Innovative, Community-Integrated PV systems

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Code: 34792 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

PV is growing fast, from domestic and commercial, up to utility scale systems. In the years ahead PV systems and solutions will be an integral contributor of distributed generation, pivotal in building functional energy communities, aggregated and operated through advance distributed controls in hierarchical set up with the integrated grid.
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Increase the profitability and penetration of PV systems in renewable energy communities.
• Engage actively citizens and communities in the clean energy transition in particular through the uptake of energy cooperatives and the development of decentralized platforms.

Minimisation of environmental, and optimisation of socio-economic impacts in the deployment, operation and decommissioning of offshore wind farms

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Code: 34789 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

The aim is to develop and promote the use of modelling tools and objective holistic assessment metrics for realistic in-depth analysis of (cumulative) impacts of wind installations on the environment and on local communities and to integrate these in design tools for the deployment and decommissioning of offshore wind farms. It will be as well necessary to find innovative solutions to minimize the environmental impact during all stages of the life cycle of offshore wind farms but especially for the construction and decommissioning phase. An assessment framework for installations is needed with nature inclusive design options valuing ‘created habitats’ vs ‘natural habitats’.

Demonstrations of innovative floating wind concepts

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Code: 34787 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-09 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

The overall aim is to accelerate the cost-effective construction and deployment of floating wind farms, facilitating their rapid and sustainable deployment across Europe and lower their overall costs.

DACCS and BECCS for CO2 removal/negative emissions

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Code: 34785 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-12 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic focusses on DACCS and BECCS, which are technologies that can help reaching climate neutrality by 2050 by creating the carbon sinks required to balance out residual emissions in 2050.

The objective of this topic is to further the technological development of DACCS and BECCS, and addressing the environmental, social and economic challenges and benefits with the view of establishing this concept as a viable technology to fight climate change.

CCU for the production of fuels

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Code: 34782 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-11 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

Conversion of captured CO2 is not only a means to replace fossil fuels, but also a promising solution for seasonal energy storage. There are still some scientific and technological challenges to overcome to be able to exploit CO2 as a fuel feedstock, the main challenge being that the utilisation of CO2 is limited by the highly energy intensive conversion process.
Proposals will aim at the development of energy-efficient and economically and environmentally viable CO2 conversion technologies, including energy storage and/or displacement of fossil fuels that allow for upscaling in the short to medium term.

PV-integrated electric mobility applications

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Code: 34772 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

Photovoltaic power generation is pivotal to a clean energy system and the achievement of the net zero-emissions target. To this end, it is important to enhance affordability, sustainability and exploit the modularity and synergies of application of PV technologies. PV technology can contribute to improved features of electric mobility systems not just in terms of CO2 (and air-pollution) emissions reduction but also regarding product aesthetics and user experiences.

Design for adaptability, re-use and deconstruction of buildings, in line with the principles of circular economy (Built4People Partnership)

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Code: 34769 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

Project results under this topic are expected to contribute to the following expected outcomes:

• Improved adaptability of buildings and building units to new uses.
• Increased reuse and recycling of building elements and products.
• Extended service life of buildings.
• Increased awareness on best practices for design for adaptability, reuse and deconstruction.

Critical technologies for the future ocean energy farms

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Code: 34767 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic is focused on critical technologies for the future ocean energy farms. Specigfically, the results of projects under this topic, are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

• Increased performance of ocean energy technologies with the focus on sustainability, operation and maintenance of ocean energy devices.
• Improved knowledge on how to operate ocean energy devices, their availability, maintainability, reliability, survivability, and sustainability.
• The reduction of the levelized cost of energy (LCOE).

Development of smart concepts of integrated energy driven bio-refineries for co-production of advanced biofuels, bio-chemicals and biomaterials

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Code: 34765 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic is focused on the development of zero-waste and neutral or negative carbon emission energy-efficient biorefinery concepts for enabling the production of low-cost advanced biofuels through co-production of added value bio-based products and bioenergy.

Development of next generation synthetic renewable fuel technologies

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Code: 34763 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic is focused on the development of next generation technologies for the production of novel synthetic renewable liquid and gaseous fuels from CO2, and/or renewable carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen or their compounds and from renewable energy.

Digital tools for CSP and solar thermal plants

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Code: 34761 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic will support innovative application of digital tools (or to the application of innovative digital tools, or both) in the following areas:

• CSP and/or
• solar thermal heat and/or cold.

Any type of application of the digital tools is in the scope (e.g., component control, performance measurement, self-diagnostic, ancillary services to the power system, digital twins, etc.). Artificial intelligence techniques are also in the scope.

MSCA Researchers at Risk 2024

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Code: 34759 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MSCA-2024-RR-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/09/2024 | End submission calls: 14/01/2025

Building on the available results of past and on-going Researchers at Risk initiatives which have strengthened support structures across the EU and provided some form of guidance for researchers at risk, further support is envisaged for scaling up and moving towards more customised support for researchers at risk based on the needs already identified in the national and EU initiatives implemented so far.
This action should aim at delivering the best possible solutions to the challenges faced by researchers.

