EIT Cross-KIC Regional Innovation
HORIZON EIT KIC Actions
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-Cross-KIC-Regional-Innovation
- 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-2023-25-Cross-KIC-Regional-InnovationHORIZON-EIT-2023-2025-KICEntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship educationInnovation managementRegional developmentRelated to regional developmentStartupsTypes of innovationUrban and regional economics
Description
to be defined by applicants addressing the specific objectives of the activity, its scope and expected results in the context of elevating the impact of the EIT Community in the EIT Regional Innovation Scheme area as well as other priority countries and regions and increasing their competitiveness and innovativeness level. The impact description should be supported by results KPIs and qualitative and quantitative description of the long-term impact in line with the impact KPIs in the EIT Impact Framework. The Cross-KIC activity should demonstrate in the proposal how the cross-KIC activity contributes to KICs' financial sustainability and how it contributes to the EIT core KPIs.
Expected Outcome:The expected outcome should be focused (but might not limit) on:
- strengthening the EIT KICs’ presence, outreach and integration within the RIS area and other priority regions, including a specific focus on the Western Balkans region and Ukraine, and support the objective of attracting and facilitating the integration of potential new partners in the EIT KICs;
- exploring linkages and synergies between the EIT Community and local innovation ecosystems and Smart Specialisation Strategies, and provide capacity building support.
- consolidation of EIT RIS hubs into EIT Community Hubs at country or regional level in line with the EIT RIS Minimum Standards and Guiding Principles.
- identifying best practices in the field of start-up support and incubation, education and KTI development and transfer them to create synergies within the EIT Community.
- exploring and establishing strategic alliances and possible cooperation with key actors in the targeted countries and regions, at different levels (e.g. Regional Cooperation Council, Enterprise Europe Network, among others).
- exploring and linking the EIT funded activities with other potential funding streams including the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) and ESIF.
- scoping, preparation and implementation of potential innovation projects addressing circular economy challenges in the Western Balkans region.
- strengthening entrepreneurial education via implementation of the joint pre-accelerator EIT Jumpstarter.
- development and implementation of knowledge-sharing platform to ensure alignment between regional priorities and KICs’ EIT RIS activities;
- effective management of the activity.
Maximise the EIT Community’s impact in the EIT Regional Innovation Scheme area as well as other priority countries and regions.
Scope:geographical scope: regions and countries eligible under the EIT RIS scheme as well as other priority countries and regions, including all the Western Balkan countries.
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.
- EIT Cross-KIC topics: other specific conditions regarding "entities elegible for funding" and "eligible activities" are described in Chapters 10.2 and 10.3.
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.
- EIT Cross-KIC topics: Award criteria is described in Chapter 10.4
- 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].
- EIT Cross-KIC topics: other specific conditions regarding "entities elegible for funding" and "eligible activities" are described in Chapters 10.2 and 10.3.
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)_Cross-KIC 2023-2025
- MGA
Additional documents:
- Annotated Proposal Template – EIT Cross-KIC Scheme (Strategic cross-KIC clusters)
- 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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