H2020-ECSEL-2018-2-RIA-Special-Topic

The ECSEL JU Work Plan 2018 has been amended to Increase the page limits for the Part B (Technical Annex)of the proposals for the stage 2 (FPP) of H2020-ECSEL-2018-1-IA-two-stage and H2020-ECSEL-2018-2-RIA-two-stage Calls (pages 34 and 42)

The Template for the Part B (Technical Annex)for has been updated as follows:

• increased the page limites for the stage 2 (FPP)of H2020-ECSEL-2018-1-IA-two-stage and H2020-ECSEL-2018-2-RIA-two-stage Calls (pages 1, 5, and 8)
• correction of clerical error (typo)Table 3.1b (pages 8 and 11)

The ECSEL JU Work Plan 2018 has been updated as follows:

• Update the national eligibility criteria for Italy (documents to be submitted to MIUR by the same deadline as the Full Project Proposal (FPP) phase of the ECSEL call instead Project Outline (PO) Phase) (pages 89 & 91)
• Update the financial commitment of Austria and national eligibility criteria/conditions (pages 26, 27 and 59)
• Correction clerical error (typo) – budget (page 50)

ATTENTION TO: Coordinators of proposals with applicants from countries with no specific placeholder for Part C in the submission system

In case of consortia with applicants from only ONEof the countries for which no specific placeholder was assigned in the submission system the coordinator is advised to use the unassigned/general placeholder named "Part C".

In case of consortia with applicants from MORE than ONE such country (2 or 3 - for example participants from Spain, and Germany and Switzerland)the coordinator is advised to first put together in one file the Part(s)C of the applicants from each country (e.g. 1 file for Spain, 1 file for Germany and 1 file for Switzerland)and afterwards to create 1 zip file with all these (2 or 3)files and upload the password protected zip file in the unassigned/general placeholder named "Part C". The password is provided by the ECSELOffice upon request at calls@ecsel.europa.eu

NEW: IMPORTANT INFORMATION for the German Applicants (Form C)

This year German Applicants are requested to provide a Form C - a national cost table together with the other documents of the project outline. The template (National Grant Table FORMCGermany)is available as a xls file at: https://www.elektronikforschung.de/foerderung/europaeische-foerderung/ecsel. It must be filled in and uploaded as a password-protected zip file in the submission system in the partipant portal using the unassigned/general placeholder Form C. The password is provided by the ECSELOffice upon request at calls@ecsel.europa.eu

The ECSEL JU Work Plan 2018 has been updated as follows:

• update national eligibility criteria and/or commitment from FR, DE, IL, LT, ES (pages 73, 77, 85, 94, 110)
• introduction of Switzerland as new ECSELParticipating State (pages 25 and 122)
• Call 2018-3 CSA Industry 4.E and Call 2018-4 CSA MOBILITY.E - timing of publication of the calls/deadlines (pages 47 - 49)
• Update commitment table - page 26

On 23 March 2018 the Participant Portal was upgraded to allow login from mobile devices: smartphones, tablets. This requires an additional security element (e.g. a code that will be send by SMS to the applicant’s smartphone). Applicants can chose between the old (password only) or new (two security elements) mobile login options. Both are not possible at the same time, but one can switch between the two options at any time and as many times as wished.

Caution is advised for the coordinators, who chose the new mobile login option due to the additional security element, which can affect the proposal submission. If for example a code sent by SMS is needed and 5 min before the submission closes the coordinator’s smartphone has no network coverage (roaming issues) or runs out of battery he/she cannot login and therefore may not be able to submit the proposal.

The ECSELJU Work Plan 2018 has been updated as follows: financial commitments table (increased ITcommitment )(page 26)and updated information in the chapter 9 Country specific eligibility rules for DE (page 76), IT (page 86), UK (page 123)