Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
This topic aims to address the large but untapped potential of the residential sector for Demand Response with a view to support the energy transition at system level while respecting user privacy, comfort and ownership.
Detailed Call Description
Proposals should:
- Investigate innovative demand response solutions for the residential sector, including new control modes and asset optimisation techniques involving as many devices as possible.
- Ensure that the proposed solutions comply with the principle of privacy by design and with best practices on data protection.
- Ensure that the proposed solutions allow to minimise the effort required to elicit user preferences, also investigating innovative approaches for user segmentation and engagement.
- Take due account the regulatory frameworks of the regions / countries in which the proposed solutions could be deployed in designing their innovation, and shaping related exploitation activities.
- Seek to the best consideration of social and economic enablers in the design of the innovative solutions.
- Consider social innovations, notably as new tools, ideas and methods leading to active citizen engagement and as drivers of social change, social ownership, and new social practices.
- Demonstrate that the proposed solutions lead to reducing costs of small demand response assets e.g. through improved models and faster data processing and, are scalable and replicable.
- Demonstrate that the proposed solutions are suitable for explicit demand response, or a combination of both explicit and implicit residential demand response.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
70%
EU contribution per project: between €4,00 and €6,00 million
Thematic Categories
- Energy
- Environment and Climate Change
- Other Services
- Urban Development
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- State-owned Enterprises
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia
P.O.Box 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Phone Number: +357 22205000
Email Address: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
Mr Christakis Theocharous
Scientific Officer A’
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 029
Contact Email: ctheocharous@research.org.cy
Mr George Christou
Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 030
Contact Email: gchristou@research.org.cy
(Publish Date: 02/02/2022-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/research-and-innovation_en#contact