Periodic Reporting for period 4 - NCPs CaRE (National Contact Points for Climate action, Raw materials, Environment and Resource Efficiency)
Reporting period: 2019-08-01 to 2021-01-31
Activities of NCPs CaRE included teaming and twinning schemes, compilation of best practices handbooks and manuals, brokerage events (served to dismantle barriers to participation affecting many stakeholders, especially newcomers with no networks and those from less active countries, fostering H2020’s ‘widening participation’ ap-proach), meetings and trainings (on-line and on a face-to-face basis), as well as a wide range of other communica-tion and dissemination tools and platforms. These activities contributed to enhancing the impact of R&I in SC5 and ensured a more efficient use of resources and R&I developments by improving the work flow between NCPs, applicants, the EC and other relevant stakeholders with a stake in SC5.
1. Overview of the European Green Deal Call 2020 (939 downloads) | 2. Slides Webinar Partner Search for the Green Deal Call (412 downloads) | 3. Overview of the 2019 SC5 calls (240 downloads) | 4. Good practices for NCP Participating to (EEN) brokerage events (225 downloads) | 5. Climate Change Topics 2018-2020 (210 downloads).
We trained a total of 1462 SC5 NCPs & SC5 stakeholders through:
• 5 (interactive) masterclasses with 102 participants (SC5 NCPs as Beneficiary, Partner Organisation, European Neighbourhood Policy Country),
• 40 webinars (also in cooperation/as co-organiser with NCP network projects, EEN or EC/EASME) with 1336 participants (SC5 NCPs, but also others when co-organiser), however the total number does not include 5 webinars that were organized by other NCP networks, in collaboration with the NCPs CaRE, and where the number of participants was not retrieved
• 2 proposal writing workshops for SMEs with 36 participants,
• 1 internal SC5-NCP workshop on how to effectively advise/address/access SMEs with 20 participants (SC5 NCPs, excl. 4 facilitators from beneficiaries)
• 1 internal SC5-NCP workshop on how to best prepare EU-13 & ENP for SC5-related funding opportunities – Best practices for trainings (9 participants + 2 facilitators from beneficiaries).
• 16 Twinnings (9 physical, 7 virtual) with 59 participants (SC5 NCPs, where some participated in multiple rounds)
We had 3 Brokerage events between 2016 and 2019 with 432 participants:
• 1st Brokerage Event “Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5 Brokerage Event” (https://www.b2match.eu/infodaySC5-2016) - Brussels, 14 September 2016 - 195 participants from 25 countries in 515 meetings
• 2nd Brokerage Event “"Innovative by Nature: Responding to Societal Challenges through Nature-based solutions and Cultural Heritage"” (https://www.b2match.eu/infodayh2020-nature-culture) – Brussels, 8 December 2016 - 143 participants from 25 countries in 199 meetings
• 3rd Brokerage Event “#CETI_H2020 Brokerage Event on Circular Economy and transforming Industry” (https://ceti-h2020.b2match.io/) – Warsaw, 9 October 2019 - 127 participants from 26 countries with 94 participants in 207 meetings.
EEN collaboration: 11 NCP-EEN exchanges at national level (“What is my EEN job about”) took place with 15 participants (SC5 NCPs excl. EEN counterparts) | 11 EEN Sector Group environment meetings were attended by one SC5 NCPs on top of the tasks leader who was both EEN and SC5 NCP | NCPs CaRE supported 4 brokerage events organized by EEN (Enterprise Europe Network) | EEN members supported as co-organizers all three brokerage events organized by NCPs CaRE | 114 EEN partner searches were circulated. 53 partner searches were circulated to NCPs (2015-July 2020), 60 during the second extension in relation with the Green Deal Call (Aug 2020-Jan 2021) | 19 partner searches coming from the EEN were published in the Partner Search Tool.
The NCPs CaRE Partner Search Tool had a total of 2027 registries as per 31.01.2021.