Erc-2024-pera
HORIZON Recognition Prize
Basic Information
- Identifier
- ERC-2024-PERA
- Programme
- ERC Public Engagement with Research Award
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- November 14, 2023
- Deadline
- February 21, 2024
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €60,000
- Min Grant Amount
- €60,000
- Max Grant Amount
- €60,000
- Expected Number of Grants
- 6
- Keywords
- ERC-2024-PERAERC-2024-PERA
Description
Up to six prizes will be awarded under this work programme of a value of EUR 10 000 each.
Objective:With the ERC Public Engagement with Research award, the ERC wishes to recognise and reward outstanding science communicators among its Principal Investigators who successfully engage audiences outside their domain with ERC-funded research.
Public engagement is defined for the purposes of this prize as the involvement of the public in the design, conduct or dissemination of activities funded by the ERC. Engagement is a two-way process, involving interaction and mutual understanding for mutual benefit.
The public engagement activities may include, for example:
- Citizen science activities conducted in collaboration or consultation with the public at any stage of the frontier research project, including its design. Citizen science initiatives comprise activities such as public consultations or citizen juries.
- Public outreach activities putting the spotlight on a research topic by disseminating its content, promoting discussion or inspiring potential future researchers. Public outreach initiatives can consist of diverse activities, such as art and science projects, educational programmes, exhibitions, and can include diverse audiences and venues such as students, schools, museums or science festivals.
- Activities that foster consultation and exchange with citizen groups to raise awareness on a topic, to address a societal challenge or to contribute to an issue in the public debate. These activities can be undertaken based on preliminary or final project results, as well as any particular result or output generated in the context of an ERC frontier research project. Examples of people and organisations that are likely to be engaged include journalists, policy makers at regional, national or international level, non-governmental organisations, citizen or patient groups, product users.
Eligibility & Conditions
General conditions
General conditions
1. Admissibility and eligibility conditions: described in the ERC Work Programme 2024
Applications must be submitted before the submission deadline via the submission tool available through the EC Funding & Tenders opportunities Portal. Further detailed guidance in the 'IT HOW TO' wiki site.
Eligible participants: All Principal Investigators in an ERC frontier research project, that is either ongoing or has ended on or after 31/12/2021, are eligible to apply.
Applications should be submitted by a single Principal Investigator, who has responsibility for the content of the application. In the case of Synergy Grants, each Principal Investigator may submit an application for the public engagement activities, which the specific Principal Investigator has worked on, provided that these activities are different from those of the other Principal Investigators. If several Principal Investigators of a Synergy project have conducted public engagement activities together, they may exceptionally submit a joint application. One of them should be the lead applicant.
Each Principal Investigator may submit only one application per ERC project.
Eligible activities: All applications must refer to public engagement activities for an ERC-funded project, regardless of the sources of funding for the public engagement activities themselves. These activities should be sufficiently mature to demonstrate impact.
Applications must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents:
a) Administrative proposal forms: available on this page below and online via the submission tool - EU Funding & Tenders opportunities Portal - registration to the EU Funding & Tenders opportunities Portal is required first.
b) Contest proposal (Part B), available in the submission tool below, should be uploaded in the submission tool as PDF file. Proposal page limits and layout are described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System and in the Rules of Contest.
All applications must be complete, readable, accessible, and be submitted before the submission deadline.
Applications, which do not meet these criteria, may be declared inadmissible.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System
3. Other eligibility conditions: described in the ERC Work Programme 2024 and Annexes
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the Rules of Contest.
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Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in section 9 of the Rules of Contest
The quality of the applications received will be evaluated on the basis of two weighted award criteria:
- Strategy and implementation: quality of the public engagement strategy and its implementation, including appropriateness of the used tools, channels and resources and the implementation to the objectives and audience of the action. Degree of novelty or creativity of the approach.
- Impact: quantitative and qualitative evidence of the activity’s success in achieving its own public engagement objectives, including possible evidence of learning by the research team and/or the public who engaged in the activity on how to successfully engage with the public.
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Submission and evaluation processes are described in the ERC Work Programme 2024, in the Rules of Contest and the Online Manual
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Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in the ERC Work Programme 2024 and in the Rules of Contest
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the Rules of Contest
Support & Resources
Online Manual is your guide on the procedures from proposal submission to managing your grant.
