Other legal entities that participate in Horizon 2020 by carrying out some tasks in an action, but which do not sign the Grant Agreement (including entities linked to the beneficiaries) are considered as “third parties involved in an action” (Article 8 of the Annotated Model GA). They are not bound by the terms and conditions of the Grant Agreement and consequently, the European Union (represented by the Commission or another funding body) has no obligation vis-à-vis third parties. If necessary to implement the action, beneficiaries may use contracts and sub-contracting for the purchase of goods, works or services, in-kind contributions provided by third parties and also linked third parties carrying out tasks under an action.

INTERRFACE Open Call will fund up to 7 Third Parties.

INTERRFACE Open Call is looking for up to 7 SMEs to develop and/or extend different infrastructures and state-or-the-art technologies of INTERRFACE architecture and data management services to be implemented and validated by INTERRFACE’s pilots.

Participants are asked to address solutions that promote and enable flexibility of end-users. Please advise Annex 2-7 of the Guide for Applicants for technical details.

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The third parties will receive their grant on a rolling basis throughout the project. Third parties can receive pre-financing of up to 25% of their respective total funding amount. Further payments will be made upon successful completion of milestones and deliverables.

The financial support to each third-party will not exceed € 60.000.

Yes, this Open Call is part of EU-funding project, so there should be a clear distinction between direct and indirect costs. Each proposal should include justifications of costs and resources. Checking the consistency between these costs and the expected work of the experiment will be part of the evaluation of application services.

The different business use cases that are open for new applications though the Open Call are described in detailed in the Annexes 2-7 of the Guide for Applicants. The same descriptions are published on the following link: https://opencall-interrface.cintechsolutions.eu/business-use-cases/

Shall a technical error occurs, please send email to: interrface_opencall@cintechsolutions.eu

INTERRFACE Open Call is open to any organization eligible under Article 10 of the H2020 rules of participation, i.e. any start-ups, SMEs, companies or research institutes/organizations, with legal entity in a member state of the European Union, a H2020 associated country or in a H2020 International Cooperation Partner Country (ICPC). Entities have to possess a validated Participant Identification Code.

Please check the list of eligible countries in the following link: https://opencall-interrface.cintechsolutions.eu/important-documents/

Yes, Research and Technology Organisations including universities are eligible to receive funding.

No, consortia cannot participate. Only single legal entities can apply for funding.

Only one proposal per applicant can be submitted. If more than one proposal per applicant is identified, only the first one which has been submitted in order of time will be evaluated.

This is a general criterion to avoid receiving multiple proposals from the same applicants. What you describe is specific to your organisation’s structure and could be considered once and if multiple proposals are received by your institute. In this case, and should more than one proposals from your institute are successful and pass the thresholds, we would ask further information (in the form of official document) that the proposals were originated from different departments that work isolated (as you also mention, as separate entities with no common scientists, etc.).

No, the proposals will only be evaluated after the end of the Open Call that is the 30th of June 2021. Until then, even if you have already submitted your proposal, you will be able to resubmit your proposal.

The ‘Guide for Applicants’ is the main reference document for the INTERRFACE Open Call. It provides detailed information about the application process, the requirements of the evaluation and the selection process. All necessary materials that accompany the Guide for Applicants document are uploaded on the INTERRFACE Open Call portal:  https://opencall-interrface.cintechsolutions.eu/

Additionally, an Open Call Helpdesk service is available for any queries you may have related to the application process (eligibility rules, application form information requests, etc). You can access the Open Call Helpdesk here: interrface_opencall@interrface.eu

No, at the time of submission, the entity can apply with the provisional PIC.

The submissions will be evaluated by Experts Evaluators according to expertise and competences concerned.

Evaluation criteria are in line with the EC’s evaluation criteria and are described in section 6.2 of Guide for Applicants which is available for download here: https://opencall-interrface.cintechsolutions.eu/important-documents/

The evaluation procedure will last 70 days after the closure of the deadline (30^th June 2021). All applicants will be notified by no later than Friday the 10^th of September, 2021.

The selected Third Parties will sign the Model Contract Funding Agreement with the Cascade Funding Partner on behalf of the INTERRFACE Consortium. The Standard Model Contract Funding Agreement includes clauses on (i) the conditions of transfer and usage of the cascade funding, (ii) the IPR rules, and (iii) other collaboration mechanisms.

