New technologies and solutions for reducing the environmental and climate footprint of research infrastructures
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
The aim of this topic is to deliver innovative technologies and solutions which generate a step change in reducing the environmental and climate footprint of research infrastructures through the full life cycle of research infrastructures.
Proposals should identify common methodologies, among the concerned research infrastructures, to assess environmental impact and strategies to reduce it, as well as efficiency gains in the broader ecosystem.
Detailed Call Description
The proposed action is expected to deliver on several of the following points, as relevant:
- new technologies and solutions for research infrastructures enabling transformative resource efficiency (e.g. reduced energy consumption) and reduction of environmental (including climate-related) impacts, including, when relevant, more sustainable and efficient ways of collecting, processing and providing access to data;
- validation and prototyping;
- training of research infrastructures staff for the operation and use of the new solutions;
- action plans to deploy new developments at wider scale and ensure their sustainability;
- measures to ensure an environmentally effective integration of the solutions in the local contexts;
- societal engagement to harvest and incorporate solutions from other relevant ecosystems and or to foster acceptance of the solutions in the local and regional communities.
Consortia should be built on a leading core of at least two different world-class research infrastructures, each of them being an ESFRI infrastructure, a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) or another research infrastructure that is an intergovernmental organisation of European interest, and can include a wider set of research infrastructures, and other technological partners.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
Expected EU contribution per project: €5.00 million.
Thematic Categories
- Environment and Climate Change
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Large Enterprises
- Legal Entities
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Services Providers
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Eligibility For Participation Notes
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) may participate as member of the consortium selected for funding.
The following additional eligibility criteria apply: due to the specific nature of this topic, proposals must include at least two different research infrastructures as beneficiaries[[The participation of two nodes of the same ESFRI infrastructure or ERIC does not count as two different research infrastructures.]], each of them being an ESFRI Landmark[[See the list of ESFRI ‘Landmarks’ in the 2021 ESFRI Roadmap: https://roadmap2021.esfri.eu/]], a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC)[[European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) | European Commission (europa.eu)]] or another research infrastructure that is an international European research organisation[[An ‘international European research organisation’ means an international organisation, the majority of whose members are Member States or associated countries, whose principal objective is to promote scientific and technological cooperation in Europe.]]. Such research infrastructures, and where applicable the beneficiaries that own/operate them, must be explicitly identified in the proposals.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
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Email: support@research.org.cy
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