IMPETUS Accelerator Programme
It has two grants:
- Kickstarting grants: If you start a project, successful applicants will receive €20,000, mentoring and training support to help start your initiative for a period of six months.
- Sustaining grants: If you are an ongoing project, successful applicants will receive €10,000, mentoring and training support for a period of six months.
The challenges or topics of this year’s Accelerator are “Sustainable Lifestyles”, “Justice and Equity” and “Citizen Science with and for Communities“. This means that your project should address and relate to these topics.
Who can apply? Individuals, legal entities, and consortia established in a country or territory eligible to receive Horizon Europe grants are eligible to apply. EU Member States or third countries in Europe that are associated or negotiating an association agreement with Horizon Europe.
A list of eligible countries can be viewed here.
The funding can be spent on salaries, equipment, consumables, travel, and subcontracting in accordance with Horizon Europe guidelines.
This is a great chance if you are:
- thinking of starting a new citizen science project;
- an ongoing citizen science project looking for support, financial and otherwise, to grow and become sustainable;
- a researcher or a research team seeking to resource a new citizen science project;
- a community interested in co-designing research on the topics related to our challenges: Sustainable Lifestyles, Justice and Equity, and Citizen Science for and With Communities
- an organisation in public, private and third sectors exploring the use of citizen science in their work.
Get in touch if you have any questions: opencall@impetus4cs.eu
