pertinent foundations, charities and transnational initiatives, with a view to implementing calls for proposals, either within the context of this action or in possible follow-up actions, resulting in grants to third parties without EU co-funding in this area.
Proposals should also demonstrate potential impact at national, regional and transnational level. Proposals should demonstrate that activities exclude overlaps with on-going actions co-funded by the EU under Horizon 2020 or Horizon Europe.
Proposals are expected to envisage a duration of up to 3 years without prejudice to a longer duration if duly justified by the ambitions and complexity of the proposed activities.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
Expected EU contribution per project: €2.00 million.
Thematic Categories
- Environment and Climate Change
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Educational Institutions
- Legal Entities
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Eligibility For Participation Notes
The following additional eligibility criteria apply:
Applications must be submitted by a consortium including participation, as beneficiaries, of at least three independent legal entities:
- Each established in a different Member State, Associated Country or non-associated third country; and
- Two of which are established in a Member State.
Due to the scope of this topic, legal entities established in non-associated third countries are exceptionally eligible for Union funding.
If eligible for funding, legal entities established in non-associated third countries may exceptionally participate in this coordination and support action as a beneficiary or affiliated entity.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
Address: 29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia, P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Person to Contact:
Ms. Marcia Trillidou
Scientific Officer A’
Email: trillidou@research.org.cy