Africa-EU CO-FUND action on climate
CLIMATE · HORIZON-COFUND · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds a long term, 5 to 6 year programme that organises joint EU and African Union calls for climate research projects. It aims to build lasting research cooperation on climate change adaptation and resilience, improve climate data and services, and strengthen the role of African scientists in global climate policy. Money will largely flow onward to third party research projects selected through cascading grants.
climate adaptation · environmental monitoring · public health · civil society democracy · regional development
Who wins this
This suits a consortium of European and African research and funding organisations able to design and manage transnational cascading grant calls for climate research with African partners.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €15M
- Funding model
- Budget-based. Reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Programme Cofund Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
- Eligible applicants
- research organisation, public body
- Funding rate
- up to 50% of eligible costs
- Support to third parties
- Cascading grants to third parties, maximum EUR 500,000 per third party, may be higher if duly justified.
- Also required
- At least 30% of beneficiaries must be legal entities established in African Union member states, and legal entities from all African Union member states are exceptionally eligible for funding.
- Sectors
- CleanTech · Energy · Mobility
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Israel, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Tunisia, New Zealand
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions 1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible Countries described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. 3. Other Eligible Conditions If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used). Due to the scope of this topic, legal entities established in all African Union member states are exceptionally eligible for Union funding. At least 30% of the beneficiaries must be legal entities established in the African Union member states[[ "African Union member states" includes countries whose membership has been temporarily suspended.]]. described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants The funding rate is up to 50% of the eligible costs. Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties (FSTP) in the form of grants. Financial support provided by the participants to third parties is one of the primary activities of the action in order to be able to achieve its objectives. Given the type of action and its level of ambition, the maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 500 000. This is justified by the research-intensive nature of the action because cascading grants linked to FSTP will support concrete R&I projects aimed at boosting climate preparedness in the African Union. However, if the objectives of the action would otherwise be impossible or overly difficult (and duly justified in the proposal) the maximum amount may be higher. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions
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