id: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/class/CallForApplication name: CallForApplication title: CallForApplication Class prefixes: linkml: https://w3id.org/linkml/ hc: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/ schema: http://schema.org/ dcterms: http://purl.org/dc/terms/ foaf: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ prov: http://www.w3.org/ns/prov# org: http://www.w3.org/ns/org# skos: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core# imports: - linkml:types - ../enums/CallForApplicationStatusEnum - ../enums/FundingRequirementTypeEnum - ./FundingRequirement - ../slots/contact_email - ../slots/keyword - ../slots/has_application_deadline - ../slots/has_application_opening_date - ../slots/call_description - ../slots/call_id - ../slots/call_identifier - ../slots/call_short_name - ../slots/call_status - ../slots/call_title - ../slots/call_url - ../slots/co_funding_required - ../slots/eligible_applicant - ../slots/eligible_country - ../slots/funded_project - ../slots/funding_rate - ../slots/heritage_type - ../slots/info_session_date - ../slots/issuing_organisation - ../slots/minimum_partner - ../slots/parent_programme - ../slots/partnership_required - ../slots/programme_year - ../slots/related_call - ../slots/has_or_had_requirement - ../slots/results_expected_date - ../slots/specificity_annotation - ../slots/template_specificity - ../slots/thematic_area - ../slots/total_budget - ../slots/typical_grant_range - ../slots/web_observation - ./SpecificityAnnotation - ./TemplateSpecificityScores default_prefix: hc classes: CallForApplication: class_uri: schema:Offer description: "A funding call or grant application opportunity issued by a heritage funding\norganisation, inviting heritage\ \ custodians to apply for project funding.\n\n**PURPOSE**:\n\nCallForApplication bridges the gap between:\n- **FundingOrganisation**\ \ (entities that provide heritage funding)\n- **Heritage Custodians** (institutions seeking funding for projects)\n\n\ Funding organisations like the European Commission, national heritage funds,\nand private foundations issue regular\ \ calls for applications. These calls have\ndefined timeframes, budgets, eligibility criteria, and thematic focus areas.\n\ \n**KEY RELATIONSHIPS**:\n\n```\nFundingOrganisation (e.g., European Commission)\n │\n ├── issues ──→ CallForApplication\ \ (e.g., \"CL2-2025-HERITAGE-01\")\n │ │\n │ ├── web_observations\ \ ──→ WebObservation[]\n │ │ (provenance tracking)\n │ \ \ │\n │ └── funded_projects ──→ Project[]\n │ \ \ │\n │ └── funding_call (inverse)\n │\n \ \ └── parent_programme: \"Horizon Europe\"\n```\n\n**LIFECYCLE TRACKING**:\n\nCalls progress through defined stages\ \ tracked via `call_status`:\n- ANNOUNCED → OPEN → CLOSING_SOON → CLOSED → UNDER_REVIEW → RESULTS_PUBLISHED\n- May be\ \ CANCELLED or REOPENED under special circumstances\n\n**PROVENANCE TRACKING**:\n\nBecause call information is often\ \ extracted from web sources, each\nCallForApplication should link to one or more WebObservation records\ndocumenting\ \ when and where the information was retrieved.\n\n**ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT**:\n\n- **Schema.org**: `schema:Offer` - \"\ An offer to transfer some rights to an item\n or to provide a service\" (funding is a service/offer to heritage institutions)\n\ - **Schema.org**: `schema:Grant` - Related class for awarded grants\n- **Schema.org**: `schema:MonetaryGrant` - For\ \ actual grant awards\n- **PROV-O**: `prov:Activity` - Call issuance as activity\n- **Dublin Core**: `dcterms:relation`\ \ for related calls\n\n**EXAMPLES**:\n\n1. **Horizon Europe CL2 2025 Heritage Calls**\n - issuing_organisation: European\ \ Commission\n - parent_programme: Horizon Europe\n - total_budget: €82.5M\n - application_deadline: 2025-09-16\n\ \ - thematic_areas: Cultural heritage preservation, digital heritage\n \n2. **Creative Europe Cooperation Projects\ \ 2025**\n - issuing_organisation: EACEA (European Education and Culture Executive Agency)\n - parent_programme:\ \ Creative Europe\n - partnership_required: true\n - minimum_partners: 3 (from different EU countries)\n \n3.