Innovative solutions to fight wildlife trafficking and to reduce invasion of invasive alien species
Transformative change towards a nature-positive economy and society · HORIZON-IA · TRL 6 to 7 · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds projects that build innovative tools to detect illegal wildlife trade and invasive alien species moving through trade routes, both online and physical. The goal is to help customs, border guards and law enforcement spot and stop these threats earlier, protecting biodiversity and reducing the economic damage caused by invasive species. Projects must build working prototypes, test them in real settings, train authorities to use them, and run public awareness campaigns.
environmental monitoring · biodiversity · artificial intelligence · public health · defence security
Who wins this
This call suits a consortium of technology developers, research organisations and public law enforcement or conservation agencies from at least three different EU or Associated Countries who want to co-create and demonstrate detection tools with end users.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €13M
- Funding model
- Budget-based. Reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Innovation Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: at least 3 partners, from 3 countries.
- Eligible applicants
- public body, research organisation, law enforcement authority
- Also required
- Entities controlled directly or indirectly by China are not eligible to participate due to critical technology area restrictions, and the project must involve Social Sciences and Humanities expertise.
- 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 Eligibility 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). Some activities, resulting from this topic, may involve using classified background and/or producing of security sensitive results (EUCI and SEN). Please refer to the related provisions in section B Security — EU classified and sensitive information of the General Annexes. The Joint Research Centre (JRC) may participate as member of the consortium selected for funding as a beneficiary with zero funding, or as an associated partner. The JRC will not participate in the preparation and submission of the proposal - see General Annex B. The specific conditions for actions with PCP/PPI procurements in section H of the General Annexes apply to grants funded under this topic. In line with the “restriction on control in innovation actions in critical technology areas” delineated in General Annex B of the General Annexes, entities established in an eligible country but which are directly or indirectly controlled by China or by a legal entity established in China are not eligible to participate in the action. 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 described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes 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 specific conditions are described in General Annex H. 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. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions