Call for proposals

Horizon 2020 – Excellent Science – “Individual support to ESFRI and other world-class research infrastructures” - INFRADEV-03-2018-2019

 

Objective and description

The call for proposals “Individual support to ESFRI and other world-class research infrastructures” (call identifier: INFRADEV-03-2018-2019) has been opened for submission of proposals under the Horizon 2020 Programme within the pillar “Excellent Science”.

 

This topic targets the long-term sustainability of new research infrastructures, ESFRI and other world-class research infrastructures of European Interest, with established governance and legal structure, notably on the basis of the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) or any other suitable structure with international membership. Infrastructures having submitted a first step application to the Commission for establishing an ERIC may also apply to this topic. Support will be provided to activities aimed at ensuring long-term sustainability, including enlargement of the membership, European coverage, international cooperation, limited pilots of access provision for testing and improving user services to increase reliability and create trust, definition of service level agreements and business/funding plan, outreach, and technology transfer activities. Proposals should explain any synergies and complementarities with previous or current EU grants.

 

Specific attention should be given to the interaction with industry and SMEs and the fostering of the innovation potential of the infrastructures. Activities may also facilitate the development of Regional Partner Facilities and their integration in the European research infrastructure landscape. The detailed list of activities that can be supported under this topic is given in part B of the section “Specific features for Research Infrastructures”.

 

Eligible applicants

Participants can be at least three legal entities. Each of the three must be established in a different EU Member State or Horizon 2020 associated country. All three legal entities must be independent of each other.

 

Budget

The overall indicative budget of this call is 15,000,000 EUR. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 2 and 5 million would allow this challenge to be addressed appropriately.

 

Deadline for proposals’ submission

The deadline of this call is 22 March 2018, 17:00 (Brussels local time)..

 

Applicants must submit their proposal electronically, following the link on the submission service.

 

Further information

You can find more information and the call documents at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/ya4cmlyy  

 

Kind regards,

Ioanna

 

Ioanna Asimakaki
Erasmus+ Trainee

European Office of Cyprus

Rue du Luxembourg 3, 2nd floor

B-1000, Brussels

Tel/Fax: +32 (0) 2 280 22 85

E-mail: eoc.brussels3@ucy.ac.cy

 

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