Empowering Truck Drivers – Revolutionizing European Logistics

As general rule: i) a letter of Intent or letter of commitment can be submitted by members of a Consortium to confirm their willingness to participate. However there will be only one proposal, submitted by the Coordinator of the Consortium; ii) a legal entity can be part of more than one proposal; iii) member organizations of a non-profit association can individually participate to a grant procedure by submitting each of them its own proposal (under their own legal name and registration number) and this will be treated as a single individual one, therefore there might be no need of a letter of intent/commitment. Also, if the members of the non-profit association are submitting proposals separately, they should not refer to the same joint project otherwise evaluators might consider it duplicate or conflicting submissions.

We also remind that Commission cannot tell whether an applicant is eligible or not without seeing the offer properly submitted and its accompanying support documents. We can’t judge on your internal structure. We can however guide you finding the applicable rules on eligibility criteria. At this link mga_pppa_en.pdfPDF you can find useful material about the rules governing Pilot Project grants and in particular at this link aga_en.pdfPDF you have the model grant agreement accompanied by explanations per provision, please do analyse Chapter 4 - Section 1 on the possibility to create a Consortium composed of several members and through which it’s possible to submit one sole proposal.

Section 12 of the call document “Help” provides applicants with all the information and contact details to support applicants submit their proposals.

The same information can be found in the “Get support” section of these call in the funding and tenders’ portal.

The Commission cannot tell whether an applicant is eligible or not without seeing the offer properly submitted and its accompanying support documents. Those serve to assess the legal status of the applicant which can not be assessed at this stage.

However, we can guide you finding the applicable rules on eligibility criteria. At this link mga_pppa_en.pdfPDF you can find useful material about the rules governing Pilot Project grants. In this other link aga_en.pdfPDF you also have the model grant agreement accompanied by explanations per provision. Please do analyze article 10 of the special conditions. You can find instructions on eligible countries, conditions to be met in order to be an eligible non-EU Country (for example subcontractors can come from a non-EU Country) or when an entity is considered an international organization and when it can participate to a grant.

We remain available should you need further guidance.

No, forming a consortium is not mandatory for this call. A single applicant can submit a proposal.

As indicated under point 10 of the call document, the grant “ will reimburse ONLY certain types of costs (eligible costs) and costs that were actually incurred for your project (NOT the budgeted costs).”

If an applicant already has an operational app with similar features, he/she is still expected to prove the ability to comply with all the tasks described in the call, to implement all of them and show whether the already existing app has a design and development that can meet the requirements and criteria set in the call. The app will be evaluated against the award criteria as for every other applicant.

The page limit for the application form Part B for this call is 50 pages, as indicated in the second to last paragraph of section 5 of the Call document.

Note that under the IMPORTANT NOTICE of the application form part B template provided in the submission portal, it is indicated that the page limit is normally 70 pages (unless otherwise provided in the Call document).

The activity report must describe last year’s activities of the organization(s) submitting an application. It should be detailed enough to allow to check the organization's aims and activities and its operational and professional capacity. You can find more information on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal - Online Manual on the EU Funding Programmes 2021-2027PDF.

Please see language paragraph on section 13 of the call document.

You can submit your proposal in any official EU language (project abstract/summary should however always be in English). For reasons of efficiency, we strongly advise you to use English for the entire application. If you need the call documentation in another official EU language, please submit a request within 10 days after call publication (for the contact information, see section 12).

Yes, but with important conditions. The grant requires that all functionalities explicitly mentioned in the call remain free of charge even after the project ends. This includes:

• Rating of points of interest
• Access to information provided by the app
• Making this information available to third parties