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• Clean Aviation CfP 01
  EU · Digital · Horizon · Deadline 2022-06-23

  Objective : Development of processes and methods to prepare the future certification framework, based on the analysis of risks and gaps of existing regulations, and implemented on a set of critical challenges representative of disruptive technologies and architectures.Investigation and development of new means of compliance for aviation safety, security and environmental protection based on virtual testing, digital platforms and Model Based System’s Engineering (MBSE). For the full description of this topic please download the PDF document of the topics from the "Additional Documents" section.

• Clean Sky 2 Call for Proposals 03
  EU · Health · Horizon · Deadline 2016-06-02

  Specific Challenge : Blade Tip Timing is a key tool for blade health assessment without any instrumentation on the rotating parts. It is often used for fan and compressor survey in test cell but it is a complex system that is not compatible with an embedded solution or harsh environment. The aim of this CFP is to strongly improve the current system in order to be able to embedded it in order to monitor all kind of blades during commercial flight. For the full topic description see the Call Text Document (Annex of Workplan) published with this call.

• SECURITY
  EU · Digital · Horizon · Deadline 2016-08-25

  Specific Challenge : Border management in European Union context means first and foremost the enforcement of the common policies and implementation of the common rules. As international travel flows continue to rise, there is growing pressure to process large volumes of people at border crossing points without delays. At the same time, the smuggling of people across the borders is growing. However, the external land borders of the European Union (and border crossing points) present a wide range of challenges, ranging from those relevant to Nordic Countries, to those in the Mediterranean. The European Border Surveillance System (EUROSUR) is establishing a mechanism for Member States' authorities carrying out activities at the European Union external border to share operational and situational information and pictures. But without investments in technology and information systems, it is simply not feasible to manage borders and border crossing points. Whilst technology offers great potential to meet the dual objective of enhancing border security while facilitating cross-border travel, its costs are often prohibitive, especially in the light of the current national budgets. Furthermore, the broad variety of heterogeneous IT applications and systems deployed for land border security makes their management increasingly complex and costly. Innovative, cost-efficient technologies are needed, or existing ones need to become more affordable, to meet border authorities and practitioners’ requirements, and budgetary constraints. Scope : The cost of a broad variety of technologies could be made more affordable, in priority those used at border crossing points bearing the heaviest burden (based on the analysis of flows of people and of smuggling methods, associated risks, and bottlenecks in surveillance and/or control.) The relevant border authorities are in the best position to identify the most relevant portions of the EU land borders that could benefit from more cost-effective solutions. Cost reduction may result from: merging several advanced technologies into novel border security solutions; trade-off against performance; optimizing the use of technologies where they are most effective at mitigating risks further to specific risk analysis; achieving greater interoperability among systems; enabling the early provision of data in advance to the time of crossing. The availability or scarcity of human resources and of space, the need for portable and versatile solutions are other parameters to be taken into account when considering the added value and cost of novel technologies solutions, including in terms of societal and ethical value and cost. In particular, the design of more homogeneous IT platforms, sharing an interface common to all operational databases and border security applications, is desirable to make their management less resource intensive. Overlap with the work being undertaken by border surveillance authorities in the context of the EWISA project [1] should be avoided, whilst compatibility with previous results from FP7 or H2020 projects is encouraged. Whereas activities will have an exclusive focus on civil applications, coordination with the activities of the European Defence Agency (EDA) may be considered with possible synergies being established with projects funded by the EDA programmes. The complementarity of such synergies should be described comprehensively. On-going cooperation should be taken into account. Proposers for this topic should look for an enhanced SME participation. The outcome of the proposal is expected to lead to development up to Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6; please see part G of the General Annexes. Indicative budget: The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of € 5million would allow for this topic to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. Expected Impact : Short/Me

• CALL FOR NANOTECHNOLOGIES, ADVANCED MATERIALS, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTION
  EU · R&D · Horizon · Deadline 2016-10-27

