Eligibilities for Industry-Academia Collaboration Challenges 2024

1. Eligible countries: In accordance with the Horizon Europe Call, students and researchers in each co-creation team must come from either
   • EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden), in particular Widening countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia; source) or
   • Associated Countries to Horizon Europe (1. Albania, 2. Armenia, 3. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 4. Faroe Islands, 5. Georgia, 6. Iceland, 7. Israel, 8. Kosovo, 9. Moldova, 10. Montenegro, 11. North Macedonia, 12. Norway, 13. Serbia, 14. Tunisia, 15. Turkey, 16. Ukraine, 17. Morocco, 18. UK), as indicated by their citizenship or residency.
2. Eligibility for Students.
   • Students must study at public universities during the entire duration of the activity (from the co-creation team establishment until one month after the final report of the co-creation team is confirmed).
   • An individual student will be able to participate in more than one co-creation team but be a candidate with a maximum of three Motivation Letters.
3. Eligibility for Researchers (not mandatory: teams can consist of only students)
   • Researchers must be employed at a public research organisation during the entire duration of the activity (from the co-creation team establishment until one month after the final report of the co-creation team is confirmed).
   • An individual researcher will be able to participate in more than one co-creation team but be a candidate with a maximum of three Motivation Letters.
4. Eligibility of Co-creation Teams
   • The co-creation team must have at least three and up to six members.
   • Co-creation team members must be from at least three different EU Member States or Associated Countries.
   • The co-creation team has to be gender balanced (operationally, gender balance entails selecting at least two different gender options (Male, Female, Would rather not say)).
   • Each co-creation team must include at least one student, ie. no co-creation team may comprise exclusively researchers.