Country eligibility info - Horizon Europe

British Virgin Islands - Third Countries
Please note that this information sheet will be updated regularly and the list of countries divided into the different categories can always change over the period of Horizon Europe. If you are involving a partner from a non-EU country in your consortium please always check the status of this country in Horizon Europe at the moment of submission in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.

British Virgin Islands belongs to the group of Third Countries

Funding not automatically - Scroll further to find out what this means exactly

Specific remarks for British Virgin Islands

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Eligibility for Third Countries means...

Short explanation

Most Horizon Europe calls are open to participants from non-EU countries, also called Third Countries. If they are not automatically eligible for funding, they can still get funding in certain circumstances.

If a third country is allowed to participate but is not eligible for Horizon funding, then the organisations can still participate with own funding, and be included in the project as Associated partners.

Specific third countries can also be excluded from participation to the programme or to a part of the programme  and/or to specific call topics mainly in order to safeguard the EU’s strategic assets, interests, autonomy or security. 

A third country can participate as an associated partner with own funding. Associated partners have the following characteristics:

  • do not sign the grant agreement, thus cannot be a coordinator
  • must be registered in the participant register but will not be validated
  • need to be mentioned in the researchers table (organisation data) of part A in the application form
  • they have to indicate personmonths of their researchers
  • can be a subcontractor but cannot be a way to circumvent the general rules for participation
  • the L&F helpdesk of the European Commission has indicated that associated partners can act as work package leader in a Horizon Europe project
  • in the proposal the budget for the associated partners has to be filled out in the column “Financial contribution”. This budget will not be taken into account into the indicative budget of the proposal

Third countries can get exceptionally funding if

  1. they are identified in the call topic and/or work programme as being eligible for funding
  2. they are deemed essential for implementing the action in your proposal, for example in view of their:
  • outstanding competence/expertise
  • access to particular research infrastructures
  • access to particular geographical environments
  • access to particular data

Be aware that some third countries have created co-funding mechanisms which provide funding for the participants from their country in a successful submitted Horizon Europe proposal. In this document you will find an overview of the complementary funding of some third countries. The organisations of these countries participate as Associated Partners with own funding. 

All details regarding country eligibility is compiled in the infosheet “International cooperation".

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