  Specific Challenge : Innovation in manufacturing industries can be much faster, if materials modelling is used to focus experimental efforts. Novel modelling solutions need all determining components to be interwoven and available to the entire European community allowing the quick development and market deployment of new materials. Industry wants to know the risks and gains of materials modelling and the resources necessary to use the models efficiently. The industry needs education and/or support by translators analysing the industrial problems and proposing modelling solutions to the companies requesting this, supported by benchmarking. The above services need to be accompanied by tangible components like models, software packages, data, state of the art and connections to key actors. An open simulation platform providing interoperability between discrete and continuum models based on widely agreed communication standards would facilitate the use of materials modelling. Scope : The project should establish a web based marketplace linking various activities and databases on models, information on simulation tools, communities, expertise, course materials, lectures, seminars and tutorials for at least two manufacturing sectors of the European industry. Projects should address sectors that in the design of materials and their manufacturing processes have common problems with models describing phenomena at, and ranging over, time and space scales spanning from femto-, pico-, nano- to the meso-scale. The project should aim at agreement with the wide European scientific and industrial community a standard for organizing modeling data needed to make search and linking between different databases effective and easy. Strategies and test rules pertaining to data integrity and quality, e.g., by user and analytic feedback mechanisms should be established. The proposal should develop practical solutions for the ownership, control and management of distributed databases. The project should ensure wide spread participation. The project should provide novel tangible avenues for integrating multiple materials models that can address industry relevant challenges. The project should establish methods for software interoperability that can later on be used for the integration of materials models (discrete and continuum applied at nanoscale) and databases in open simulation platforms. The development of homogenisation models and the elaboration of wrappers should be stimulated. The proposal should establish a validation system to provide reliability and accuracy of models and for the comparison of results of simulations between materials models and for comparison with experiments. The project should stimulate the exploitation of existing software via advice on modelling, education of companies and the stimulation of the provision of translation services especially for SMEs. The proposal should present a credible business plan for the maintenance of the hub after the project duration. Activities are expected to target Technology Readiness Level 6. Funded proposals will be invited to participate in a cluster, to agree on metadata for the description of software and measurement tools and databases; to agree on software development standards; and to achieve seamless integration of their platforms across the different manufacturing-targeted application areas to achieve a true common marketplace. Projects are expected to contribute actively to on-going activities e.g. in the EMMC (European Materials Modelling Council), and EU funded clusters. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU between EUR 5 and 8 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. Expected Impact : Increased innovation in industry based on materials modelling; Awareness of industry in general and SMEs in particular of th

• CEF 2 Transport - Actions related to smart and interoperable mobility – General envelope
  EU · Digital · LIFE · Deadline 2023-01-18

  Objective : The general objective is to modernise transport infrastructure on the Core and Comprehensive Networks of the TEN-T. Scope : In accordance with the Article 9(2)(b)(ii) of the CEF Regulation, studies and / or works, related to the following projects will be supported: Projects supporting the implementation of River Information Services (RIS), inland single window, inland port community systems. The above mentioned projects should primarily address inland waterway transport and/or port services targeted at inland waterway vessels. Where relevant, the above mentioned projects shall take into account the innovative new technologies and solutions in the fields of smart applications for transport resulting from Horizon Europe activities. Digital platforms supported under CEF must be accessible for use by all operators on a non-discriminatory basis.