Horizon Europe Programme Guide contains the detailed guidance to the structure, budget and political priorities of Horizon Europe.
Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – find the answers to most frequently asked questions on submission of proposals, evaluation and grant management.
Research Enquiry Service – ask questions about any aspect of European research in general and the EU Research Framework Programmes in particular.
National Contact Points (NCPs) – get guidance, practical information and assistance on participation in Horizon Europe. There are also NCPs in many non-EU and non-associated countries (‘third-countries’).
IT Helpdesk – contact the Funding & Tenders Portal IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.
Latest Updates
EVALUATION results
Published: 14.11.2023
Deadline: 21.02.2024
Available budget: EUR 60 000
The results of the evaluation are as follows:
Number of applications submitted: 99
Number of inadmissible applications: 3
Number of ineligible applications: 6
Number of pre-selected applications: 30
Winners:
101176188-ADD-IMPACT
101179928-AIRS
101181096-OCDBrain
101181121-ParentPOWER
101181367-PersonalAndPolitical
101181451-PastFood
For more information on the finalists, winner and jury members, please see the prize website.
For questions, please contact [email protected]
PROPOSAL NUMBERS
Call ERC-2024-PERA has closed on the 21 February 2024.
99 proposals have been submitted.
As more than 30 entries have been submitted, a pre-selection will be organised in order to choose the best proposals for the jury review.
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated during autumn 2024.
PROPOSAL NUMBERS
Call ERC-2024-PERA has closed on the 21 February 2024.
99 proposals have been submitted.
As more than 30 entries have been submitted, a pre-selection will be organised in order to choose the best proposals for the jury review.
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated during autumn 2024.
PROPOSAL NUMBERS
Call ERC-2024-PERA has closed on the 21 February 2024.
99 proposals have been submitted.
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated during autumn 2024.
PROPOSAL NUMBERS
Call ERC-2024-PERA has closed on the 21 February 2024.
99 proposals have been submitted.
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated during autumn 2024.
The Part B template application form has been modified and the new version posted in SEP.
The following modifications have been introduced on page 2:
- This sentence has been deleted: “supporting documents can be provided as an annex and do not count towards the page limit.”
- This sentence has been modified for the sake of clarity: “Please do NOT delete any content (including instructions) in the document.”
Regarding point 1, applications may include only hyperlinks and no further supporting documents can be provided. We refer you to the Rules of Contest “Applications (Part B) may include up to 3 hyperlinks serving as evidence of the public engagement activity. Do not use hyperlinks to describe how the award criteria in section 9 are met. Evaluators will not consider as evidence any additional hyperlinks.” and the call’s FAQs: “Applicants can submit any supporting documents and material only through hyperlinks”. Therefore, the sentence in question was not applicable and had to be deleted.
Regarding point 2, since there is a strict page limit and guidelines not to delete instructions to ensure equal treatment of all applications, applicants must not alter the content (no summarising, adding abbreviations, changing the structure, merging sections, removing the cover page, etc.) of the template. This sentence has been modified to clarify to applicants how the template should be filled in.
Please ensure that you use the latest template for your application.
The Part B template application form has been modified and the new version posted in SEP.
The following modifications have been introduced on page 2:
- This sentence has been deleted: “supporting documents can be provided as an annex and do not count towards the page limit.”
- This sentence has been modified for the sake of clarity: “Please do NOT delete any content (including instructions) in the document.”
Regarding point 1, applications may include only hyperlinks and no further supporting documents can be provided. We refer you to the Rules of Contest “Applications (Part B) may include up to 3 hyperlinks serving as evidence of the public engagement activity. Do not use hyperlinks to describe how the award criteria in section 9 are met. Evaluators will not consider as evidence any additional hyperlinks.” and the call’s FAQs: “Applicants can submit any supporting documents and material only through hyperlinks”. Therefore, the sentence in question was not applicable and had to be deleted.
Regarding point 2, since there is a strict page limit and guidelines not to delete instructions to ensure equal treatment of all applications, applicants must not alter the content (no summarising, adding abbreviations, changing the structure, merging sections, removing the cover page, etc.) of the template. This sentence has been modified to clarify to applicants how the template should be filled in.
Please ensure that you use the latest template for your application.