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Access to research infrastructure services to enable R&I addressing industry needs in priority areas

European Commission · Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)

Posted 9 Mar 2027 · About 9 months left

Summary

Expected Outcome:

Projects are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

Research infrastructures have improved their attractiveness for industry so that they can sustainably extend their user base. Where appropriate, future continuum with technology infrastructures will be facilitated;

Researchers and innovators have more efficient access to the best research infrastructures available to conduct industry-driven research and foster innovation, irrespective of location, through a single-entry point access portal, integrated or interoperable catalogues of services and converging access conditions and selection procedures;

Breakthrough and leading-edge research and innovation are enabled by advanced research infrastructure services that are made available to a wider user community in the targeted areas;

A new generation of researchers and innovators is trained to optimally exploit all the essential tools for industry-driven research and innovation with due attention to early-stage career researchers and innovators and to researchers and innovators from widening countries;

Raised awareness in industry of relevant research infrastructures facilities and…

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">General conditions

1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout

The page limit of the application is 100 pages.

described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. The page limit of the application is 100 pages.

2. Eligible countries

described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.

A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.

3. Other Eligibility Conditions

If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used).

Subject to restrictions for the protection of European communication networks.

Given the specific nature of this topic, access provision activities must be included in the proposal. Please read carefully the provisions under the section “Specific features for Research Infrastructures” of this work programme part before preparing your application.

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) may participate as member of the consortium selected for funding as a beneficiary with zero funding, or as an associated partner. The JRC will not participate in the preparation and submission of the proposal - see General Annex B.

described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion

described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.

5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds

To ensure a balanced portfolio covering as many of the six areas as possible, grants will be awarded to applications not only in order of ranking but also to those proposals that are the highest ranked per each area subject to budget availability, provided that the applications attain all thresholds.

described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes.

5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes

The following additions to the general award criteria apply:

For the 'Excellence' criterion, the following aspects will also be taken into account:

The extent to which the access activities (trans-national and/or virtual access) will offer access to the state-of-the-art infrastructures of European interest in the field, high quality services, and will enable users to conduct excellent research and/or innovation.

The extent to which the project will contribute to facilitating and integrating the access procedures, to improve the services the infrastructures provide and to further develop their on-line services.

described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual.

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement

described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants

Beneficiaries will be subject to the additional access rights:

Beneficiaries shall grant royalty-free access to their intellectual property relating to tools, standards, specifications, and other outputs generated by this action that are directly relevant to advertise the research infrastructures services and their modality of access, and for implementing access calls (such as peer-review process and communication with applicants), to the EU institutions and to the beneficiaries of projects funded by the EU in view of a more sustained and integrated EU access scheme. This access shall be provided through a mechanism to be defined in the proposal, during and up to two years beyond the lifespan of the Grant Agreement.

Eligible costs may take form of unit costs for trans-national and virtual access to research infrastructures as defined in the…

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