• H2020-BBI-JTI-2020
  EU · R&D · Horizon · Deadline 2020-09-03

  Specific Challenge : Start-ups and spin-offs, both young, innovative and entrepreneurial, often face big hurdles in attracting investors, or using financial instruments to help finance their business plans. They find it especially challenging in bio-based industries, as the hurdles to success are high, and investors find it more difficult to judge the associated risks. These risks are different compared with more familiar sectors like e.g. the digital sector. Entrepreneurs in the bio-based industry must cross extra hurdles to attract investors and become independent as soon as possible. One of the ways to overcome these hurdles is by seeking out networking opportunities through suitable organisations, clusters [1] and platforms. These opportunities can bring start-ups and spin-offs into contact with large enterprises, regional clusters, open-innovation scale-up facilities, reference customers and other market actors. This will make start-ups and spin-offs more visible, allowing them to secure financing from the contacts them made. The specific challenge is to help start-ups and spin-offs to improve their networking activities with relevant stakeholders and help to improve their business case and to gain access to funding opportunities in the bio-based sector. [1] For example, see the European Cluster Observatory — this single access point may facilitate matches and possibly lead to new funding opportunities. Scope : Explore and quantify the needs of start-ups and spin-offs in the bio-based sector for specific financial and business advice. Explore also the feasibility of meeting these needs by an interactive platform or any other adequate system. Proposals must develop and validate a methodology to qualify and quantify the needs of start-ups and spin-offs. On this basis, proposals must evaluate the interest of the spin-offs and start-ups to interact with potential partners and investors. And similarly, proposals must evaluate the interest of expert companies, organisations and investors to interact with start-ups and spin-offs. Proposals must show that the envisaged platform or system will bring start-ups and spin-offs in contact with potential partners across networks and with a large geographical reach. Proposals should build on completed and running projects, such as networks of pilot plants [2] or other projects designed to facilitate access to financing. Proposals must connect with all available financing instruments on a European level, including relevant regional instruments. Proposals must also describe how they plan to complement the ongoing activities of bodies such as the European Innovation Council, the Circular Bioeconomy Investment Platform, and the Enterprise Europe Network. Proposals must also connect with the finance platform currently being designed by BIC and to be launched by the end of 2019. The new BIC platform will aim in particular to help SMEs obtain financing for scaling up the commercialisation of bio-based technologies and products on a pilot scale. The scope of this topic includes all start-ups and spin-offs in the bio-based sector, and is not limited to BIC members or activities, nor is it limited to spin-offs or start-ups resulting from BBI JU projects. In order to consider also actors in the primary sectors, it is recommended to foster the role of advisors and innovation brokers to support (‘speak on behalf of’) these actors during the project implementation. Proposals must therefore be based on a feasible business model to create and sustain it for at least 10 years after the end of the project. The model must include estimates of costs for setting up, launching and — particularly — maintaining and updating the platform in the abovementioned period beyond the project’s runtime. Participation is encouraged from organisations that have previously managed entrepreneurship programmes targeting start-ups and spin-offs. Indicative funding: It is considered that proposals requesting a maximum of EUR 1

• BUILDING A LOW-CARBON, CLIMATE RESILIENT FUTURE: SECURE, CLEAN AND EFFICIENT ENERGY
  EU · R&D · Horizon · Deadline 2018-09-06

  Specific Challenge : The energy sector is evolving rapidly creating new job opportunities while requiring new skills and expertise to be developed. The challenges are significant. Over the coming years, the growing low-carbon energy sector requires many employees to be educated, trained or re-skilled. At the same time, energy innovation creates a massive need for new talents, able to cope and conduct the energy transition with a systemic approach. Therefore curricula and programmes, including the modules organised in operating environment, need to be upgraded or new ones developed. Due to their interdisciplinary work in research, innovation, education and training, universities are core stakeholders in Europe's energy transition towards a low carbon society. They also are important change agents that will be instrumental in responding to the above mentioned challenges. In order that European universities contribute fully to the objectives of the Energy Union and to the SET Plan [1] they need to cooperate further with innovative businesses and offer appropriate curricula/programmes [2] . To do so silos need to be broken between energy technologies and interdisciplinarity that is conducive to addressing the challenges of the whole energy system needs to be fostered. The appropriate skills for tackling the energy transition, going beyond separate technologies and incorporating social, entrepreneurial/managerial and market aspects of the energy system, need to be developed. In addition, solutions need to be clearly targeted, oriented to meet skills needs quickly, easily replicable in other domains and scalable to other European universities/institutions. For this purpose it is crucial to have active networks in place among universities and between universities and business. Scope : Proposals will cover one or more of the following fields: Renewable energy, Energy storage, Smart and flexible energy systems, Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). Proposals will combine the relevant scientific and technological elements of these fields with relevant social sciences and humanities in a way that is balanced and provides an interdisciplinary approach (e.g. involving SSH scientists as partners; including SSH scientific subjects as parts of interdisciplinarity, developing special SSH curricula or similar). Proposals will deliver all the following, addressing the specific needs of the SET Plan objectives and its Implementation Plans: Efficient and effective cooperation networks both among European universities and between European universities and business; Challenge and case-based modules that are linked to European university programmes (at least three per programme) to teach students about operational problems combining the social, technological and industrial dimensions; At least three innovative (such as using digitisation) and short (3-4 months) university tools/programmes in the chosen field or fields, which are replicable and scalable in Europe, and respond rapidly to urgent European industry needs and the rapidly evolving European energy landscape; Opportunities for student mobility between the academia and industry. The networks will also address needs for training the trainers. However, except for piloting, the actual teaching or training the trainer activities remain outside the scope of this topic. Modules and programmes will only be developed in English. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU in the range of EUR 2 to 4 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. Expected Impact : The funded proposals are expected to lead to a generation of researchers and engineers who are equipped to develop, improve and deploy new energy technologies, thereby contributing to meeting the challenges of the energy transition. At the same time, the capacities of the Eu

