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Purpose & Target

The 'Impacts of culture and the arts on health and well-being' grant aims to strengthen cross-sectoral cooperation and evidence-based policy making concerning the positive effects of culture and arts on health, well-being, and social cohesion. It seeks to equip policy makers and stakeholders with recommendations and practical tools, document research gaps, and promote EU priorities abroad through culture-health cooperation. This grant is SECTOR-SPECIFIC, focusing on culture, arts, health, and social sectors. The target recipients are organizations and researchers involved in these fields. Geographically, it primarily targets EU Member States and Associated Countries. This is a recurring grant opportunity as part of the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2025.

Financial Structure

Funding Type: Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum contribution.
Grant Amount: The grant is for a 2,000,000.0 EUR lump sum.
Minimum Funding: 2,000,000.0 EUR per project.
Maximum Funding: 2,000,000.0 EUR per project.
Currency: EUR (Euro).
Funding Rate: The lump sum amount is calculated to approximate underlying actual costs. The Horizon Europe 25% flat rate for indirect costs is included in the lump sum calculation. For Coordination and Support Actions (CSA), the funding rate is typically 100.0% of eligible costs.
Eligible Costs (within lump sum calculation): Personnel costs (employees, direct contractors, seconded persons, SME owners, natural person beneficiaries), subcontracting costs, purchase costs (travel, subsistence, equipment, other goods/works/services), other cost categories (financial support to third parties, internally invoiced goods and services, transnational/virtual access to research infrastructure, PCP/PPI procurement costs, Euratom Cofund staff mobility, ERC additional funding).
Payment Mechanism: Lump sum contributions are paid per work package upon proper implementation of conditions. Payments do not depend on actual incurred costs reported. Unmet work package conditions mean non-payment, but payment can occur in subsequent reporting periods if conditions are met.
Financial Reporting: No report of actual costs is required. Financial checks, reviews, or audits will not focus on cost reporting but rather on technical implementation and fulfillment of work package conditions.
Pre-financing: Standard Horizon Europe rules apply.
Mutual Insurance Mechanism: Between 5% and 8% of the total lump sum is retained as a contribution.

Eligibility Requirements

Organizational Type and Status

Eligible: Legal entities established in EU Member States and Associated Countries.
Exception: Legal entities from non-associated third countries may participate as a beneficiary or affiliated entity for Coordination and Support Actions (CSA), if eligible for funding. China is explicitly ineligible for Innovation Actions (IA) but not specifically for CSA, implying other non-associated third countries might be eligible for CSA participation.
Focus: Proposals should include arts and culture organizations with experience in cross-sectoral collaboration with health, social, youth, education, and humanitarian/relief sectors.
Expected participants: Professionals, researchers, people working with cultural heritage and cultural and creative industries. This includes SMEs and micro-enterprises within the cultural and creative industries.

Geographic Requirements

Established in: EU Member States and Associated Countries. Specific list of EU countries:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
Scope: Actions should aim for European, national, regional, and local level impact.

Consortium Requirements

Consortium is required. Proposals should involve cross-sectoral cooperation among cultural, health, social, youth, education, and humanitarian/relief sectors, as well as researchers and academia from Member States and Associated Countries.

Technical and Capacity Requirements

Proposals should demonstrate capability to create a dedicated platform for policy discussions and knowledge exchange.
Capability to provide policy guidelines and evaluate mixed methods, arts and culture-based interventions.
Ability to create an evidence gap map of arts and health research and innovation.
Capacity to collect new practices and policies and evaluate interventions for clinical and cost-effectiveness.
Experience in arts and culture organizations with cross-sectoral collaboration is essential.

Exclusion Criteria

Legal entities established in China are not eligible to participate in Innovation Actions (IA). While this grant is a CSA, it's a critical note from the Work Programme context.

Application Process

Application Deadlines and Submission

Submission Deadline: 2025-09-16 00:00:00+0000 (latest possible deadline).
Submission Opens: 2025-05-15.
Submission Model: Single-stage application process.
Submission Platform: Proposals must be submitted via the Funding & Tenders Portal's Electronic Submission Service.

Required Documentation

Application Form: Specific to this call, available in the Submission System. Consists of:
Part B: Page limit of 33 pages for a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) using lump sum funding.
Detailed Budget Table: Mandatory, using the template available in the Submission System. Applicants must propose the lump sum amount based on estimated direct and indirect costs, broken down by work package and per beneficiary/affiliated entity.
Legal Entity Validation: Rules for legal entity validation, LEAR (Legal Entity Appointed Representative) appointment, and financial capacity assessment apply.

Evaluation and Award Timeline

Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement as described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.

