R&I in Support of the Clean Industrial Deal: Clean Technologies for Climate Action
R&I in Support of the Clean Industrial Deal · HORIZON-IA · TRL 6–8 · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds large demonstration projects that bring clean energy and industrial technologies (like renewable power, energy storage, hydrogen, or carbon capture) from mid-stage prototypes to near-market-ready solutions. It wants to prove these technologies can cut costs, boost EU manufacturing competitiveness, and increase circular material use, while getting them ready for real deployment in energy, transport or manufacturing sectors. Projects should end with a clear business case, permits, and industrial partners lined up to actually deploy the technology.
renewable energy · energy storage · hydrogen · carbon capture · smart grids · twin transition
Who wins this
An industry-led consortium of clean tech suppliers, energy users and industrial partners (with SME involvement encouraged) aiming to demonstrate and commercialize a near-market-ready clean energy or industrial decarbonisation technology at TRL 6-8.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €15M–€25M
- 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
- Consortium should be industry-driven, indicatively no more than ten participants, and for NZIA components with over 50% third-country supply dependency, at least 50% must be sourced from the EU or Associated Countries unless justified otherwise; page limit extended to 60 pages to include a business plan.
- 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 In order to include a business plan and market-readiness strategy (as part of the dissemination and exploitation activities), as outlined in the introduction to this Destination, the page limit in part B of the General Annexes is exceptionally extended to a total maximum of 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 To contribute to a balanced portfolio covering the three technology areas described in the scope below, grants will be awarded to applications not only in order of ranking, but also at least to one (1) application that is the highest ranked for each area according to the main area selected in the application, provided that the applications attain all 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 The granting authority may, up to 4 years after the end of the action, object to a transfer of ownership or to the exclusive licensing of results, as set out in the specific provision of Annex 5. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions
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