Horizon Europe: Capacity-building and transnational cooperation for National Contact Points

Expected outcomes

• Improved professionalisation/skills of NCPs across Europe, helping to simplify access to Horizon Europe calls, lowering the entry barriers for newcomers, and raising the average quality of proposals submitted.
• Harmonised and improved trans-national cooperation between NCPs.
• Enhanced support to NCPs and potential applicants in widening countries and countries that participate at lower levels in the share of proposals and projects.
• Increase the participation of women.
• Assist in developing a pan-European Innovation Ecosystem.

Scope

• Proposals should aim to facilitate transnational cooperation between National Contact Points (NCPs) with a view to identifying and sharing good practices and raising the general standard of support to programme applicants.
• Special attention should be given to enhancing the competence of NCPs, including helping less experienced NCPs rapidly acquire the know-how built up in other countries.
• The consortium should have a good representation of experienced and less experienced NCPs.
• Proposals should address the diversity of the EIC-EIE stakeholders (researchers, innovators, SMEs, start-ups, investors) and support schemes.
• Proposals should enhance synergies across different parts of Horizon Europe the, for instance with the ERC and the EIT, as well as with InvestEU and Structural Fund programmes.
• Proposals should pay particular attention and facilitate collaboration with the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) and European Innovation Ecosystem stakeholders.
• The proposal should cover the whole duration of Horizon Europe.

Deadline

18 May 2021

More information

Horizon Europe – Call