Water4All: Joint Call 2022

Water4All – Water Security for the Planet is a co-funded European Partnership developed under the Horizon Europe (HE) Framework Program.

This partnership aims to combine efforts, mobilize resources and strengthen European leadership and competitiveness in research and innovation in the field of water. Portugal is one of the partners in this initiative, which also has the participation of the European Commission. See the Water4All work programme on the Joint Programme Initiative Water JPI website.

Water4All derives, among others, from the activities of the Water JPI and the respective projects developed since 2012 (CSA WatEUr, ERA-NET Cofund WaterWorks2014, ERA-NET Cofund WaterWorks2015, CSA IC4Water, ERA-NET Cofund AquaticPollutants).

The Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) represents Portugal in Water4All with the main objective of contributing to the internationalization of the national scientific and technological community and to the alignment of Research and Development (R&D) programs.

Water4All activities will occur during the period 2022-2027, highlighting the launch of joint transnational calls for proposals to fund new R&D projects in the field of water resources.

1. The following are individual or co-promotion beneficiaries:
   1. Non-entrepreneurial entities of the R&I system, namely:
      i. Higher education institutions, their institutes and R&D units;
      ii. State or international laboratories with head office in Portugal;
      iii. Non-profit private institutions whose main object is R&D activity;
      iv. Other non-profit public and private institutions developing or participating in scientific research activities.
   2. Companies of any type and under any legal form.

The information contained in this section does not exempt you from consulting Article 3 of the "Regulation of projects financed exclusively by national funds"

1- Consult the call documents.

2- Read the national/regional rules of all the participating countries involved in your consortium (including your own), available in the "National Annexes". Non-eligible partners may lead to the rejection of the whole consortium.

3- Access the call page.

4- Within 10 working days after the deadline for submitting the pre-proposals, the Portuguese teams (Partners and/or Coordinators) must:

• send to the Call National Contact Point a Statement of Commitment duly signed by the Researcher in Charge and by the Head of the Portuguese applicant organization and stamped. FCT may later require the original of the statement of commitment.

The information contained on this page constitutes only a summary of the joint call information and does not exempt the candidates from carefully reading all the joint call documents available on this page and on the Water4All website (see “useful links”).

Evaluation process:

A Two-Step evaluation process will be organised.

1. First Step:

•  Eligibility check of pre-proposals will be performed by the Call Secretariat, according to the “eligibility criteria” present in the call documents;
•  Eligibility check of pre-proposals will be performed by the Funding Organisation Contact Points, according to the national requirements;
•  Evaluation of the eligible pre-proposals will be performed by an independent Evaluation Committee (accordingly with the “Assessment criteria” presented in the call documents).

The Call Steering Committee will decide which pre-proposals will be invited to submit full proposals (second step).

2. Second Step:

• Eligibility check of full proposals will be performed by the Call Secretariat;
• Eligibility check of full proposals will be performed by the Funding Organisation Contact Points;
• Evaluation of the eligible full proposals will be performed by an independent Evaluation Committee (accordingly with the “Assessment criteria” presented in the call documents) as well as by external reviewers.

The Call Steering Committee will decide which projects to recommend for funding, following the order of the ranking list established by the Evaluation Committee and taking into account the available budget.

FCT financial commitment for the call: 500.000 €

Maximum requested funding for a consortium with Portuguese participation: 100.000 €

Maximum requested funding for a consortium with Portuguese coordination: 150.000 €

Note: if more than one Portuguese institution participates in each consortium, the budget must be shared. Portuguese institutions must follow FCT's Legislation, Regulations and Norms. The dedication (FTE) in transnational projects is not considered for the 100% (FTE) dedication to national projects.

Call Page

Online Submission Platform

Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda

Partner Search Website

Germana Santos
germana.santos@fct.pt
Tel: (+351) 213 911 569

Rui Munhá
rui.munha@fct.pt
Tel: (+351) 213 911 538