Experimental local action for EU missions: knowledge institutions as focal points of transdisciplinary research and innovation activities with European outreach
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 EU Missions on cancer, climate adaptation, climate neutral cities, oceans and soil, pursue objectives agreed between Member States and the European Commission in the context of the European Green Deal and health policies. Sustainably managing common-pool resources and the provision of public goods are an important dimension in the EU Missions. scholars consider small-scale multistakeholder activities within a local or regional innovation ecosystem to be crucial for the non-technological innovation processes. Such innovation ecosystems for transformative change include non-commercial stakeholders like civil society and administrations.
The proposal should aim to implement, for the benefit of a specific location or region in an EU Member States or countries associated to Horizon Europe, a research and innovation action.
Detailed Call Description
Higher education institutions, universities and research institutes are key players for these actions.
The proposal should aim to implement, for the benefit of a specific location or region in an EU Member States or countries associated to Horizon Europe, a research and innovation action that:
- concretely contributes to the achievement of the objectives of one of the EU Missions, by creating new knowledge and/or developing and testing innovative approaches in co-creation with regional stakeholders, while not replicating the scientific/technological approach of projects already funded by Horizon Europe in support of the EU Missions Projects funded by Horizon Europe in support of the five EU Missions are documented either on the Missions’ platforms and/or on Cordis Cordis (https://cordis.europa.eu), the platform for EU research results, using the search via “Call ID” search string *MISS* and
- engages in concrete transdisciplinary research and innovation activities and in strategy development to bring the Mission to the regional or local level stakeholders that traditionally have more difficulties accessing European level research and innovation support and/or the EU Missions (notably: small and medium sized enterprises; communal, municipal or other public services; citizens, civil society or philanthropy).
Activities should aim to have tangible local or regional impact for one of the EU Missions, arising from the full integration of different academic disciplines in interaction with local stakeholders in the activities on the ground, for example in moderated or supervised experimentation and citizens’ science activities in communities, in living labs or in regulatory testbeds.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The Commission estimates that an EU contribution of around €2.000.000 would allow these outcomes to be addressed appropriately.
The indicative number of projects expected to be funded is 6.
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Environment and Climate Change
- Health
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Educational Institutions
- Legal Entities
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
The following additional eligibility criteria apply: The consortium may exceptionally be composed of at least 3 legal entities established in at least 1 Member State or Associated Country as the nature of the action aims to support collaborative research and innovation activities in a local setting as contribution to an EU Mission.
The coordinator of the project proposed must be a secondary or higher education establishment or a research organisation.
Higher education institutions, universities and research institutes are key players for these actions.
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/
Persons to Contact:
- Mission for the Cancer
George Christou
Scientific Officer
Email: gchristou@research.org.cy
- Mission for Adaptation to Climate Change
- Mission for Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities
- Mission for Ocean, Seas and Waters
- Mission for Soil Health and Food
Myrto Anastasiadou
Scientific Officer
Email: manastassiadou@research.org.cy