The deadline to submit project proposals for the first Horizon Europe single stage calls for Climate (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01) and Mobility (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01) topics expired on Tuesday 14 September 2021 at 17:00.
CLIMATE TOPICS (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01)
Overall, the budget for the call is €136 million distributed over 9 single stage topics, all managed by CINEA. 67 proposals have been submitted to the call for a total requested contribution of €367.51 million.
Below is the overview of the submissions at call closure, broken down per topic:
| Cluster 5 Destination | Topic | Description | Type of Action | Topic Budget (M€) | Requested funding (M€) | Proposals submitted |
| D1 – Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality | HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01-01 | Improved understanding of greenhouse gas fluxes and radiative forcers, including carbon dioxide removal technologies | RIA | 24 | 47.62 | 6 |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01-02 | Modelling the role of the circular economy for climate change mitigation | RIA | 15 | 34.98 | 8 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01-03 | Maximising the impact and synergy of European climate change research and innovation | CSA | 9 | 28.25 | 6 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01-04 | Enhanced integrated assessment in pursuit of global climate goals | RIA | 15 | 17.06 | 3 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01-05 | Better understanding of the interactions between climate change impacts and risks, mitigation and adaptation options | RIA | 20 | 103.59 | 16 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01-06 | Supporting and standardising climate services | CSA | 9 | 8.99 | 1 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01-07 | Improved economic methods for decision-making on climate and environmental policies | RIA | 6 | 32.54 | 11 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01-08 | Restoration of natural wetlands, peatlands and floodplains as a strategy for fast mitigation benefits; pathways, trade-offs and co-benefits | RIA | 20 | 46.35 | 8 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01-09 | The contribution of forest management to climate action: pathways, trade-offs and co-benefits | RIA | 18 | 48.13 | 8 | |
| Total | 136 | 367.51 | 67 | |||
MOBILITY TOPICS (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01)
Overall, the budget for the call is €258 million distributed over 17 single stage topics, all managed by CINEA. 135 proposals have been submitted to the call for a total requested contribution of €824.91 million.
Below is the overview of the submissions at call closure, broken down per topic:
| Cluster 5 Destination | Topic | Description | Type of Action | Topic Budget (M€) | Requested funding (M€) | Proposals submitted |
| D5 - Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes | HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-01 | Nextgen vehicles: Innovative zero emission BEV architectures for regional medium freight haulage (2ZERO) | IA | 45 | 39.54 | 3 |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-02 | Nextgen EV components: Integration of advanced power electronics and associated controls (2ZERO) | RIA | 20 | 102.60 | 19 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-03 | System approach to achieve optimised Smart EV Charging and V2G flexibility in mass-deployment conditions (2ZERO) | RIA | 25 | 145.60 | 16 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-04 | LCA and design for sustainable circularity - holistic approach for zero-emission mobility solutions and the related battery value chain (2ZERO & Batteries Partnership) | CSA | 4 | 3.90 | 1 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-05 | Greenhouse gas aviation emissions reduction technologies towards climate neutrality by 2050 | RIA | 25 | 119.29 | 24 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-06 | Next generation digital aircraft transformation in design, manufacturing, integration and maintenance | RIA | 29 | 165.37 | 32 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-07 | Enabling the safe and efficient on-board storage and integration within ships of large quantities of ammonia and hydrogen fuels (ZEWT Partnership) | IA | 20 | 29.54 | 3 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-08 | Enabling the full integration of very high power fuel cells in ship design using co-generation and combined cycle solutions for increased efficiency with multiple fuels (ZEWT Partnership) | RIA | 15 | 44.92 | 3 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-09 | CSA identifying waterborne sustainable fuel deployment scenarios (ZEWT Partnership) | CSA | 0.5 | 0.52 | 1 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-10 | Innovative on-board energy saving solutions (ZEWT Partnership) | RIA | 20 | 57.36 | 12 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-11 | Hyper powered vessel battery charging system (ZEWT Partnership) | IA | 14 | 21.66 | 3 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-12 | Assessing and preventing methane slip from LNG engines in all conditions within both existing and new vessels (ZEWT Partnership) | IA | 7 | 8.96 | 2 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-13 | Digital Twin models to enable green ship operations (ZEWT Partnership) | RIA | 7 | 47.24 | 7 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-14 | Proving the feasibility of a large clean ammonia marine engine (ZEWT Partnership) | IA | 10 | 9.79 | 1 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-15 | Development and demonstration of cost affordable and adaptable retrofit solutions for tailpipe and brake polluting emissions | IA | 10 | 14.74 | 4 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-16 | Assessment of noise and particle emissions of L category vehicles from real driving conditions | RIA | 5 | 12.37 | 3 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-17 | Support for dissemination events in the field of Transport Research | CSA | 1.5 | 1.50 | 1 | |
| TOTAL | 258 | 824.91 | 135 | |||
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Details
- Publication date
- 23 September 2021
- Author
- European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency