EQC2021 Call for Proposals

A new call for proposals for Scientific and Technical Equipment (EQC2021) is now open and will be published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) in June. Applications are open to all interested parties.

The primary objective of the EQC2021 call for proposals will be the acquisition, installation, and commissioning of advanced scientific and technical equipment. The shared facilities where the equipment is installed must have a centralized management model, staff to operate the equipment, complementary equipment to that requested, a resource management plan, and public access to the equipment at the corresponding rates.

Budget: It will have 180 M€ allocated from the European Union’s Recovery and Resilience Facility. These funds are no longer regionalized as the ERDF funds were. Therefore, there is no guarantee that the amount of aid received will be similar to that received in previous calls for proposals.

Type of aid: In the form of a grant, which may cover up to 100% of the purchase price of the equipment (excluding VAT).

Eligible Recipients: Universities, public research organizations, and other public R&D centers.

Individual project amounts: Between €400,000 and €1,500,000 per application (previously between €100,000 and €1,000,000)

Project characteristics: individual (they cannot be coordinated). The DNSH (Do No Significant Harm) principle, an environmental principle that projects must comply with and which is exclusive in nature.

Expected publication date: June

Expected deadline for submitting applications: three weeks.

Implementation of the grants: began in 2021 and is scheduled to end on December 31, 2023.

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