New Call for Proposals of the «Research Infrastructures » Programme

The Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) announces the New Calls for Proposals “Strategic Research Infrastructures ” (STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURES/1222) and “Small Scale Research Infrastructures” (SMALL SCALE INFRASTRUCTURES/1222) under the “Research Infrastructures” Programme.

The budget of the STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURES/1222 call is €12,500,000, with a minimum funding of €1,500,000 and a maximum funding of €2,500,000 per project.

The budget of the SMALL SCALE INFRASTRUCTURES/1222 call is €5,000,000, with a minimum funding of €500,000 and a maximum funding of €700,000 per project.

Proposals have to be submitted through the IRIS portal

The deadlines of the Calls have been set as follows:

  • SMALL SCALE INFRASTRUCTURES/1222 – 31 March 2023
  • STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURES/1222 – 4 April 2023

The Call “Strategic Research Infrastructures” concerns the funding of projects aimed at creating new large-scale research infrastructures that will be used for the implementation of a research project by the Consortium. The new research infrastructures will implement high-level cutting-edge research and the proposed projects will focus on subjects that fall under selected thematic priorities, which are listed below.

The proposals submitted should fall under one of the following Thematic Priorities.

  • Health
  • Environment (incl. Renewable Energy Sources and advanced materials).
  • Shipping – Marine Transportation
  • Agriculture – Food
  • Information and Communication Technologies (incl. space technologies)

The Call “Small Scale Research Infrastructures” concerns the funding of projects aims to create new or upgrading small-scale research infrastructures that will be used for the implementation of a high-level cutting-edge research project by the Consortium.

The present Call will be co-financed by the Republic of Cyprus and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), in the frame of the Operational Programme «ΘΑλΕΙΑ» 2021-2027.

Entities eligible to participate in this programme include Research Organisations (Α.1, Α.2), Enterprises (Β.1, Β.2, Β.3) and Other Organisations (C).

More information is presented in the following documents:

ΠΡΟΣΚΛΗΣΗ ΥΠΟΒΟΛΗΣ ΠΡΟΤΑΣΕΩΝ (ΕΛ)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS (EN)

PART B – TECHNICAL ANNEX (EN)

GUIDE FOR EVALUATORS

GUIDE FOR SUBMISSION FOR THE “RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES” PROGRAMME

 

For information regarding the RIF’s open calls, as well as useful documents and guides, interested parties can visit the IRIS portal.

For further information, interested parties may contact the RIF’s Partner Support Center by phone on 22205000 or via email at [email protected].