Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The call will support the scale up of next generation low-carbon technologies and will support European companies willing to become global technology leaders able to transform the world. Game changing, breakthrough technologies combined with innovative business models, will be a key feature.
Detailed Call Description
The call supports the development of business concepts into market-ready innovations (new or breakthrough technologies, products, processes, services and business models) and their rollout. Therefore, it will fund transformative green innovations, which contribute to the goals enshrined in the European Green Deal strategy focusing on those innovations that fuel the societal transition towards a climate-neutral and circular economy while supporting EU’s competitiveness and leadership in green technologies.
This call will complement and be coordinated with activities supported by other relevant pan- European partnerships for circular bio-based solutions, green hydrogen, batteries or low-carbon industries. In particular it will focus on disruptive and breakthrough innovations by SMEs (including midcaps) and start-ups. This will also contribute to the implementation of various EU-wide initiatives that are related with the decarbonisation and modernisation of energy intensive industries, the greater energy efficient buildings etc.
The projects supported by this Call should contribute to at least one of the following sustainability goals:
- Increasing the EU’s climate mitigation and/or adaptation ambition
- Supplying clean, affordable and secure energy
- Transitioning of industry to a clean and/or circular economy (including waste prevention and/or recycling) · Building and renovating in an energy and resource efficient way · Accelerating the shift to sustainable and smart mobility
- Transition to a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
- Preserving and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity (including nature based solutions that provide co-benefits for climate adaptation and mitigation)
- Realising a zero pollution ambition and a toxic-free environment.
Within the Green Deal goals, specific priority is given to projects relating to key innovations for the green economic transition. In that particular regard, at least 50% of the companies selected for the interview phase must have submitted proposals relating to one the following areas:
- Renewable energy, including renewable Hydrogen and energy storage
- Deep Renovation of buildings · Low carbon industries
- Batteries and other energy storage systems
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
For a grant component the eligible costs are reimbursed up to a maximum of 70%.
Thematic Categories
- Energy
- Environment and Climate Change
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Small-Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness
Eligibility for Participation
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Eligibility For Participation Notes
For an applicant to be able to apply, they must meet one of the following eligibility conditions:
- A single company classified as an SME and established within a Member State or an Associated Country.
- A single company classified as a ‘Small mid-cap’ (up to 500 employees) established in a Member State or an Associated Country, but the application can only be for rapid scale up purposes and only for the investment component.
- One or more natural persons (including individual entrepreneurs) or legal entities, intending to establish an SME or small mid-cap, intending to invest in an SME or small mid- cap, from a non-associated third country intending to establish an SME (including start-ups) or to relocate an existing SME to a Member State or an Associated Country, by the time of submitting a full application. Τhe company must prove its effective establishment in a Member State or an Associated Country.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia
P.O.Box 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Phone Number: +357 22205000
Email Address: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
Ms Katerina Karakasidou
Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 036
Contact Email: kkarakasidou@research.org.cy
Dr Kalypso Sepou
Head of European Programmes Department
Contact Phone: +357 22 205066
Contact Email: kalypso@research.org.cy
EU Contact Point
European Innovation Council: http://eic.ec.europa.eu/contact-form_en