Deadline: 8 January 2024
ARSINOE is thrilled to announce the launch of the 2nd Open Tenders for Innovations. If you are working on cutting-edge solutions for climate adaptation, this is your chance to make a real impact.
In the second Open Tender, ARSINOE is looking for innovations that address the negative social, environmental, and economic impacts of extreme heat, water stress, water pollution, and/or floods. Innovations may be social, governance, structural, software, and/or nature-based. The aim is to identify promising or mature innovations that can help their case study regions become more climate resilient.
Funding Information
- Applications will be evaluated using a common procedure and the selected ones may receive up to EUR 50.000 for demonstration activities in their 12 participating case studies across Europe.
- A single innovator may apply to up to three case studies, but the total compensation to be received for contracted services by a legal entity shall not exceed EUR 50.000.
Eligible Countries
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, UK.
Eligibility Criteria
- To participate in the Open Tenders, the following general requirements must be met by the applicant:
- The applicant is an established legal entity based in one of the eligible countries at the time of submission of the online application.
- Applicants may be small- or medium-sized enterprises, start-up companies, spin-off companies, universities or research and technology development institutes, multinationals or subsidiaries/daughter companies, NGOs, and foundations.
- Contracting of the innovation is possible without conflicting with the legal requirements that the contracting party is subject to (e.g. those associated with public procurement legislation).
- The online application has been submitted before the deadline via the ARSINOE webpage.
- The online application form has responses to all questions. Only complete applications will be considered.
- Selected innovations are available, and innovators able to conduct any testing and implementation activities, including respective results reporting, within the period between April 2024 and March 2025. The exact dates and timeline are to be agreed with the contracting party during the contracting phase.
- The innovation is relevant to the case study, i.e. it is deemed capable of contributing to addressing the challenge of the case study and to achieving its goals as they are stated in the supplementary materials published with the call.
- Note: Applicants that do not meet these general requirements will be informed via email with the reasons for the rejection. No further feedback on the process will be given. A call may be declared deserted if no applications meet the general requirements.
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