FIDAL Open Calls Round 2 on 5G Evolved Use Cases

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Code: 34756 | Identifier Code: FIDAL | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 09/09/2024 | End submission calls: 10/12/2024

The overall goal of FIDAL Open Call is to reach two main added values of the project:

• Involving key actors committed to perform beyond 5G trials in diversified and heterogeneous vertical use cases covering key industrial and societal sectors.
• Ensuring the support of the needed infrastructure to deploy the proposed field trials.

OpenAgri Open Call

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Code: 34753 | Identifier Code: OpenAgri | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 02/09/2024 | End submission calls: 02/12/2024

The main aim of the OpenAgri Open Call (OC) is to support the co-creation and testing of new Agricultural Digital Solutions (ADSs) across more countries, crops and framing conditions, by introducing additional opensource software and open hardware outputs that will become available to the community and boost the project’s overall impact. The goal of this Open Call is to deploy high value and impactful pilots, employing OpenAgri’s methodologies and technologies.

Call for Pilots within the European data space for smart communities (submission round 2)

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Code: 34751 | Identifier Code: DS4SSCC-DEP | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 01/09/2024 | End submission calls: 30/11/2024

The European data space for smart communities (DS4SSCC-DEP) action launches three rounds of Calls for Pilots to validate an EU-wide cross-sectorial data space in practice and to advance its development and implementation to support policy priorities of cities and communities within the European Union, including the green-digital transformation based on secure and sovereign data infrastructure. The pilots will build on and evolve the governance and technical blueprint, established by the DS4SSCC preparatory action, which comes out of joint efforts of the Living-in.EU movement and which represents all local governments in the EU through relevant networks and EU institutions.

dAIEDGE 1st Open Call for Exchange Programmes

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Code: 34733 | Identifier Code: dAIEDGE | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 29/08/2024 | End submission calls: 31/10/2024

dAIEDGE is a Network of Excellence (NoE) for distributed, trustworthy, efficient and scalable AI at the Edge. dAIEDGE seeks to strengthen and support the development of a dynamic European cutting-edge AI ecosystem under the umbrella of the European Lighthouse for AI, and to sustain the development of advanced AI. dAIEDGE fosters the exchange of ideas, concepts, and trends on cutting-edge next generation AI, creating links between ecosystem actors to help both the European Commission (EC) and the European Union (EU) identify strategies for future developments in Europe.

ENFIELD (European Lighthouse to Manifest Trustworthy and Green AI) – Exchange Schemes Second Call for Proposals (oc2-2024-TES-02)

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Code: 34731 | Identifier Code: ENFIELD | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 15/08/2024 | End submission calls: 14/10/2024

The ENFIELD – Exchange Scheme Open Call aims to attract the top-level researchers to conduct fundamental research in the fields of Green AI, Adaptive AI, Humancentric AI, and Trustworthy AI.

PQ-REACT Open Call #1 – DEVELOP PQ-REACT

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Code: 34729 | Identifier Code: PQ-REACT | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 03/08/2024 | End submission calls: 30/09/2024

The main objective of PQ-REACT project is to design, develop and validate a framework for a faster and smoother transition from classical to quantum resistant solutions for a wide variety of contexts and usage domains. This framework will include PQC migration paths and cryptographic agility methods and will develop a portfolio of tools (including an actual quantum computer) for validation of post quantum cryptographic systems, that will allow users to switch to quantum resistant cryptography, taking under consideration their individualities and various contexts.

EU Award for Gender Equality Champions

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Code: 34713 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-GENDER-Prize | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 04/09/2024 | End submission calls: 16/10/2024

The “EU Award for Gender Equality Champions” is a recognition prize scheme meant as a booster and complement of the requirement to have in place a Gender Equality Plan (GEP) and a tool for advancing inclusive gender equality plans and policies in the framework of the new European Research Area (ERA) policy agenda. The Award is also an enabler for the transformation agenda for universities set forth in the new ERA, in synergy with the European Education Area (EEA) and the European Higher Education Area (EHEA, Bologna process), and in line with the new Communication on a European Strategy for Universities adopted on 18 January 2022.

LIFE 2024 Capacity Building

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Code: 34703 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-TA-CAP | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 03/09/2024 | End submission calls: 28/01/2025

Technical assistance projects for capacity building aim at supporting public bodies responsible for the implementation of the LIFE programme in improving the participation and increasing the quality of submitted proposals from those countries. Proposals are meant to increase participation of various types of organisations in the LIFE calls for proposals, particularly for standard action projects, coordination and support actions, strategic integrated projects and strategic nature projects. This call represents an opportunity for Member States and countries associated to the LIFE Programme to receive EU funding for improving their capacity to support potential beneficiaries in the LIFE calls.