# Jurisdiction quick-reference

Entry points, portals, and vocabulary for the three lanes the SKILL.md "non-dilutive landscape" names. Always confirm rules in the live call text — these are starting points, accurate as of 2026-06-02.

## EU — Horizon Europe & the Funding & Tenders portal

- **Portal:** EU Funding & Tenders portal (`ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders`). Find calls, register your org, submit.
- **PIC** (Participant Identification Code): the org's ID on the portal; needed before a coordinator can add you to a consortium. Register the legal entity once; reuse the PIC across calls.
- **Evaluation criteria:** three, each scored **0–5 in half-point steps**:
  - **Excellence** — objectives, ambition, methodology, beyond state-of-the-art.
  - **Impact** — significance, pathways to impact, exploitation & dissemination, measures.
  - **Quality & Efficiency of Implementation** — workplan, consortium, resources, risk.
  - **Thresholds:** 3/5 per criterion, **10/15 total**; failing any one threshold = automatic rejection. Two-stage calls: Stage 1 ~10–15 pages with a **4/5-per-criterion** threshold.
- **Page limits (Part B, 2026–2027):** **40** pages standard RIA/IA (**45** with lump-sum funding), **25** for CSA. Content beyond the cap is **disregarded**.
- **Vocabulary:** RIA (Research & Innovation Action), IA (Innovation Action), CSA (Coordination & Support Action), TRL (Technology Readiness Level), work programme, topic, consortium, coordinator, deliverable, work package (WP).

## US — Grants.gov, SAM.gov & 2 CFR 200

- **Find & apply:** `Grants.gov` lists federal opportunities and is where you submit.
- **Registration chain:** you need a **UEI** (Unique Entity ID) → which requires an **active SAM.gov** registration → before you can submit on Grants.gov. SAM.gov takes **7–10 business days** (longer if data is verified), **expires after 365 days**, renews annually; a lapse **blocks payments** even on active awards. Start weeks ahead.
- **Uniform Guidance (2 CFR Part 200):** the federal cost rules. Key for budgeting:
  - **§200.414 de minimis indirect rate: up to 15% of MTDC** for entities without a negotiated rate (raised from 10% in the Oct 2024 OMB revision).
  - Costs must be **necessary, reasonable, allocable, consistently treated**.
  - MTDC excludes equipment, the portion of each subaward over $50k, and participant support costs.
- **Vocabulary:** NOFO/FOA (Notice of Funding Opportunity / Funding Opportunity Announcement), SF-424, period of performance, cost-share/match, F&A (facilities & administrative = indirect), recipient, subrecipient.

## Spain — BDNS / infosubvenciones

- **Find:** the **Base de Datos Nacional de Subvenciones (BDNS)** at `infosubvenciones.es` — the official register of public subsidies under the **Ley General de Subvenciones**. In 2025 it carried 30,000+ calls, aggregate budget over €50bn.
- **Two documents, always read both:**
  - **`bases reguladoras`** — the standing rules: who can apply, what's funded, requirements, scoring criteria. **Eligibility lives here.**
  - **`convocatoria`** — opens a specific window and fixes that year's budget pot and deadline. **The clock lives here.**
- **Common prerequisites:** be *al corriente* (up to date) with tax (AEAT) and Social Security (TGSS) obligations; hold a digital certificate / Cl@ve for electronic submission; not be subject to a *prohibición para obtener subvenciones*.
- **Vocabulary:** subvención, ayuda pública, beneficiario, memoria técnica, justificación (post-award reporting — out of scope here, that's `bookkeeping`), concurrencia competitiva (competitive scoring) vs. concesión directa, plazo de presentación.
- **Catalan equivalents:** subvenció, ajut públic, convocatòria, bases reguladores, memòria tècnica, beneficiari, termini de presentació.
