Submission procedures
The documents needed are mentioned below and can be found on the website
- Proposal template
- Guide for proposers
A DIH can apply with a consortium with one or two additional partners.
Yes, only proposals following the official template found on the DIH4CPS website will be accepted. Please note the proposal template was updated on 15 July 2020.
The proposals will be submitted in the EMS at https://dih4cps.ems-innovalia.org/call/detail/2
Eligibility criteria
Only proposals written in English will be accepted.
Member States of the European Union and Associated Countries are eligible to receive funding in this open call. For further details, please check the following documents
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/3cpart/h2020-hi-list-ac_en
No.
An SME is defined according to Recommendation 2003/361/EC:
“The category of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is made up of enterprises which employ fewer than 250 persons and which have an annual turnover not exceeding EUR 50 million, and/or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding EUR 43 million.”
SMEs will be asked to sign an SME self-declaration, included in the proposal template.
For more information, please visit:
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/79c0ce87-f4dc-11e6-8a35-01aa75ed71a1
No. Beneficiaries of the DIH4CPS project cannot be involved in any proposal in the open call.
Funding
Each application experiment can receive a maximum contribution of 180 000 €.
The funding rate is 70% (except for non-profit legal entities, where a rate of 100% applies).
Each individual third party can receive a maximum contribution of 100 000 € from the project DIH4CPS. Please note that if a third party has already received financial support by any other I4MS or Smart Anything Everywhere initiatives, the maximum amount of support can be 100 000€ – X (X= the amount of support already received by the other projects).
The proposal must include a proposed budget, including distribution among partners. At least 80% of the funding must go directly to the SMEs. In addition, each participant shall represent at least 20% of the overall budget of a proposal.
Each participant will receive 30% of the funding in the beginning of the application experimentation and 70% in the final of the application experimentation (pending monitoring and evaluation of the results achieved). The financial support corresponds to reimbursement of actual costs demonstrated by the participants in the experiment.
Eligible costs consist of:
- Personnel costs
- Software licenses
- Travel expenses
- Equipment costs
- Partnering costs to industrial experimental facilities
- Indirect costs (25% of direct costs)
No, there is no maximum amount of proposals in this open call. However, the maximum budget for this first open call is 1 800 000 €.
Other Administrative procedures
The first DIH4CPS open call will close on 31st of August 2020 17.00 CET.
At least 10 experiments.
The proposals will be ranked by the following criteria, with scores ranging from 0 to 5.
- Technical excellence
- Industrial relevance, potential impact and exploitation plans
- COVID-19 recovery roadmap
- Workplan and budget
- Consortium
Evaluations of the proposal will be finished in October 2020. Following this, the applicants will be notified of the evaluation results and negotiation with the highest-scored proposals will start.
The experiments will start in November 2020.
18 months, starting in November 2020 and ending in April 2022.
The proposers will have to sign a consortium agreement defining IPR, prior to the signature of the financial third-party support. DIH4CPS beneficiaries should have free access to all experiment results during the project duration. The experiment will be shared as a success story in the network portal.
Please check our forum and place there any questions you may have.
Experiments will be requested to submit a Progress and Final Report, at the mid and end of the project, consisting of:
- Progress of the experiment
- Technical results including KPI
- Dissemination and exploitation activities
- Cost statement
Besides the mandatory reports, proposals should define in the workplan other deliverables or documents to present the results of the experiment.
