CHAMELEON Open Call #1

Description

As part of the CHAMELEON project, 15 bundles are being developed.With this Open Call, the goal is to attract tech innovative companies to contribute to the CHAMELEON platform with the development of new bundles that enhance the platform’s technological offering in the scope of UAV technological approaches to agriculture/forestry/livestock problems. Adding to the contribute to the CHAMELEON project, the proposed sub-project should also constitute a clear benefit to the applicant company, as the exploitation plan will be highly valued in the evaluation of the proposal. Applicants must have a clear plan to exploit the tools developed in the scope of this open call.

Beneficiary & submission

The application is formalised with the submission of the proposal in the CHAMELEON website (https://chameleon-heu.eu/open-calls). There you can find a comprehensive guide for the submission steps as well as all the required documentation. ELIGIBILITY The CHAMELEON OCMB will verify that the submitted applications comply with the following prerequisites:• All entities are eligible for EC funding under the rules of Horizon Europe• The open calls are applicable only for individual partners• Sub-project is under the technological domain of UAV usage in agriculture, forestry andlivestock• Sub-projects demonstrate Europe dimension (“through cross border experimentationor expanding the impact of local sub-projects to European scale”) COUNTRY -       This open call is open to all EU countries and countries associated to the Horizon Europe programme’. -     According to the Council Implementing Decision 2022/2506 stipulates that legal commitments must not be entered into with any public interest trusts established on the basis of the Hungarian Act IX of 2021 or any entity maintained by such a public interest trust. This applies as of 16 December 2022 for as long as the measures are in place. This means that it is prohibited to enter into legal commitments with such entities involving Union funding. This prohibition applies to the entire chain of Union financing. An indicative – non-exhaustive – list of affected entities is available (i.e. public interest trusts and entities maintained by them) under this link and please check also the related list of Frequently Asked Questions. LANGUAGE Only documents written in English will be considered for evaluation. Any other language will be automatically rejected. ABSENCE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST Applicants shall not have any actual and/or potential conflict of interest with CHAMELEON Open Call process, from the application to the development phase of the selected proposals. All cases of conflict of interest will be assessed case by case by the Support Team.Conflict of interest may occur when there are conditions involving economic interest, political or national affinity, family or emotional ties or any other shared interest that might affect the objective evaluation of the proposal, as defined in the HE and EC regulations. Beneficiaries, their affiliated entities, employees and permanent collaborators have not the right to participate. MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS Up to two proposals per applicant will be accepted for evaluation (the first two to be submitted). Others will be discarded. Only one proposal will be accepted for funding. If any entity is associated to more than two proposals, only the first two will be considered for evaluation. EVALUATION Each proposal will be reviewed by at least two evaluators and will follow the criteria defined by the CHAMELEON consortium: CRITERI0N 1: Impact: Topic Relevance and Exploitation Plans Description: Overall impact of the proposed prototypes or use cases if successful; Topic relevance of the proposed prototypes or use cases if successful; Quality of the exploitation plans and market potential;Relevance of the prototypes or use cases to the objectives of the call. Scoring (0-5) Threshold: 3/5 Weight: 2 CRITERI0N 2: Soundness of Concept Description: Feasibility of the proposed prototypes or use cases and technological contribution; Level of innovation and technological challenges addressed;Quality of the work plan. Scoring (0-5) Threshold: 3/5 Weight: 1 CRITERION 3: Beneficiary Expertise Description: Quality of the project team and cross-sector check; Technical capacity and excellence of the proposer and its capability to achieve the deployment of TRL 6 services; Scoring (0-5) Threshold: 3/5 Weight: 1 CRITERION 4: Deployment of Resources Description: Allocation of appropriate resources to the proposed sub-project;Justification of the proposed resources. Scoring (0-5) Threshold: 3/5 Weight: 1

Further information

CHAMELEON will adopt the same scoring scale (0-5 excellent) as suggested by EU and half marks will be possible. The four criteria have been assigned specific weights. The target is to close the complete evaluation of the proposals within 2 months after the submission. The remote evaluation will start with a webinar organized by the CHAMELEON open call coordinators. The board will explain the call objectives and methodology. After getting access to the proposals, the expert should check if s/he is able to evaluate the proposal, if there is any conflict of interest unknown to the CHAMELEON consortium and then accept or reject the assigned proposals within 2 working days.After evaluation, the experts will take part in a consensus meeting where the final score for each proposal will be established and to agree to a set of comments and marks for each of the criteria in the proposal. A member of the CHAMELEON OCMB board will act as a recorder and support the two experts in developing an agreed set of comments and scores.After going through all the proposals, a panel meeting will be held to unify the proposal grades and to rank the proposals. In case there are proposals with equal scores the following criteria will be applied in strict order:• The proposals will be ranked based on their higher impact potential (Criterion 1),• In case there are proposals in the same position, priority will be given to proposals thathave ranked higher in Criterion 2 and• In case there are still proposals in the same position, priority will be given to proposals which have higher score in Criterion 3.At the end all received applications will be informed about their scores and evaluator comments. CHAMELEON will publish the selected/non-selected projects.