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News article10 November 2021European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency

Submissions for Horizon Europe's Climate, Energy & Mobility (Cluster 5) Calls for 2021 now closed

Horizon Europe Cluster 5 2021 closure

The deadline to submit project proposals for the latest Horizon Europe single stage calls open in 2021 for Climate, Energy, Transport and Cross-sectoral (climate, energy, transport) topics closed on Tuesday 19 October 2021 at 17:00 CET, except for the "Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply" (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-01) call that closed on Wednesday 20 October 2021 at 17:00 CET.

 

Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01)

The overall budget for this call is 232 million distributed over 16 single stage topics. In total, 172 proposals were submitted.

Below you will find an overview of the proposal submissions at call closure, broken down per topic.

The individual remote evaluation will start on 29 October 2021, and the virtual consensus phase will take place from 22 November to 10 December 2021.

Thematic scope

Topic

Topic title

Type of Action

Budget 2021
(EUR million)

Proposals submitted

Requested funding
(EUR million)

A competitive and sustainable European battery value chain

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-01

Sustainable processing, refining and recycling of raw materials (Batteries Partnership)

RIA

21.0

7

44.8

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-02

Advanced high-performance Generation 3b (high capacity / high voltage) Li-ion batteries supporting electro mobility and other applications (Batteries Partnership)

RIA

24.0

14

100.8

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-03

Advanced high-performance Generation 4a, 4b (solid-state) Li-ion batteries supporting electro mobility and other applications (Batteries Partnership)

RIA

36.0

13

101.8

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-04

Environmentally sustainable processing techniques applied to large scale electrode and cell component manufacturing for Li ion batteries (Batteries Partnership)

RIA

20.0

6

29.9

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-05

Manufacturing technology development for solid-state batteries (SSB, Generations 4a - 4b batteries) (Batteries Partnership)

RIA

26.0

8

55.4

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-06

Sustainable, safe and efficient recycling processes (Batteries Partnership)

RIA

30.0

12

94.3

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-07

Support for establishment of R&I ecosystem, developing strategic forward-looking orientations to ensure future skills development, knowledge and technological leadership for accelerated disruptive technology exploration and uptake (Batteries Partnership)

CSA

3.0

1

3.0

Emerging breakthrough technologies and climate solutions

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-08

Emerging technologies for a climate neutral Europe

RIA

20.0

27

93.4

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-09

Methane cracking to usable hydrogen and carbon

RIA

15.0

20

62.6

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-10

Technologies for non-CO2 greenhouse gases removal

RIA

9

25.8

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-11

Direct atmospheric carbon capture and conversion

RIA

12

35.7

Citizens and stakeholder engagement

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-12

Fostering a just transition in Europe

RIA

10.0

33

117.3

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-13

Strengthening Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research communities in climate, energy and mobility disciplines

CSA

3.0

7

17.8

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-14

Accelerating the climate transition in difficult contexts: transition super-labs (pilot)

CSA

2.0

1

2.3

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-15

Fostering cooperation between Horizon Europe cluster 5 National Contact Points (NCPs)

CSA

3.5

1

3.5

Communities and cities

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-16

Co-Funded Partnership: Driving Urban Transitions to a sustainable future (DUT)

COFUND

18.5

1

41.6

TOTAL

232.0

172

830.0

 

Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-01) and Efficient, sustainable and inclusive energy use (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-01)

The overall budget for these two calls is €174 million distributed over 9 single stage topics. A total of 66 proposals were submitted.

Below you will find an overview of the proposal submissions at call closure, broken down per topic.

The individual remote evaluation will start on 03 November 2021, and the virtual consensus phase will take place from 22 November to 03 December 2021.

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-01

Thematic scope

Topic

Topic title

Type of Action

Budget 2021
(EUR million)

Proposals submitted

Requested funding
(EUR million)

Energy systems, grids and storage

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-01-01

Establish the grounds for a common European energy data space

IA

32.0

7

51.8

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-01-02

Laying down the basis for the demonstration of a prototype Real Time Demonstrator of Multi-Vendor Multi-Terminal HVDC with Grid Forming Capability: Coordinated action

CSA

1.0

1

1.0

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-01-03

Interoperability community

CSA

5.0

1

5.0

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-01-04

Clean Energy Transition

COFUND

70.0

2

107.9

TOTAL

108

11

165.7

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-01

Thematic scope

Topic

Topic title

Type of Action

Budget 2021
(EUR million)

Proposals submitted

Requested funding
(EUR million)

Highly energy-efficient and climate neutral EU building stock

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-01-01

Advanced energy performance assessment and certification

IA

10.0

11

46.5

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-01-02

Industrialisation of deep renovation workflows for energy-efficient buildings

IA

16.0

14

109.4

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-01-03

Advanced data-driven monitoring of building stock energy performance

IA

10.0

19

90.3

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-01-04

Full-scale demonstration of heat upgrade technologies with supply temperature in the range 90 - 160°C

IA

16.0

8

65.5

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-01-05

Industrial excess (waste) Heat-to-Power conversion based on organic Rankine cycles

IA

14.0

3

40.8

TOTAL

66.0

55

352.5

 

Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01)

Overall, the budget for the call is €167 million distributed over 13 single stage topics, all managed by CINEA. 142 proposals have been submitted to the call.

Below you will find the overview of the submissions at call closure, broken down per topic.

The individual remote evaluation will start on 8 November 2021, and the virtual consensus phase will be held between 24 November to 10 December 2021.

Cluster 5 Destination

Topic

Description

Type of Action

Budget (M€)

Proposals submitted

Requested funding (M€)

D6 - Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-01

More powerful and reliable on-board perception and decision-making technologies addressing complex environmental conditions (CCAM Partnership)

IA

15.00

10

70.7

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-02

Common approaches for the safety validation of CCAM systems (CCAM Partnership)

RIA

15.00

1

15.00

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-03

Physical and Digital Infrastructure (PDI), connectivity and cooperation enabling and supporting CCAM (CCAM Partnership)

IA

18.00

7

54.00

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-04

Cyber secure and resilient CCAM (CCAM Partnership)

RIA

12.00

15

88.70

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-05

Analysis of socio-economic and environmental impacts and assessment of societal, citizen and user aspects for needs based CCAM solutions (CCAM Partnership)

RIA

8.00

16

61.24

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-06

Framework for better coordination of large-scale demonstration pilots in Europe and EU-wide knowledge base (CCAM Partnership)

RIA

6.00

2

6.26

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-07

More efficient and effective multimodal freight transport nodes to increase flexibility, service visibility and reduce the average cost of freight transport

IA

15.00

12

94.24

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-08

New delivery methods and business/operating models to green the last mile and optimise road transport

IA

15.00

23

197.14 (*)

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-09

Climate resilient and environmentally sustainable transport infrastructure, with a focus on inland waterways

IA

23.00

6

43.70

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-10

Testing safe lightweight vehicles and improved safe human-technology interaction in the future traffic system

RIA

12.00

22

87.20

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-11

Radical improvement of road safety in low and medium income countries in Europe and Africa

RIA

8.00

13

293.77

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-12

Controlling infection on large passenger ships

RIA

8.00

9

38.36

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-13

Safe automation and human factors in aviation – intelligent integration and assistance

IA

12.00

6

26.86

TOTAL

167.00

142

1,077.17

Horizon Europe is the new EU framework programme for research and innovation, which succeeds Horizon 2020. Under Horizon Europe, Energy, Climate Action, and Mobility research actions are grouped into Cluster 5.

The projects in this call are selected for funding in a single-stage evaluation.

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