CFAs: ECHOES Cascading Grants Programme

The programme supports up to 50 projects across three calls to enhance digital engagement, data sharing, and collaboration.

Focus Areas

• Data – Projects that contribute heritage data to the Cultural Heritage Cloud and would like to make use of its tools and infrastructure.
• Engagement and Collaboration – Initiatives that promote digital skills, awareness, and collaboration with CHIs. Projects that strategically enlist professional umbrella organisations to promote the benefits of the cloud at the sector level to the different CH communities would be particularly welcomed.
• Data and Vertical Applications – Projects that contribute new datasets to the Cultural Heritage Cloud or develop applications that integrate with enhance its functionalities.

Funding Information

• Up to €60,000 per project (max. 12 projects will be funded).
• Each project must propose a timeline with 3 to 5 milestones. The project duration will be 12 months. The applicants must commit to provide the final report 30 days after the end of the project.

Eligibility Criteria

• To be considered for funding, applicants must meet the following eligibility requirements:
  • The coordinator must be a CHI. In this context, they define CHIs as mission-driven organisations dedicated to the preservation, management, research, and dissemination of cultural heritage, ensuring its accessibility for present and future generations. Any type of CHI (e.g., museums, libraries, archives, or other public institutions dedicated to cultural heritage conservation, preservation and outreach) may apply.
  • The coordinator must be located in an eligible country, including all EU Member States and associated countries under Horizon Europe.
  • The coordinator must be a public or private legal entity, with this status specified on a legal entity form.
  • The proposal must be submitted in English. Application forms provided by ECHOES must be completed in full, with all of the required information provided in the appropriate sections of the online template.
  • The proposal must be submitted to the proposal platform before the specified deadline for the Call to which the applicant is applying.
  • In each of the three ECHOES calls: organisations can coordinate one project proposal and participate in up to two additional project proposals.
  • Larger organisations that are made up of individual centres, institutes or labs, are not considered as a single entity for this call. The individual centres, institutes or labs are entitled to apply as independent from the larger organisation.
  • Organisations involved in ECHOES can join and prepare proposals, but not the individual centres, institutes or labs and people from these organisations that are actively involved in the ECHOES project. In the proposal, organisations need to express their relation to the ECHOES consortium in detail. An independent evaluator assigned by the ECHOES Consortium will assess if there is a potential conflict of interest.

For more information, visit ECHOES.