Apply Now to Get Enhanced Support as Coordinator for your Horizon Europe RIA(IA) proposal

Pillar II funds top-down Research and Innovation activities of large consortia. Pillar II is organised in six clusters, which individually and together will promote interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, cross-policy, cross-border and international cooperation: 1. Health; 2. Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Societies; 3. Civil Security for Society; 4. Digital, Industry & Space; 5. Climate, Energy and Mobility; and 6. Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture & Environment. A consortium is comprised of at least 3 partners from 3 different countries. This includes partners coming from member states and/or associated countries. However, usually a larger consortium is expected.

Research and project services offer enhanced support for researchers, who plan to coordinate a Research and Innovation Action (RIA) or an Innovation Action (IA) proposal in Horizon Europe calls (Clusters 1-6) with either a deadline in September-December 2023 or a deadline in January-April 2024. The support is intended for applicants, who have prior experience from Horizon Framework programme or similar (e.g. having been a partner of a Horizon project or having been involved in proposal preparation), but have never coordinated a proposal before. Priority is given to applicants with deadlines in autumn 2023, but the support process can be started also for later deadlines.

The support consists of training, support in proposal writing (call analysis, impact and implementation, open science, data management, gender), budgeting and graphic design. The research and project services' team will guide the coordinator throughout the whole preparation process.

Also, a small salary fund for the PI or an assisting researcher is available and external services for proposal review can be provided (subject to the availability of strategic funds). A detailed description of the support services can be found on Patiohttps://patio.oulu.fi/en/media/6252/download?attachment. All researchers planning to submit a proposal for the Horizon Europe RIA calls in September- December 2023/ January - April 2024 as coordinators can express their interest to be included in the support process by answering a short Webropol questionnairehttps://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/5E167A9EA98A2A0C by Friday 19.5.2023.

All information provided will be kept confidential. The applicants who are selected for the support process commit themselves to take part in the support process for the proposal preparation and submit their final proposal to the selected call. Selected applicants will be invited to a Horizon Europe training (June) and a kick-off meeting to go through the support process and schedule in May/June 2023.

Selection will be made based on the availability of services and the readiness level of the proposal preparation.

To see the work programme for 2023-2024 click herehttps://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/how-to-participate/reference-documents;programCode=HORIZON.

A summary of all calls is available in Patio: https://patio.oulu.fi/en/services-and-instructions/research-support/funding-...

In case you need any further information, please contact me.

Best regards Päivi

Päivi Tomperi Research Funding Specialist, Faculty of Science University of Oulu Research and Project Services Pentti Kaiteran katu 1 PL 8000 90014 University of Oulu Finland

tel. +358 294 483972 mobile: +358 (0)40 7468503 e-mail: paivi.tomperi@oulu.fimailto:paivi.tomperi@oulu.fi

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