\ \ **National Lottery Heritage Fund UK**\n - issuing_organisation: National Lottery Heritage Fund\n - typical_grant_range:\ \ £10K-£10M\n - eligible_countries: [UK, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales]\n \n4. **European Heritage Awards 2026**\n\ \ - issuing_organisation: Europa Nostra\n - call_type: Awards/Recognition (not direct funding)\n - thematic_areas:\ \ Research, Conservation, Education, Engagement\n" exact_mappings: - schema:Offer close_mappings: - schema:Grant - schema:MonetaryGrant - schema:FundingScheme - prov:Activity related_mappings: - org:Organization - schema:Action - dcterms:BibliographicResource slots: - has_application_deadline - has_application_opening_date - call_description - call_id - call_identifier - call_short_name - call_status - call_title - call_url - co_funding_required - contact_email - eligible_applicant - eligible_country - funded_project - funding_rate - heritage_type - info_session_date - issuing_organisation - keyword - minimum_partner - parent_programme - partnership_required - programme_year - related_call - has_or_had_requirement - results_expected_date - specificity_annotation - template_specificity - thematic_area - total_budget - typical_grant_range - web_observation slot_usage: call_id: identifier: true required: true range: uriorcurie description: 'Unique identifier for this funding call. Format: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/call/{issuing-org-slug}/{call-code} ' pattern: ^https://nde\.nl/ontology/hc/call/[a-z0-9-]+/[a-z0-9-]+$ examples: - value: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/call/ec/cl2-2025-heritage-01 description: Horizon Europe CL2 heritage call - value: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/call/nlhf/medium-grants-2025 description: National Lottery Heritage Fund medium grants call_title: slot_uri: skos:prefLabel required: true range: string description: 'Official title of the funding call. Should match documentation exactly for discoverability. ' examples: - value: Cultural heritage, cultural and creative industries description: Horizon Europe Cluster 2 call title - value: European Cooperation Projects description: Creative Europe call title call_short_name: slot_uri: skos:altLabel range: string description: 'Short name or official code for the call. Often used in EU Funding & Tenders portal. ' examples: - value: CL2-2025-HERITAGE-01 description: Horizon Europe call code - value: CREA-CULT-2025-COOP description: Creative Europe cooperation call code call_status: required: true range: CallForApplicationStatusEnum description: 'Current lifecycle status of the funding call. See CallForApplicationStatusEnum for status values: - ANNOUNCED: Call published, not yet open - OPEN: Currently accepting applications - CLOSING_SOON: < 30 days until deadline - CLOSED: Deadline passed - UNDER_REVIEW: Evaluation in progress - RESULTS_PUBLISHED: Decisions announced - CANCELLED: Call terminated - REOPENED: Previously closed call reactivated ' examples: - value: OPEN description: Currently accepting applications - value: CLOSING_SOON description: Deadline approaching has_application_deadline: slot_uri: schema:validThrough required: true range: date description: 'Final deadline for application submissions. Critical field for heritage custodians planning applications. ' examples: - value: '2025-09-16' description: Horizon Europe CL2 2025 deadline total_budget: slot_uri: schema:price range: string description: 'Total funding budget available for this call including currency. Format: "{amount} {currency}" e.g., "82.5M EUR" ' examples: - value: 82.5M EUR description: Horizon Europe heritage budget - value: 500M GBP description: National Lottery Heritage Fund annual budget eligible_applicant: range: string multivalued: true inlined_as_list: true description: 'Types of organisations eligible to apply for this call. Important for heritage custodians to determine eligibility. ' examples: - value: Public bodies - value: Non-profit organisations - value: Research institutions - value: SMEs - value: Higher education institutions - value: Cultural heritage institutions issuing_organisation: slot_uri: schema:offeredBy required: true range: uriorcurie description: 'The FundingOrganisation that issues this call. URI reference to EncompassingBody entity (FundingOrganisation subclass). Format: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/encompassing-body/funding/{slug} **Inverse of FundingOrganisation.issued_calls**: - FundingOrganisation → issued_calls → CallForApplication[] - CallForApplication → issuing_organisation → FundingOrganisation ' examples: - value: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/encompassing-body/funding/ec-rea description: European Research Executive Agency - value: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/encompassing-body/funding/nlhf description: National Lottery Heritage Fund web_observation: slot_uri: prov:wasInfluencedBy range: uriorcurie multivalued: true inlined_as_list: true description: 'WebObservation records documenting the provenance of call information. Because call details are often extracted from web sources (EU portals, funding organisation websites, etc.), this field links to WebObservation records that track when and where information was retrieved. **PROV-O Integration**: - CallForApplication prov:wasInfluencedBy WebObservation - WebObservation prov:used SourceDocument (the web page) - WebObservation pav:retrievedOn datetime ' examples: - value: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/observation/web/2025-11-29/eu-horizon-cl2 description: Web observation of Horizon Europe call page has_or_had_requirement: slot_uri: dcterms:requires range: FundingRequirement multivalued: true inlined: true inlined_as_list: true description: "Structured requirements for this funding call with provenance tracking.\n\nEach FundingRequirement represents\ \ a single eligibility criterion,\nfinancial condition, partnership requirement, or other constraint.\nRequirements\ \ link to WebObservation for source tracking.\n\n**REPLACES UNSTRUCTURED FIELDS**:\n\nThe `requirements` slot provides\ \ structured alternatives to:\n- `eligible_applicants` → ELIGIBILITY_ORGANIZATIONAL requirements\n- `eligible_countries`\ \ → ELIGIBILITY_GEOGRAPHIC requirements\n- `funding_rate` → FINANCIAL_RATE requirements\n- `co_funding_required`\ \ → FINANCIAL_COFUNDING requirements\n- `partnership_required` → PARTNERSHIP_* requirements\n- `minimum_partners`\ \ → PARTNERSHIP_MINIMUM_PARTNERS requirements\n\nOriginal fields are retained for backward compatibility but\n`requirements`\ \ provides richer, provenance-tracked alternatives.\n\n**PROVENANCE CHAIN**:\n\n```\nCallForApplication\n │\n\ \ └── requirements ──→ FundingRequirement[]\n │\n \ \ ├── requirement_type: ELIGIBILITY_*\n ├── requirement_text: \"...\"\n \ \ ├── requirement_value: \"...\"\n │\n \ \ └── observed_in ──→ WebObservation\n │\n\ \ └── source_url, retrieved_on, ...\n```\n\n**EXAMPLE USAGE**:\n\ \n```yaml\nrequirements:\n - requirement_id: \".../min-partners-3\"\n requirement_type: PARTNERSHIP_MINIMUM_PARTNERS\n\ \ requirement_text: \"Minimum 3 partners from 3 EU countries\"\n requirement_value: \"3\"\n requirement_unit:\ \ \"partners\"\n is_mandatory: true\n observed_in: \".../observation/web/2025-11-29/eu-horizon\"\n extraction_confidence:\ \ 0.98\n \n - requirement_id: \".../open-access\"\n requirement_type: TECHNICAL_OPEN_ACCESS\n requirement_text:\ \ \"Immediate open access required\"\n requirement_value: \"immediate\"\n is_mandatory: true\n observed_in:\ \ \".../observation/web/2025-11-29/eu-horizon\"\n```\n" examples: - value: See FundingRequirement class examples description: Structured requirements with provenance funded_project: slot_uri: schema:fundedItem range: uriorcurie multivalued: true inlined_as_list: true description: "Projects that received funding through this call.\n\nURI references to Project entities.\nFormat: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/project/{organizing-body-slug}/{project-slug}\n\ \n**Inverse of Project.funding_call**:\n- CallForApplication → funded_projects → Project[]\n- Project → funding_call\ \ → CallForApplication\n\n**Schema.org Alignment**:\nUses `schema:fundedItem` - \"Indicates something directly or\ \ indirectly \nfunded or co-funded through a Grant.\" Since CallForApplication represents\na funding opportunity\ \ that results in grants, the funded projects are\nthe items ultimately funded.\n\n**RELATIONSHIP MODEL**:\n\n```\n\ CallForApplication (e.g., \"HORIZON-CL2-2025-HERITAGE-01\")\n │\n └── funded_projects ──→ Project[]\n\ \ │\n └── funding_call ──→ CallForApplication\n```\n\ \n**DISTINCTION FROM funding_source**:\n\n- `Project.funding_source`: String description of where funding comes\ \ from\n (legacy field, may list multiple sources including non-call sources)\n- `Project.funding_call`: URI reference\ \ to specific CallForApplication\n that funded this project (structured, semantic link)\n\nBoth can coexist - funding_source\ \ for human readability, funding_call\nfor machine-navigable linked data.