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
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B-1000, Brussels
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E-mail: eoc.brussels3@ucy.ac.cy
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