Q & A
Chips JU
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Please find here below a link to a document with further information on the ownership control assessment procedure where the “controlled” term is explained:
The EU budget (in the part A of the proposal in the portal) and the national budget (in the provided template) should both include the total costs of the project, each of them respecting respectively the Digital Europe and the corresponding national costs eligibility rules. Participating States are expected to co-finance their national competence centres together with the Union, i.e. 50% will be funded through EU contributions and 50% through national contributions.
As a reminder, following principle needs to be respected: the Union will make available up to EUR 1 million per year, per country, for a 4-year period provided that the corresponding Participating State provides the same amount of maximum annual, financial contributions as the Union, i.e. EUR 1 million per year.
The list of previous projects ( annex 4 to the Part B of the proposal template) is not required for this Competence Centres call.
The Chips JU office can’t discuss specific details of the proposals under preparation. The only questions we can answer are related to the templates and portals for submission as well as schedule and deadlines.
Chapter 4 "Work Plan, Work Packages, Activities, Resources and Timing" of the Tpl_Application_Form_(Part B)_DEP template is included within the 60 pages limit of the IMPLEMENTATION section.
No, the section 3.3 "Environmental sustainability and contribution to European Green Deal goals" of the proposal template is not applicable to this call.
No, chapters "1.3 Digital technology supply chain" and "1.4 financial obstacles" do not apply to this call.
No, there is no such impediment. An entity might participate in multiple proposals submitted to the same call for proposals.
The costs eligibility for proposals resulting from the Competence Centres calls follows the rules described in the Annotated Grant Agreement, article 6. Kindly refer to this document for further information. Please find here the link to the document: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/common/guidance/aga_en.pdf.
Affiliated entities are entities with a (usually legal or capital) link to a beneficiary. ‘Link to the beneficiaries’ means in particular a legal or capital link, which is neither limited to the action nor established for the sole purpose of its implementation. More information about affiliated entities with some examples can be found in the Annotated Grant Agreement, article 8 (https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/common/guidance/aga_en.pdf).
The Competence Centres can be composed of industrial partners as long as the Competence Centre itself has a non-profit objective. There are no restrictions on the type of entity (public/private) taking the coordinator role of a Competence Centre’s consortium. However, I would like to bring to your attention that including for profit organizations in a Competence Centre consortium opens up questions on state aid funding that need to be discussed with and resolved by the national authorities that provide the matching grant.
The Ownership Control Declaration template states, “entities that are validated as public bodies by the Central Validation Service do not have to fill in the form but will automatically be considered as controlled by their country.” Therefore, any entity validated as public body by the Commission Validation Services does not need to provide this form.