HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-92

R&I cooperation with Sub-Saharan Africa (CSA) -

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Expected Outcome:

Stimulate R&I cooperation between Sub-Saharan Africa and the EU in the field of digital.
Strengthen strategic partnerships and support digital dialogues with countries in sub-Saharan Africa, in full compliance with the principles of the Global Gateway.
Support to trade and industrial policy aspects by promoting European technologies in African markets, and vice-versa.
Contribute to Africa’s economic growth and job creation, and to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially through African and R&I.
Promote EU values for a human-centric digital transformation.
Support EU’s international priorities, as set out in Europe’s Digital Decade and Global Gateway.
Build synergies and prepare an enabling environment for research and investment for the EU.

Scope:

Foster cooperation and prepare ground for joint research and innovation and raise greater awareness of R&I cooperation opportunities between the EU and sub-Saharan Africa.
Organize networks, conferences, workshops and other actions that support R&I activities and monitor digital-relevant activities in sub-Saharan Africa.
Collect and analyse information as well conduct surveys and draft reports and position papers on sub-Saharan African countries’ R&I policies, strategies and programmes.
Link EU and African internet R&I communities, building on the work of existing projects such as the African-European Digital Innovation Bridge (AEDIB) and the FPI project “Open Internet in Africa”.
The action should ensure that relevant stakeholders from both the EU and African countries are engaged during the process through regional and international workshops and a set of communication and dissemination actions.

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2023-08-11

EVALUATION RESULTS

Call for proposals: HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01

Deadline: 29 March 2023

Available budget: EUR 55,000,000.00

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 74

Number of inadmissible proposals: 1

Number of ineligible proposals: 3

Number of above-threshold proposals: 42

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 114,347,753.88

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

Please note that the number of proposals that can finally be funded will depend on the finally available budget and the formal selection by the Commission.

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Call for proposals: HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01

Deadline: 29 March 2023

A total of 74 proposals were submitted in response to this call.

The number of proposals for each topic is shown below:

HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-31: Toolbox for efficient IP licensing for market uptake and societal value creation (HORIZON-CSA)

5 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget: 2 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-32: Piloting communities of expert facilitators to improve industry-academia-public sector co-creation (HORIZON-CSA)

7 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget: 2 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-33: Fostering knowledge valorisation through societal and cultural interactions (HORIZON-CSA)

4 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget: 5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-51: Pilots for an innovative human-centric industry (HORIZON-RIA)

7 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget: 10 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-52: Drivers and success factors for progress towards Industry 5.0 (HORIZON-RIA)

6 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget: 4 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-53: Localised and Urban Manufacturing, supporting creativity and the New European Bauhaus(HORIZON-RIA)

9 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget: 10 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-54: Green and digital skills and training needs for a just transition (HORIZON-CSA)

10 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget: 2.5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-62: Boosting industrial symbiosis by standardisation (HORIZON-CSA)

2 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget: 2 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-63: Provide for a strong and sustainable pool of experts for European Standardisation: attract the students of university/HEI (HORIZON-CSA)

3 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget: 3 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-64: Pre-normative research and standardisation in industrial ecosystems (HORIZON-CSA)

3 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget: 8 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-91: International Hub for Digital Partnerships in the Indo-Pacific (HORIZON-CSA)

5 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget: 2.5 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-92: R&I cooperation with Sub-Saharan Africa (HORIZON-CSA)

7 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget: 2 EUR million)

HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-93: R&I cooperation with Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and other countries in the BELLA network or members of RedClara) (HORIZON-CSA)

6 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget: 2 EUR million)