Call for Proposals: Scaling Up for a Sustainable Battery Value Chain (Sweden)

The overall aim is to – through support for testing and demonstration – promote industrial implementation. The projects should address one of the important innovation areas for the battery value chain, including circular economy, production processes and advanced materials.

Objectives

• The project funded under the call for proposals are expected to meet all of the following performance objectives:
  • There is a well-developed and well-established plan for how the solution or concept will be further scaled up, implemented, managed and exploited. The plan should include financial and commercial aspects of subsequent steps.
  • The solution has a maturity level corresponding to a maximum TRL level of 8, i.e. where the solution is complete and evaluated. For solutions or concepts that are not primarily based on technology, the definitions may be adapted to the context but the maturity levels should still correspond to a maximum TRL level of 8.
  • Increased innovative capacity for a sustainable battery value chain.

Funding Information

• The grant can amount to a maximum of SEK 20,000,000 per project and have a project duration of no more than 36 months. The maximum aid intensity is 50 percent of the project’s total eligible costs.

Eligible Costs

• In this the call for proposals these types of costs are eligible:
  • Personnel costs: Salaries, social security contributions and other personnel costs.
  • Equipment, land and buildings: Instruments, equipment and rent for premises other than regular business premises.
  • Consulting and licensing costs: Consulting services, knowledge and patents purchased or licensed from an external party. Costs for consulting services from external parties may not exceed 20 percent of a project party’s budget. They can accept a higher percentage than 20 percent in case of special needs. You must then specifically and extensively justify the need for consulting services in proposal. This justification is taken into account in their assessment.
  • Other direct costs: For example, materials, supplies and travel necessary to carry out the project.
  • Indirect costs (overhead):Costs that are not incurred as an immediate consequence of but can be related to the project, for example regular premises and cleaning.

Eligible Projects and Activities 

• Types of project and activities that they fund in this call for proposals:
  • Research and development projects that aim to scale up new solutions or concepts that, after implementation, contribute to a sustainable battery value chain in Sweden.
  • The project activities within the framework of this call for proposals shall mainly be covered by the funding basis experimental development. This applies to the focus and content of the projects regardless of whether the funding basis applies to the participation of individual project partners. For a complete definition of funding bases, see Funding bases and levels for funding.
  • Experimental development may include the design of prototypes, demonstration, pilot work, testing and validation of new or improved products, processes or services in environments that correspond to realistic operating conditions, where the primary purpose is to make further technical improvements to the products, processes or services that are not yet fixed.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligibility requirements on organizational form of project parties:
  • All project partners must be legal entities. Natural persons or individual companies cannot participate as project partners.
  • The coordinating party must be a Swedish legal entity and conduct activities in Sweden.
  • If foreign parties seek funding, the costs must be attributable to a branch or establishment in Sweden.
• Eligibility requirements for the project:
  • The project manager must be employed by the coordinating party in the project.
  • The project may not begin before proposal is submitted.
• Eligibility requirements on proposal:
  • Proposal must be written in Swedish or English.
  • Proposal must contain all requested attachments.

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