Net-Zero AI4Permitting

The potential IT solution providers can be public or private companies, as deemed appropriate for the best quality implementation of your planned projects and accordingly justified in the proposals.

No, this is not allowed, since the call textPDF states that "Entities may participate only in one proposal under this call for proposals. If the same entity participates in more than one proposal, all concerned proposals will be considered ineligible under this call.”

As per section 6 of the call textPDF, in order to be eligible, all the Consortium’s local, regional and national permitting authorities must be involved in industrial permitting procedures in designated and/or potential Net-Zero Acceleration Valleys, and supported by an endorsement letter from a national authority designating the Net-Zero Acceleration Valley. Potential other partners in the Consortium do not have to meet this requirement, yet they must be legal entities and established in one of EU Member State.

As per section 6 of the call textPDF, in order to be eligible, all the local, regional and national permitting authorities in the Consortium must be involved in industrial permitting procedures in designated and/or potential Net-Zero Acceleration Valleys, and supported by an endorsement letter from a national authority designating the Net-Zero Acceleration Valley. One endorsement letter might recognise all the authorities in the Consortium or separate letters might be issued for each participating authority individually.

Yes: the coordinator of each Consortium must be one of the local/regional/national permitting authorities from the already established and/or potential Net-Zero Acceleration Valley, who are the mandatory participants in each eligible Consortium, as stipulated in the call textPDF.

For your grant, EISMEA only provides a part of the funding for the action: the project’s eligible costs will be reimbursed at the funding rate of 80%. Through the application of this funding rate (a percentage of the eligible cost), co-financing is ensured as the remaining eligible cost will need to be covered from other sources. This remaining part must be financed from the beneficiaries’ own resources, income generated by the action, or financial contributions from third parties (e.g. grants from national or private funding programmes). The remaining 20% might be provided by different Consortium partners in proportions agreed upon by the Consortium. Normally, EISMEA does not require any further information on the sources and proportions of co-financing.

Yes, costs for employees (or equivalent) are eligible as personnel costs, if they fulfil the general eligibility conditions and are related to personnel working for the beneficiary under an employment contract (or equivalent appointing act) and assigned to the project.

As per the section 6 of the call textPDF, project budgets are expected to range between EUR 1,500,000 and EUR 2,400,000 so the applications should plan their project budgets within this range of requested grant amount to be deemed eligible.

No, EISMEA does not provide any individual guidance on the projects’ content.

You can submit your proposal in any official EU language (project abstract/summary should however always be in English). However, for reasons of efficiency and clarity, we strongly advise you to use English for the entire application.

No, each permitting authority must have an endorsement letter issued by their relevant national authority, who designates their respective Net-Zero Acceleration Valley in their country. This means that a permitting authority from country X must present an endorsement letter issued by a national authority designating the Net-Zero Acceleration Valley in country X.

As per the section ‘Consortium composition’ of the call textPDF, the eligible Consortia must meet all the required criteria, including that at least two public authorities from the already established and/or potential Net-Zero Acceleration Valley (NZAV) and minimum four independent entities from two different EU Member States are included in the Consortium. These requirements incentivize collaboration between NZAVs/regions but do not make representation of two NZAVs from different regions mandatory for ensuring the Consortium’s eligibility. Yet, since cross-border cooperation, with sharing best practices/models, are among the objectives of the call, we strongly encourage building the Consortia in a way so that cooperation between authorities from different regions is fostered.

As per section 6 of the call textPDF, the eligible local/regional/national authorities must be involved in industrial permitting procedures in any designated and/or potential Net-Zero Acceleration Valley. Other entities than these authorities are eligible, if they are legal entities and are established in one of EU Member States and provided that the eligibility criteria for their whole Consortium are met, as stipulated in the section ‘Consortium composition’ of the call textPDF.

Yes, they are eligible, if they are legal entities and are established in one of EU Member States and provided that the eligibility criteria for their whole Consortium are met, as stipulated in the section ‘Consortium composition’ of the call textPDF.

As per section 6 of the call textPDF, the eligible authorities must be involved in industrial permitting procedures in any designated and/or potential Net-Zero Acceleration Valley. This applies to local, regional and national permitting authorities.

Yes: local, regional and national permitting authorities are eligible in the call, provided that they meet all the eligibility criteria, as stipulated in the call textPDF.