• Training, conferences, staff exchanges and studies
  EU · Deadline 2024-05-07

  ExpectedOutcome : Professionals, in particular staff from customs authorities and other law enforcement bodies, are better able to protect the financial interests of the Union through: (i) the acquisition of new skills; (ii) knowledge of specialised methodologies and techniques and (iii) an increased awareness of fraud-risk indicators at the Union level. More opportunities to develop and implement anti-fraud strategies at the Union level are expected. Scope : Developing specialised training sessions to improve knowledge and use of IT tools and to increase anti-fraud data-analysis abilities by acquiring new skills and knowledge of specialised methodologies and techniques. These results will be measured by: (i) the number of events and number of participants; (ii) the origin and professional background of the participants and (iii) the level of participants’ overall satisfaction with the events.

• LIFE Subprogramme Climate Action
  EU · Energy · Deadline 2022-10-04

  ExpectedOutcome : Efficient delivery of the quantified objectives by end of the project. Objective : Projects under the Climate Change Mitigation Priority Area should contribute to the socially just and sustainable transition towards a climate neutral economy by 2050 and to reaching the EU emission reduction target for 2030 to at least 55% compared with 1990 levels. Scope : Areas of intervention: Actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the sectors not covered by the EU Emissions Trading System, including the reduction of use of fluorinated greenhouse gases and ozone-depleting substances Actions which enhance the functioning of the Emissions Trading System and which have an impact on energy and greenhouse gas intensive industrial production Increase the generation and use of renewable energy and improvement of energy efficiency (as far as not covered by specific calls under the Clean Energy Transition sub-programme) The development of land and sea management practices which have an impact on emissions and removals of emissions, conservation and enhancement of natural carbon sinks

• Clean Sky
  EU · Horizon · Deadline 2019-09-03

  Specific Challenge : Development of an open-source CFD simulation platform and methodology to enable co-design between an airframe manufacturer and an engine manufacturer, while maintaining IP and IT security. This includes code-to-code coupling, communication between different simulation platforms, post processing of the simulation, and demonstration on industrial configuration. Please refer to the full topic descriptions document published in this call.

• Clean Sky Call for Proposals 04
  EU · Culture · Horizon · Deadline 2016-10-05

  Specific Challenge : Activities described in the present Topic shall contribute to develop, by powder technology and Additive Manufacturing process, a new aluminum alloy with performances similar to structural alloys (7000 series). With this new alloy it will be possible to produce, by Additive Manufacturing process, accurate structural parts currently produced by traditional processes. Then the Additive Manufacturing process may allow to reduce the costs and the lead time of production and to reduce significantly the weight of the parts.

• HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022
  EU · R&D · Horizon · Deadline 2022-05-31