Support and Guidance

Online Manual: Guide for procedures from proposal submission to grant management.
Horizon Europe Programme Guide: Detailed guidance on structure, budget, and political priorities.
Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ: Answers to frequently asked questions.
Research Enquiry Service: For general European research questions.
National Contact Points (NCPs): Guidance, practical information, and assistance on Horizon Europe participation (available in EU, Associated, and many third countries).
Enterprise Europe Network: Advice for businesses, especially SMEs, including guidance on EU research funding.
IT Helpdesk: For technical issues with the Funding & Tenders Portal.
European IPR Helpdesk: Assistance on intellectual property issues.
CEN-CENELEC Research Helpdesk and ETSI Research Helpdesk: Advice on standardization in proposals.
European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct: For principles and requirements for researchers, employers, and funders.
Partner Search: Availability for finding partner organizations.

Post-Award Requirements

Reporting Schedule: Not explicitly detailed, but lump sum contributions are tied to completed work packages during reporting periods.
Concertation Activities: Projects funded under this topic should participate in concertation activities with the project funded under topic 'HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-01'.

Evaluation Criteria

Evaluation criteria will be based on excellence, expected impact, and quality and efficiency of implementation, as described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. Proposals are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes, which implicitly serve as key evaluation factors: Expected Impacts & Outcomes

Policy Maker Empowerment: Policy makers (European, national, regional, local) across health, culture, social care, relief/humanitarian, youth, and education sectors are aware of arts and culture impacts on health/well-being/social cohesion, and equipped with policy recommendations and practical implementation guides.
Stakeholder Tooling: Stakeholders from the listed sectors (health, culture, social care, etc.) understand arts and culture impacts and are equipped with tools for cross-sectoral project implementation.
Research Advancement: Documentation and explanation of research gaps in the field, fostering R&I implementation science (including SSH disciplines) through presentation of new scalable and replicable best practices.
International Promotion: Recommendations for policy-makers in international relations to promote EU priorities, culture, and fundamental values through cooperation in culture, health, and well-being.

Project Scope and Quality

Cross-sectoral Cooperation: Reinforce and mainstream cross-sectoral cooperation among cultural, health, social, youth, education, and humanitarian/relief sectors, researchers, and academia.
Intervention Analysis: Include cultural and creative sectors broadly, considering both active and receptive cultural participation. Special attention to analyze situations where art and culture may have an adverse impact or be polarizing.
Evidence Generation: Develop convincing narratives from the perspective of arts and health economics, health policies, and well-being economics. Consider individual, societal, and community well-being, prioritizing social cohesion and inclusion.
Gap Identification & Model Development: Map existing research and innovation gaps, identify barriers, and propose a mixed model for cooperation involving local, national, and regional levels, and coordinating different sectors and stakeholders.

Technical and Data Standards

Data Interoperability: Where applicable, leverage data and services from European Research Infrastructures federated under the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and relevant Data Spaces. Data produced must be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable).

Compliance & Special Requirements

Regulatory and Ethical Compliance

General Conditions: Admissibility conditions (page limit, layout), eligible countries, financial and operational capacity, and exclusion criteria as described in Annexes A, B, C, D, F, G of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.
Ethical Standards: Mentioned generally in the context of checks during technical implementation, alongside research integrity.
EU Financial Regulation: Compliance with Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2018/1046 (replaced by 2024/2509).

Data Protection and IP Policies

Data Requirements: Efforts should be made to ensure that data produced is FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable). Projects should leverage data and services from European Research Infrastructures federated under the European Open Science Cloud and relevant Data Spaces.
Intellectual Property (IP): For digital objects stored in the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) and produced by ECCCH-based collaboration, IPR rights will be fully recorded and traceable. Guidelines for the use of IPR rights, such as RightsStatements.org, should be used where appropriate. This is to enable new business models.
Software Requirements: All software developed must be open source, licensed under a CC0 public domain dedication or an open source license recommended by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
If fully open source requires disproportionate effort or diminishes quality, suitable non-open source function libraries may be used if a full, user-license-free-of-charge for an unlimited period is granted to the ECCCH consortium and users.
All software and deliverables must comply with the data model and software development guidelines from the project funded under 'HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-01'.

Strategic Alignment and Specific Focus

New European Bauhaus: Contribution to this initiative is expected.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Contribution to achieving the SDGs is expected.
European Way of Life/Digital Age/Green Deal: Alignment with Commission priorities related to these areas.
Focus on ECCCH: The topic supports the 'European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH)', building on its vision, objectives, and expert recommendations. Projects contribute to realizing the ECCCH's potential as a collaborative space for professionals working with cultural heritage and creative industries.

Risk Management

Checks, reviews, and audits will focus on the technical implementation of the action, particularly on fulfilling conditions for releasing lump sum contributions per work package. In case of non-fulfillment, the grant may be reduced or amounts recovered.

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