This Call for Cascading Grants seeks applications from individuals and legal entities eligible for Horizon Europe funding who wish to receive financial support to enhance the activities or the adoption of the results of the RDA Working Groups (WGs). The call invites applications from:
- RDA WGs for projects that support the WG plan of action (at any stage of the WG lifecycle), adoption or testing of the WG outputs. The grant funds can be used to cover the personnel and travel costs of the Group’s existing members, stipends or salaries of new team members, conference and open access fees and fees of external experts (e.g., to solve specific legal, IPR or standardisation-related questions). See the section “Eligibility Criteria” for more details.
- Organisations that wish to adopt an RDA output. Specifically, the grant funds can be used to support the adoption, testing, harmonisation, and/or implementation of RDA Recommendations or Outputs2.
- Organisations focusing on the technical implementation, prototyping and/or proof-of-concept using RDA recommendations to achieve interoperability of open science solutions, especially in the EOSC context.
- RDA WGs launching a formal standardisation process to have the WG recommendations adopted or used as input by an established technical standards organisation.
Applications are received up until 3 December 2024 (AoE)3. The selected projects are expected to be launched in early 2025 and need to be concluded by the end of October 2025.
How is this call different from the Open Call for RDA TIGER services?
The RDA TIGER support services (Facilitation, Communications, Landscape Analysis, Output Support) are provided by consortium members, where the supported WGs receive services provided by the RDA TIGER project staff or experts engaged by the project partners. The Open Call for these types of support services is continuous and is facilitated by a separate process with four selection rounds per year.
This Call for Cascading Grants is intended to give the recipients more flexibility and a wider range of options in supporting the work of the WG, including facilitating the adoption of WG outputs. Depending on the stage of your WG, you can consider applying for various activities through the call as described in section 1.
Important things to note:
- Project(s) funded by this Call for Cascading Grants will need to be completed by the end of October 2025.
- The standardisation-related grants are expected to present a roadmap showing how the standardisation process can be completed after the cessation of the activities funded by the grant.
Budget
The grant proposals can request any budget below 40,000€ ; the expected distribution of selected grants is as follows:
- At least two major grants (approximately 40,000€)
- At least two medium-sized grants (approximately 10,000€)
The budget needs to be based on estimated actual, eligible costs of the planned activity.
More information and application - available on: https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-tiger-cascade-grants/