Farmtopia Open Call

Farmtopia aims to select 9 consortia (Sustainable Innovation Pilots - SIPs). The Open Call will focus on countries and sectors not already covered by the internal project SIPs, with the expectation that they will benefit from the most recent developments of Farmtopia Reusable Components. All Open Call winners must meet the eligibility criteria outlined in Section 3 of Farmtopia Open Call Annex 2: Guidelines for Applicants. At the time of application, all applicants must submit the following: Annex 4: Declaration of Honour, Annex 5: Declaration of Conducting Business (for the applying SME), Annex 5a: Farm Declaration (for the applying farm) and Annex 6 (Consortium Declaration). During the contracting phase, the winning applicants of the Farmtopia Open Call must also provide: Annex 7 (Bank account information) and signed copies of the Subgrantee Agreement for Farmtopia Open Call winners. The indicative model of this contract is given as Annex 8, for informative purposes only, with the final version to be distributed to the winners during the contracting phase. All proposals for Farmtopia Open Call must be submitted in English. The submissions done in other languages will be discarded as ineligible. The entry point for submitting of all proposals for Farmtopia Open Call is the Farmtopia website, https://farmtopia.eu/open-call/, which will lead to the Open Call Hub platform. Proposals received via any other channel will be automatically discarded. All the documents needed for the application (Farmtopia Open Call Kit) could be found on the Farmtopia website, on the section dedicated to the Open Call. After the Farmtopia Open Call has concluded, an eligibility check will be carried out by the Farmtopia Open Call team to discard the non-eligible proposals. Following the eligibility check, an evaluation will be performed by the appointed external evaluators. Each proposal will be reviewed by two different reviewers, with specific technical and/or business expertise related to the topics of the call. The evaluation criteria cover: i) Excellence and Relevance 40%, ii) Impact 30% and iii) Implementation 30% and each criterion can be scored from 1 to 5. Extra points will be given to applying SIPs that deploy their solution in a sector not covered by Farmtopia internal SIPs and in a country not covered by Farmtopia internal SIPs.

Farmtopia Open Call aims to attract small consortia of two entities to be formed by an ADSs provider (SME) and an end-user (small or medium farm). Their goal is to collaborate and co-create new ADSs by incorporating Farmtopia Reusable Components. The Open Call intends to fund 9 external Sustainable Innovation Pilots (SIPs). The total sum for the Open Call is 900,000€, with the grant for individual winning SIPs being 100,000€.