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We will have access to the experts at euresearch.ch to check your proposal that's a free service.
We will have access to the experts at euresearch.ch to check your proposal that's a free service.
=== Expert ===
For more INfromation abou the Epert please go to the [[Horizon 2020 Expert]] Page.

Revision as of 21:21, 2 February 2014

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


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 at 100 Euro.

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

the total budget for this call is: 14 Mio. Euro's This will result of approx. 10 Funded Projects depending on the budget.

4.2 Find partners

Our target is to get 5-6 Partners in at least 4 Country's. The min. Requirements are 3 Partners from 3 Country's.


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


4.3 Register the Organisation

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

Online Manual: Registration of organisation

4.4 Submit a proposal

There will be two documents 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 points.

Online Manual: [Submit a proposal]


For more Information the Manual is available under: H2020 Online Manual




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.

5.2 Expert

For more INfromation abou the Epert please go to the Horizon 2020 Expert Page.