Horizon 2020

1 Call

ICT 2014 - Information and Communications Technologies Call entitled: "Support the growth of ICT innovative Creative Industries SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises)"

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/89-ict-18-2014.html

All the documents related to this application are here : http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/89-ict-18-2014.html#tab2

Submission Deadline: 2014-04-23

Budget: EUR 0.5 million to EUR 1 million for a period between 6 and 18 months (proposals requesting other amounts or durations are possible though)

Funding rate: 70% (100% for non-profits) plus 25% of total sum to cover indirect expenses

Good summary: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/pdf/press/fact_sheet_on_rules_under_horizon_2020.pdf

2 Partnership Notes

• Applications need to be handed it by at least 3 independent partner organizations, all located in different EU member states
• If any participating members involvement exceeds 325,000 Euros there will be a mandatory financial audit by an external auditor (KPMG, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PwC) up to two years after the projects completion. If the funds are lower than 325,000 Euros organizations to be audited are selected at random.

2.1 Grant Agreement

Any participating member is required to sign a grant agreement that outlines the rules under which the application and potential future collaboration will be conducted:

• Any work covered by grant money needs to be released under and open/free license

3 Financial Rules

How the Grant is calculated:

Innovation Action	Direct Costs	Indirect Costs	Total Costs	% EU Contribution	EU Contribution
Non-Profit	100	25	125	100	125 Euro
For-Profit	100	25	125	70	87.5 Euro

This example is based on the fictional amount of 100 Euro.

Note that the same funding rate applies to all partners in a grant. So if a non profit leads the grant application all for-profit partners will get a 100% funding rate as well.

3.1 Subcontracting vs Contracted Services

Subcontracting partners have to be listed in proposal already and are not eligible for 25% indirect cost flat rate.

Contracting Services do not have to be listed in the proposal already and are eligible for 25% indirect cost flat rate.

Contracting Services need to be either best price/service ratio or be the cheapest, three offers need to be collected to justify the choice.

Details in the Grant Agreement under ARTICLE 10 PURCHASE OF GOODS, WORKS OR SERVICES

4 Horizon 2020 funding Process

1. Find a Call

2. Find partners

3. Register the Organisation

4. Submit a proposal

4.1 Find a Call

We have selected this call for the submission: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/89-ict-18-2014.html

For more Information about the Funding Budget please read this Document: About ICT 2014-1 On page 85 you will find the Budget for ICT-2014-1-18.

4.2 Find partners

Our optimal goal would be to find 5-6 Partners in at least 4 countries. The min. requirements are 3 partners from 3 countries.

Country entitle to participate Call: All EU and the Associated Countries Associated Country list

4.3 Register the Organisation

This step is complete.

You have to register your organisation in to the ECAS system.

Online Manual: Registration of organisation

4.4 Submit a proposal

There are two parts: one for the budget and the second one for the project itself. This call is a one step submission that means we have to fill out all the required documents at once.

Online Manual: [Submit a proposal]

For more information the manual is available under: H2020 Online Manual

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5 The Proposal

5.1 Important Information

• Page limits has to be respected. every page that is over the limit will be removed and the subject that was handled.
• every subject has to be addressed every subject that misses out will reduce the max. of points and the chance to get Grant.
• It's money from Tax payers you have to be fair in the calculation.
• Realistic targets The targets has to be realistic in Time frame and budget wise.

The proposal can be submitted multiple times it will help us to find errors. it's also important the final proposal has to be submitted one day before the deadline!!! the chance that the system will crash in the last hour of the deadline is really high.

For creating a solid Proposal it has to be read by different people to get a solid review.

We will have access to the experts at euresearch.ch to check your proposal that's a free service.

Exaple Proposal: Example (PDF)

5.2 Expert

For more Information about the Expert please go to the Horizon 2020 Experts Page.