EIT Cross-KIC Strategic Education
HORIZON EIT KIC Actions
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-Cross-KIC-Strategic-Education
- 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-Strategic-EducationHORIZON-EIT-2023-2025-KICDigital skillsEducationEducation: systems and institutions, teaching and learningEntrepreneurial SkillsEntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship educationIT skills and competenceIdentification of skills needsNew skills and competences for teachersSchool educationVocational training
Description
to be defined by applicants addressing the specific objectives of the activity, its scope and expected outcomes but focusing on elevating the impact of the EIT education agenda and the KICs EIT Alumni organisations. 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:
- Contribution to the EIT Deep Tech Talent initiative in cooperation with relevant partners
- Contribution to the Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP) including projects such as Girls Go Circular, according to the targets set in the relevant EU policy documents.
- implementation of the EIT Alumni community’s work programme, in particular through the funding of alumni challenges and projects, EIT Alumni Connect and other events, supporting organisation and coordination of the EIT Alumni Board activities (including meetings), promotion and communication activities related to EIT Alumni Communities, development of tools supporting the EIT Alumni community development, supporting the EIT Alumni sustainability agenda.
- promoting entrepreneurial education, tech skill development and disseminate good practices and lessons learnt from the EIT community activities, including the EIT Virtual Campus.
- building synergies between the EIT KIC education activities and alignment with other relevant programmes and stakeholders, including Green Deal and European Skills Agenda.
- facilitating collaboration and shared services and joint and merged education activities between the KICs and disseminating new effective education methods, technologies, tools and approaches to better deliver entrepreneurial education and skills development.
- effective management of the activity.
Elevate the impact of the EIT education agenda and the KICs EIT Alumni organisations. Contribute to the Digital Education Action Plan implementation in the scope defined by the policy documents. Disseminate results of the EIT KICs’ education activities through the EIT learning platform.
Scope:- EIT Deep Tech Talent for Europe;
- EIT’s contribution to the European Commission Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP);
- Joint EIT community activities in the area of education;
- Implementation of the EIT Alumni work programme under the overall steer of the EIT Alumni Board;
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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