Women Leadership Category

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1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout

Applications must be submitted before the call deadline (see timetable section 4).

Applications must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Calls for proposals section). Paper submissions are NOT possible.

Applications (including annexes and supporting documents) must be submitted using the forms provided inside the Submission System ( NOT the documents available on the Topic page — they are only for information).

Applications must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents:

Application Form Part A — contains administrative information about the applicant (natural person) (to be filled in directly online)

Application Form Part B — contains the technical description of the application (template to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed, assembled and re-uploaded)

mandatory annexes and supporting documents (templates to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed, assembled and re-uploaded):

Applicants must support their application with an inspiring video message lasting no more than 90 seconds, describing themselves and their achievements. The video cannot exceed 100MB and should be uploaded to the Submission portal as a .zip file in annex.

Proof of age for EIC Rising Innovators category.

Proof of link to the EIT Community for the EIT Women Leadership category.

Your application must be readable, accessible, printable (please check carefully the layout of the documents uploaded).

Applications are limited to maximum 15 pages (Part B). Evaluators will not consider any additional pages.

You may be asked at a later stage for further documents (for legal entity validation, bank account validation, ethics review, declaration of honour, etc).

2. Eligible countries

Residents in an EU Member State, including overseas countries and territories (OCTs) or a country associated to Horizon Europe;[1]

[1]https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/common/guidance/list-3rd-country-participation_horizon-euratom_en.pdf

3. Other Eligibility Conditions

In order to be eligible, the applicants must:

be a woman[1];

apply as a natural person[2] ;

be legally residing[3] in an EU Member State, including overseas countries and territories (OCTs) or a country associated to Horizon Europe;[4]

be the founder or co-founder[5] of the company or organisation;[6]

the company or organisation must be established in an EU Member State including overseas countries and territories, (OCTs) or a country associated to Horizon Europe[7], and registered or incorporated[8] at least one year before the call year;[9]

applicants who have already received an EU or Euratom prize cannot receive a second prize for the same activities.

Applicants to the EIC Rising Innovators category must be aged under 35 at the start of the call year.[10]

There is no age limit to apply for the EIC Women Innovators category.

Applicants to the EIT category must have a direct link to the EIT Community.[11]Applicants are expected to provide proof of eligibility upon request.

Applicants eligible for several prize categories can only apply to one. In the case of applications submitted under multiple categories, only the latest application will be considered, and all other applications will be rejected as ineligible.

Joint applications by a group of applicants are not accepted and will be rejected as ineligible. Applicants from the same organisation must apply separately.

Applicants must register in the Participant Register — before the call deadline — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation Service (REA Validation). For the validation, you will be requested to upload documents showing legal status (please make sure to select ‘natural person’) and origin.

[1] This prize celebrates women in all their…