Your startup/SME (higher size companies are excluded from the contest) should be legally established in the EU.

Your startup/SME and the responsible HUB will sign a contract where the obligations of the parts are stablished. You can access the template for it here in order to have an idea of the expected commitment (reports, participation in the workshops, among others).

Once you sign the contract, the first payment (3.000 euros) is done after successfully participating in the first workshop (around May 2019). The second one (7.000 euros) is done after the face-to-face workshop (around November 2019).

We have the interest on the result of your evaluation more than in the artefacts you will develop with UNICORN. However, the evaluation will be sounder if the context where it has been done is completed with the developed code. If the software is related to a product of your company, some parts of it to illustrate the evaluation will be enough. In case you have developed an ad hoc prototype, the complete project will be much more useful if we have complete access to it. The IPR of the developed products belong to you.

In a nutshell, the startup/SME is committed to: (1) attend the events (workshops), two virtual and one physical in a country of the EU; (2) prepare a report including the validation outcomes; (3) adopt the recommendations given by the HUBs in order to the proper achievements of objectives. You can read the template that will be used for the contract 'here' in order to have an idea of the commitment. At the same time, you can contact your preferred HUB in order to solve the doubts you may still have.