Clean Energy Transition Partnership Call for Transnational Research and Innovation Projects (Portugal)

Objectives

• FCT is member of the co-funded European Partnership CETP, that aims to accelerate the transition to clean energy and contribute to the goal of climate neutrality by 2050, bringing together national and regional funding in Research, Technological Development and Innovation (RDI) for a wide variety of technologies and system solutions necessary for this transition. The Partnership currently brings together 70 partners from 34 countries, including the FCT and the Directorate-General for Energy and Geology (DGEG).
• The CETP supports the implementation of the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) and builds on existing initiatives under the SET Plan (ERA-Nets, IWGs, ETIPs, etc.). It also aims to contribute to achieving the European Union’s (EU) decarbonization objectives, as well as supporting the implementation of EU strategies and plans in the fields of energy and climate.
• Together with the European Commission, CETP aims to support with the co-funded call 2025, transnational R&I projects around the seven Transition Initiatives (TRI).

Topics

• Ten topics are defined within the seven Transition Initiatives (TRI). FCT funds the seven topics marked in bold, namely:
  • CM2025-01 – Multi-vector interactions between the integrated energy system and industrial frameworks
  • CM2025-02 – Energy system flexibility: renewables production, storage and system integration
  • CM2025-03A (ROA) – Advanced renewable energy (RE) technologies for power production
  • CM2025-03B (IOA) – Advanced renewable energy (RE) technologies for power production (this topic is not funded by FCT)
  • CM2025-04 – Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)
  • CM2025-05 – Hydrogen and renewable fuels
  • CM2025-06 – Heating and cooling technologies
  • CM2025-07 – Integrated regional energy systems (this topic is not funded by FCT)
  • CM2025-08 – Integrated industrial energy systems (this topic is not funded by FCT)
  • CM2025-09 – Clean energy integration in the built environment

Funding Information

• FCT financial commitment for the call: 500.000,00€
• Maximum requested funding for a consortium with Portuguese coordination: 200.000,00€
• Maximum requested funding for a consortium with Portuguese participation: 125.000,00€

Eligibility Criteria

• The following are individual or co-promotion beneficiaries:
  • Non-entrepreneurial entities of the R&I system, namely:
    • Higher education institutions, their institutes and R&D units.
    • State, Associated or International Laboratories with head office in Portugal.
    • Private non-profit institutions whose main object is R&D activities, including Collaborative Laboratories (CoLab) and Technology and Innovation Centers (CTI).
    • Other non-profit public and private institutions developing or participating in scientific research activities.
  • Companies of any nature and in any legal form.

Evaluation

• The call includes two evaluation phases:
  • Pre-proposal evaluation stage.
  • Full proposal evaluation stage.
• The participating national/regional funding agencies, will decide, according to the stage the call is at, which pre-proposals to invite to submit a full proposal and which proposals to recommend for funding.

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