National Centre for Research and Development
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 Poland
Funding: €600,000
Conditions full:
Eligibility criteria:
Following entities are eligible to apply:
- Research organizations (research and knowledge-dissemination organisations);
- Micro, Small, Medium and Large Enterprises;
- Group of entities (within the meaning of art. 37 section 1 point 1a of The Act of 30 April 2010 on the National Centre for Research and Development, published in Journal of Laws item 1770, 2019;)
Additional eligibility criteria
- Organization must be registered in Poland.
- For enterprises it is strongly advised to state in the Pre-proposal application form in table for Project coordinator/Project partner, in the row “Other information”: the KRS number of the enterprise and the size of the enterprise (micro/small, medium, large).
- A condition for the participation of a group of entities as the Applicant in the competition is its formal existence on the date of submission of the pre-proposal, confirmed by its members concluding, at least conditionally, agreement on the creation of a group of entities.
- Please note that group of entities counts as two project partners from Poland (it meets the limit on the number of participants from the same country, please see call text for details).
It is recommended that one project partner can require up to 200 000 €.
The eligible costs shall be the following:
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- personnel costs (researchers, technicians and other supporting staff to the extent employed on the research project);
- costs of instruments and equipment, technical knowledge and patents to the extent and for the period used for the research project; if such instruments and equipment are not used for their full life for the research project, only the depreciation costs corresponding to the life of the research project, as calculated on the basis of good accounting practice, shall be considered eligible;
- costs for buildings and land, to the extent and for the duration used for the research project; with regard to buildings, only the depreciation costs corresponding to the life of the research project, as calculated on the basis of good accounting practice shall be considered eligible; for land, costs of commercial transfer or actually incurred capital costs shall be eligible;
- cost of contractual research, costs of consultancy and equivalent services used exclusively for the research activity; this cost type cannot account for more than 70% of all eligible costs of a project; the subcontracting can be obtained from consortium partner only in justified case, this need will be verified by a national experts panel;
- other operating costs including costs of materials, supplies and similar products incurred directly as a result of the research activity;
- additional overheads incurred indirectly as a result of the research project; that costs cannot account for more than 25% of all eligible project costs; That costs (6) are counted as a multiplication by percentage given above (called x%) and the rest of direct costs, excluding subcontracting (4); It means 6=(1+2+3+5)*x%.
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National funding rates:
Funding quota of Polish participants can be up to 100% for research organizations. In the case of enterprises, funding quota will be decided on a case-by-case basis depending on the size of the company, type of research/development, risk associated with the research activities and commercial perspective of exploitation, under Section 2 of the Regulation of the Minister of Science and Higher Education of 25 February 2015 on criteria and rules on granting state aid and “de minimis” aid by the National Centre for Research and Development, published in Journal of Laws item 299, 2015.
The organisation must conduct its business, R&D or any other activity on the territory of the Republic of Poland, confirmed by an entry into the relevant register, and provide a sufficient guarantee of reliable disbursement of public funds.
In any case only Industrial/Applied Research and Experimental Development will be funded.
Other type of activities (e.g. coordination, dissemination, management) cannot be included into separated task.
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.
Polish Participants will be informed and invited to submit Polish proposal once the international evaluation and the ranking list will be established.
Additional Information
In addition to the national regulations, within a transnational call specific rules of the consortium may be applicable. Please read carefully the Call Text and all related instructions.
All proposals must be aligned with national regulations, inter alia:
• The Act of 20 July 2018 - Law on Higher Education and Science, published in Journal of Laws item 1668 as amended;
• The Act of 30 April 2010 on the National Centre for Research and Development, published in Journal of Laws from 2018 item 1249 as amended;
• The Regulation of the Minister of Science and Higher Education of 25 February 2015 on criteria and rules on granting state aid and “de minimis” aid by the National Centre for Research and Development, published in Journal of Law from 2015, item 299, which is in line with the Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty (General Block Exemption Regulation);
The Regulation of the Minister of Science and Higher Education of 17 September 2010 on the detailed mode of performance of tasks of the National Centre for Research and Development, published in Journal of Laws No. 178, item 1200.
National/regional topic priorities:
National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) funds research projects within all topics of the call,
More details in the national/regional call announcement:
Useful links:
Contact person(s):
Kinga Szymanska