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CTTEs are short-term duration (6-9 months) experiments with a budget up to 80,000€ focusing on one of the four defined verticals (Digitized Transport, Digitized Agriculture, Digitized Environment and Digitized Anything) and will give the opportunity to form synergies, accelerate product orient projects and offer guidance towards successful commercialization.

Deadline	March 1st, 2021 at 17:00 CET
Open to	Universities/Academic Institutions, SME/Slightly Bigger Companies, Technology Providers in general
Benefits	Maximum funding request per consortia: up to 80,000€ EU Funds
Read more	smart4all-project.eu/opencalls-apply-now
Submit application	smart4all.fundingbox.com

SMART4ALL invites nominations for its 1st Open Call on CTTE. The Prizes are part of the SMART4ALL programme which is supported by the European Union under Horizon 2020.

About Cross-domain Technology Transfer Experiments (CTTEs)

Cross-domain Technology Transfer Experiments (CTTEs) are short-term duration (6-9 months) experiments focusing on one of the four defined verticals (Digitized Transport, Digitized Agriculture, Digitized Environment and Digitized Anything). CTTEs will give the opportunity to form synergies, accelerate product orient projects and offer guidance towards successful commercialization.

Within this type of experiments, 3 different entities are involved from at least two different eligible countries. One Academic/Industrial Technology Provider transfers a novel technology to one Industrial Technology Receiving partner as an early-adopter and then one Industrial productization partner extends the value chain. The partners shall apply together as a consortium through a simple application form.

The consortium composition can be as follows:

Technology Provider	Technology Receiver	Productizer
Academic, Country 1	Industrial, Country 1 or 2	Industrial, Country 2, 1 or 3
Industrial, Country 1	Academic, Country 1 or 2
Industrial, Country 1	Industrial, Country 1 or 2

The leading partner must always have an Industrial partner status (SME or Slightly Bigger company).

Who can apply for CTTE?

Consortia composed of three different entities from at least two different countries including one Academic/Industrial partner who acts as a Technology Provider and an Industrial partner acting as a Technology Receiver and one Industrial productization partner to extend the value chain.

Consortia can include the following type of applicants:

• Universities and other Academic Institutions.
• SME and Slightly Bigger Companies, as defined in the EU recommendation 2003/361. Slightly Bigger Companies are defined respectively as organizations with a staff headcount below 500 employees and a turnover below EUR 100M.
• System Integrators and/or Technology Providers, i.e. any type of organization specialized in technology transfer or system integration, serving the needs of end-users, provided they can be categorized in one of the two previous types of beneficiaries.

The eligible countries are: EU Member States (including the United Kingdom), H2020 Associated countries and any other South-East Europe countries not listed above and included in Annex A of the H2020 Work Programme.

Additionally, since one of the goals of SMART4ALL is to support the digital transformation in mainly European countries underrepresented in European funding schemes, by means of cross-border experiments, consortia including at least one member from one of the SEE countries will be prioritized: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Serbia.

The applicants involved in the consortia can NOT include any SMART4ALL partners.

Financial support

The CTTE partners will apply for financial support by submitting one joint proposal describing the CTTE and its technical plan and a detailed estimation of the CTTE-related costs.

• Financial support per CTTE
  The CTTE experiments will be supported with a lump sum of up to EUR 80,000.
• Financial support per CTTE partner
  Every CTTE partner can receive a maximum financial support of EUR 60,000.

Financial support will be paid out to the leading partner, who will then distribute the funds to the other partners according to the resource distribution set up in the proposal.

Multiple submissions and participation in other SMART4ALL open calls and in any from H2020 I4MS and SAE projects

No legal entity can be funded twice under SMART4ALL CTTE Open Calls. In the event that one organization takes part in more than one consortium being among the selected projects, only the consortium with more points will be funded.

As per European Commission’s rules, financial support will not be awarded to individual legal entities that have already received more than EUR 100,000 via open calls (Financial Support to Third Parties = FSTP = cascade funding) from H2020 I4MS (https://i4ms.eu/) and SAE (https://smartanythingeverywhere.eu/) projects. This limited amount does not include any EC contribution that your organization receives or has received within an EU-funded project (within FP7 or H2020) as a beneficiary. Participation as a beneficiary within EU-funded projects does not affect the participation in SMART4ALL open calls. Additionally, any legal entity or consortium participating in this open call will be able to apply for any other SMART4ALL open calls, provided the abovementioned limits are observed.

Matchmaking & Partner Service

For seeking organization partners and matchmaking service please visit:https://matchmaking.smart4all-project.eu/

How to Apply?

Guide for Applicants and FAQs are available at SMART4ALL Application Kit (https://smart4all-project.eu/opencalls-apply-now).

Link for submitting proposals: https://smart4all.fundingbox.com/