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EIT Thematic Innovations cross-KIC cluster

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Basic Information

Identifier: HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-TI
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-TIHORIZON-EIT-2023-2025-KICMarket-creating innovationTypes of innovation

Description

Expected Impact:

In response to this topic applicants should evidence a contribution to the EIT Impact Framework, the EIT’s strategic objectives and the EU’s key strategic agendas. The expected impact should be defined upfront, should be measurable and achievable within the frame of the project duration. The project’s activities should be designed accordingly. 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:

Thematic Innovations activities are aimed at developing highly innovative products and/or services or sustainable education and skill development programmes with high societal impact potential (contributing to the EIT core KPIs and the financial sustainability of the participating KICs), with a clear cross-KIC value demonstrated and addressing EU/EIT priorities. These are bottom-up initiatives, selected by the EIT on a competitive basis.

Objective:

Relevant and appropriate Thematic Innovation proposals for 2023-2025, demonstrating theirs excellence (including objectives and ambition; methodology; cross-KIC relevance, financial sustainability, relevance with objectives of the Strategic Agendas of participating KICs in the consortium), 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; capacity of participants and KIC Partnership as a whole).
to address societal challenges of participating KICs and demonstrate the Knowledge Triangle Integration (KTI) approach, contributing to achieving the future high-level results and impacts included in the EIT Impact Framework.
Objectives in the Thematic Innovation proposals should be described according to the SMART criteria (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound) and clearly linked with the Strategic Agendas of participating KICs.

Scope:

Proposed topics should be aligned with the participating KICs Strategic Agendas.

A total budget of a project proposal should not be lower than EUR 3,000,000 and higher than EUR 8,000,000.

The EIT plans to select up to five thematic innovation activities.

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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 Thematic Innovation topic: other specific conditions regarding "entities elegible for funding" and "eligible activities" are described in Chapters 10.6 and 10.7.

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 Thematic Innovation topic: Award criteria is described in Chapter 10.8.

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 Thematic Innovation topic: other specific conditions regarding "entities elegible for funding" and "eligible activities" are described in Chapters 10.6 and 10.7.

Documents

Call documents:

EIT application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System

Additional documents:

Support & Resources

Online Manual is your guide on the procedures from proposal submission to managing your grant.

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Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – find the answers to most frequently asked questions on submission of proposals, evaluation and grant management.

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IT Helpdesk – contact the Funding & Tenders Portal IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.

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The European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for their recruitment– consult the general principles and requirements specifying the roles, responsibilities and entitlements of researchers, employers and funders of researchers.

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Latest Updates

Last Changed: June 1, 2022

The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-Cross-KIC-Regional-Innovation(HORIZON-EIT-KIC), HORIZON-EIT-2023-2025-HEI(HORIZON-EIT-KIC), HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-Cross-KIC-Strategic-Outreach(HORIZON-EIT-KIC), HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-KIC-EITURBANMOBILITY(HORIZON-EIT-KIC), HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-Cross-KIC-Shared-Services(HORIZON-EIT-KIC), HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-KIC-EITRAWMATERIALS(HORIZON-EIT-KIC), HORIZON-EIT-2023-24-KIC-EITCLIMATEKIC(HORIZON-EIT-KIC), HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-Cross-KIC-Strategic-Education(HORIZON-EIT-KIC), HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-Cross-KIC-Strategic-ATF(HORIZON-EIT-KIC), HORIZON-EIT-2023-24-KIC-EITDIGITAL(HORIZON-EIT-KIC), HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-TI(HORIZON-EIT-KIC), HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-KIC-EITFOOD(HORIZON-EIT-KIC), HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-KIC-EITMANUFACTURING(HORIZON-EIT-KIC), HORIZON-EIT-2023-24-KIC-EITINNOENERGY(HORIZON-EIT-KIC), HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-KIC-EITHEALTH(HORIZON-EIT-KIC), HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-Cross-KIC-Strategic-Synergies(HORIZON-EIT-KIC)