Facing Societal Challenges category
HORIZON Recognition Prize
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-EIC-2022-InnovationProcurementAwardsPrize2
- Programme
- The European Innovation Procurement Awards
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- March 22, 2022
- Deadline
- June 22, 2022
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €300,000
Description
| The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the global context and created an opportunity for the EU to redefine and affirm its role as a leader to achieve the necessary transformations ahead. Innovation procurement should play a key role to supporting the European priorities set up in the Green Deal and to securing the European technological sovereignty.
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 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. These Awards complement other EIC initiatives aimed at supporting and fostering innovation procurement in the European Union. Expected results The awards would:
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Eligibility & Conditions
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. Eligibility criteria:
- 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 located in one of the Member States (including overseas countries and territories, OCTs) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe;
- The awarded procurement practice must have taken place in a Member State (including overseas countries and territories, OCTs) or in an Associated Country to Horizon Europe;
- For the Innovation procurement strategy and the Facing societal challenges category, the awarded procurement practice must relate to completed or ongoing initiatives started after 1 January 2018. In the case of ongoing activities, only work completed by the submission deadline will be considered for the prize (Applicants are required to prove the starting date of the practice by providing supporting documents);
- Participants can only apply to one of the three categories with the same application and set of activities;
- Winners of former European Innovation Procurement Awards editions, as well as runners-up of the 2021 edition are not eligible;
- Applicants that have already received an EU or Euratom prize cannot receive a second prize for the same activities.
For further information, please see the rules of contest.
3. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: for further information, please see the rules of contest.
4. Evaluation and award:
If admissible and eligible, the applications will be evaluated and ranked against the following award criteria:
- Transformation – stimulating the conversion of procurement practices towards innovation procurement with the aim to ensure a sustainable and inclusive growth.
- Uptake – the innovative procurement practice is replicable and scalable, and therefore, contributes to providing, more efficient and effective solutions.
- Collaboration – demonstrated co-operation linked to the innovation procurement practice. Special attention should be paid to the establishment of synergies, to the promotion of best practices, to the support to capacity building and skill development, and to the efforts of knowledge sharing between stakeholders within the different territories, especially among those at different state of maturity in innovation procurement practices.
- Societal impact – practices with a demonstrated positive quantitative and qualitative impact on society, with special emphasis to achieving the green deal and digital transformation priorities.
5.Submission and evaluation processes. For further information, please see the rules of contest.
6. Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: jury evaluation wil take place between July and October 2022. For further information, please see the rules of contest. 
7. Legal and financial set-up of the grants. For further information, please see the rules of contest.
Call documents:
Standard application (you will find it once you start filling in your application)
Additional documents:
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 2. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 3. Research Infrastructures
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 4. Health
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 5. Culture, creativity and inclusive society
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 6. Civil Security for Society
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 7. Digital, Industry and Space
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 8. Climate, Energy and Mobility
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 10. European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE)
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 12. Missions
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 13. General Annexes
HE Framework Programme and Rules for Participation Regulation 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Support & Resources
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Horizon Europe Programme Guide contains the detailed guidance to the structure, budget and political priorities of Horizon Europe.
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