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ITEA 3 Call for projects
Deadline: Oct 30, 2018  
CALL EXPIRED

 Enterprise and Industry
 Entrepreneurship and SMEs
 Web-Entrepreneurship
 IT
 IT Applications
 Business Development
 Web

Submitting an ITEA proposal

Once a year, ITEA offers the opportunity to submit research project proposals that fit in the domain of software-intensive systems and services. For this purpose, a Call is organised each year starting with a two-day brokerage event. In a two-stage procedure, the quality of the project proposal is evaluated and improved, finally leading to a selection of high quality project proposals that receive the official ITEA label. The ITEA label provides project partners with the possibility of applying for public funding from their national authorities.

Consortia & project characteristics

  • Project consortia need to have at least two different partners from two different countries, of which one must be a EUREKA Member Country and another one either a EUREKA Member Country or a EUREKA Associated Country.
  • Project consortia can be composed of representatives from large industry, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), research institutes, universities and user organisations (profit or non-profit).
  • ITEA projects are industry driven, technically innovative and business oriented.
  • ITEA projects involve between 40 and 350 person-years and typically last up to three years.

Two-stage Call process

  1. Producing a Project Outline (PO):
    This PO gives a short overview of a project, mainly to describe the project goals, innovation, targeted business impact and consortium. Project Outlines which are positively evaluated are invited for the second stage;
  2. Producing a Full Project Proposal (FPP): 
    This FPP describes the project plan and how the project will be executed and managed. Approved FPPs will receive the ITEA label.

The public authorities are fully involved in the evaluation and labelling of projects. After labelling (or earlier dependent on national procedures), partners can apply for funding through their national public authorities. The ITEA label is endorsed by all EUREKA Member Countries.

Eligibility criteria

Project consortia need to have at least two different partners from two different countries, of which one must be a EUREKA Member Country and another one either a EUREKA Member Country or a EUREKA Associated Country.

ITEA Project Outlines and Full Project Proposals will be evaluated and selected according to the following criteria:

  • Relevance to the ITEA Programme
  • State-of-the-art
  • Innovation
  • Expected impact
  • Exploitation
  • Consortium
  • Project management and work plan
  • Effort justification
  • Contacts with Public Authorities

 

Funding details

The ITEA label is endorsed by all EUREKA Member Countries and financial support can be provided according to national funding procedures. In order to prepare a successful proposal, you need to be aware that there may be significant differences in funding procedures. You must therefore make sure that your project proposal fits within national public authorities' priorities and funding rules before you submit it to ITEA.

ITEA Office provides contact details for various national funding contacts which support and coordinate the funding of ITEA projects (the ITEA Authorities Committee - ITAC).

For countries not represented in ITAC, you should contact the appropriate EUREKA National Project Coordinator.

 

 

How to submit a Full Project Proposal (FPP)

Consortia with an approved Project Outline (PO) are invited to submit a Full Project Proposal (FPP). The FPP must detail the project content and describe the project plan and how the project will be executed and managed. Special attention should be paid to the recommendations and improvements made in the PO evaluation report. For the full list of criteria, please visit the selection criteria web page.

While preparing the FPP, you must keep in touch with the public authorities in all participating countries in order to ensure that your proposal fits within each country's priorities and funding rules. For contact details, go to the funding page.

Submitting an FPP

Submitting an FPP consists of three parts:

  1. Provision of administrative information via the ITEA Community website;
  2. Provision of a(n updated) textual description of the content of your proposal in an "FPP Annex" template which also needs to be uploaded to the Community website; and
  3. Provision of a Declaration of Acceptance (DoA) of the ITEA Framework Agreement to the ITEA Office.

The office provides a  PO-FPP Annex template (including guidelines), a Community website intro document and a DoA template. All these documents can be downloaded from the Call documents page.

For more information and guidelines for FPP preparations, please check the ITEA instruction videos.

FPP evaluation

FPPs are evaluated by the ITEA Steering Group and ITEA Public Authorities in line with the selection criteria. Based on these evaluation results and the feedback from the public authorities, the ITEA Board Support Group will give a recommendation for labelling to the ITEA Board. The Board will then decide on the labelling of the proposals.

After labelling

After labelling, a Project Consortium Agreement (PCA) must be signed by all partners. This details the co-operation between the project partners (contractors and subcontractors, where applicable). For some Public Authorities, the PCA - signed by all partners - is a prerequisite for funding. See the Call documents page for a Model PCA.

Partners must apply for funding to their national public authorities. The ITEA label is endorsed by all EUREKA Member Countries and financial support can be provided according to national funding procedures; for more information go to the funding page.

For more detailed information, please check the ITEA rules and regulations.

For more information on the steps to take after labelling, please check the ITEA instruction videos.



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