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Basically, there is a call for ECCCH under Horizon where EC Cloud for Cultural Heritage to be created.
The original Call aims to establish the core infrastructure and the governance model for the Cloud. It will be funded under the EU’s Horizon Europe, with a total budget of 25 000 000 EUR and an expected duration of five years.
The Call is open until 21 September 2023.
Options:
- Join open Consortium applying - Europeana Consortium, ECHOES contacting
- Directly apply to ECCCH The following activities are generally eligible for grants under Horizon Europe:
Xavier Rodier, Project Proposal Coordinator: xavier.rodier@univ-tours.fr
Sarah Daoud, Project Management Officer: sarah.daoud@univ-tours.fr and
Milena Popova, Programme Manager, Europeana Foundation: milena.popova@europeana.eu
Research and innovation actions (RIA) — Activities that aim primarily to establish new
knowledge or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process,
service or solution. This may include basic and applied research, technology development and
integration, testing, demonstration and validation of a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or
simulated environment.
Innovation actions (IA) — Activities that aim directly to produce plans and arrangements or
designs for new, altered or improved products, processes or services. These activities may
include prototyping, testing, demonstrating, piloting, large-scale product validation and
market replication.
Coordination and support actions (CSA) — Activities that contribute to the objectives of
Horizon Europe. This excludes research and innovation (R&I) activities, except those carried
out under the ‘Widening participation and spreading excellence’ component of the
programme (part of ‘Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area’).
Also eligible are bottom-up coordination actions which promote cooperation between legal
entities from Member States and Associated Countries to strengthen the European Research
Area, and which receive no EU co-funding for research activities.
Programme co-fund actions (CoFund) — A programme of activities established or
implemented by legal entities managing or funding R&I programmes, other than EU funding
bodies. Such a programme of activities may support: networking and coordination; research;
innovation; pilot actions; innovation and market deployment; training and mobility;
awareness raising and communication; and dissemination and exploitation. It may also
provide any relevant financial support, such as grants, prizes and procurement, as well as
Horizon Europe blended finance18 or a combination thereof. The actions may be implemented
by the beneficiaries directly or by providing financial support to third parties.
Innovation and market deployment actions (IMDA) — Activities that embed an innovation
action and other activities necessary to deploy an innovation on the market. This includes the
scaling-up of companies and Horizon Europe blended finance.
Training and mobility actions (TMA) — Activities that aim to improve the skills, knowledge
and career prospects of researchers, based on mobility between countries and, if relevant,
between sectors or disciplines.
Pre-commercial procurement actions (PCP) — Activities that aim to help a transnational
buyers’ group to strengthen the public procurement of research, development, validation and,
possibly, the first deployment of new solutions that can significantly improve quality and
efficiency in areas of public interest, while opening market opportunities for industry and
researchers active in Europe. Eligible activities include the preparation, management and follow-up, under the coordination of a lead procurer, of one joint PCP and additional activities
to embed the PCP into a wider set of demand-side activities.
Public procurement of innovative solutions actions (PPI) — Activities that aim to
strengthen the ability of a transnational buyers’ group to deploy innovative solutions early by
overcoming the fragmentation of demand for such solutions and sharing the risks and costs of
acting as early adopters, while opening market opportunities for industry. Eligible activities
include preparing and implementing, under the coordination of a lead procurer, one joint or
several coordinated PPI by the buyers’ group and additional activities to embed the PPI into a
wider set of demand-side activities.
