Deadline: 29-Nov-2024
Are you a local or regional authority from an Associated Region eager to tackle Detection, Collection, and Prevention (DCP concept) of litter, including macro- and microplastics, in your rivers? Then apply for the INSPIRE Open Call to become one of the early adopters and receive a grant between 60k EUR and 100k EUR!
INSPIRE aims to boost the deployment of technology and actions for detection, collection and prevention (DCP concept) of litter, including macro- and microplastics, in European rivers.
For that, INSPIRE is seeking to select proposals from local and regional authorities from Associated Regions (AR) and manage the Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP) for scaling up, replication and exploitation of the lessons learnt from the project use cases.
Funding Information
- A total budget of 500k EUR is allocated to the INSPIRE Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP) Call for funding the participation of at least 5 projects.
- Applicants can apply for minimum 60k EUR to maximum 100k EUR.
Eligibility Criteria
- Proposals must be submitted by a local or regional authority that must be in an EU or a Horizon Europe Associated country other than countries where a project partner of INSPIRE is located.
- Eligible Authorities: Financial support to third parties can only be awarded to local and regional authorities from an Associated Region, i.e., INSPIRE defines these as public entities that manage, regulate and supervise public welfare at local or regional level (e.g. city council, regional council, municipality, etc.).
- Eligible Countries: Eligible beneficiaries of this call are local and regional authorities from European Union Member States, or Horizon Europe associated countries (Association to Horizon Europe – European Commission and list of participating countries in Horizon Europe). UK is eligible for the FSTP.
- Note that applicants from the following countries where a project partner of INSPIRE is located are ineligible for this call (i.e., Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden are excluded from the list of potential beneficiaries).
- No universities nor private companies are eligible even if they receive public funding or are considered public entities. They can however participate as sub-contractors.
- The INSPIRE project can be contacted for further clarification about eligibility. EU restrictive measures are also applicable for financial support to third parties.
For more information, visit INSPIRE.