\n" examples: - value: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/project/nde/heritage-digitization-2025 description: Project funded by this call - value: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/project/europeana/common-culture-2024 description: Europeana project funded through Horizon Europe specificity_annotation: range: SpecificityAnnotation inlined: true template_specificity: range: TemplateSpecificityScores inlined: true comments: - CallForApplication links FundingOrganisation to heritage custodian funding opportunities - Lifecycle tracked via CallForApplicationStatusEnum (ANNOUNCED through RESULTS_PUBLISHED) - CLOSING_SOON status based on date proximity (< 30 days to deadline) - Provenance tracked via web_observations linking to WebObservation instances - Maps to schema:Offer - funding as an offer to heritage institutions - Bidirectional link to Project via funded_projects ↔ funding_call see_also: - https://schema.org/Offer - https://schema.org/Grant - https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal - https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/ - https://www.europanostra.org/our-work/awards/ examples: - value: call_id: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/call/ec/cl2-2025-heritage-01 call_title: Cultural heritage, cultural and creative industries call_short_name: HORIZON-CL2-2025-HERITAGE-01 call_description: 'This call supports research and innovation addressing cultural heritage preservation, digitisation, and access. Projects should develop new methods, technologies, and approaches for safeguarding tangible and intangible cultural heritage while promoting sustainable use and citizen engagement. ' call_status: OPEN call_url: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-cl2-2025-heritage-01 application_opening_date: '2025-01-15' application_deadline: '2025-09-16' results_expected_date: '2026-03-01' total_budget: 82.5M EUR typical_grant_range: 2M-4M EUR per project eligible_applicant: - Public bodies - Research organisations - Higher education institutions - SMEs - Non-profit organisations - International organisations eligible_country: - EU Member States - Horizon Europe Associated Countries thematic_area: - Cultural heritage preservation - Digital heritage - Climate change impact on heritage - Heritage skills and crafts - Community engagement with heritage heritage_type: - Tangible heritage - Intangible heritage - Digital heritage - Documentary heritage funding_rate: 100% for non-profit, 70% for for-profit partnership_required: true minimum_partners: 3 issuing_organisation: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/encompassing-body/funding/ec-rea parent_programme: Horizon Europe Cluster 2 programme_year: 2025 contact_email: REA-C2@ec.europa.eu info_session_date: - 2025-02-15 - Virtual info day - 2025-04-10 - Brokerage event Brussels keywords: - cultural heritage - research - innovation - digitisation - preservation - EU funding - Horizon Europe funded_project: - https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/project/europeana/common-culture-2024 - https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/project/nde/heritage-digitization-2025 description: Horizon Europe CL2 2025 Cultural Heritage call - value: call_id: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/call/nlhf/medium-grants-2025-q4 call_title: Medium grants - Heritage Fund call_short_name: MG-2025-Q4 call_description: 'Medium grants support heritage projects seeking between £250,000 and £5 million. Projects must achieve outcomes for heritage, people, and communities. Suitable for conservation, interpretation, community engagement, and skills development projects. ' call_status: OPEN call_url: https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/funding/medium-grants application_deadline: '2025-12-31' typical_grant_range: £250K-£5M eligible_applicant: - Not-for-profit organisations - Local authorities - Community groups - Heritage organisations eligible_country: - England - Northern Ireland - Scotland - Wales thematic_area: - Heritage conservation - Community engagement - Skills development - Nature conservation heritage_type: - Historic buildings - Natural heritage - Intangible heritage - Industrial heritage co_funding_required: true partnership_required: false issuing_organisation: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/encompassing-body/funding/nlhf parent_programme: National Lottery Heritage Fund programme_year: 2025 keywords: - UK heritage - lottery funding - conservation - community heritage description: National Lottery Heritage Fund medium grants