Part THREE, Article 171, Paragraph 2. · Council Regulation (EU) 2021/2085

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2.The joint undertakings shall organise the continuous monitoring and reporting of the management and implementation of their activities and periodic reviews of the outputs, results and impacts of the funded indirect actions implemented in accordance with Article 50 of and Annex III to the Horizon Europe Regulation. That monitoring and reporting shall include:

(a)time-bound indicators for the purpose of reporting on an annual basis on the progress of their activities towards the achievement of the general, specific and operational objectives, including joint undertakings’ additional objectives laid down in Part Two, as well as along impact pathways set out in Annex V to the Horizon Europe Regulation;

(b)information on synergies between the joint undertaking’s actions and national or regional initiatives and policies based on information received by the participating states or the states’ representatives group as well as on synergies with other Union programmes and other European partnerships;

(c)information on the level of mainstreaming social sciences and humanities, the ratio between lower and higher TRLs in collaborative research, the progress on widening countries’ participation, the geographical composition of consortia in collaborative projects, the use of two-stage submission and evaluation procedure, the measures that aim to facilitate collaborative links in European research and innovation, the use of the evaluation review and the number and types of complaints, the level of climate mainstreaming and related expenditures, SME participation, private sector participation, gender participation in funded actions, evaluation panels, boards and advisory groups, the co-funding rate, the complementary and cumulative funding from other Union funds, the time-to-grant, the level of international cooperation, engagement of citizens’ and civil society participation;

(d)the levels of expenditure disaggregated at project level in order to allow for specific analysis, including per intervention area;

(e)the level of oversubscription, in particular the number of proposals and for each call for proposals, the average score, the share of proposals above and below quality thresholds;

(f)information on quantitative and qualitative leverage effects, including on committed and actually provided financial and in-kind contributions, visibility and positioning in the international context, impact on research and innovation related risks of private sector investments;

(g)information on measures for attracting newcomers, in particularly SMEs, higher education institutions and research organisations, and for expanding collaborative networks.

Defined terms · 17

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additional activity
means an activity, included in the annual additional activities plan annexed to the main part of the work programme, that does not receive financial support from the joint undertaking but contributes to its objectives and is directly linked to the uptake of results from projects under that joint undertaking or its preceding initiatives or that has a significant Union added value;
architecture of the Digital European Sky
refers to the vision of the European ATM Master Plan, seeking to address the current inefficient airspace architecture in the medium to long term by combining airspace configuration and design with technologies to decouple service provision from local infrastructure and progressively increase the levels of collaboration and automation support;
associated member
means any legal entity established in a Member State, a country associated to Horizon Europe or, where applicable, associated to DEP, or an international organisation that accedes to a joint undertaking by signing a letter of commitment in accordance with Article 6(3) and subject to an approval in accordance with Article 7;
conflict of interest
means a situation involving a financial actor or other person as referred to in Article 61 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046;
constituent entities
means the entities that constitute a private member of a joint undertaking, where the private member is an association according to that member’s statutes;
contributing partner
means any country, international organisation or legal entity other than a member of a joint undertaking, or a constituent entity of a member or an affiliated entity of either, that supports the objectives of a joint undertaking in its specific area of research and whose application has been approved in accordance with Article 9;
Digital European Sky
refers to the vision of the European ATM Master Plan, seeking to transform Europe’s aviation infrastructure enabling it to handle the future growth and diversity of air traffic safely and efficiently, while minimising environmental impact;
founding member
means any legal entity established in a Member State, a country associated to Horizon Europe or, where applicable, associated with DEP, or an international organisation that is identified as a member of a joint undertaking in this Regulation or in one of its Annexes;
in-kind contributions to additional activities
means contributions by the private members, constituent entities or the affiliated entities of either, and by international organisations, consisting of the costs incurred by them in implementing additional activities less any contribution to those costs from the Union and from the participating states of that joint undertaking;
in-kind contributions to operational activities
means contributions by private members, constituent entities or the affiliated entities of either, by international organisations and by contributing partners, consisting of the eligible costs incurred by them in implementing indirect actions less the contribution of that joint undertaking and of the participating states of that joint undertaking to those costs;
member other than the Union
means any participating state, private member or international organisation that is a member of a joint undertaking;
newcomer
means an entity that is, for the first time, a beneficiary of a grant awarded by an individual joint undertaking or its preceding initiative and that is not a founding member of that joint undertaking or its preceding initiative.
participating state
means any Member State or country associated to Horizon Europe or, where applicable, associated to DEP upon notification of its participation in the activities of the relevant joint undertaking by means of a letter of commitment;
preceding initiative
means any partnership in one of the areas covered by a joint undertaking that received financial support from one of the previous Union framework programmes for research;
private member
means any legal entity established under public or private law that is a member of a joint undertaking other than the Union, participating states or international organisations;
Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
means the document covering the duration of Horizon Europe that identifies the key priorities and the essential technologies and innovations required to achieve the objectives of a joint undertaking;
work programme
means the document referred to in Article 2, point (25), of the Horizon Europe Regulation;