IMI-ECSEL Joint Activity Trials@Home

Deadline: Sep 30, 2020  
CALL EXPIRED

Applicants are invited to carefully read all the provisions below before preparing and submitting their proposals.

The estimated EU budget for this call is given in the ECSEL Work Plan 2020 and in the topic header above. The estimated budget commitments of the ECSEL Participating States (national budgets) for this call are given in the ECSEL Work Plan 2020 (Annex 3) and the ECSEL JU website. For the most up to date information concerning the budget commitments of the call applicants are invited to check the ECSEL JU web site: https://www.ecsel.eu/calls/calls-2020.

The specific provisions and funding rates (both EU and national) are described in the ECSEL Work Plan 2020.

1. Eligible countries: described in Annex 1 (EU funding) and Section 10 (National/Regional/ESI Funding) of the ECSEL JU Work Plan 2020

2. Eligibility and admissibility conditions: described in Annex 1, Annex 7 and Section 10 (specific National/ Regional/ ESI Funding eligibility conditions) of the ECSEL JU Work Plan 2020.

Applicants are invited to pay special attention to the eligibility conditions:

1. its content corresponds, wholly or in part, to the topic description for which it is submitted
2. minimum mumber of legal entities: at least 3 legal entities; each of the three must be established in a different Member State or associated country; all three legal entities must be independent of each other.
3. duration of the project (limited to 3 years),
4. size of the consortia (maximum 50 participants) 
5. budget capping per project (the maximum EU contribution that can be requested is 5 M€) and per partner (the maximum EU contribution a beneficiary can request in a project is limited to 40% of the total EU funding of the project).

 Non-compliance with conditions 1-5 leads to exclusion (proposal declared not eligible and not evaluated).

Proposals must include a draft plan for the exploitation and dissemination of the results! This is an admisibility condition. Proposals that do not include such a draft plan will be declared not admisible and will be not evaluated

Proposal page limits and layout:

• Chapter on "EXCELLENCE" - 60 pages
• Chapter on "IMPACT" - 100 pages
• Chapter on "IMPLEMENTATION" - 100 pages
• For the layout requirements applicants are invited to refer to "Part B (Technical Annex) Template for ECSEL-IA and ECSEL-RIA Actions" in the submission system below.
• Pages exceeding the above-mentioned tresholds are not taken into account by experts for the evaluations!

3. Evaluation

Evaluation criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex 7 of the ECSEL JU Work Plan 2020.

Submission, evaluation, and selection procedures related to the ECSEL Calls for proposals are described in the "ECSEL PAB decision on evaluation and selection procedures and the "Guide for Applicants for ECSEL Calls" - see the "Additional Documents" section below

 4. Indicative timetable for evaluations and grant agreements:

ECSEL 2020-3-IMI-ECSEL Call follows a one-stage evaluation timeline:

          Information on the outcome of the evaluation: maximum 5 months from the deadline for submission.

          Signature of grant agreements: maximum 8 months from the deadline for submission

5. Proposal templates, evaluation forms and model grant agreements (MGA):

The proposal templates are available after entering the submission tool below. They include the following:

• Part A - Administrative Forms - will be filled directly in the submission tool (web-based application). For the applicants' convenience a model of the Part A template is provided in the "Additional Documents" section below (this is for information only, cannot be edited!)
• Part B - Technical Annex Template. The template is provided as a doc/rtf file. For submission it must be uploaded in the system as pdf file. For the applicants' convenience a model of the Part B template is provided in the "Additional Documents" section below (this is for information only, cannot be edited!)
• Part C - Templates for the applicants in the ECSEL Participating States requesting a Part C are available as described in Section 10 of the ECSEL JU Work Plan 2020. Part C must be uploaded in the system as password-protected zip files in the designated placeholders (one placeholder for each of the countries that require a Part C). The applicants/coordinators must contact the ECSEL office by email (calls@ecsel.europa.eu) to get the password. Note that NOT ALL ECSEL Participating States require a part C!

            ECSEL JU MGA - Multi-Beneficiary
            H2020 Annotated Grant Agreement

6. Additional provisions:

• The specific challenges/scope/expected impacts/conditions are described in the Annex 7 of the ECSEL Work Plan 2020 and the "Additional Information" document provided in the "Additional Documents" section below
• Classified information - described in Annex 1of the ECSEL JU Work Plan 2020.
• Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) - described in the Annex 1 of the ECSEL JU Work Plan 2020
• Capping on EU Funding and national/regional/ESI Funding - described in the Annex 7 and Section 10 of the ECSEL Work Plan 2020

For grants awarded under this call beneficiaries may provide support to third parties as described in part K of the General Annexes of the Work Programme. The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. Financial support to third parties is capped (limited to) 3% of the EU funding requested by the proposal. The respective options of Article 15.1 and Article 15.3 of the ECSEL Model Grant Agreement will be applied

Members of consortium are required to conclude a consortium agreement, in principle prior to the signature of the grant agreement.

7. Open access must be granted to all scientific publications resulting from Horizon 2020 actions.

8. Open access to research data

Where relevant, proposals should also provide information on how the participants will manage the research data generated and/or collected during the project, such as details on what types of data the project will generate, whether and how this data will be exploited or made accessible for verification and re-use, and how it will be curated and preserved.

The Open Research Data Pilot has been extended to cover all Horizon 2020 topics for which the submission is opened on 26 July 2016 or later. Projects funded under this topic will therefore by default provide open access to the research data they generate, except if they decide to opt-out under the conditions described in Annex L of the main H2020 Work Programme. Projects can opt-out at any stage, that is both before and after the grant signature.

Note that the evaluation phase proposals will not be evaluated more favourably because they plan to open or share their data, and will not be penalised for opting out.

Open research data sharing applies to the data needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications. Additionally, projects can choose to make other data available open access and need to describe their approach in a Data Management Plan.

Projects need to create a Data Management Plan (DMP), except if they opt-out of making their research data open access. A first version of the DMP must be provided as an early deliverable within six months of the project and should be updated during the project as appropriate. The Commission already provides guidance documents, including a template for DMPs. See the Online Manual.

Eligibility of costs: costs related to data management and data sharing are eligible for reimbursement during the project duration.

The legal requirements for projects participating in this pilot are in the article 29.3 of the ECSEL JU Model Grant Agreement.