Deadline: 30 March 2022. It nurtures beyond the state-of-the-art research on blockchain technology and fosters the development of new software, platforms or tools for distributed trust. To define and implement small scale research projects on one of the two topics: Topic Trust and reputation models on blockchains; Topic Proof-of-validity and proof-of-location. Eligibility and consortia: developers, innovators, researchers, SMEs, entrepreneurs and academia and Maximum request per proposal: €75,000.
Deadline: 6th April 2022. New experiments / services for energy to optimized electricity grid monitoring and operation. This may potentially include services for: advanced asset management of network assets; utility portfolio management, risk hedging and energy trading; local flexibility trading, flexibility sharing (peer-to-peer) and local energy communities; plus energy communities and buildings through coordinated management of demand, generation and storage assets; increasing the smartness of buildings and their market readiness; urban planning and smart cities. The Eligibility and consortia is for any legal entity. Maximum request per proposal: 47.500€
The second wave of calls for proposals under the Digital Europe Programme has been launched, following the adoption of the work programmes and the first set of calls in November 2021. The calls are open to businesses, organisations, and public administrations from the EU Member States, EFTA/EEA countries, as well as entities from other countries associated to the Programme. The deadline for applications is 17 May 2022.
Eureka together with its Celtic-Next, Eurogia, Itea, Smart and Xecs Clusters, have joined forces to promote the generation of international technological cooperation projects that deal with sustainability aspects in the different areas covered by each Cluster. 17 countries have committed public funds that will allow selected applicants to develop the projects. This call is open to all technologies linked to industrial sustainability.
The calls for projects worth €12 million in terms of the available budget will contribute to a European innovation ecosystem that is more sustainable, robust and integrated. In addition, the projects will support the scaling of companies and ideas whilst spurring innovation across ecosystems to address important challenges. This new round of calls is open for submissions via two destinations of the EIE Work Programme – CONNECT and SCALEUP.
Applicants are able to submit online their proposal from the 1st of February 2022. Awarded applicants will receive up to 9 months of tailored support by experts and the EPAH team to develop their energy poverty actions. The deadline for applications is 1 March 2022 at 18:00 CET (Brussels time, GMT+1).
On 6 January 2022, the European Commission launched the third edition of Horizon Impact Award prize! All beneficiaries of closed FP7/H2020 projects are invited to submit their application to the prize by 8 March 2022 and compete for the prize worth 25.000 € per each winner.
The call for proposals to submit ERC Advanced Grants (ERC-AdGs) is open and the deadline date is 28/04/2022. The ERC Advanced Grants (ERC-AdG) are designed to support excellent and competitive Principal Investigators (PIs) at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements
The PRIMA calls for 2022 will officially open next 17th of January with submission deadlines in March. The call is distributed in Section 1 (managed as HE) and Section 2 (Managed as an ERA-NET) and has 3 thematic Areas: Water management, Farming Systems and Agro-food value chain. Deadline: march
Making European societies and economies more energy-efficient will play a key role in allowing the EU to meet its climate ambitions, create growth and improve well-being, particularly to meet the goal of making the EU carbon-neutral by 2050. Whilst energy efficiency has not always been considered as an attractive investment by the financial sector in the past, this updated Pack features 13 EU-funded projects that have set a new dynamic for accelerating and upscaling private financing of energy efficiency investments across the EU.
