An hour long call. Present on the Zoom: @alberto, @amelia, @hugi, @IvanC, @johncoate, @nadia, @noemi, @MariaEuler, @martin, @matthias, @wolha
The last (and the biggest) part of the Horizon 2020 EU Green Deal Call is presented by @marina, with the fact sheet:
- It differs from the previous calls, aims for visible results in the short to medium term with the long term perspective. The keywords are rapid scalability, dissemination, uptake.
- The deadline is 26 January 2021, selected projects start in Autumn 2021, our goal is to enter a consortium before the end of November.
- Eight thematic areas and two horizontal ones, which are of particular interest for us. The list of calls with the updates is here.
- Most of the calls mention some kind of citizen engagement. If invited, we would fit better in the calls where citizen engagement is the key and cover the social and not the technical parts of the others.
- Preferably we should work with known and reliable partners.
Discussion:
- We are strong in locating and connecting to groups that are already working in the area of citizen science, with innovations in their social space and amplifying their work and provide explanations, therefore calls in Area 10. Creating from scratch is more challenging.
- Gold standard for the best partnership – Open Care experience. Others lead, we have a say on the direction and can choose partners.
Strategically:
- It is too late to do something really new. The competition will be hard, the project idea must fit >100% to the call.
- Timing for consortium building is late: the more outreach is needed to make the proposal, the less useful for Edgeryders is the proposal.
- We cannot administer grants. The goal is to lead in not more than one project. If necessary, leading the call is to be seen as a necessary evil if it is the only solution.
- We need to choose the partnerships where the “standard work package” can be best plugged in. Our established partnerships work well because we have built quality relationships and must keep it this way.
- In the programmes we work on engagement, it is necessary to control the distribution of resources. If that part does not work, your credibility can be compromised.
- Multilingual projects are very complex and require perhaps more resources than we can afford. POPREBEL works on 4 languages, there is the software support for multilingual SSNA, but it is not easy.
- The calls are more than earlier and they all need proper preparation, it is vital to define who is doing what among us.
- Three groups of specialists are needed in this phase: for the administration tasks and communication with the consortia while we write the application, for the outreach and engagement, for research and writing.
- A part the other calls, it would be good if we could enter the Area 1 - Climate neutral and socially innovative cities call and the cascade funding that goes with it. We should search for an adequate position through our “cities” contacts and partners because their intellectual lead would be vital for this kind of projects.
- The proposals should be drafted by 31 December. We need two more weeks to tune it to the quality needed for the call.
The method that works for us is transparent and participatory.
- We produce 1-2 pages project note as a basis to put together a consortium = gather main partners within two weeks, one more week to find eventual last partners, then comes the writing and the meetings. After the first, maximum second meeting, we create a budget which becomes a contract and a proposal - the 70 pages document.
It is possible to build our own proposals and we will explore this direction. A meeting needs to be scheduled with the minimum participation of @alberto, @amelia, @marina and @martin. Everybody else is invited too, but not vital.
Linkedin campaigns can be used for outreach, but time is of essence.
Boundary conditions:
Last calls in a Framework Programme normally were heavily oversubscribed.
Cascading funding is - seen from EU - to outsource administrative tasks (you gain some ‘shaping power’), but that may be too complex for us to handle.
Useful piece in the toolbox is the Plato project.
18:00 The meeting is adjourned, a video registration will be kept for some time if necessary on the Zoom cloud.
Soundtrack from the beginning.