  ExpectedOutcome : Hydrogen is stored, transported or used pressurised with variable pressures depending on user cases, e.g., between 7 and 70 bar for various industrial applications and grid injection, up to 200 bar for filling gas cylinders, as well as up to 350 and 700 bar in refuelling stations. Hydrogen compression requires energy, which negatively affects overall process efficiency and hydrogen molecule final cost. Pressurised electrolysis therefore has the potential to provide an efficient solution for delivery of pressurised hydrogen at reduced cost. It also enables a low emissions form of hydrogen production, including down to zero emissions if powered solely by renewables. It is expected that this topic will provide breakthrough and game changing technologies for energy efficient pressurised hydrogen production using Proton Conducting Ceramic Electrolysis (PCCEL) and contributing to the overall objective of the SRIA of the Clean Hydrogen JU, namely the hydrogen production cost of 3 €/kg by 2030. The project outcomes will pave the way for the deployment of pressurised hydrogen production units based on proton conducting electrolyte to accelerate uptake in one or more applications (for example: injection into the gas grid, onsite production at HRS, feedstock for industry, such as steel plants, refineries, chemical plants). The project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Contributions to demonstration on stack level for a pressurised steam electrolysis solutions by 2025; Contributing to European leadership for renewable hydrogen production based on PCCEL; Solutions for pressurised hydrogen production will open new target applications (e.g. gas grid injection, HRS) contributing to defining user cases and showing the applications and benefits of the novel technologies Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following objectives of the Clean Hydrogen JU SRIA: Reduction of CAPEX 2,000 €/(kg/d) and OPEX 130 €/(kg/d)/y (of the overall system costs when also taking into account compression. Ensure circularity by design for materials and for production processes, minimising the life-cycle environmental footprint of electrolysers; Achieving a current density of 0.5 A/cm2; Achieving a pressure at stack level of at least 5 bar; Faradaic efficiency above 90% at operational pressure and temperature. Scope : For High Temperature Steam Electrolysis (HTSE), the Protonic Conducting Ceramic Electrolysis (PCCEL) operating at 500-700 °C can be a promising solution. PCCEL technology has emerged over the past decade with strong development in materials and cells research, while activities towards stack and system development have been marginal. There have been previous FCH JU projects dedicated to pressurised HTSE at small scale for PCCEL. For instance, pressurised PCCEL electrolysis cells with tubular geometry are showing high Faradaic efficiency (> 90%) and stable performance at 600°C up to 3 bar. These previous activities highlighted the needs for more research efforts directed to the optimisation of components, cells and stacks to improve current density and stability in pressurised operation for both technologies. Furthermore, additional efforts should focus on system integration and on defining optimal boundary operations for dedicated user cases in order to maximise the efficiency of the integrated scenarios (e.g. taking into account thermal integration and possible side stream products). This opens for the development of novel and/or improved systems concepts, where the benefits of pressurised electrolysis should be leveraged for deployment in large-scale centralised systems with economies of scale, hydrogen distribution to end uses, as well as distributed systems located at demand centres. Proposals for this topic should set out a credible pathway to contribute to the development and validation of pressurised PCCEL with technological breakthroughs aiming at designing and o

• Clean Aviation CfP 01
  EU · Horizon · Deadline 2022-06-23

  Objective : Design of an innovative and more efficient wing with relevant technology bricks matured to TRL 5 at wing system level at project completion, duly supported by ground tests. For the full description of this topic please download the PDF document of the topics from the "Additional Documents" section.

• BUILDING A LOW-CARBON, CLIMATE RESILIENT FUTURE: SECURE, CLEAN AND EFFICIENT ENERGY
  EU · R&D · Horizon · Deadline 2019-02-05

  Specific Challenge : A number of tools and future technologies need to be developed, matured and tested to cover gaps and/or to prepare the energy system of 2030 and beyond. Scope : Proposals must address only one of the 4 following sub-topics whereby not necessarily all points listed in a sub-topic need to be addressed: Advanced modelling tools for: the modelling of the future electricity market to study and analyse the impact and the design of electricity pricing structure from the wholesale markets, to real time markets (balancing and congestion management) and retail markets; modelling and forecasting energy production from variable renewables, associated frequency and voltage controls issues in the electricity grid and benefits associated with the use of storage. Advanced tools for the design and planning and operation of electricity grid infrastructure including distribution and transmission level, taking into account environmental concerns, such as air quality, and footprints and the new constraints from variable renewable generation, the place and role of storage and flexibility; the optimisation of the use of existing electricity assets and network capacity; the development of grid predictive management strategies with uncertainty (forecasting plus stochastic grid management tools), improving the maintenance of electricity assets (distribution and transmission) as well as the associated data management; Enhanced TSO / DSO collaboration and coordination tools, secure data exchange across networks along whole the value chain, ICT tools for cross-border trading for nearly real-time balancing; definition of minimum set of specifications to allow automated digital cross-border electricity market. Enabling technologies for reliable and resilient interconnected European electricity grids, making use of the specific features and the strategic role of the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Galileo and EGNOS. Technological developments: Develop a new generation of reliable, robust and cost-effective energy storage technologies, storage management systems, in particular batteries, able to provide high specific energy rates, large number of life cycles, fast response to the electrical network demands and low maintenance; Power electronics for batteries and software to manage combined or hybridised decentralised energy systems, also combining several energy vectors: a key focus is on significant cost reduction of these key components for homes, districts and larger systems which have the potential to accelerate significantly the energy transition of the electricity network. International Cooperation with non-EU/Associated country member of Mission Innovation [1] on Mission Innovation Challenge 7 on Affordable Heating and Cooling for Buildings: Develop compact thermal energy storage for electricity load shifting that will take up electricity from the grid at the peak times, to be used for heating, cooling or hot tap water at later times. Typical required charging power is 3 kW, for periods of up to three hours. Integration into the building heating system and in the smart electricity grid is a key development element together to the storage materials and technologies. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 2 to 4 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. Proposal must clearly indicate which sub-topic 1, 2, 3 or 4 they are targeting. Proposals should comply with the requirements stated in the section 'Common requirements' of the introduction to the part on the Smart citizen-centred energy system. Expected Impact : Advanced modelling tools are expected to: increase the knowledge on how to design of price structure and magnitude in order to be able to finance e.g. infrastructure and research and innovation; enhance the accuracy of the predic

