Programme Category
Programme Name
Call
Summary
- Digitized Transport
- Digitized Environment
- Digitized Agriculture
- Digitized Anything
Detailed Call Description
KTEs are a short-term (3 months) internship projects between two different entities from two different Countries (see eligible countries below): one Academic/Industrial partner who act as Sending Organization and one Academic/Industrial partner who act as Host Organization.
Knowledge Transfer Experiments (KTE) comprise a novel type of experiments allowing smaller projects, or less mature ideas to be presented, tested and thus potentially find the fertile ground to grow and reveal its product potentials.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The KTE experiments will be supported with a lump sum of up to EUR 8,000 each to cover mobility allowance for implementing the internship.
The consortia will be free to distribute this amount among the two partners. However:
- Each consortium will need to explain in the online application form how the amount will be distributed between the partners and what category of costs each partner will be responsible for.
- The grant will be paid to the Leading Partner who will be responsible for its distribution within the consortium. Each consortium will decide which organisation will be the Leading Partner, but it must always have an Industrial Partner status (SME or Slightly Bigger company. Details of the grant distribution among partners will be described in the Sub-Grant Agreement.
- Before deciding on the distribution of expenditure in the project, attention should be paid to EU and national social security regulations. Social security costs should be borne by the partner who is obliged to do so under the above-mentioned regulations.
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Industry
Eligibility for Participation
- Educational Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Eligibility For Participation Notes
The following types of organisations are eligible to participate in the call:
- Universities and other Academic Institutions.
- SME and Slightly Bigger Companies, as defined in the EU recommendation 2003/361. Slightly Bigger Companies are defined respectively as organisations with a staff headcount below 500 employees and a turnover below €100M.
System Integrators and/or Technology Providers, i.e. any type of organisation specialised in technology transfer or system integration, serving the needs of end-users, provided they can be categorised in one of the two previous types of beneficiaries.
For this KTE Open Call, a Sending and Host organisation shall apply together as a consortium. The application has to be submitted by the lead Industrial partner.
The members of the consortia can agree on a bi-directional transfer of knowledge but there has to be always an organisation sending a member of its staff to an organisation from another country hosting him or her. Additionally, the Leading Partner must always have an Industrial partner status (SME or Slightly Bigger company).
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
EU Contact Point
THE EU ECO-TANDEM CONSORTIUM: info@eu-ecotandem.eu
https://www.eu-ecotandem.eu/contact-us
(Published date: 05/08/2022)