NCP Network including proposal pre-check

Research and innovation performance is correlated with the efficiency of the national research and innovation system and the capacity and the effectiveness of the National Contact Points (NCPs). Special attention should be given to less experienced entities in low R&I performing countries to bridge the knowledge gap and enable better access to funding opportunities in the EU Framework Programmes and beyond.

A dedicated support mechanism under this Work programme part with specific objective to strengthen the activities of NCPs to support international networking and to improve the quality of proposals from legal entities from low R&I performing countries is envisaged.

Proposals should aim to facilitate trans-national co-operation between NCPs with a view to identifying and sharing good practices and raising the general standard of support to programme applicants, taking into account the diversity of actors that make up the constituencies of both the Widen