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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 European Innovation Procurement Awards 2025 aim to recognise public and private buyers, natural persons and those legal entities supporting practices across Europe in their efforts to promote and stimulate both procurement of innovative solutions and the innovative ways the solutions are procured. It also aims to demonstrate how innovation procurement positively transforms society and the economy by not only creating new and sustainable markets, but also by tackling societal challenges such as green energy transition.
Detailed Call Description
The European Innovation Procurement Awards will feature the following two categories:
- Innovation procurement initiative (including implementation) category – HORIZON-EIC-2024-PRIZE-EIPA-IPI: to reward actions, and completed work from mid/long-term strategies and action plans that trigger different innovation procurements as well as to rewards procurements of R&D services and/or procurements to buy and deploy innovative solutions.
- Facing societal challenges category: – “Net Zero Industry Procurement” – HOIRZON-EIC-2024-PRIZE-EIPA-NETZEROPROCUREMET: to reward procurement practises and/or the procurement of R&D services and/or the procurement and deployment of innovative solutions that contribute to achieving the goals set out in the Net Zero Industry Act.
Each category will reward the winner with €75.000 (1st ranked) and one runner-up (ranked 2nd) with €50.000, and one runner-up (ranked 3rd) with €25.000.
Thematic Categories
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Legal Entities
- Natual person / Citizen / Individual
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
- Eligible applicants are any public and/or private procurer, individuals/natural persons and/or legal entities supporting the use of innovation procurement established in one of the Member States including overseas countries and territories (OCTs) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe;
- The awarded procurement/procurement practice must have taken place in a Member State (including overseas countries and territories, OCTs) or in an Associated Country to Horizon Europe;
- The awarded procurement /procurement practice must relate to completed or ongoing initiatives started after 1 January 2019. In the case of ongoing activities, only work completed by the submission deadline will be considered for the prize (Applicants will be required to prove the starting date of the practice by providing supporting documents);
- Applicants can only apply to one of the two categories for the same set of activities;
- Winners of former European Innovation Procurement Awards editions, as well as runners-up of the previous edition are not eligible;
- Applicants that have already received an EU or Euratom prize cannot receive a second prize for the same activities.
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
Research Enquiry Service: https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/contact/research-enquiry-service_en
EIC 2024 work programme – d801a0d8-492e-4510-9dd6-8d942756e7c7_en (europa.eu)