The Research Council of Norway
Funding details
Call : Call for transnational, collaborative, inter-/transdisciplinary research projects on ICT-enabled agri-food systems
Country specific: Funding is restricted to organisations from Norway
Funding: €1000,000
Conditions full:
Eligibility criteria
Who can be eligible for funding?
The funding provided by Norway is from a programme that has responsibility for research on the agricultural sector, land-based and bio-based industries, including bioresources, food processing and the food industry. Projects eligible for funding must target bio-based industries.
The RCN can fund projects that fall within fundamental research (F), industrial research (I) and experimental development (D).
The RCN can fund projects where the Norwegian coordinator/partner is a Norwegian research organisation or company while Norwegian companies/trade and industry organizations and Norwegian research organisations can be partners or subcontractors.
If project support from the Research Council of Norway is awarded to a company, or “undertaking” (i.e. an actor that carries out an economic activity consisting of offering products or services on a given market), the aided part of the research and development project is set by the State Aid Rules; https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/apply-for-funding/funding-from-the-research-council/Conditions-for-awarding-state-aid/
To ensure that support is awarded in compliance with the state aid rules, the Research Council of Norway asks relevant applicants selected for conditional allocation of funding to provide supplementary information. The Project Owner must be able to document that its own institution and all its partners (all recipients of state aid) are eligible to receive state aid.
Open access
The Research Council of Norway has stipulated requirements relating to self-archiving and open access to scientific articles produced in connection with R&D projects funded by the Council. Read more about The Research Council's Principles for Open Access to Scientific Publications https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/about-the-research-council/forskningspolitikk/open-science/policy-for-open-science/
Other issues
The Norwegian participation must follow RCN’s General Terms and Conditions for R&D Projects.
Norwegian project partners will sign a separate contract with the RCN. Norwegian partners that are coordinators of the projects will be asked to also coordinate the Norwegian partners of the projects.
The budget for the Norwegian partners shall follow RCN regulations.
According to Article 20.6 of the Annotated Model grant Agreement (http://www.iprhelpdesk.eu/news/horizon-2020-updated-annotated-model-grant-agreement-available ), the budget applied for must be stated in Euro and the conversion rules as stated in article 20.6 of the Annotated Model Grant Agreement should be applied.
Project partners of funded projects will be requested to submit national application forms to The Research Council of Norway after notification.
Projects in which partner from Norway is only responsible for demonstration actions cannot be supported by RCN.
National/regional topic priorities:
The Research Council of Norway (RCN) funds research projects within all topics of the call, as long as the project are in line with the BIONAER program priorities.
More details in the national/regional call announcement:
National info meeting webinar 16.12.2019 at 10:00 – 11:00
Contact person(s):
Tina Hov-Gylthe
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