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Boletín Electrónico de Información de Alerta sobre Convocatorias de I+D

Fecha: Lunes, 14 de Junio de 2021

The Call aims to facilitate an innovation matchmaking market, where members of the community can establish direct relationships between the offers of innovative products/services (Supply), and requests for solutions to challenges and problems (Demand) presented via an Expression of Interest (EOI) stage, in order to identify initiatives and pilots/projects. In this way, developing new project ideas will open new opportunities for future collaboration, helping to generate new business possibilities.

Stage 1: 22nd of June 2021 Matchmaking Innovation Market Event: 2nd July 2021 – 10:00 CET Stage 2: 27th of July 2021

In the first Stage of this Call, proponents submit EOIs as either a Demand or Supply actor to EIT Climate-KIC’s Exaptive platform. The EOI form in Exaptive will collect necessary information about each EOI to then visualise eligible submissions in the platform and, importantly, the possible relationships between them. This platform will be accessible to all proponents before and during the Event. Submitted EOIs will then be invited to attend the Matchmaking Innovation Market Event, which will be held to interact with proponents and community members to learn more about the innovation offers and requests, the opportunities arising, and to begin shaping possible innovation initiatives and/or pilot projects.

At the conclusion of the event, attendees and burgeoning project consortia will be invited to submit initiative and/or pilot proposals for EIT grant support. These proposals must be able to demonstrate a clear link between the submitted idea and the Matchmaking Innovation Market event; must be led by an eligible RIS EIT Climate-KIC partner (such as, for example, the challenge-owner – though the consortium may consist of any other organisations). The Stage 2 proposals will be submitted in our grant management system, Plaza.

Please note this applies to Stage 2 of this Call only. As this Call provides for a 100% EIT reimbursement rate, no co-funding is required, however it would be positively reviewed. All else being equal, a lower EIT Reimbursement Rate (i.e. higher co-funding level) will be favored. Maximum request: € 35,000

Need to be finished 31st December

− Stage 2 proposal should be led by a RIS eligible Partner/organization of EIT Climate-KIC. − Other consortium Partners/organisations may be KIC Partners or third-party organisations. − Initiative proposal submissions: only projects/consortia arising from the Matchmaking Innovation Market event may participate in Stage 2 submission – at least one of the consortium members must have attended the Event otherwise the proposal will not be eligible − Final initiative/pilot project outputs: will evidence that the grant has been used to scale a product/service and/or boost the cooperation among RIS and non RIS partners. EIT supported innovation projects are expected to have a strong commercialisation and scaling strategy from the outset. The intention is to ensure that EU grant funding supports innovation that is financially sustainable in the long-term and for highly successful innovations to contribute back to the Innovation Community to support the next wave of innovation.

EIT Climate-KIC expect that all EOIs and Proposals will clearly address this commercialisation requirement. A financial participation mechanism is also required whereby highly successful commercial outcomes would trigger a success fee payment back to EIT Climate-KIC to re-invest in innovation. The financial participation mechanism can be EIT Climate-KIC's standard Revenue Participation Agreement (RPA) model or can be an alternative custom model proposed by the project consortium. If an RPA has already previously been signed with EIT Climate-KIC, this can be carried forward and updated to reflect this additional project. A signed financial participation agreement should be included as a project deliverable in case of a grant to an existing EIT Climate-KIC Partner, and as an award condition in the case of a Grant Award to non-EIT Climate-KIC Partners. Proposals should also address the possible Intellectual Property (IP) questions that may arise during the project and seek to resolve this as part of project implementation.

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