Facing Societal Challenges Award

 1. Admissibility conditions: described in the rules of contest.

 Proposal page limits and layout: 15. For further information, please see the rules of contest.

 2. Eligible participants:  In order to be eligible, the applicants must be:

- a public and/or private procurer (including international organisations), as well as individuals/natural persons;

- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:

• EU Member State (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
• Associated Countries to Horizon Europe.

 3. Other eligibility conditions: eligible activities must:

- have taken place in an EU Member State or in an Associated Country to Horizon Europe.

- relate to completed or ongoing activities started by 1 January 2017. In case of ongoing initiatives, only work completed by the submission deadline will be considered for the prize.

 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: for further information, please see the rules of contest.

 5. Evaluation and award:

•  Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: 

1: Transformation: adapting procurement practices towards innovation procurement, by introducing new processes and tools, by promoting the establishment of an innovation- friendly legal framework towards sustainable growth and development.

2: Uptake: the innovative way of procuring the solution is replicable and scalable, and, at the same time, contributes to achieving more efficient and effective services. Special attention should be paid to the promotion of best practices and to the efforts to share knowledge across stakeholders within the different territories, and to support capacity building

3: Collaboration: the proven track of collaboration that led to the procured solution. Promotion of synergies and cooperation between actors from different countries and at different degrees of maturity in procurement practices.

4: Societal impact: practices with a positive quantitative and qualitative impact on society and people, with special emphasis on the support to the digital transformation and green deal priorities.

 

•  Submission and evaluation processes: for further information, please see the rules of contest.

 

•  Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: jury evaluation will take place between August and November 2021. For further information, please see the rules of contest.

 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: for further information, please see the rules of contest.

Call document and annexes:

Rules of contest

Mock application form 

Additional documents:
EIC Work Programme 2021

EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms & Conditions
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement

 

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