Women Innovators category
Coordinators Horizon Europe
- All sectors
- EU Open calls
Innovation Support Services – Electromobility sectors
- Electromobility
- Call for project
- Coordinators: E-BOOST project
- Opening of application: 1 September 2023
- Allocated budget: 96 000 €
- End of applications: 31 October 2023
- Project duration: 6 months
- Thematic: Electromobility
Task description
Activities :
E-BOOST consortium is offering Innovation Support Services Lump sum for start-ups, SMEs and Small mid-caps from the electromobility sector.
Applicant can submit a proposal to fund 7 types of Innovation Support Services:
Intellectual, industrial, and commercial property
- External services to support beneficiaries to get advice or protect their intellectual, industrial, and commercial property.
Market studies
- External services to support market research blending consumer behaviour and economic trends to confirm and improve the business idea.
Life Cycle Analysis
- External service to assess the environmental footprint of an Innovation through a Life Cycle Analysis.
Project submission to EU or national funding programs
- External service to provide beneficiaries support to submit their own project to European or national funding programs.
Human Resources
- External services to provide beneficiaries support to specific Human Resources needs.
Internationalisation for Canada
- Attendance to a conference / event in Canada to develop business.
- Support from a consultancy agency to design an internationalisation strategy to reach new clients / partners to Canada.
Internationalisation for USA
- Attendance to a conference / event in USA to develop business.
- Support from a consultancy agency to design an internationalisation strategy to reach new clients / partners to USA.
If selected, each applicant will select its own consultancy agency, chamber of commerce, etc. to provide the service targeted by the Lump Sum.
More detailed information in the Guide for applicants (Section 3.2.1.)
The lump sum is aimed at contributing to the following costs incurred by beneficiaries:
- Subcontracting costs
Eligibility :
– Be a SME according to the European Definition regulated in the Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC :
- A micro enterprise: which is a company who employs fewer than 10 persons and whose turnover or annual balance sheet total does not exceed 2 million euros.
- A small enterprise: who employs fewer than 50 persons and whose turnover or annual balance sheet total does not exceed 10 million euros.
- A medium-sized enterprise: an enterprise who employs fewer than 250 persons, whose turnover does not exceed 50 million euros and/or whose annual balance sheet total does not exceed 43 million euros.
– Be established in the E-BOOST territorial scope described as follows:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
- Non-EU countries: Listed EEA countries and countries associated to the COSME part of the Single Market Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries).
– Be actively involved and contribute to the electromobility sector (the following transport sectors will be prioritized: Automotive, Heavy-duty vehicles -trucks, buses, coaches, etc.-, waterway transport, aerial guided transport, railway, active mobility, logistic).
– Not be “in difficulty” as defined at 2.1 of the Community Guidelines and State Aid for Rescuing and Restructuring Firms in Difficulty (2044/C22/02).
APPLICATIONS
To submit a proposal
Further information
For any enquiries regarding the Innovation Support Services – electromobility sectors, please contact info.eboost@cara.eu.
For more information about the E-BOOST Open Calls, see E-BOOST website or ECCP profile.
