CFPs: Clean Energy Transition Partnership Joint Call 2024

The CET Partnership envisions a transition, driven by industry, public institutions, academia and citizens’ groups that will make Europe the front-runner in clean energy innovation and implementation.

The Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CET Partnership) aims to accelerate the clean energy transition and to contribute the goal of climate neutrality by 2050. It is a transnational and strategic partnership to align research, development and innovation (RDI) strategies, leverage knowledge and experience and foster a system transformation. Around 50 national/regional Funding Organisations from more than 30 countries in Europe and beyond participate in the CET Partnership with co-funding from the European Union (EU) through the Horizon Europe (HE) RDI Framework Programme.

The CET Partnership not only funds transnational RDI projects which will contribute to revolutionising the energy system. It also helps change makers find each other and collaborate, co-create strategic, evidence based knowledge and impact, and develop transferable solutions, through the CET Partnership Knowledge Community and CET Partnership Impact Network. The Call process includes two stages:

• a pre-proposal stage (Stage 1)
• a full proposal stage (Stage 2)

Modules

• Data spaces and interoperability: This Call Module will fund a pilot of an IT framework consisting of software services, which will enable the interoperable connection of data spaces at multi-lateral (i.e. involving different regions or countries) and cross-sector level.
• Energy system flexibility: renewables production, storage and system integration: This Call Module, developed in collaboration between the Mission Innovation (MI) Green Powered Future Mission (GPFM) and the CET Partnership TRI1 and TRI2, aims to increase opportunities for international cooperation and represents the implementation of the GPFM Flagship Project 2 (FP2) “Multilateral Research Programme” to take forward a selection of the identified Innovation Priorities (IP) for the power system decarbonisation and transformation.
• Advanced renewable energy (RE) technologies for power production: The following RDI approaches, Research-oriented approach (ROA) and Innovation-oriented approach (IOA):
  • Research-oriented approach (ROA) aims to create knowledge or explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution and includes applied research, technology development and integration, testing, demonstration and validation of a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment.
  • Innovation-oriented approach (IOA) aims to develop plans and arrangements or designs for new or improved products, processes or services and includes prototyping, testing, demonstrating, piloting, large-scale product validation in an operational environment, and market replication.
• Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS): This Call Module, following the challenge of the CET Partnership TRI3, aims to contribute to global decarbonisation efforts and accelerate development and implementation of capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technologies by supporting targeted research and innovation activities.
• Hydrogen & renewable fuels: This Call Module, following the challenge of the CET Partnership TRI3, aims to accelerate the substitution of fossil fuels by facilitating the development and implementation of technologies for effective and efficient production, distribution, storage and end-use of hydrogen (blue and green), and renewable and advanced fuels, including aspects related to security of supply, through support to research and innovation activities.
• Heating and cooling technologies: This Call Module, following the challenge of the CET Partnership TRI4, aims to contribute to efficient zero-emission heating and cooling solutions, as formulated in the CET Partnership SRIA.
• Geothermal energy technologies: This Call Module, following the challenges of the CET Partnership TRI4 and TRI2, addresses various geothermal energy technologies and aims to contribute to Challenges zero emission heating and cooling solutions (Challenge 4) and zero emission power technologies (Challenge 2) described in the CET Partnership SRIA77.
• Integrated regional energy systems: This Call Module, following the challenge of the CET Partnership TRI5, aims to contribute to the regional challenges of the energy transition by supporting need owners in a regional/geographical context to develop model system solutions that can be transferred to other regions.
• Integrated industrial energy systems: This Call Module, following the challenge of CET Partnership TRI6, aims to develop and demonstrate a set of technical solutions for integrated industrial energy systems that enables efficient carbon-neutral industrial production sites and takes industrial energy systems into development as part of the entire energy system.
• Clean energy integration in the built environment: This Call Module, following the challenge of the CET Partnership TRI7, aims at enabling transnational projects to provide new solutions for the built environment and develop from a pure energy consumer into a prosumer (producer-consumer) of renewable energy and from a passive into an active and integrated role in the future energy landscape.

Project Budget

• Data spaces and interoperability: Approximately EUR 5 million.
• Energy system flexibility: renewables production, storage and system integration: Applied funding from the Call in the range of (but not limited to) EUR 1–2 million.
• Advanced renewable energy (RE) technologies for power production:
  • CM2024-03A: in the range of (but not limited to) EUR 1–2 million
  • CM2024-03B: in the range of (but not limited to) EUR 2.5–5 million
  • including possible self-financing.
• Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS): Applied funding from the Call in the range of (but not limited to) EUR 1–4 million.
• Hydrogen & renewable fuels: The Call generally aims to support projects with a duration between 12 and 36 months and applying for funding in the Call in the range of (but not limited to) EUR 0.5–5 million, besides possible self-financing.
• Heating and cooling technologies: Applied funding from the Call in the range of (but not limited to) EUR 1.5–5 million.
• Geothermal energy technologies: Applied funding from the Call in the range of (but not limited to) EUR 1.5–5 million.
• Integrated regional energy systems: Applied funding from the Call in the range of (but not limited to) EUR 1.5–5 million.
• Integrated industrial energy systems: Applied funding from the Call in the range of (but not limited to) EUR 1.5–5 million.
• Clean energy integration in the built environment: Applied funding from the Call in the range of (but not limited to) EUR 1–5 million.

Eligibility Criteria

• A proposal must be written in English and submitted on the CET Partnership Submission Platform before the deadlines, following mandatory proposal templates.
• A Project Consortium must consist of a minimum of three Beneficiary Partners (including one Coordinator) adhering to relevant national/regional eligibility criteria, from a minimum of three different countries participating in the selected Call Module. Of these three Beneficiary Partners, at least two must be from EU Member States or HE Associated Countries.
• The total effort of one Project Consortium Partner in the Project Consortium can be maximum 60% of the total project efforts (measured in person months).
• The total effort of Project Consortium Partners from one country/region in the Project Consortium can be maximum 75% of the total project efforts (measured in person months).
• The following individuals are ineligible for proposal submission: CET Partnership Governing Board members, CET Partnership General Assembly members and researchers from the Funding Organisations in the Call.
• A project must finish in 36 months from the start of the project.
• A proposal must include a work package called Reporting and Knowledge Community in their work plan.

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