Funded proposals will start at the earliest on the 1^st of December 2021, but no later than the 31^st of December 2021. The deadline for the final report and documentation is expected no later than six (6) months after the beginning of the funded proposals’ implementation that is by the 31^st of May 2022

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The maximum length of the proposal is 10 pages. Please read carefully the instructions in the Proposal Template document available here: https://opencall-interrface.cintechsolutions.eu/important-documents/

Selected Third Parties will be supported during the implementation of the proposals by INTERRFACE Consortium. A Support Team (consisted by Consortium Partners) will assist the whole period of the implementation phase the funding proposals, providing support for technical/business issues. Selected Third Parties will receive from the demo partners an initial briefing to discuss and focus the services to be developed during the implementation period. Selected Third Parties are able to contact the Support Team on per-need basis on technical and business matters. The Support Team will monitor on timely basis the progresses of the proposals in order to ensure the proper execution of the planned work.

The IP to the results are owed by either the INTERRFACE beneficiaries or Third Parties that generate them. The IP to the INTERRFACE infrastructures and IEGSA platform and services made available for your proposal will be exclusively owned by the respective INTERRFACE Consortium Partners. Detailed IPR terms and conditions are stated in the Model Contract Agreement.

Unless otherwise required by law, as an innovator, the funded Third Party will be acting as (joint) data controller in respect to the personal data collected and processed for your service. This means that it will be liable for compliance with the applicable data protection laws.

Access Rights to Background and Results may be requested by the Selected Third Parties from an INTERRFACE Partner only in certain cases and under certain conditions. Please advise the Model Contract Agreement.

Yes, the ownership of all material, documents or information created by the Selected Third Parties, via the INTERRFACE cascade funding, will remain with the Selected Third Parties. Results are owned by the party that generates them. Intellectual Property Rights Policy is stated in detail in the Model Contract Funding Agreement. Provisions concerning joint ownership of the results of the funding projects are also outlined on the above document.

Normally, Local Energy Communities gather prosumers with generation capacities up to a few hundreds of kW. Nevertheless, limitations for this aggregation come not only from the size but also from the distance between participating peers.

As the successful candidate will be using the platform developed in Demonstrator 5.2, the resources from the building where the IDN is installed should be considered. Hence, the minimum in terms of resources will be those from the demo building. i.e., PV with ~40pkW, Storage with 200kW and +400kWh, Max dem from building users of ~120kW, and 6 EV charging points.

The objective of BUC6 is to extensively test a wide range of distribution and transmission systems
benchmark topologies (e.g., CIGRE European HV transmission network, CIGRE European MV distribution network, IEEE 33 bus test system, IEEE 118 bus test system and others) via a scenario based approach in order to identify generic indicators that can be used for the quantification of congestion management requirements.

The BUC6 implementation requires a detailed knowledge of various softwares (PowerFactory-Digsilent™, MATPOWER™  and Power System Analysis Toolbox™). 

The Demo Area covers the Greek, Romanian and Bulgaria power systems.
As a consequence, the knowledge of the Greek power system is a prerequisite and also an expert knowledge of the Romanian and Bulgarian power systems is desirable. 

As the demo, also the algorithms and solutions to be provided should run in an “on premise” mode and these SW requirements are the technologies used in the demo.

The voltage levels refer to medium and high voltages. Both transmission and distribution networks will be equally studied and evaluated. The study will be focused on the transmission and distribution networks of Romania, Bulgaria and Greece. 

IEGSA architecture as the physical scope of the software solution was introduced during the 3rd INTERRFACE Open Call webinar on May 31^st.

A software development company should represent Flexibility Service Provider(s), i.e. independent aggregator(s), and its business use case needs. The aim is to decrease barriers for Flexibility Service Providers to provide flexibility services as mFRR and congestion management products. This may involve creating Flexibility Service Providers’ interfaces to IEGSA and / or attracting more flexibility assets from the market both from residential and non-residential customers. Here innovation is sought in solutions which are offered to residential customers.

https://transparency.entsoe.eu/content/static_content/Static%20content/knowledge%20base/XSD.zip has the latest versions of documents used for Transparency data and  “urn-entsoe-eu-wgedi-codelists.xsd” is just updated to the latest version.

MoPv3.2 currently has the version 64, and expected to be updated with MoPv3.3. The most updated version is available under https://www.entsoe.eu/Documents/EDI/Library/CodelistV75.zip

Yes, user already found on CIM’s webpage latest version is Codelistv75. You can address your requests related to rights for API and subscriptions channel usage to transparency@entsoe.eu

Flexibility products are energies to be delivered/consumed, they aggregate the capacity of the same assets typology (and they are local, since all the demo is located in the municipality of Osimo). No the location should not be present (everything is local, but we may add this information too).

The market is now simulated, so there is no compensation. The demo part considering end users is on 14 houses.

No.

What you exactly mean with “model”? if you mean the model of each device, yes.