Clean Energy Transition: international call

The initiative Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CET) has open its call for international research and innovation projects. Deadline for pre-proposals is 21. 11. 2024.

Participation of Czech entities is funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR) in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of the Environment.

If you plan to participate in a project proposal, please, contact well in advance, 1 month before the deadline at the latest, the Project Management Department (Martina Holíková, martina.holikova@natur.cuni.cz), so that all the administrative requirements of the application can be prepared in time.

If you consider coordinating a project, please contact us IMMEDIATELY,
ca. 2 months before the deadline at the very latest.

• Call on CET website – call documentation, schedule, key links etc.
• Call text – supported topics, eligibility criteria, participating countries etc.
• Participating countries and national funding bodies – attention: some funding bodies support only some topics.
• Recordings of webinar CETPartnership: what's in it for me? (4. 6. 2024).
• CET Matchmaking Platform.
• Previously funded projects.
• TA CR webpage for this call in Czech – documents for Czech participants, updates.
• TA CR webpage for this programme in English.
• Detailed instructions for Czech participants (in Czech).

Czech entities can participate only in projects of applied research
and focused only on the following topics of the call (see the TA CR news)

• CM2024-01 Energy data spaces and interoperability
  Czech applicants interested in this topic should consult TA CR before applying.
• CM2024-02 Energy system flexibility: renewables production, storage and system integration
• CM2024-04 Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS)
• CM2024-05 Hydrogen and renewable fuels
• CM2024-08 Integrated regional energy systems
• CM2024-10 Clean energy integration in the built environment

The project consortium must consist of at least 3 partners from 3 different countries participating in the call, out of that at least 2 must be EU member states or Horizon Europe associated countries. Usual consortia size is ca. 5–10 partners. Project duration is 12–36 months, expected requested financial contribution per project is ca. EUR 0.5–5 million.
Each partner must fulfil the eligibility criteria of their national funding body.

Countries participating in the call: Austria, Belgium, Canada (Alberta), Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Türkiye, UK (Scotland), USA.

Funding of participation of Czech entities is linked to the TA CR programme Sigma (Sub-objective 4), only applied research is supported. Total Financial allocation for Czech participation in this call is EUR 800 000, maximal funding for the Czech part of one project is EUR 200 000. Maximal funding rate for Czech participants is 80 % (for the Czech part of the project in total).

Project proposals are to be submitted online by the coordinator via the CETPartnership Submission Platform. Czech participants must simultaneously submit to TA CR the compulsory national funding application.

Submission of the national application to TA CR via data box and some parts of this application themselves will be secured by the faculty. Therefore, it is essential for applicants to inform well in advance the Project Management Department (martina.holikova@natur.cuni.cz).

News published by Ludmila Součková 19. 9. 2024.

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