Deadline: 23-Sep-21
European Commission has announced the applications for Resea rch Infrastructures Services for Sustainable and Inclusive Global Value Chain.
Scope
- Global value chains (GVCs) nowadays account for almost half of all international trade. In this age of global value chains, and especially at a time when the world economy and supply chains are challenged by the COVID-19 crisis, GVCs and their role in international trade and economic growth across the world as well as their impact on employment and skill are more important than ever.
- Proposals will bring together complementary and possibly heterogeneous national and European research infrastructures to provide effective access to an integrated wide range of RI services providing insights into the functioning, characteristics and impacts of Global Value Chains. Research infrastructures services will allow to assess to what extent the configuration of value chains helps to reinforce the resilience of production processes, investments and employment. They will also enable research in and analysis of the consequences of the international fragmentation of production.
Funding Information
Grant amount is equal to or greater than EUR 500 000 except for:
- public bodies (entities established as a public body under national law, including local, regional or national authorities) or international organisations; and
- cases where the individual requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60 000 (lowvalue grant).
Expected Outcomes
Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:
- scientific evidence for developing the European Recovery Plan and the design of European policies for trade, production, employment and investments in relation to Global Value Chain;
- enhanced society’s long-term and consistent problem-solving capacities to recover from socio-economic crises;
- strengthened EU position on the global market;
- contribution to the definition of standards in evolving markets;
- provision of evidence on labour market patterns and needed skills.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non-associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call topic.
- A ‘legal entity’ means any natural or legal person created and recognised as such under national law, EU law or international law, which has legal personality and which may, acting in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations, or an entity without legal personality.
- To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions;
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States;
- eligible non-EU countries:
- countries associated to Horizon Europe
- low- and middle-income countries
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