The European Commission launched calls for proposals under Horizon Europe's Work Programme for 2023-2024 Cluster 5 – which groups together topics on Climate Action, Energy and Mobility.
A total of EUR 246 million of EU funding available under HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01 call for 17 single-stage sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply topics under the ‘Global leadership in renewable energy’ and ‘Energy systems, grids and storage’ thematic scopes opened on 12 September 2023.
264 proposals were submitted within the deadline of 16 January 2024 with 252 proposals evaluated and 43 projects selected.
Please see the below table for an overview of the proposal submissions and for more information.
| Thematic scope | Topic | Topic title | Type of Action | Proposals Evaluated | Above threshold | Within funding range | Expected projects in WP | Budget 2024 (EUR million) | Recommended funding (EUR million) |
| Global leadership in renewable energy | HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-01 | Alternative equipment and processes for advanced manufacturing of PV technologies | IA | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 24.1 |
| HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-02 | Low-power PV | IA-LS | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6.2 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-03 | Demonstration of improved intermediate renewable energy carrier technologies for transport fuels | IA-LS | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 19.1 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-04 | Improvement of light harvesting and carbon fixation with synthetic biology and/or bio-inspired//biomimetic pathways for renewable direct solar fuels production | RIA | 13 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8.0 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-05 | Development of carbon fixation technologies for biogenic flue gases | RIA | 13 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7.7 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-06 | Innovative applications/integration of geothermal heating and cooling in industry | RIA | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9.0 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-07 | Development of hydropower equipment for improving techno-economic efficiency and equipment resilience in refurbishment situations | RIA | 14 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7.9 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-08 | Demonstration of sustainable wave energy farms | IA | 12 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 38 | 36.7 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-09 | Africa-EU CO-FUND action | Co-fund | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-10 | Next generation of renewable energy technologies | RIA | 94 | 26 | 9 | 9 | 27 | 26.6 | |
| Energy systems, grids & storage | HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-11 | AI Testing and Experimentation Facility (TEF) for the energy sector – bringing technology to the market | IA | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 15.8 |
| HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-12 | Energy Management Systems for flexibility services | IA | 19 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10.0 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-13 | DC and AC/DC hybrid transmission and distribution systems | RIA | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 12.0 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-14 | Condition & Health Monitoring in Power Electronics (PE) - Wide Band Gap PE for the energy sector | RIA | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 12.3 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-15 | HVAC, HVDC and High-Power cable systems | RIA-LS | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 16.2 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-16 | Demonstration of innovative pumped storage equipment and tools in combination with innovative storage management systems | IA | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | |
| HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-17 | Development and integration of advanced software tools in SCADA systems for High, Medium and Low voltage AC/DC hybrid systems | IA | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 12.0 | |
| TOTAL | 252 | 113 | 43 | 43 | 246 | 241.6 |
Background
Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a total budget of €95.5 billion. Under Horizon Europe, Energy, Climate Action, and Mobility research actions are grouped into Cluster 5.
The overarching driver for this cluster is to accelerate the twin green and digital transitions and associated transformation of our economy, industry and society with a view to contributing to the EU reaching its climate goals and increasing energy resilience.
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Details
- Publication date
- 21 May 2024
- Author
- European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency