EIT Manufacturing Call for proposals Innovation & Entrepreneurship – Master & Doctoral School for the Manufacturing Business Plan 2023-2025
Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
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Call
Summary
The Innovation & Entrepreneurship Call covers activities related to Master and Doctoral School, to develop the following programmes for students and professionals:
- Summer School 2025 for EIT Manufacturing Master School
- Doctoral I&E programme 2025
The focus for 2025 is to scale up the results of the Master and Doctoral School activities multiplying the impact of the same through commercialisation and distribution within a wide number of learners.
Detailed Call Description
The proposals must make use of highly innovative education and training solutions; and exploit and build on available assets, resources, programmes, networks and collaborations, even those developed in the previous years.
Innovative added value modules for EIT Manufacturing Master and Doctoral School programmes, and open to selected external participants, mainly aiming at developing I&E and sustainability competencies.
For the Master School one module is expected:
- Summer School for EIT Manufacturing Master School programmes
For Doctoral School the target of the call is the annual Innovation programme. This programme will be integrated with the annual entrepreneurship programme provided by EIT Manufacturing:
The proposal must target specifically only one of the following sub-segments:
- Summer School for EIT Manufacturing Master School programmes
- Doctoral School Innovation programme
Access to Agora, the online community platform, is open to all entities to have access to the most updated information on the call and to help them build up proposal consortia.
The EIT Manufacturing will carry out a series of events:
- An Info day and MatchMaking event, about the present call will take place will take place on 29-30 April 2024.
- Q&A Sessions on the call topic, will take place will take place on May 14th 2024, 16h30 (Brussels time).
- Q&A Session and live demo on the application form, will take place on May 7th2024, 11h30 (Brussels time).
All entities participating in this call for proposals must be registered in the submission tool as early as possible and no later than 3 working days before the call closes, 03 July, 17h00 (Brussels time), otherwise they may not be eligible for funding.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Summer School for EIT Manufacturing Master School programmes – 2025:
Indicative EIT funding per proposal: Up to €300.000 (to cover administrative and delivery costs related to the organisation of the course and the hosting and monitoring of students enrolled).
Doctoral School annual programme 2025:
Indicative EIT funding per proposal: Up to €260.000 (to cover administrative and delivery costs related to the organisation of the annual programme and the hosting and monitoring of students enrolled).
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Small-Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness
Eligibility for Participation
- Businesses
- Educational Institutions
- International Organisations
- Legal Entities
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non-associated third countries or international organisations is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2021/695 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing Horizon Europe (OJ L 170 , 12.5.2021, p. 1), along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call topic.
A ‘legal entity’ means any legal person created and recognised as such under national law, EU law, or international law, which has legal personality, and which may, acting in its name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries at the time of proposal submission:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States.
- the countries associated with Horizon Europe and the low- and middle-income countries
While all EIT Manufacturing partners are eligible to apply for funding, applicants do not need to be EIT Manufacturing partners at the submission stage.
Consortium composition (for Summer School 2025 for EIT Manufacturing Master School)
Only legal entities forming a consortium are eligible to participate. The consortium must include at least 3 legal entities independent from each other established in countries covered by at least 2 different EIT Manufacturing ICs.
The following requirements apply to the proposal consortia:
- One organisation participating in the proposal’s consortium should undertake the role of the Activity Leader for the duration of the overall activity. The Activity Leader will be the direct contact with the EIT Manufacturing Education Pillar.
- The Activity Leader is responsible for the coordination of the activity, including the implementation of the work plan, the execution of the budget, the submission of the deliverables, and the impact achievements of the overall activity. The role of Activity Leader is open to any entity participating in the call for proposals.
- Consortia shall include 3-7 entities, with representation from each of the following categories: Universities, RTOs, and Manufacturing companies.
- Consortia must include a minimum of 1 entity from the EITM Master School partner universities, able to provide ECTS to the EITM Master School students; and – Consortia must include at least 1 entity from RIS Countries.
The role of each partner should be clearly described in the partners’ role table.
Consortium composition (for Doctoral School annual programme 2025)
Only legal entities forming a consortium are eligible to participate. The consortium must include at least 3 legal entities independent from each other established in countries covered by at least 2 different EIT Manufacturing ICs.
The following requirements apply to the proposal consortia:
- One organisation participating in the proposal’s consortium should undertake the role of the Activity Leader for the duration of the overall activity. The Activity Leader will be the direct contact for the EIT Manufacturing Thematic Pillar.
- The Activity Leader is responsible for the coordination of the activity, including the implementation of the workplan, the execution of the budget, the submission of the deliverables, and the impact achievements of the overall activity. The role of Activity Leader is open to any entity participating to the call for proposals.
- Consortia must include 3- 8 entities with representation from each of the following categories: Universities, RTOs and Manufacturing companies.
- Consortia must include at least 1 entity from the EITM Doctoral School consortium.
- Consortia must include at least 1 entity from RIS Countries.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
Address: 29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia, P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
George Christou
Scientific Officer
Email: gchristou@research.org.cy
Nedi Kaffa
Scientific Officer
Email: nkaffa@research.org.cy
EU Contact Point
All applicants may contact EIT Manufacturing to ask questions and clarify any points on general/technical aspects and call content by contacting support@eitmanufacturing.eu.