Synergies and Mutual Learning with National and Regional Initiatives on Industrial Decarbonisation

Scope

• The governance of the action should be under the authority of national and regional governments and relevant public bodies who are responsible for national and regional policies, strategies and programmes addressing energy intensive industries.
• Proposals should support the coordination of national and regional public authorities’ funding of research, innovation, acceleration of public/private R&I and deployment of technologies for the energy intensive industries’ decarbonisation. It should be aligned with the policies rolled out under the Clean Industrial Deal. The proposals should take into account and build on the Mutual Learning Exercise on Industrial Decarbonisation.
• Coordination and support activities should address all of the following:
  • Promote and organise active networking, exchanges of information and mutual learning and the application of a whole-of-government approach, involving national and regional authorities.
  • Build an overview of national and regional technology roadmaps, strategies, and action plans on industrial decarbonisation.
  • Compare this overview to relevant work at European level, including the ERA Industrial Technology Roadmap for low carbon technologies in energy-intensive industries, the updated SRIAs of the Processes4Planet and Clean Steel Partnerships, activities under the Innovation Funds, the SET-Plan, and the Net Zero Industry Act (and its and implementing acts), as well as the 2020 Taxonomy Regulation and its implementation as regards climate mitigation.
  • Build and exchange knowledge and expertise in national and regional industrial decarbonisation roadmapping for low-carbon technologies in energy-intensive industries; and develop monitoring tools and identify indicators to monitor progress.
  • Promote the valorisation of knowledge and results of EU, national and regional projects, in line with the Council conclusions on knowledge valorisation of 23 May 2024.
  • Implement the action through analytical work, providing information and data, workshops to facilitate collaboration among countries participating under the energy intensive industry part of the ERA Action and relevant working parties under the SET Plan among others.

Funding Information

• Budget (EUR) – Year 2025: 1 000 000
• Contributions: around 1000000

Expected Outcomes

• Increased cooperation across Member States and Associated Countries related to European, national and regional initiatives in the field of decarbonisation of energy -intensive industries in the context of a R&I deployment agenda.
• Support the implementation of the part on accelerating the decarbonisation of energy-intensive industries of the ERA Action on “Accelerating R&I investments for Europe’s industrial Transformation and Competitive Sustainability” featuring in the 2025-2027 ERA Policy Agenda.
• Exchange of best practices across Member States and Associated Countries on industrial decarbonisation projects and initiatives under the ERA Action and in the context of a R&I deployment agenda.
• Contribute to the Coordination of actions under the ERA Action and relevant work streams under the SET-Plan.
• Facilitate the development of new and update of existing national and regional industrial decarbonisation roadmaps, strategies, and action plans on energy intensive industries of countries participating in the ERA Action as well as under the SET Plan.
• Make available relevant national and regionally funded projects on the European Innovation Centre for Industrial Transformation and Emissions (INCITE)-Platform in line with a methodology developed by the Joint Research Centre in cooperation with other Commission services.

Eligibility Criteria

• Entities eligible to participate:
  • Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from nonassociated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call/topic.
  • A ‘legal entity’ means any natural or legal person created and recognised as such under national law, EU law or international law, which has legal personality and which may, acting in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations, or an entity without legal personality.
• To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
• To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
  • the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
    • Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
  • the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
    • Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
  • countries associated to Horizon Europe;
    • Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.

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