Call for proposals

Horizon 2020 – Societal Challenges – “Horizon Prize for Social Innovation in Europe” –

SC6-Social-Innovation-Prize-2019

 

Objective and description

The European Commission launched a ? 2 Million Horizon prize on social innovation in the area of Aging Population to stimulate novel replicable solutions for the benefit of European citizens. By 2025 more than 20% of Europeans will be 65 or over, with a particularly rapid increase in the number of people aged over 80 years.

 

Horizon Prizes are 'challenge' prizes (also known as ‘inducement’ prizes) offering a cash reward to whoever can most effectively meet a defined challenge. The aim is to stimulate innovation and come up with solutions to problems that matter to European citizens.

 

The “Horizon Prize for Social Innovation in Europe” – H2020-SC1-FA-DTS-2018-2020 aims to improve the mobility of older people by providing innovative mobility solutions allowing them to maintain independence and actively participate in social life. While the main target group is the elderly (aged 65+), the solutions developed in the context of this contest may also be beneficial to other parts of the population, such as people with reduced mobility. This inducement prize requires applicants to demonstrate that their solution was implemented or underwent major changes, between the opening date and the submission of their application. Major changes may e.g. relate to the features of the solution, to the user population (scaling-up, or replication in other locations), or to the adaptation of a pre-existing scheme to new categories of users.

 

To allow for creativity, each contestant can decide the nature of the solution to be developed and submitted. The solutions should also address “soft” issues such as communication and integrated personalised services , and not only purely technical ones (linked e.g. to infrastructure, vehicles, software/apps, etc.). Within the broad area of out-of-home mobility, each contestant will be free to decide on which issue(s) its solution will focus, in terms of target population, journey typology, geographical factors, etc.

 

Eligible applicants

The contest is open to any legal entity (including natural persons) or group of legal entities established in an EU Member State or in a country associated to Horizon 2020.

 

Budget

Funding rates:

One first prize of EUR 1,000,000 and four prizes of EUR 250,000 each (thus 2 M? in total).

 

Deadline for proposals’ submission

The deadline to declare intention to participate 31 July 2018.

 

The closing date for the submission of applications is 28 February 2019 at 17:00 CET.

 

Applications must be submitted by the participant via the Participant Portal Submission Service.

 

Further information

You can find more information and the call documents at the following link:

https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/sc6-social-innovation-prize-2019.html

 

 

Kind regards,

Flora

 

Flora Stavropoulou
Junior Officer

European Office of Cyprus

Rue du Luxembourg 3, 2nd floor

B-1000, Brussels

Tel/Fax: +32 (0) 2 280 22 85

E-mail: eoc.brussels2@ucy.ac.cy

 

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