• CEF 2 Transport - Projects on the Core Network – General envelope
  EU · LIFE · Deadline 2022-01-19

  Objective : The objective is to develop rail transport infrastructure projects on the Core Network of the TEN-T. Scope : Works, with the possibility to include studies, related to: construction/upgrading of cross-border and missing links; capacity and performance upgrade of existing lines, including removal of level-crossings and upgrades necessary for 740 meters long trains and upgrades necessary to facilitate international rail passenger and freight transport; capacity increase in nodes, including as regards a better articulation of long-distance and local traffic; interconnections between rail and other modes of transport, in particular inland waterway and maritime transport and actions aimed at the integration of the rail and air networks to make the feeder network for long-haul flights more sustainable. Actions located exclusively within the perimeter of inland ports and maritime ports shall be submitted under those priorities respectively; connections of freight terminals to the TEN-T Network; electrification of line tracks and upgrade of electrification systems. Support will not be given to railway stations, except for railway infrastructure components. If the Action includes such components, they shall be presented as a separate work package. Neither shall support be given to activities related to the Class B systems. Actions shall comply with the provisions of Directive 2016/797 on the interoperability of the rail system (Directive 2016/797 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the interoperability of the rail system within the European Union which replaces Directive 2008/57/EC as of 31 October 2020 (OJ L 138, 26.5.2016, p. 44)) and with the related Technical Specifications for Interoperability. Where relevant, Actions shall also be compatible with the alignment of operating procedures accross borders in order to ensure the most effective use of the supported infrastructure. In accordance with Article 9(2)(a)(i) of the CEF Regulation, Actions addressing the Core Network may include related elements on the Comprehensive Network, when necessary to optimize the investment. These elements may form up to 10% of the total eligible costs of the Action and shall be presented as a separate work package. Facilities and infrastructure supported under CEF must be accessible for use by all operators on a non-discriminatory basis. The foreseen duration of the action should be 4-5 years maximum.

• Clean Sky Call for Proposals 04
  EU · Horizon · Deadline 2016-10-05

  Specific Challenge : The objective of this topic is to develop ad-hoc and innovative methods and criteria in order to face the challenge to correctly design and predict stress level in innovative High Speed Power Turbine for next generation geared engine application. Those methods will be then validated through an extensive test campaign (both component test & spin rig test). AN2: turbine blade stress is proportional to AN2. AN2 is the product of the annulus mid-area along the rotor blade A and the blade rotational speed squared N2

• RFCS-2021
  EU · Deadline 2021-09-22

  RFCS-2021 Coal Accompanying Measures

• Development and long-term sustainability of new pan-European research infrastructures
  EU · R&D · Horizon · Deadline 2016-06-22

