General conditions

1. Admissibility conditions:

• Applications must be submitted before the call deadline.
• Applications must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the  Search Funding & Tenders section). Paper submissions are not possible.
• Applications (including supporting documents) must be submitted using the forms provided inside the Submission System (not the documents available on the Topic page — they are only for information).
• Applications must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required supporting documents:
  • Application Form Part A — contains administrative information about the applicant organisations (to be filled in directly online)
  • Application Form Part B — contains the technical description of the application (to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed and then assembled and re-uploaded)

Your application must be readable, accessible, printable.

Proposal page limits and layout: applications are limited to maximum 20 pages (Part B). Evaluators will not consider any additional pages.

2. Eligible participants:  In order to be eligible, the applicants must comply with the following criteria:

• Eligible applicants are any humanitarian non-governmental organisation, international organisation, and/or legal entity established in one of the Member States (including overseas countries and territories, OCTs) or a country associated to Horizon Europe.
• Applicants that have already received an EU or Euratom prize cannot receive a second prize for the same activities.

• Award criterion 1: Innovative solution– An innovative solution tested successfully and safely in a humanitarian aid environment and on a sufficient scale, with a demonstrated potential of adaptability and scalability under different humanitarian aid settings and responding to the needs of those in a most vulnerable situation (taking age, gender, disability, and minority into consideration).
• Award criterion 2: Quality and sustainability – Quality and sustainability of the solution based on the application of advanced, technologies including digital technologies, by demonstrating improved robustness and quality of response compared to existing solutions and by taking account scarcity of resources and potential environmental impacts.
• Award criterion 3: Affordability and cost-effectiveness – Affordability and cost-effectiveness for beneficiaries and organisations responding to crisis, meaning a better value for money compared to existing solutions (considering notably the installation, operational and maintenance costs).
• Award criterion 4: Engagement with end users – Engagement with end users amongst affected populations to facilitate their involvement in the design of the solution, and perspective of a business case for (re)deployment of the solution at scale

Submission and evaluation processes: applications will be subject to a formal evaluation by a jury. If there are more than 50 applications, there will be a pre-selection phase to select the best 50 to pass to jury review. Otherwise, all applications will pass directly to jury review. 

One first prize for the winner of the European Prize for Humanitarian Innovation of EUR 250 000, and two runner-up prizes of EUR 150 000 and EUR 100 000 for the applications ranked 2^nd and 3^rd.

Indicative timeline for evaluation: October 2023 to January 2024.

Information on evaluation results and award ceremony: Q1 2024.