September 28, 2023

ExpectedOutcome:

The results of Business Plan 2024-2025 should contribute to the expected outcomes set out in the EIT Culture & Creativity Strategic Agenda 2024-2027 over the medium term, and to the wider expected impacts and respective targets over the longer term. Objective:

Relevant and appropriate EIT Culture & Creativity Business Plan for 2024-2025 implementation of the KIC’s multiannual strategy, demonstrating its excellence (including objectives and ambition; methodology; financial sustainability), its impact (including KIC’s pathways towards impact; measures to maximise impact – dissemination, exploitation and communication) and its quality and efficiency of the implementation (including work plan and resources at portfolio level; capacity of participants and KIC Partnership as a whole).
To address EIT Culture & Creativity’s target societal challenges and Knowledge Triangle Integration (KTI), contributing to achieving the future high-level results and impacts included in the EIT Impact Framework.
KIC objectives/priorities in the Business Plan, describing its objectives using SMART criteria (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound) and why are they pertinent to the KIC Strategic Agenda.

Scope:

The KIC Business Plan 2024-2025, describing the activities at portfolio level, shall be aligned to the EIT Culture & Creativity Strategic Agenda in the framework of the EIT Strategic Agenda 2021-2027. Expected Impact:

In response to this topic, EIT Culture & Creativity should show how the KIC could contribute to the outcomes and impacts described in the KIC Strategic Agenda and the KPIs in the EIT Impact Framework following the specific EIT Culture & Creativity’s Impact Pathways, the likely scale and significance of this contribution, and the measures to maximise these impacts in the context of Horizon Europe. Each activity in education, innovation, business creation and EIT RIS included in the Business Plan should contribute to at least one core EIT KPI.

General conditions

1. Admissibility conditions and documents: described in Chapter 5 – Invitation to submit a proposal for the KIC Business Plan of Culture & Creativity 2024-2025.

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible countries: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes

A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.

3. Other eligibility conditions: described in Chapter 6 – Invitation to submit a proposal for the KIC Business Plan of Culture & Creativity 2024-2025

KICs Business Plans topics: other specific conditions regarding “eligible entities” and “eligible activities” are described in Chapters 9.2 and 9.3.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in Chapters 7 and 8 – Invitation to submit a proposal for the KIC Business Plan of Culture & Creativity 2024-2025

5. Evaluation and award: Evaluation process and Proposal Approval are described in Chapter 12 and in Chapter 13 – Invitation to submit a proposal for the KIC Business Plan of Culture & Creativity 2024-2025.

Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in the Invitation to submit a proposal for the KIC Business Plan of Culture & Creativity 2024-2025. KICs Business plans topics: Award criteria is described in Chapter 9.4.
Submission and evaluation processes are described in Chapter 10, Chapter 12, Chapter 13 – Invitation to submit a proposal for the KIC Business Plan of Culture & Creativity 2024-2025
Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: are described in Chapter 4 and Chapter 13 – Invitation to submit a proposal for the KIC Business Plan of Culture & Creativity 2024-2025

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in Chapter 14 – Invitation to submit a proposal for the KIC Business Plan of Culture & Creativity 2024-2025. Processing of personal data described in Chapter 15.

Specific conditions

7. Specific conditions: described in the specific topic of the Invitation to submit a proposal for the KIC Business Plan of Culture & Creativity 2024-2025.

KICs Business Plans topics: other specific conditions regarding “eligible entities” and “eligible activities” are described in Chapters 9.2 and 9.3.

Documents

Call documents:

EIT application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System

General conditions

Specific conditions

Documents

Additional documents:

Website

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Other Calls

Public Call for Innovation Vouchers (Innovation Fund of Montenegro)

Call for Cross-border Mobilities for Young Students from Universities of the Adriatic-Ionian Region

Public Call for Innovation Vouchers (Innovation Fund of Serbia)