  Specific Challenge : The ESFRI roadmap, updated periodically, identifies the needs of the European scientific community in terms of research infrastructures. However, inclusion in the ESFRI roadmap does not guarantee that these needed infrastructures will be built. Before proceeding with the construction and/or implementation of the identified infrastructures, many preliminary decisions need to be taken with respect to issues such as the identification of funders, the financial plan for sustainability, the governance by involved stakeholders, the site and legal form of the managing organisation (and of the research infrastructure, if different), the architecture and the service policies. The aim of this activity is to provide catalytic and leveraging support for the preparatory phase and the early phase of ESFRI projects leading to the construction of new research infrastructures or major upgrades of existing ones. Scope : Following the update of the ESFRI Roadmap in 2016, support under this work programme will be provided to: (a) Preparatory Phase for research infrastructures which enter the active project list of the ESFRI roadmap in 2016 ( Coordination and Support actions) The preparatory phase aims to bring the project for the new or upgraded research infrastructure identified in the ESFRI roadmap to the level of legal, financial, and, where applicable, technical maturity required for implementing it. Proposal consortia should involve all the stakeholders necessary to move the project forward, to take the decisions, and to make the financial commitments, before construction can start (e.g. national/regional ministries/governments, research councils, funding agencies, in particular, but not limited to, from the countries that have already declared their commitment in the application to ESFRI). Appropriate contacts with ministries and decision-makers should be continuously reinforced, thus further strengthening the consortia. Operators of research facilities, research centres, universities, and industry may also be involved whenever appropriate. Technical work should be carried out when necessary to complete the final technical design, providing a sound technical base for establishing a cost baseline and detailed financial planning. The financial needs of the project should be mapped out to the extent necessary for funding agencies to establish their own medium- and long-term financial planning. The preparation of the legal and financial agreements (including site, governance, internal rules, financing of the new research infrastructures) is one of the main activities and deliverables and should be finalised before the end of the project (e.g., through the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding). The detailed list of activities that can be included in a preparatory phase proposal is given in part A of the section “Specific features for Research Infrastructures”. Proposals should explain any synergies and complementarities with previous or current EU grants. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of up to EUR 4 million would allow this challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. (b) Support to Early Phase for research infrastructures which enter the ESFRI roadmap in 2016 as emerging projects ( Research and Innovation Actions) This support aims to bring an emerging ESFRI project to the level of maturity required for being in the active project list. To this extent activities will include the needed scientific, technical and conceptual work: e.g. the drafting of architecture and engineering plans for the construction, the creation of prototypes; plans to coherently integrate the new infrastructure into the European landscape of related facilities; the estimated budget for construction and operation; plans for an international governance structure; the planning of research services to be pro

• Shift2Rail JU call proposals 2019
  EU · Horizon · Deadline 2019-06-18

  Specific Challenge : For the full topic description, please refer to Annex I of the 2019 Annual Work Plan (2019 Call for proposals for the JU members)

• CALL FOR NANOTECHNOLOGIES, ADVANCED MATERIALS, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTION
  EU · R&D · Horizon · Deadline 2016-10-27

  Specific Challenge : Durability is a key criterion for materials in many applications and environments. Longer performing materials can strongly reduce overall life time costs, such as lower usage costs through reduced maintenance and shorter service interruptions. Costs may also be reduced in the production phase (raw materials, energy, transport, formability), in the installation phase, and the materials may be more appropriate for end of life reuse/recycling. Typical applications requiring excellent long term durability and high reliability are buildings, marine applications and infrastructures including off shore. In many applications, operational durability needs to be better understood, particularly for innovative products which have no demonstrated long term performance. Durability has to be evaluated both theoretically and in real installation conditions (including within challenging environments when relevant) as these may influence final product performance. Scope : Research proposals should address all of the following activities: theoretical understanding (and development of models if appropriate) of the factors which affect durability of materials, including corrosion and ageing phenomena; experimental methods to measure and reliably test durability, non-destructive inspection procedures and monitoring tools; development of new and more durable materials (possibly multifunctional); and “fit for purpose” validation of new materials through life testing in the planned application and environment. The proposed solutions should go well beyond the state of the art and it should be demonstrated that materials with improved durability also fulfil all other properties necessary for the application proposed. The following factors should also be all considered: principles of sustainability (the sustainability of each developed solution should be evaluated via life cycle assessment studies carried out according to the International Reference Life Cycle Data System - ILCD Handbook); ease of installation; realistic solutions at a reasonable price and appropriateness for the operational environment; resistance to harsh environments if applicable. When relevant, design considerations (optimal combination of new materials) should also be considered. Recycling/reuse of materials should also be addressed. Standardisation aspects should be considered when relevant. Proof of concept in terms of one (or more) component(s) containing the new materials developed should be delivered within the project, excluding commercially usable prototypes (2006/C323/01), but convincingly demonstrating scalability towards industrial needs. Information guides for applications, installation and any appropriate training on the new solutions should be provided before the end of the project. The implementation of this topic is intended to start at TRL 4 and target TRL 6. This topic is particularly suitable for the participation of SMEs. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU between EUR 3 and 6 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. Expected Impact : At least 30% improvement in durability on the most relevant properties for the application; At least equivalent level for all other properties; At least 30% lower cost; Positive LCA balance over the whole life cycle; Proposals will have a higher impact if they are relevant to several applications; Contribution to strengthening competitiveness of the European industry, including in the field of “green” and/or offshore technologies. Proposals should include a business case and exploitation strategy, as outlined in the Introduction to the LEIT part of this Work Programme . Cross-cutting Priorities : Open Innovation