Eurogia 2030 has opened a call for organisations collaborating internationally on the R&D of low-carbon technology projects. By applying and participating, your organisation can access national public funding for your R&D project. The goal of this call for projects is to stimulate activity in this important area, through the creation of international collaborative projects in applications that will support economic growth and benefit society as a whole. You can submit your R&D project application until 22nd March 2024.

The Call is looking for projects that will form innovative ecosystems enabling advances in the State-of-the-Art and resulting in opportunities for commercial and/or societal impact in the application areas addressed. The intent is to bring together partners from across the broad Community of all types (Large Enterprise, SME’s, Research & Technology Organisations and Universities) into collaborative teams that will be able to demonstrate a high impact in the chosen application area at the end of the project.

Participation

Participation is open to companies of all sizes, universities and research organisations. By participating in a Cluster project, you benefit from:

  • access to national R&D funding,
  • an international network of companies including key industry players,
  • guidance, coaching and monitoring of your project from the Eurogia office,
  • low administrative requirements and
  • receiving a quality label.

Scope

Some of the targeted challenges to achieve these goals are necessary, but not limited to:

  • Carbon-free energy supply
  • Green mobility and smart cities
  • Smarter housings and constructions
  • Bio resources and environment

Your project should:

  • address at least one of the fields mentioned in the call description and
  • demonstrate the potential to research or develop a product, process or service for commercialisation.

Low carbon technologies to be researched and developed include (but are not limited to):

  • Offshore wind turbines, bioenergy, solar panels, fuel cells power to-X, energy storage
  • Hydrogen economy (fuel cells, production, storage, station)
  • CO2 capture, sequestration and utilisation
  • Green and zero-emission buildings, smart cities, heating
  • IT solutions in buildings, smart monitoring, 3D construction, digital twins in housing design
  • AI, IoT, big data, 5G/6G-integrated solutions in cities
  • Smart grids, micro-grids, E-mobility
  • Monitoring of the environment and bio resources
  • Drone and satellite monitoring systems of land, rivers, sea industrial robots, sensors, edge cloud computing, raman mass spectrometry, AI, big data
  • … and many more

Timeframe

Submission Deadline: March 22, 2024

Eligibility

Eureka has limited eligibility criteria for organisations participating in a Clusters consortium:

  • Your project idea must represent international cooperation in the form of a specific project.
  • The project must be directed at researching or developing an innovative product, process or service with the goal of commercialisation.
  • The project must have a civilian purpose.
  • Your consortium must include at least two independent legal entities from a minimum of two Eureka countries.
  • No single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget.

EUROGIA is explicitly supported by 20 EUREKA countries. In addition, participants from other EUREKA and non-EUREKA countries can participate in applications but will have to take care about the financing of the project themselves. In all cases, it is the responsibility of the submitting project team to contact the Public Authority representatives of the countries that they wish to involve, to ensure that the option of funding is available.

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