EIT Climate-KIC Business Plan 2023-2024
HORIZON EIT KIC Actions
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-EIT-2023-24-KIC-EITCLIMATEKIC
- Programme
- 2023-2025 Call for KICs Business Plans, Cross-KIC activities and Higher Education Institutions (HEI) initiative
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- May 31, 2022
- Deadline
- September 27, 2022
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €1,245,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- €12,000,000
- Max Grant Amount
- €16,700,000
- Expected Number of Grants
- 5
- Keywords
- HORIZON-EIT-2023-24-KIC-EITCLIMATEKICHORIZON-EIT-2023-2025-KICClimate change adaptationClimate change mitigationEducationEntrepreneurial SkillsEntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship educationHigher educationInnovation managementTypes of innovation
Description
In response to this topic, EIT Climate-KIC should show how the KIC could contribute to the outcomes and impacts described in the KIC Strategic Agenda and the KPIs in the EIT Impact Framework following the specific EIT Digital’s Impact Pathways, the likely scale and significance of this contribution, and the measures to maximise these impacts in the context of Horizon Europe. Each activity in education, innovation, business creation and EIT RIS included in the Business Plan should contribute to at least one core EIT KPI.
Expected Outcome:The results of Business Plan 2023-2024 should contribute to the expected outcomes set out in the EIT Climate-KIC Strategic Agenda 2021-2027 over the medium term, and to the wider expected impacts and respective targets over the longer term.
Objective:- Relevant and appropriate EIT Climate-KIC Business Plan for 2023-2024 implementation of the KIC’s multiannual strategy Strategic, demonstrating its excellence (including objectives and ambition; methodology; financial sustainability), its impact (including KIC’s pathways towards impact; measures to maximise impact - dissemination, exploitation and communication) and its quality and efficiency of the implementation (including work plan and resources at portfolio level; capacity of participants and KIC Partnership as a whole).
- To address EIT Climate-KIC‘s target societal challenges and Knowledge Triangle Integration (KTI), contributing to achieving the future high-level results and impacts included in the EIT Impact Framework.
- KIC’s objectives/priorities in this Business Plan, describing its objectives using SMART criteria (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound) and why are they pertinent to the KIC Strategic Agenda.
The KIC's Business Plan 2023-2024, describing the activities at portfolio level aligned to the EIT Climate-KIC Strategic Agenda in the framework of the EIT Strategic Agenda 2021-2027.
Eligibility & Conditions
General conditions
General conditions
1. Admissibility conditions and documents: described in Chapter 5 - Invitation to submit proposals for KIC Business Plans 2023-2025 (2023-2024 in case of first wave KICs), for the Cross-KIC activities 2023-2025, and for the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) initiative 2023-2025.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System
2. Eligible countries: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
3. Other eligibility conditions: described in Chapter 6 - Invitation to submit proposals for KIC Business Plans 2023-2025 (2023-2024 in case of first wave KICs), for the Cross-KIC activities 2023-2025, and for the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) initiative 2023-2025.
- KICs Business Plans topics: other specific conditions regarding "entities elegible for funding" and "eligible activities" are described in Chapters 9.2 and 9.3.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in Chapters 7 and 8 - Invitation to submit proposals for KIC Business Plans 2023-2025 (2023-2024 in case of first wave KICs), for the Cross-KIC activities 2023-2025, and for the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) initiative 2023-2025.
- Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in the Invitation to submit proposals for KIC Business Plans 2023-2025 (2023-2024 in case of first wave KICs), for the Cross-KIC activities 2023-2025, and for the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) initiative 2023-2025.
- KICs Business plans topics: Award criteria is described in Chapter 9.4
- Submission and evaluation processes are described in Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14 and Chapter 15 - Invitation to submit proposals for KIC Business Plans 2023-2025 (2023-2024 in case of first wave KICs), for the Cross-KIC activities 2023-2025, and for the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) initiative 2023-2025.
- Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: are described in Chapter 4 and Chapter 15 - Invitation to submit proposals for KIC Business Plans 2023-2025 (2023-2024 in case of first wave KICs), for the Cross-KIC activities 2023-2025, and for the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) initiative 2023-2025.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in Chapter 16 - Invitation to submit proposals for KIC Business Plans 2023-2025 (2023-2024 in case of first wave KICs), for the Cross-KIC activities 2023-2025, and for the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) initiative 2023-2025.
- Processing of personal data described in Chapter 17.
Specific conditions
7. Specific conditions: described in the [specific topic of the Invitation to submit proposals for KIC Business Plans 2023-2025 (2023-2024 in case of first wave KICs), for the Cross-KIC activities 2023-2025, and for the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) initiative 2023-2025].
- KICs Business Plans topics: other specific conditions regarding "entities elegible for funding" and "eligible activities" are described in Chapters 9.2 and 9.3.
Documents
Call documents:
EIT application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System
- Invitation to submit proposals for KIC Business Plans 2023-2025 (2023-2024 in case of first wave KICs), for the Cross-KIC activities 2023-2025, and for the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) initiative 2023-2025.
- Template Application Form (Part A) (EIT)
- Template Application Form (Part B) (EIT)_KIC Business Plan 2023-2025
- MGA
Additional documents:
- EIT Guidelines for 2023-2025 KIC Business Plans and estimated budgets
- EIT Strategic Innovation Agenda 2021-2027
- EIT Work Programme 2022-2024
- Annex 1 - Key principles and concepts of the EIT KIC model. Invitation to submit proposals for KIC Business Plans 2023-2025 (2023-2024 in case of first wave KICs), for the Cross-KIC activities 2023-2025, and for the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) initiative 2023-2025.
- HE Programme Guide
- HE Framework Programme and Rules for Participation Regulation 2021/695
- HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764
- EU Financial Regulation
- Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
- EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
- Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
- Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions
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