CIRCUALR ECONOMY FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE - CALLS 2021. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
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CIRCUALR ECONOMY FOR A
SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
CALLS 2021. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Page 1 of 7Index
1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................... 3
2. BACKGROUND ................................................................................................................................................. 3
3. AMIS ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
4. GUIDELINES ..................................................................................................................................................... 4
4.1 Beneficiaries ............................................................................................................................................. 4
4.2 Eligible projects ........................................................................................................................................ 4
4.3 Criteria ...................................................................................................................................................... 5
4.4 Non-eligible projects ............................................................................................................................... 6
4.5 Submission process .................................................................................................................................. 6
5. AVAILABLE BUDGET, ELIGIBLE/NON-ELIGIBLE COSTS ..................................................................................... 6
6. COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ....................................................................................................... 6
7. SUMMARY....................................................................................................................................................... 7
Page 2 of 7Circular Economy for a sustainable future
1. INTRODUCTION 3. AIMS
Circular Economy for a sustainable future is a Considering the opportunities offered by a circular
deadline call that is part of the strategic goal and regenerative economy, Cariplo Foundation
“Scientific Research: increasing knowledge for the intends to support multidisciplinary projects falling
advancement of biomedical sciences and for the into the following areas:
definition of more inclusive, circular and
sustainable socio-economic developmental 1. Development of new organizational models to
models”. implement the principles of the circular
economy in public and/or private entities;
2. BACKGROUND 2. Design and development of new materials
and products1 in order to outline sustainable
In the new era of consumer economy and consumption models;
widespread prosperity, we assisted to the 3. Design and develop more efficient resource
emergence of a new environmental, economic and regeneration systems – including wastewater
social emergency, namely the waste management. and sewage sludge – previously used for the
production and transformation process or for
In large part, this can be associated to the
service provision;
implementation of a linear production model that
starts with products manufacture, passes through 4. Enhance the use of organic and inorganic
products exploitation and ends up with products waste as well as their transformation in
disposal. Unfortunately, this does not fit well with a products characterized by high added value,
including energy production.
society like ours that largely rely on scarce
resources. In this scenario, there is an urgent need Projects applying to area 1 and 3 have to provide
for a shift to a circular model of economy built on the economic and risk assessment of the adoption
new concepts of production, design, distribution, of new organizational models and/or regeneration
and consumption. This change requires to systems developed. Projects applying to area 2 and
rearrange products manufacturing in order to 4 have to include analysis of the current and
facilitate the extension of shelf life, recycling, potential market for the products being studied.
reuse, as well as energy and material recovery.
All projects will need to be characterized by a
The shift from a linear to a circular and multidisciplinary approach which will facilitate the
regenerative model represents a turning point that integration of disciplines and skills, including
is likely to mark a change in the production system, collaboration between researchers in biological
in contemporary business model, citizens areas, chemists, physicists, engineers and
consumption choices and we expect that this researchers working in the fields of economics and
change would also facilitate various improvements the legal and social sciences. In addition, they
for the future of our environment, climate and should represent an opportunity for training and
human health more in general. professional growth for the young researchers
involved.
1 the modularity, reparability, maintenance, substitution and
For the management and development of new products, it is
important to take into consideration the nature of materials, management of dangerous materials, reuse, harvesting,
production processes, disassemblability, recyclability, as well as regeneration and recycling quality.
Page 3 of 7Finally, the Foundation intends to promote • fall in at least one of the key priority research
concrete dialogue activities with civil society, with areas of this Call;
a view to Responsible Research and Innovation
• provide for the establishment of an Advisory
(RRI). In particular, in order to strengthen the Board composed of representatives of at least
transformative outcome and the application five businesses involved in the industry
implications of the program, projects will have to affected by the intervention;
assemble an Advisory Board that will integrate the
• involve, train and value young researchers3.
academic skills with sensitivity of the productive
world and end users of the solutions developed. Moreover, the PIs of all the involved units (leading
The Advisory Board must be composed of and partner) are allowed to:
representatives of at least five companies involved
• submit one proposal only to this Call;
in the sector affected by the intervention2. With
reference to the formulation of the • participate as PI in more than one Call of the
Communication Plan, moreover, researchers will Scientific Research Area, as long as no overlap is
necessarily have to strengthen the dissemination of displayed between proposals4;
results to the business system also through the
involvement of trade associations. • not be the PI of any other ongoing proposals
previously funded by the Scientific Research Area
(except for Calls in partnership with other
granting agencies)5.
