INDUSAC OPEN CALL FOR STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS (Horizon Europe Framework Programme)

The call (A HUMAN-CENTRED AND ETHICAL DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES 2021 (HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01) is managed by EU project INDUSAC under the Horizon Europe programme. The Horizon Europe project INDUSAC, aims to financially support short-term (4-8 weeks) research collaborations between academia (students and researchers) and industry (companies), in solving company Challenges. Financial support to third parties (FSTP) is given solely to student members of the co-creation teams.

Deadline for submitting a Motivation Letter: 30.05.2024 and 30.10.2024

The Motivation Letter from a co-creation team is considered submitted once all co-creation team members confirm participation in the co-creation team and confirm the terms and conditions. Although not mandatory, co-creation teams are encouraged to apply with a single strong Motivation Letter rather than multiple less-elaborated applications that may be rejected and thus cost them a valuable opportunity (since the maximum number of Motivation Letters throughout all three cut-off dates is three).

Eligible countries: EU Member States or Associated Countries 

Eligibility for Students: 

• Students must study at public universities during the entire duration of the activity (from the co-creation team establishment until one month after the final report of the co-creation team is confirmed).
• An individual student will be able to participate in more than one co-creation team but be a candidate with a maximum of three submitted Motivation Letters. A student cannot participate in more than one Motivation Letter submitted to the same Challenge. 

Eligibility for Researchers.

• Researchers must be employed at a public research organisation during the entire duration of the activity (from the co-creation team establishment until one month after the final report of the co-creation team is confirmed).
• An individual researcher will be able to participate in more than one co-creation team but be a candidate with a maximum of three submitted Motivation Letters. A researcher cannot participate in more than one Motivation Letter submitted to the same Challenge.

Eligibility of Co-creation Teams

• The co-creation team must have at least three and up to six members.
• Co-creation team members must be from at least three different EU Member States or Associated Countries.
• The co-creation team has to be gender balanced (operationally, gender balance entails selecting at least two different gender options (Male, Female, Would rather not say)).
• Each co-creation team must include at least one student, IE. no co-creation team may comprise exclusively researchers.
• At least 60% of the members of the co-creation team must be from Widening Countries.

Budget: up to 1,000 EUR gross per student (lump sum), up to 3,000 EUR gross per co-creation team wherein only students are eligible for funding; 900,000 EUR gross in total, for supporting 300 projects.

Further information about the Call can be found here.