De-risking renewable fuel technologies through transnational pre-commercial procurement of renewable fuel industrial value chains
ENERGY · HORIZON-PCP · TRL 8+ · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds a joint public-private procurement project to develop and de-risk key renewable fuel production technologies (like advanced biofuels, biomethanol, e-methanol) so they reach near-commercial readiness. Multiple public and private buyers across Europe will jointly commission R&D providers to build and test these fuel production value chains, sharing risk and cost. The goal is to get these technologies to TRL 8 and ready for market uptake beyond 2030.
renewable energy · bioeconomy · circular economy · energy storage · sustainable materials · climate adaptation
Who wins this
A transnational group of public (and possibly private) procurement authorities—such as airport/port authorities or energy regulators—that jointly wants to commission R&D providers to build and validate renewable fuel value chains toward commercial readiness.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €40M
- Funding model
- Budget-based — reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Pre-commercial Procurement
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium — a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
- Eligible applicants
- public body, public contracting authority, private procurer (in some cases)
- Also required
- Procurement must be open to R&D service providers established in any EU Member State or Associated Country; hydrogen production as an end-product and fossil-based steam methane reforming are out of scope.
- Sectors
- CleanTech · Energy · Mobility
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, IL, TR, UA, RS, MK, ME, AL, BA, XK, GE, AM, MD, TN, NZ
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions 1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout Due to the complexity of the topic, the page limit for proposals is increased to 60 pages. described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible Countries described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. 3. Other Eligible Conditions If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used). described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions
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