4. GUIDELINES
It is mandatory for the operational headquarter of
4.1 Eligible subjects the leading organization to be located within the
geographical area of intervention of Cariplo
Public or private non-profit organizations that Foundation. This requirement does not pertain
conduct scientific research. potential partners.
By participating to this Call, organizations accept The total cost of the project should include the
the portability of the grant. Any change in the host additional costs6 and the overhead only, according
institution depends on Cariplo Foundation approval to the eligibility criteria and the thresholds listed
according to the guidelines for presentation below:
(“Guida alla presentazione dei progetti su bandi”)
and the general criteria for granting contributions • A03 - “Equipment and software”
(“Criteri generali per la concessione dei This entry cannot exceed 20% of the additional
contributi”). costs. It fully covers the costs for newly acquired
equipments and softwares. It is mandatory to
With reference to this call, it is specified that the clearly motivate these costs in accordance to the
companies involved in the Advisory Board and the specificity of the project. In this category can also
professional associations in the communication be included ranting costs as well as building work
plan will not be eligible for contributions. expenses for the installation of the new
equipments;
4.2 Eligibile projects
• A04 - “Other amortizable costs”
To be eligible, projects must: This entry can only include patent costs;
2 4
The companies involved in the supply chain will be able to In case of overlapping proposals, only the first one received
operate at different levels of the process of generating value, will be considered.
5
for example, in the production, transformation, distribution or A proposal is considered ongoing unless the final grant reports
supply of goods and services. - both the scientific and the financial one - have been uploaded
on our website before the deadline of this call.
3 6
The term “young researcher” in this Call for proposals indicates Sum of: A03, A04, A06, A07, A08, A10.
graduate fellows, PhD students and postdoc not older than 35
years of age at the Call’s deadline.
Page 4 of 7• A06 - “Temporary staff” • Endorsement letters from at least five businesses
This entry can only include research personnel involved in the Advisory Board, as PDF11 file;
costs. The cost of administrative staff is not • Project dissemination form12, as PDF file;
allowed;
• Detailed budget plan, as EXCEL file;
• A07 - “Sub-contractors and consultants”7;
• Authorization for the Transfer of Personal Data to
extra-European countries13.
• A08 - “Materials and supplies”
This entry cannot include costs related to office
supplies and photocopies; By participating to this Call, organizations
acknowledge, agree and accept that the award of
• A09 - “Overheads” the grant requires the irrevocable acceptance of all
This entry cannot exceed 5% of the additional the following documents, available online for the
costs; download: Intellectual property rights policy, Open
access policy and Acknowledgement guidelines for
• A10 - “Travel, publication and dissemination academic papers (“Linee guida per la citazione del
costs”. contributo nelle comunicazioni scientifiche”).
This entry cannot exceed 20% of the additional
costs and can only include travel expenses and 4.3 Criteria
conference participation fees for the research
personnel involved in the project, scientific The evaluation of the full projects will be carried
publications and activities of communication with out according to the methods and criteria
the civil society. represented below.
1. DESCRIPTION (weight 10%)
The grant will cover 100% of project costs,
therefore the total cost of the project should • clarity of the project aims and strategies;
correspond to the requested amount.
• analysis of the state of the art;
Requested funding should range from 100.000 to
• preliminary data significance.
300.000 euros.
