Public procurement of innovation for security

Affiliated entities do not count toward the minimum consortium-composition threshold.

At least one of the qualifying independent beneficiaries must be established in an EU Member State.

The standard consortium must contain at least three independent beneficiaries established in EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries.

The three qualifying beneficiaries must be established in at least three different EU Member States or Associated Countries.

An entity that is not eligible for Horizon Europe funding may generally participate as an associated partner unless the call says otherwise.

Each beneficiary must be established in a country eligible for Horizon Europe funding, unless an explicit call-level or essential-participation exception applies.

One organisation may fulfil both the practitioner and public-procurer roles and count toward both role totals.

The required practitioner and public-procurer beneficiaries must collectively come from at least three different EU Member States or Associated Countries.

The consortium must include at least three practitioners and at least three public procurers as beneficiaries.

At least two of the public procurers must be independent legal entities established in different EU Member States or Associated Countries, with at least one of them established in an EU Member State.

Applicants must complete the Horizon Europe ethics self-assessment as part of the application.

PCP/PPI procurement costs are eligible and the specific conditions for PCP/PPI procurement actions in General Annex H apply.

Applicants must complete the required Information about security practitioners table for participants with practitioner status.

The expected EU contribution is around EUR 2000000 per project; this is guidance rather than a hard cap unless the topic conditions state otherwise.

The Commission currently expects to fund approximately 1 project(s) under this topic.

The topic has an indicative total budget of EUR 2000000.

The project must focus exclusively on civil applications and comply with the applicable prohibited-research conditions.

If the project uses satellite-based Earth observation, positioning, navigation or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must use Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS; additional data or services may also be used.

The granting authority may object to a transfer of ownership or exclusive licensing of results for up to four years after the end of the action under the applicable Annex 5 provision.

The action is subject to restrictions for the protection of European communication networks.

Activities may involve classified background information and/or produce security-sensitive results, so the applicable EU classified and sensitive-information provisions must be followed.