ECO-READY Open Call for establishing a Living Labs Network
ClosedDescription
The sub-projects performed by the selected Living Labs will be divided into 3 phases: Design (M01-M06), Development (M07-M17), Impact (M18-M24). Each of the 3 phases will be completed with the submission of a deliverable summarizing the work done during this phase. All deliverables will be reviewed by the ECO-READY Open Call Monitoring Committee. Upon final acceptance of the deliverables, the Open Call Manager will inform the Coordinator/Treasurer of the ECO-READY consortium to proceed with the payments to each partner of the Living Lab. Payments will be made towards the subgrantees as follows: Phase 1- Design (M06), Deliverable: Activity Plan - Payment of 30% of the total fund. Phase 2- Development (M17), Deliverable: Demonstration results/outcome - Payment of 40% of the total fund. Phase 3- Impact (M24), Deliverable: Final report with sustainability plan - Payment of final 30% of the total fund.
Beneficiary & submission
ECO-READY will select at least 10 Living Labs. All Open Call applicants must meet the eligibility criteria outlined in Section 3.2.1 of the Applicants’ Guide- Overall eligibility criteria. At the time of application, along with the Open Call proposal template, all applicants must submit the following: Annex 1 (Consortium Declaration), Annex 2 (Declaration of Honor), Annex 3 (Declaration of Conducting Business). During the contracting phase, winner applicants must also provide Annex 4 (Bank account information form) and three signed copies of the Sub-grant Agreement for the ECO-READY Open Call (indicative model given as Annex 6, for informative purposes only), which will be given to them upon being declared a winning applicant. All applications for the ECO-READY Open Call for establishing a Living Labs network must be submitted in English. Submissions done in other languages will be considered ineligible and will not be evaluated. Proposal submissions can only be done via the Open Call Hub platform (https://opencallhub.eu/). The link to the Open Call Hub platform will also be available on the ECO-READY website https://www.eco-ready.eu/. Applications received through any other channel will be automatically discarded. All the documents needed for the application (ECO-READY Open Call Kit) can be found on the ECO-READY website, on the section dedicated to the Open Call (Living Labs). EVALUATION: After the ECO-READY Open Call has been closed, an eligibility check process will be carried out by the ECO-READY Monitoring Committee to discard non-eligible applications. Following the eligibility check process, a remote evaluation will be done by carefully selected external reviewers. Each proposal will be reviewed by two different reviewers, with specific scientific and/or technical expertise related to the topics of the call. The evaluation criteria cover: 1) Alignment with the call’s objectives, 2) Excellence, 3) Impact, 4) Value, 5) Implementation. All award criteria have the same weight, and can take a score from 1 to 5 with a threshold of minimum 3 points in each category, and at least 15 points in total.
Further information
ECO-READY Open Call aims to attract consortia of 2-5 partners with at least 1 community of users and at least 1 scientific/technical/commercial entity, with expertise in food security, biodiversity, or climate change to investigate 5 model-based scenarios and exchange data collected with the ECO-READY Observatory. A total of 4 million euro will be allocated to the selection of a minimum of 10 Living Lab projects. Each project can receive up to 400k euro and each party within the project will have a budget between 60-200k euro.