2. APPROACH (weight 15%)
Proposals should provide the following mandatory
documents: • integration of the project in a research area
relevant in terms of current debate over
• Host institution agreement8;
regenerative and circular economy;
• Partnership agreement9;
• adequacy and rationality of the research plan,
10
• Project form , as PDF file;
• multidisciplinary approach;
7 8
This entry should also include audit costs, where applicable. Host institution agreement must be drawn up on the basis of
Exclusively certificated auditors are considered eligible. For the the form made La lettera accompagnatoria dovrà essere redatta
sole purpose of ascertaining whether the obligation to perform sulla base del form disponibile online per il download.
a financial audit applies or not, the amount which has to be 9
To be provided in case the project involves partners and the
considered is obtained by multiplying the eligible costs detailed doc must be drawn up on the basis of the form made
in the Budget (sum of entries A06, A07, A08, A09 and A10) by downloadable from the website.
the coefficient 1,25. It is also recommended to refer to the 10
The project form must be drawn up on the basis of the form
“Grant management and reporting guide” and to the guidelines
made available for the call.
for audit assignment “Linee guida per affidamento audit”; both 11
documents are available on the Cariplo Foundation’s website. In order for endorsement letters to be examined by
However, it is anticipated that in case of funding, the reviewers, it is suggested that they be produced in English and
Foundation will confirm to each recipient any obligation to included in the detailed form of the project.
12
satisfy such fulfillment. The communication plan must be drawn up on the basis of
the form made available for the call.
13
The Authorization form can be downloaded from the website.
Page 5 of 7• presence of adequate back-up plans; of any third-party partners and providers will also
be considered.
• adequacy of the monitoring plans.
The evaluation will be performed by three
3. INNOVATION (weight 15%)
independent reviewers. The Foundation will make
•originality of the research question; a judgement limited to the coherence of the
Economic Plan and the adequacy of the
• ability to innovate existing organizational and Dissemination Plan.
business models.
4.4 Non-eligible projects
4. OUTCOMES (weight 25%)
• expected impacts in terms of knowledge Proposals will be considered non-eligible in case
advancement; they do not comply with the previous paragraph
4.2 "Eligible projects” and/or present the following
• expected impacts in terms of long- and medium- features:
term product and process innovation;
• purely descriptive;
• expected impacts in terms of environmental
sustainability; • basic research projects without any tangible
application;
• expected impacts in terms of social value
creation, new employment and territorial • projects exclusively meant to technology
development. transfer;
5. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, TEAM AND • aimed to set up new research centres and/or
ORGANIZATION (weight 10%) laboratories and/or animal facilities.
• PIs’ scientific and managerial leadership; In addition, Cariplo Foundation will not consider
eligible a proposal that has been submitted more
• track record and adequacy of the PI and team than two times to previous editions of this Call.
competencies (leading organization and partner);
4.5 Submission process
• functionality and composition of the Advisory
Board;
Applications must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on
• level of consolidation of the collaborations with May 18th2021.
research centers and\or the ability to build new
partnerships; 5. AVAILABLE BUDGET, ELIGIBLE/NON-
ELIGIBLE COSTS
• adequacy of the equipment in relation to the
project typology. The budget available for this Call consists of 3
million Euros.
6. YOUNG RESEARCHERS (weight 10%)
Eligible and non-eligible costs are detailed in the
• engagement of young researchers in
previous section 4.2 Eligible projects.
responsibility roles;
• training programs for young researchers. 6. COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION
7. DISSEMINATION (weight 5%) Cariplo Foundation, as a private entity, is not
required to comply with public procedures and has
• quality of the communication plan.
the faculty not to allocate the entire budget in
8. BUDGET and PROJECT DURATION (weight 10%) whole or in part. The text of the Call and all the
mentioned documents can be found on Cariplo
• budget suitability, coherence and duration of the Foundation website www.fondazionecariplo.it.
project. The appropriateness of the contributions
Page 6 of 77. SUMMARY*
Circular Economy for a sustainable
Call
future
Type Deadline call
Deadline 18.05.2021
Available
€ 3.000.000
budget
Development of new organizational
models to implement the principles
of the circular economy in public
and/or private entities
Design and development of new
materials and products in order to
outline sustainable consumption
models
Aims Design and develop more efficient
resource regeneration systems
previously used for the production
and transformation process or for
service provision
Enhance the use of organic and
inorganic waste as well as their
transformation in products
characterized by high added value
Public or private non-profit
Eligible
organizations thaht conduct
subjects
scientific research
Funding
Maximum funding € 300.000
constraints
Scientific Research Area
Contacts Staff contacts at:
www.fondazionecariplo.it
* The data shown in the "Summary” are intended as a brief
overview of the terms and conditions of the Call only. For a full
description, please read carefully the text of the Call.
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