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    HORIZON-CL5-2027-07-D3-32

    Delivery of industrial CCUS clusters – Societal Readiness pilot

    Opens 4 Aug 2027Live official EU data

    ENERGY · HORIZON-IA · TRL 6–8 · Needs partners

    1 Dec 2027
    Deadline
    4 Aug 2027
    Opens for applications
    €10M
    Indicative, per project
    ~3
    Grants expected
    381
    Past winners in this family

    What this call funds

    This call funds pilot projects that lay the groundwork for regional CO2 capture, transport, and storage clusters (CCUS) around heavy industry. It supports the technical and business planning needed to link multiple industrial CO2 emitters with shared transport and storage infrastructure, while also engaging communities and stakeholders to build public trust and acceptance of the technology.

    carbon capture · renewable energy · energy storage · climate adaptation · regional development · circular economy

    Who wins this

    A consortium with strong industrial partners in hard-to-abate sectors, technical CCUS expertise, and social sciences/humanities experts, working together to plan a regional CO2 capture-transport-storage cluster while engaging local communities.

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    The call in detail

    Indicative grant size
    €10M
    Funding model
    Budget-based — reimbursement of actual eligible costs
    Submission
    Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
    Type of action
    HORIZON Innovation Actions
    Partners
    Required. The call asks for a consortium — a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
    Also required
    Requires inclusion of social sciences and humanities (SSH) expertise in the consortium to support Societal Readiness activities; if satellite earth observation data is used, beneficiaries must use Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS.
    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 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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    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK
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    32 wins
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