ENVELOPE 1st Open Call

Description

Proposals should target to: i) demonstrate the reusability of the ENVELOPE developed features by third party stakeholders and potentially other verticals; OC beneficiaries have to make use of at least 1 ENVELOPE API and/or ENVELOPE Enabler in order to validate the platform’s functionality, and/or ii) extend the provided infrastructure for experimentation as a service with additional functionalities, possibly tailored to the needs of other verticals; the extension should target the design, development, integration and validation of a new (ENVELOPE) Enabler/API. The case study where these APIs/Enablers will be applied can either be related to the automotive sector or on another vertical domain.

Beneficiary & submission

Admissibility& Eligibility Criteria: The rules for participation and funding in the Open Calls are subject to the General Annexes to Horizon Europe for the Work Programme 2023-2024. Type of Activity: The use of the ENVELOPE Experimental facility is a compulsory requirement for all experimenters. Type of 3rd party: SME and/or Research Institute and/or Universities (maximum consortium 5 beneficiaries, 50% SMEs) Feasibility check: The Feasibility Check is the preliminary step in the ENVELOPE Open Calls process running from 19th of May till the 15th (ext.) 27th of June 2025. Its purpose is to ensure that proposed projects align with the goals and resources available in the ENVELOPE Open Calls. Before applicants submit their full proposals, they are required to submit a short project summary and information about the targeted features and required resources. The consortium internal experts will review this information to assess the feasibility of the proposed project. If the project passes the Feasibility Check, applicants can proceed to the submission of a full proposal. To perform the feasibility check, the required information must be sent to helpdesk@lists.envelope-project.eu, using the template provided at the Open Call tab of the ENVELOPE website (https://envelope-project.eu/open-call-1/ ) , before the 15th (ext.) 27th of June 2025. Submission: Submissions to the first Open Call will be enabled on the 1st of June, 2025, and end on the 31st of July (ext.) 15th of August, 2025, at 17:00 CET time. Selected projects are expected to start on the 1st of December 2025. The ENVELOPE open call management platform (https://envelope-project.eu/open-calls/application-form/‎) must be used for all proposal submissions. The proposals must be submitted by using the mandatory proposal template, available on the project website at https://envelope-project.eu/open-call-1/ Evaluation: The project will involve independent experts, who are not part of the ENVELOPE consortium. The independent experts will perform the proposal evaluations, including their rating and ranking, in accordance with the requirements and objectives specified in the Open Call. All submitted proposals will be evaluated using criteria similar to Horizon Europe. Special attention is paid to the identification of potential conflicts of interest, addressing such cases in the review assignment phase. Evaluation of the received proposals, final ranking, and decision on proposals to be funded, including notifications to the proposers, will be completed by the end of September 2025, at the latest.

Further information

Beneficiaries: Beneficiaries must be consortia composed of up to 5 legal entities (SME and/or University and/or Research Institute) with a minimum 50% of them being SME’s. Participants will be acting as technology providers and/or application providers for use case implementation. All organizations have to be established in any of the EU Member States and their Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or Horizon Europe Associated Country. Consortia having at least one member from one of the SEE (South-East Europe) nations will be favoured, as one of the purposes of the ENVELOPE Project is to support European countries under-represented in European funding programmes. ENVELOPE partners, their affiliates, and employees—including persons working under employment contracts or similar to employment contracts — can NOT be involved in the grantees’ projects, nor can board members. Exclusion: Grants will not be awarded in the event of 1. Bankruptcy, winding up, court-administered affairs, creditor arrangements, suspended business activities, or other comparable procedures (including procedures that involve persons who have unlimited liability for the applicant’s debts). 2. Non-compliance with social security or tax obligations (including if such noncompliance is committed by persons with unlimited liability for the applicant’s debts). 3. Commission of grave professional misconduct. Countries: EU Member States and their Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or Horizon Europe Associated Countries see here. Following the Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2506, as of 16th December 2022, no legal commitments (including the grant agreement itself as well as subcontracts, purchase contracts, financial support to third parties etc.) can be signed with Hungarian public interest trusts established under Hungarian Act IX of 2021 or any entity they maintain. Affected entities may continue to apply to calls for proposals. However, in case the Council measures are not lifted, such entities are not eligible to participate in any funded role (beneficiaries, affiliated entities, subcontractors, recipients of financial support to third parties). In this case, co-applicants will be invited to remove or replace that entity /or to change its status into associated partner. Tasks and budget may be redistributed accordingly. Funding Support: Fixed Lump Sum per sub-project. The maximum funding per beneficiary is €60.000 and the maximum funding per sub-project is €300.000.