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3. The following supporting documents will be required to determine the operational
capacity of each
applicant in grant proposals, unless otherwise specified in the call:
A curriculum vitae or description of the profile of the persons who will be primarily
responsible for carrying out the proposed research and/or innovation activities;
A list of up to five relevant publications, and/or products, services (including widely-
used datasets or software), or other achievements relevant to
the call content;
A list of up to five relevant previous projects or activities, connected to the subject of
this proposal;
A description of any significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical
equipment,
relevant to the proposed work;
A description of any third parties that are not represented as project partners, but who
will nonetheless be contributing towards the work (e.g. providing facilities, computing
resources).
This scrutiny will be carried out by the evaluators during the evaluation process under the
selection criteria, in particular the award criterion ‘Quality and efficiency of the
implementation’. Please refer to General Annex H "Evaluation rules".
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C.
Standard eligibility conditions
1. All proposals must comply with the eligibility conditions set out in the Rules for
Participation Regulation No 1290/2013. Furthermore, for actions under this Work Programme
proposals/prize applications must comply with the eligibility conditions set out in this
Annex, unless they are supplemented or modified in the call conditions.
A proposal/application will only be considered eligible if:
(a)
its content corresponds, wholly or in part, to the topic/contest description for which it
is submitted
(b)
it complies with the eligibility conditions for participation set out in the table below,
depending on the type of action:
Eligibility conditions for participation
6,7,8
Research
&
innovation
actions (RIA)
At least three legal entities. Each of the three must be established in
a different EU Member State or Horizon 2020 associated country.
All three legal entities must be independent of each other.
Innovation
actions (IA)
At least three legal entities. Each of the three must be established in
a different EU Member State or Horizon 2020 associated country.
All three legal entities must be independent of each other.
Coordination
&
support
actions (CSA)
At least one legal entity established in an EU Member State or
Horizon 2020 associated country.
6
The eligibility criteria formulated in Commission notice Nr. 2013/C 205/05 (
OJEU C 205 of 19.07.2013,
pp.9-11
) apply for all actions under this Work Programme
, including for third parties that receive financial
support under the action (in accordance with Article 137 of the Financial Regulation No 966/2012), notably
programme cofund actions.
7
Natural or legal persons, groups or non-State entities covered by the Council sanctions in force are not
eligible to participate in Union programmes. Please see the consolidated list of persons, groups and entities
subject to EU financial sanctions, available at
http://eeas.europa.eu/cfsp/sanctions/consol-list_en.htm
.
8
Given that the EU does not recognise the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol, legal persons
established in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or the city of Sevastopol are not eligible to participate in
any capacity. This criterion also applies in cases where the action involves financial support given by grant
beneficiaries to third parties established in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or the city of Sevastopol (in
accordance with Article 137 of the Financial Regulation No 966/2012). Should the illegal annexation of the
Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol end, this Work Programme will be revised.
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ERA-NET
Cofund
actions
At least three legal entities. Each of the three must be established in
a different EU Member State or Horizon 2020 associated country.
All three legal entities must be independent of each other.
Participants in ERA-NET Cofund actions must be legal entities
owning or managing public research and innovation programmes.
9
Pre-
commercial
procurement
(PCP)
&
Public
procurement
of Innovative
solutions
(PPI) actions
At least three legal entities. Each of the three must be established in
a different EU Member State or Horizon 2020 associated country.
All three legal entities must be independent of each other.
Furthermore, there must be a minimum of two legal entities which
are ‘public procurers’
10
from two different EU Member States or
Horizon 2020 associated countries.
Both legal entities must be independent of each other.
European
Joint
Programme
(EJP) Cofund
actions
At least five legal entities. Each of the five must be established in a
different EU Member State or Horizon 2020 associated country. All
five legal entities must be independent of each other.
11
Participants in EJP Cofund actions must be legal entities owning or
managing national research and innovation programmes.
12
Framework
Partnership
Agreement
(FPA)
At least one legal entity established in an EU Member State or
Horizon 2020 associated country.
Prizes
See conditions for participation in the Rules of Contest.
***
9
ERA-NET Cofund actions support coordination and collaboration between Member States and their
research and innovation programmes. Consequently participation in these actions is limited to entities that
can fully participate in joint calls and other actions between national and regional programmes. In this
regard programme owners are typically national/regional ministries/authorities responsible for defining,
financing or managing research programmes carried out at national or regional level. ‘Programme
managers’ are typically research councils or funding agencies or other national or regional organisations that
implement research programmes under the supervision of the programme owners.
10
Public procurers are organisations that are contracting authority or contracting entity as defined in EU public
procurement directives 2004/18/EC, 2004/17/EC, and 2009/81/EC and in EU legislation replacing those in
particular Directive 2014/24/EU and Directive 2014/25/EU.
11
EJP Cofund actions support coordinated national research and innovation programmes. In line with the
objective of transnational integration though a critical mass of resources, the required minimum number of
participants is higher than the one provided in the Rules for Participation Regulation No 1290/2013.
12
It is appropriate that core participation in EJP cofund actions is limited to entities that can fully participate
through their contribution of national and regional programmes: programme owners, typically national
ministries/regional authorities responsible for defining, financing or managing programmes carried out at
national or regional level or 'programme managers' (such as research councils, funding agencies or
governmental research performing organisations) or other entities that implement national or regional
research and innovation programmes under the mandate of the programme owners. Beyond the minimum
participants, other legal entities may participate if justified by the nature of the action, in particular entities
created to coordinate or integrate transnational research efforts, grouping funding from public and private
sources.