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Intellectual asset management support for public research organisations, academic institutions and their spin-offs
Funding Program
Horizon Europe - Cluster 4 - Destination 6: A Human-centred and Ethical Development of Digital and Industrial Technologies
Call number
HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-02-35
deadlines
Opening
23.04.2024
Deadline
10.09.2024 17:00
Funding rate
100%
Call budget
€ 2,000,000.00
Estimated EU contribution per project
€ 2,000,000.00
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Call content
short description
The aim of the action is to ensure the highest level of support for public research organisations in Europe including universities and their entrepreneurial agendas in order to improve access to and use of the knowledge assets very often created by public research funding.
Call objectives
To increase Europe’s capacity to convert high level scientific success into social and economic benefits a broad definition of entrepreneurship is needed. Entrepreneurship is much more than “just” starting businesses: it is a mindset for creating sustainable change. Although there are initiatives addressing the entrepreneurial education and the paradigm shift, there are no actions that provide early stage support on managing the intellectual assets of PROs and helping them create and strengthen spin-offs.
Frequently, knowledge assets are not properly valorised leading to hampered market uptake of R&I results and furthering the innovation gap. Encouraging entrepreneurship and providing the necessary intellectual asset management support, can help bridge the gap between the laboratory and the marketplace. This action will support the implementation of the Council Recommendation on the Guiding principles for Knowledge Valorisation in Europe and will demonstrate how the Code of Practice on the management of intellectual assets for knowledge valorisation in the European Research Area and the Code of practice for Standardisation can be used amongst other tools to support early stage academic entrepreneurs. The action is also linked with the Commission Communication on a European strategy for universities.
This activity will support academic institutions, public research organisations and their spin-offs in their intellectual asset management using also the Code of Practice on the management of intellectual assets and on standardisation activities using also the Code of Practice for standardisation in their entrepreneurial agendas. This will help early stage technologies to become more attractive to commercial partners and investors.
In addition, this activity will deliver modular educational packages that support entrepreneurial education, intellectual asset literacy and strengthening the link between research and standardisation. The educational packages should be targeted at all students and staff across European academic institutions, universities and public research organisations.
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Expected results
Proposals are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:
- Provide support to public research organisations and their spin-offs in fostering a stronger culture of entrepreneurship, better managing their intellectual assets and facilitating their next step towards bringing their R&I results towards the market.
- Build capacity in public research organisations and academic institutions by translating the guiding principles for knowledge valorisation on entrepreneurship into tangible guidance for early stage innovators.
- Building stronger capabilities for intellectual asset management in academic institutions and public research organisations by using the Code of Practice on the management of intellectual assets and the Code of Practice on Standardisation to support early stage innovators to succeed with open innovation also in international cooperations.
Eligibility Criteria
Regions / countries for funding
Moldova (Moldova), Albania (Shqipëria), Armenia (Հայաստան), Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan), Belarus (Беларусь), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина), Faeroes (Føroyar / Færøerne), Georgia (საქართველო), Iceland (Ísland), Israel (ישראל / إِسْرَائِيل), Kosovo (Kosova/Kosovë / Косово), Montenegro (Црна Гора), Morocco (المغرب), New Zealand (Aotearoa), North Macedonia (Северна Македонија), Norway (Norge), Serbia (Srbija/Сpбија), Tunisia (تونس /Tūnis), Türkiye, Ukraine (Україна), United Kingdom
eligible entities
Education and training institution, International organization, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)
Mandatory partnership
Yes
Project Partnership
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States
- third countries associated to Horizon Europe - see list of particpating countries
Only legal entities forming a consortium are eligible to participate in actions provided that the consortium includes, as beneficiaries, three legal entities independent from each other and each established in a different country as follows:
- at least one independent legal entity established in a Member State; and
- at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries.
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non-associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call topic.
A ‘legal entity’ means any natural or legal person created and recognised as such under national law, EU law or international law, which has legal personality and which may, acting in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations, or an entity without legal personality.
Specific cases:
- Affiliated entities — Affiliated entities (i.e. entities with a legal or capital link to a beneficiary which participate in the action with similar rights and obligations to the beneficiaries, but which do not sign the grant agreement and therefore do not become beneficiaries themselves) are allowed, if they are eligible for participation and funding.
- Associated partners — Associated partners (i.e. entities which participate in the action without signing the grant agreement, and without the right to charge costs or claim contributions) are allowed, subject to any conditions regarding associated partners set out in the specific call conditions.
- Entities without legal personality — Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees to protect the EU’s financial interests equivalent to those offered by legal persons.
- EU bodies — Legal entities created under EU law including decentralised agencies may be part of the consortium, unless provided for otherwise in their basic act.
- Joint Research Centre (‘JRC’)— Where provided for in the specific call conditions, applicants may include in their proposals the possible contribution of the JRC but the JRC will not participate in the preparation and submission of the proposal. Applicants will indicate the contribution that the JRC could bring to the project based on the scope of the topic text. After the evaluation process, the JRC and the consortium selected for funding may come to an agreement on the specific terms of the participation of the JRC. If an agreement is found, the JRC may accede to the grant agreement as beneficiary requesting zero funding or participate as an associated partner, and would accede to the consortium as a member.
- Associations and interest groupings — Entities composed of members (e.g. European research infrastructure consortia (ERICs)) may participate as ‘sole beneficiaries’ or ‘beneficiaries without legal personality’. However, if the action is in practice implemented by the individual members, those members should also participate (either as beneficiaries or as affiliated entities, otherwise their costs will NOT be eligible.
Additional information
Topics
Relevance for EU Macro-Region
EUSAIR - EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Space, EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EUSDR - EU Strategy for the Danube Region
UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)
Additional Information
All proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funders & Tenders Portal electronic submission system (accessible via the topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section). Paper submissions are NOT possible.
Proposals must be complete and contain all parts and mandatory annexes and supporting documents, e.g. plan for the exploitation and dissemination of the results including communication activities, etc.
The application form will have two parts:
- Part A (to be filled in directly online) contains administrative information about the applicant organisations (future coordinator and beneficiaries and affiliated entities), the summarised budget for the proposal and call-specific questions;
- Part B (to be downloaded from the Portal submission system, completed and then assembled and re-uploaded as a PDF in the system) contains the technical description of the project.
Annexes and supporting documents will be directly available in the submission system and must be uploaded as PDF files (or other formats allowed by the system).
The limit for a full application (Part B) is 30 pages.
Call documents
Horizon Cluster 4 Work Programme 2024-2025Horizon Cluster 4 Work Programme 2024-2025(3756kB)
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