The European Social Innovation Challenge Prize 2022

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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-EIC-2022-SocialInnovationChallengePrize

Call

The European Social Innovation Challenge Prize 2022

Summary

The European Social Innovation Competition- the Challenge Prize 2022 will focus on the future of living, innovation for affordable, and sustainable housing districts.

Detailed Call Description

Social innovation can be a driver to make housing districts not only spaces to live, but also more livable, sustainable, inclusive and closer to the residents’ needs. Social innovation in this case can boost employment and improve energy efficiency, while ensuring cities’ and regions’ sustainability and citizens’ well-being. When approached from an innovative perspective, renovation of buildings shifts from a cost into an opportunity for local creativity and business’ market.

The European Social Innovation Competition – the Challenge Prize 2022 will support proposals coming from social innovators and bringing forward innovations expected to generate economic and/or societal benefits (i.e. positive impacts on employment, societal, environmental, scientific, vulnerable groups etc.). Gender-sensitive solutions with regards to energy consumption, mobility patterns, waste management, and other sustainable living aspects should be taken into account, where relevant.

In addition to non-technological social innovations, the competition will look for projects with a particular focus on breakthrough, market-creating and deep-tech innovations embracing the policy objectives of this year’s editions, which will boost innovation within housing districts and, consequently, will have an impact on local prosperity and sustainability.

Call Total Budget

€150,000

Thematic Categories

  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation

Eligibility for Participation

  • Educational Institutions
  • Legal Entities
  • Natual person / Citizen / Individual
  • NGOs
  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
  • Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Eligibility For Participation Notes

In order to be eligible, the applicants must be:

  • A natural person or a legal entity (such as universities, research organisations, SMEs, start-ups or NGOs, except public administrations) and
  • located in one of the EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories, (OCTs) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe.
  • Winners both from the Challenge and the Impact Prizes, of previous editions of the European Social Innovation Competition are NOT eligible.
  • Applicants that have already received an EU or Euratom prize CANNOT receive a second prize for the same activities.

Additionally:

  • Entities without legal personality
  • EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT apply.

Third countries currently negotiating association agreements to Horizon Europe

  • Applicants from countries with ongoing negotiations may participate in the call and can receive a prize if the Horizon Europe association agreement with the third country concerned applies at the time when the award decision is taken.

Eligible activities
Eligible applications are the ones set out in section 2 above and must respect the following eligibility conditions:

  • Proposed solutions that harm the environment or social welfare are NOT eligible
  • The proposed solutions must relate to ongoing (even in an early phase) or completed initiatives started after 11 December 2019.

In the case of ongoing activities, only work achieved by the submission deadline will be considered for
the prize.
An application can include different initiatives from the same applicant (e.g. projects run by different departments).

Call Opening Date

31/03/2022

Call Closing Date

17/05/2022

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: 14/04/2022-for internal use only)

EU Contact Point

European Innovation Council: https://eic.ec.europa.eu/contact-form_en