Societal resilience, engagement of the younger generations and digital innovation for disaster resilience
Civil Security for Society 2027 · HORIZON-RIA · Up to TRL 5 · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds research and innovation projects that use digital tools, gamification and emerging technologies like AI and virtual reality to engage young people in disaster preparedness, response and recovery. Projects should develop educational programs, pilot practical solutions and build stronger community resilience by involving children, youth and vulnerable groups in decision making before, during and after disasters. The expected result is more inclusive, youth driven approaches to crisis management that can be adopted by authorities and the wider resilience community.
civil society democracy · education skills · extended reality · artificial intelligence · climate adaptation · social innovation
Who wins this
A consortium of research organisations, civil society organisations and youth NGOs across multiple EU countries that wants to co design digital and educational tools with young people to strengthen disaster resilience.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €3M
- Funding model
- Lump sum. Paid per completed work package, with no financial reporting of actual costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: at least 4 partners, from 3 countries.
- Eligible applicants
- civil society organisation, NGO representing young people or youth organisations
- Also required
- Requires active involvement as beneficiaries of at least 2 Civil Society Organisations and 2 NGOs representing young people or youth organisations from at least 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries, and if satellite earth observation data is used, Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS must be used.
- Sectors
- Cybersecurity · Defence
- 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 Subject to restrictions for the protection of European communication networks. The following additional eligibility criteria apply: This topic requires the active involvement, as beneficiaries, of at least 2 Civil Society Organisation (CSO) and 2 NGOs representing young people or youth organisations from at least 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries. For these participants, applicants must fill in the table “Information about security practitioners” in the application form with all the requested information, following the template provided in the submission IT tool. 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). 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 granting authority may, up to 4 years after the end of the action, object to a transfer of ownership or to the exclusive licensing of results, as set out in the specific provision of Annex 5. Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025) [[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf ]]. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions
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