GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The successful proposal will interconnect national contact point (NCP) service across Europe and will help develop innovative governance models enabling sustainability and resilience notably to achieve better informed decision-making processes, societal engagement and innovation. The network of NCPs is expected to organise transnational events to communicate with all interested actors regarding new research activities, to draw lessons from previous research programmes on best practice for cooperation, to help interested stakeholders prepare for new funding schemes and structures. It is expected to organise NCP Information Days, NCP trainings, brokerage events for interested actors, dissemination of relevant results and provide appropriate tools and instruments to support NCPs, researchers and other actors. Activities will support researchers and other actors in the areas of food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture and environment to connect into all clusters of Pillar 2 and across the three pillars of Horizon Europe. The NCP network should cooperate with, but should not duplicate actions foreseen in other thematic and horizontal Horizon Europe NCP networks, and in other networks such as the Enterprise Europe Network. Proposals should include a work package to implement matchmaking activities that should take place by means of online tools, brokerage events, info days and bilateral meetings between project initiators and candidate participants from widening countries. Special attention should be given to enhancing the competence of NCPs, including helping new and less experienced NCPs rapidly acquire the know-how built up in other countries including the newcomers throughout Europe less active member states, associated countries, regions and stakeholders.