Horizon Impact Award 2022 is the European Commission’s initiative to recognize and celebrate outstanding projects that have used their results to provide value for society.

The award aims to show the wider socio-economic benefits of EU investment in research and innovation. It enables individuals or teams to showcase their best practices and achievements. This will encourage other beneficiaries to use and manage their results in the best way possible.

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Award Value

6 awards of €25,000 each

The Horizon Impact Award will provide the winners with high visibility in the form of public interest and increased media coverage.

The Commission will further promote the winners by inviting them to provide testimony at other major events.

Award Criteria

The applications must address the following cumulative criteria:

The pathway from results to societal benefits:

• Applicants will need to detail how the R&I results were directly or indirectly exploited after the lifetime of the project.
• They will need to describe the activities that were done to ensure that the R&I results lead to societal benefits.
• They will also need to describe the scale and the sustainability of their actions.

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Achieved impact:

• Applicants will need to demonstrate the already existing impact and created societal benefits.
• They will need to detail concrete examples of how their research results have benefitted society as well as who are the user communities that have profited from it.
• The achieved impact must be already materialized.
• Moreover, the letter of support will serve as a testimony of the described impact.

Eligibility

The contest is open to all legal entities, individuals, or teams that have completed an FP7 and/or Horizon 2020 project.

The applicants should submit a letter of support from at least one user or user community, stating the importance of the research and how using it created concrete benefits for the specific user community.

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How to Apply

Participants can apply for the contest online via the Funding and Tenders Portal. Check the following documents for further details.

• Horizon Europe work program 2021-2022
• Rules of contest
• Horizon Impact Award Infographic