The Clean Hydrogen Partnership is launching a new hydrogen research call for proposals today, 17 January 2024. A total of € 113.5 million will be made available through Horizon Europe for projects to cover R&I activities across the whole hydrogen value chain.
Additional €60 million (from the RePowerEU plan budget) will be used to support different activities (including topping-up of related call topics and a procurement to set-up and run a ‘Hydrogen Valleys Facility’) for increasing the number of Hydrogen Valleys across Europe.
A total of 20 topics are part of the call for proposals, including 5 for Renewable Hydrogen Production, 5 for Hydrogen Storage and distribution, 4 for transport and 2 for heat and power. In addition, 2 topics will support Cross-cutting issues. This call also includes 2 Hydrogen Valleys topics.
5 topics – 25M€ funding – Renewable Hydrogen Production
5 topics – 27M€ funding – Hydrogen Storage and Distribution
4 topics – 19M€ funding – Transport
2 topics – 9M€ funding – Heat and Power
2 topics – 4.5M€ funding – Cross-cutting
2 topics – 29M€ funding – Hydrogen Valleys*
* The European Commission in its communication “REPowerEU Plan” announced an additional investment of EUR 200 million available for the Clean Hydrogen JU for doubling the Hydrogen Valleys in the EU by 2025. In that respect, for the Call for Proposals 2024, up to 60 MEUR additional budget is available to top-up the allocated budget for hydrogen valleys under the Call for Proposals 2024 (EUR 20 million for HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2024-06-01, EUR 9 million for HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2024-06-02). This means that more than one (Hydrogen Valley) project per topic will be funded, according to the final ranking at the end of the evaluation process.
The topics are grouped into 11 Research and Innovation Actions (RIA), 8 Innovation Actions (IA), and 1 Coordination and Support Action (CSA). Two of the Innovation Actions, on Hydrogen Valleys, are considered of strategic importance and are selected as flagship projects.
Synergies with other European partnerships and programmes as well as with Member States and regional programmes are at the core of a number of topics.
You can apply until 17 April 2024 via the EU Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System.
Detailed information about the call can be found here.
You can find the details of the call on the Funding and Tender portal: Call HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2024
Deadline date: 17 April 2024, 17:00 (CEST)
