iHERITAGE Call for Sub-grants in Lebanon

Deadline: 11-Jul-23

The ENI CBC MED is thrilled to announce the launch of the iHERITAGE Call for Sub-grants in Lebanon, an initiative dedicated to revolutionizing the interpretation and preservation of Mediterranean UNESCO cultural heritage using advanced technology.

iHERITAGE encourages collaboration among universities, small businesses, start-ups, and technology-focused projects working on AR/VR/MR solutions. They are excited to invite individuals, university departments, young people, women, and researchers to submit their innovative projects that leverage technology to celebrate cultural heritage.

Selected projects will receive funding to establish new ventures, explore patent opportunities, and benefit from support in areas like marketing and funding. They welcome applications from individuals, small businesses, and organizations collaborating with research centers or business incubators.

Goals of the Call for Sub-Grants

• This call for proposals will support projects promoted by natural persons and/or SMEs or other institutions in cooperation with a Research Centre or a Business Incubator. These last should be applicants or supporters.
• The aim of this call is to valorise the tangible and intangible cultural heritage using novel digital technology in order to safeguard the cultural heritage, promote and support new business ideas and related research activities.
• “Spin-offs” may be established by individual researchers and students, research centres, or university departments, or entire organisations, as new enterprises aiming to put the research results previously carried out to commercial value and to have a market medium for technology transfer and commercialization. Spin-offs will be operating in promoting for instance AR/VR tours in UNESCO sites; creating holograms, virtual content, 3D reconstructions; AR/VR marketing, etc.
• The entities applying in group will create a new spin-off only after the approval of the grant.
• All supported projects have to create at least one ICT product or service related to the cultural heritage.
• The sub-granted spin-offs will benefit, moreover, from facilitations, commercialisation, and capitalisation activities offered by the project. Spin-offs will operate and sell across borders and could receive a wide range of facilitations, such as participation in international fairs and business events (WP5), meetings and contacts with venture capital funds and business angels, training, funding. They will also benefit from the communication strategies activated by the project, including social media, press releases, newsletters, and so on.

Funding Information

• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following amounts:
  • minimum amount: EUR 2.000,00;
  • maximum amount: EUR 7.142,86.
• Duration
  • The initial planned duration of an action may not exceed 3 months.
  • In any case the project proposals implementation period may not exceed 14th of September 2023.

Location: Projects can be realised in at least one of the following territories – Lebanon

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant –
  • be a natural person or an SME applying with other natural persons as coapplicants and a support letter of a Research Centre or a Business Incubator; or
  • be a natural person or an SME applying with other entities (i.e. SMEs and/or natural persons) and a Research Centre or Business Incubator as co-applicant; or
  • be a private Research Centre or a private Business Incubator applying alone or with natural persons and/or SMEs.
• Be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action (i.e., not acting as an intermediary).
• Be based in the Programme ENI CBC MED eligible territories: Lebanon
• Co-applicants (if any)
  • The applicant can submit a project proposal with co-applicants being:
    • Natural persons (mandatory if the applicant is a natural person and no other of the below co-applicant(s) are present);
    • Research Centre (as defined by the EU Regulations) or a Business Incubator;
    • SMEs (as defined by the EU Regulations).
  • Co-applicants must be based in the Programme ENI CBC MED eligible territories as indicated above.

• Supporter(s)
  • If a Research Centre, as defined by the EU Regulations, or a Business Centre is not an applicant or co-applicant, it must be present with a support letter where one of their Professor/Researcher or Legal Representative declares in detail the operative role in the development of the project proposal.
  • Specifications on the nature of applicants and co-applicants (if any):
    • For natural persons have reached 18 years old at the time of submission of the application.
    • For applicants to the iHERITAGE sub-grants of Egypt, Jordan or Lebanon natural persons must be national citizens residing in the country where they are applying;
    • For applicants to the iHERITAGE sub-grants of Italy or Spain natural persons must be EU citizens or non-EU citizens with residence permit in the country where they are applying;
    • Other actors (i.e. SMEs, Research Centre, Business Incubator, etc.) must have a registered office or headquarter in the eligible territories where they are applying.
  • The establishment of a spin-off company must be by:
    • natural persons and a Research Centre or Business Incubator as co-applicant or with a support letter;
    • natural person(s) and at least a Research Centre or a Business Incubator as coapplicant;
    • A Research Centre or a Business Incubator alone or with other actors (SMEs or individual person(s)).

For more information, visit ENI CBC MED.